Fast Facts

Population: Approximately 360,000
Area: 5,577 square kms
Coastline: Over 400 km
Trade: 60% wholesale and 40% retail
Port: World's second largest natural harbour, deepest harbour ice-free year round

• Home to Canada's second largest scientific centre
• Home to the third largest oceanographic research centre
• Known as the financial centre of Eastern Canada
• Home to Canada's East Coast Navy
• Highest ratio of education to population in North America
• Home of the world's longest downtown boardwalk, running over 4km along the harbour
• First newspaper (Halifax Gazette) and printed book in Canada
• The IWK Children's Hospital is one of North America's top 10 medical facilities
• Location of the first official rules for ice hockey
• Purdy's Wharf Office Towers are the world's first skyscrapers to use seawater for air-conditioning