Halifax County (Scottish Gaelic: Siorramachd Halafacs, French: Comté de Halifax) is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The Municipality of the County of Halifax was the municipal government of Halifax County, apart from the separately incorporated towns and cities therein. The municipality was dissolved in 1996, together with those town and city governments, in their amalgamation into Halifax Regional Municipality.[3]
Highways
Highway 102 / Veteran's Memorial Highway
Highway 101 / Harvest Highway
Highway 107 / Forest Hills Exterior
Highway 103 / Fisherman's Memorial Highway
Highway 111 / Highway Of Heroes
Highway 118 /
History
Deriving its name from George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716–1771), Halifax County was established by order-in-council on August 17, 1759. The boundaries of four other counties – Annapolis, Kings, Cumberland and Lunenburg – were specifically defined at that time, with Halifax County comprising all the part of peninsular Nova Scotia that was not within their limits.
The boundaries of Halifax County were modified in 1822. That part of St. Mary's Township (established in 1818) which had been in Halifax County was annexed to and included within Sydney County.
The dividing line between the Districts of Halifax and Colchester was confirmed and established on May 3, 1828. In 1835, Halifax County was divided and the Counties of Colchester and Pictou County were created out of parts of what had previously been Halifax County. Eventually in 1880 the boundary between the Counties of Halifax and Colchester was fixed.
Halifax County continues to exist as a county in Nova Scotia, but all municipal government and service delivery is provided by either the Regional Municipality or the Indigenous Canadian Reserves, with no additional county level government or administration.
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Halifax County had a population of 440,072 living in 190,650 of its 200,619 total private dwellings, a change of 9.1% from its 2016 population of 403,390. With a land area of 5,477.53 km2 (2,114.89 sq mi), it had a population density of 80.3/km2 (208.1/sq mi) in 2021.[4]
