Remember This

There are eight walks planned for Halifax and Dartmouth on Saturday, May 5th and Sunday, May 6th

Today's 59 Newcastle Street is the former location of a wooden building that served, from approximately 1793 to 1805, as a prison for French PoWs. 

The parking lot at Spring Garden and Grafton is an early Catholic burial ground, originally associated with Saint Peter's Church, the 1784 predecessor of today's Saint Mary's Basilica

In 1941, in preparation for war-time refinery expansion, Fort Clarence was partially dismantled and buried, preserving large sections of the fortification

The historic military burial ground and park gets its name from being the final resting place of many people from the early to mid-19th century, especially American prisoners of war held at the Melville Island military prison

Dartmouth’s Lake Banook will host its third senior world championship

In the Mi’kmaw language, the Sawmill River is known as Punmakati which means Frost Fish Brook

According to Dartmouth lawyer and historian Martin Jones, 'there is no doubt that the first fully documented game of ice hockey was played on Dartmouth’s Oathill Lake in 1867'

In 1749, the town of Halifax was surrounded by a wooden palisade which linked together five forts