Tours, Landmarks & Monuments

You thrill to the green grass springing to life on Halifax’s iconic hill, basking in the sun as you lay on that slope. (Or in winter, slide down its icy side.) Maybe you even walk along the stone fortress, or get up close every couple of years to witness the command of the noon cannon, […]

To start way at the top of the peninsula, take the 18 or 82 bus up to Fairview Cemetery, at the north end of Windsor Street. Its appeal largely rests on being the burial site of 121 victims of the Titanic sinking in April, 1912. From there, take the bus back down down to Almon, […]

Aileen Meagher Aileen Meagher (1910-1987), nicknamed “Canada’s flying schoolmarm,” was born in Edmonton, but lived and died in Halifax. She ran here, too—Meagher was an Olympic athlete and bronze medal winner. In 1930 she held two Canadian records and continued to win medals for years after. Yet for Meagher, awards weren’t important—she just loved to […]

NORTH END Fort Needham Memorial Park Every jerk likes a picnic. Steve Martin might suggest brownbagging some “tunafish on white bread with mayonnaise, a Tab and a couple of Twinkies,” but if you’re headed up to Fort Needham, you can stop by Caribbean Twist (3081 Gottingen, 404-3855) for some jerk of a different kind—jerk chicken […]

As students, you represent the incoming population wave arriving in this Atlantic coastal city. The outgoing wave: Tourists. You’re here at the beginning of the end of tourist season, so numbers may perhaps not be as great as during the height of summer, but there is enough tourism still happening that you can and will […]