Halifacts

Oldest lighthouse in North America? Yup — that’s ours.

Another one of our early tweets is a Halifact that’s very fitting for our historical, coastal city. The Sambro Island…

11 years ago

The Carleton is really, really old

That great little bar on the corner of Prince and Argyle that you frequent on Saturday nights? Yeah, that’s in…

11 years ago

The Chronicle Herald: Large and in Charge

    The Chronicle Herald not only has the highest circulation in Atlantic Canada, it is the largest independently owned…

11 years ago

The Seahorse was the first tavern in Halifax to open after prohibition

The Seahorse has been in the news lately as its owner prepares to move the decades-old tavern into its new…

11 years ago

The Halifax Explosion was the biggest man-made blast (before nukes)

It happened on the morning of December 6, 1917 and killed nearly 2,000 people. The Halifax Explosion happened when the…

11 years ago

The Harsh Halifax History of the Corner of Robie & South

  The corner of Robie and South Street is now the well-known location of the IWK Children’s Hospital. Haligonians are…

11 years ago

Sable Island: The Graveyard of the Atlantic

Though barely any Haligonians ever get to visit the sandy, windy shores of Sable Island, the small 34 kilometre-long sandbar is,…

11 years ago

Halifax’s old, mysterious network of underground tunnels

Just when we hear there’s an underground river hidden beneath the streets of downtown Dartmouth, the same week it’s reported that mysterious century-old…

11 years ago