Atlantic Canada's harbour capital — where the Halifax Citadel sits on a drumlin hill 80 metres above the oldest continually occupied British settlement in Canada, the Historic Properties waterfront warehouses (Canada's oldest surviving commercial buildings, 1820s) line the harbour that served as the primary convoy assembly and escort base for the Battle of the Atlantic (4,000+ Allied ships departed from Halifax Harbour in WWII), the 1917 Halifax Explosion (the Mont-Blanc munitions ship collision produced the largest man-made explosion before the atomic bomb — 2 sq km of the city destroyed, 2,000 dead, 9,000 injured) reshaped the city's north end entirely, and the Halifax Farmers' Market (operating since 1750, the oldest in North America) still fills the Brewery Market building every Saturday
Halifax (450,000 metro; 330,000 city) is the capital of Nova Scotia and the largest city in Atlantic Canada — a natural deepwater harbour city that has functioned as a strategic naval and commercial base for Britain and Canada from 1749 to the present day. The city is the regional centre for Atlantic Canada (the four easternmost provinces) and home to Canada's oldest English-speaking university (Dalhousie, 1818) and the Canadian Forces Maritime Command headquarters.
The Mi'kmaq people (Lnu'k) had inhabited the shores of Kjipuktuk (the Mi'kmaq name for Halifax Harbour) for at least 10,000 years when British Governor Edward Cornwallis founded Halifax in 1749 as a military counterweight to French Louisbourg on Cape Breton. The Acadian Expulsion of 1755 — in which British forces deported approximately 11,000 Acadians from their Nova Scotia settlements — was organised in large part from Halifax, and Acadian culture (now centred in New Brunswick) still shapes the maritime region's identity. The Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917 — caused by the collision of…