Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
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Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) is a regional municipality and the provincial capital of Nova Scotia, Canada. The 2001 population was 359,111, making it Canada's 13th most populous urban centre, although only the three former municipalities of Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford and adjacent areas of Halifax County which have experienced urban sprawl can be properly considered "urban".
In the early 1990s the provincial government sought to reduce the number of municipal governments in Halifax County and Cape Breton County and created a task force in 1992 to pursue this rationalization. In 1995, an Act to Incorporate the Halifax Regional Municipality received Royal Assent in the provincial legislature and the HRM was created on April 1, 1996.
The HRM constitutes the following now-amalgamated municipalities:
| (2001 pop.) | (1996 pop.) | |
| City of Halifax | 119,292 | 113,910 |
| City of Dartmouth | 65,741 | 65,629 |
| Town of Bedford | 16,102 | 13,638 |
| Unincorporated portions of Halifax County | 157,976 | 149,674 |
| Total | 359,111 | 342,851 |
Sable Island has historically been included in Halifax County and is also considered to be jurisdictionally part of HRM, despite being located 180 km offshore.
HRM's boundaries include all of Halifax County, Nova Scotia, except for several First Nation reserves.
Communities
- Antrim
- Bayside
- Beaverbank
- Beaverbank Villa
- Beaver Harbour
- Bedford
- Black Point
- Boutiliers Point
- Brookside
- Caribou Gold Mines
- Centre Musquodoboit
- Chaswood
- Chaplin
- Clam Harbour
- Cole Harbour
- Cooks Brook
- Cow Bay
- Dartmouth
- Dean
- East Chezzetcook
- East Dover
- Eastern Passage
- East Jeddore
- East Quoddy
- Echo Lake
- Elderbank
- Emsvale
- Enfield
- Fall River
- French Village
- Gibraltar
- Glen Haven
- Glen Margaret
- Goffs
- Grand Lake
- Hacketts Cove
- Halifax
- Hammonds Plains
- Harrietsfield
- Harrigan Cove
- Head of Chezzetcook
- Head of Jeddore
- Head of St. Margarets Bay
- Herring Cove
- Higginsville
- Hubbards
- Hubley
- Indian Harbour
- Ingramport
- Jeddore Oyster Pond
- Ketch Harbour
- Lake Charlotte
- Lakeside
- Lakeview
- Lawrencetown
- Little Harbour
- Lochaber Mines
- Lower Sackville
- Malay Falls
- Marinette
- McGrath Cove
- Meaghers Grant
- Middle Sackville
- Middle Musquodoboit
- Mineville
- Mooshead
- Mooseland
- Moose River Gold Mines
- Murchyville
- Murphy Cove
- Mushaboom
- Musquodoboit
- Necum Teuch
- North Preston
- Oldham
- Ostrea Lake
- Peggy's Cove
- Pennant
- Pleasant Harbour
- Pleasant Point
- Pleasant Valley
- Pope's Harbour
- Port Dufferin
- Porters Lake
- Portuguese Cove
- Preston
- Prospect
- Queensland
- Sambro
- Seabright
- Seaforth
- Shad Bay
- Sheet Harbour
- Sheet Harbour Road
- Ship Harbour
- Ship Harbour East
- Sober Island
- Spy Bay
- Spry Harbour
- Tangier
- Tantallon
- Terence Bay
- Timberlea
- Upper Hammonds Plains
- Upper Lakeville
- Upper Lawrencetown
- Upper Musquodoboit
- Upper Sackville
- Upper Tantallon
- Watt Section
- Waverley
- Wellington
- West Chezzetcook
- West Dover
- West Jeddore
- Whites Lake
- Wyse Corner
- Yankeetown
External Link
- Municipal Government's Site (http://www.halifax.ca/)