About Halifax
This enchanting “city of trees”, has as its main attraction the Halifax
Public Gardens. Wonderfully depicted Victorian Gardens that flourish in
style, almost a static moment stretched through time. The Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic, is a fantastic place to relive the maritime history of
Nova Scotia. Its exhibits retell the tales of shipwrecks and naval military
history as well as designs that once ruled the sea, and are now perishing
in the modern era of trains, planes and automobiles. Even in this modern
world of skyscrapers and luxury hotels, Halifax still has a wonderfully
exciting and enchanting history to be relived by the welcomed visitor.
The Halifax Citadel National Historic Site, is a British fortress that was
a major Naval station that brought Canada from colony to Nation. Complete
with defensive ditch, musketry gallery, ramparts, powder magazine and
signal masts, this excellent example of a 19th-century bastion
fortification, although never attacked, was garrisoned by the British Army
until the year1906 and later by Canadian Forces during the First and Second
World Wars.
For nightlife, Halifax is always awake to the joy and fun of lively
conversation in Taverns and Pubs, as well as entertaining styles and foods.
For a time period pub, Lower Deck is bustling with maritime song and dance
as well as historical decoration and on special days is also filled with in
character soldiers from the fort.
If traveling by Air, the Halifax International Airport is a luxurious and
spacious welcome with restaurants and efficient transportation to and from
local hotels. When coming by boat, the piers are also quite inviting and
have been the original place of arrival by visitors for centuries. Pier 21
tells the story of nautical immigration into Halifax and is right on the
waterfront.