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Archaeologist and historian David Jones believes HRM needs a place to display and interpret the heritage of our whole municipality

Dr. Jonathan Fowler says early ground penetrating radar results show evidence of an old pathway that is no longer evident on the surface

Halifax’s Point Pleasant Park is home to several historic fortifications including Prince of Wales Tower National Historic Site, the oldest Martello-style defensive structure in North America

The first street grid of downtown Dartmouth, built on traditional and unceded Mi'kmaq territory, was marked out in 1750 by Charles Morris

Quaker House was built in 1786 and first occupied by William Ray, a cooper and whaler, and his family, from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

Natal Day, which falls on the first Monday of August, is a popular civic holiday in the Halifax-Dartmouth area

First Red Bridge would be at the modern intersection of Prince Albert Road and Celtic Drive, on the edge of Lake Banook

Today’s residential Joffre Street was once the location of 19th century poet Andrew Shiels’ Manor Hill farm

Not everyone in Halifax was for Confederation during the first Canada Day celebration

Geary Street Cemetery was opened around 1835 to replace the over-crowded earlier St. Peter's burial ground which was located near the former Tim Horton's on Ochterloney Street