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After a protracted struggle between residents and the Executive Council, the city was incorporated in 1841. Halifax was also the shire town of Halifax County. On 1 April, 1996, the government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the four municipalities within Halifax County, among them the City of Halifax, and formed Halifax Regional Municipality, a single-tier regional government covering that whole area. The City of Halifax ceased to be a legal entity, but the city of Halifax is still recognised as unincorporated "Metropolitan Area" by the provincial government. [3] Residents of Halifax are called Haligonians.
History
Rudyard Kipling paid homage to Halifax in his poem The Song of Cities:
Halifax only began to benefit from a process of increased rural depopulation and corresponding urban growth in Atlantic Canada during the late 20th century — a demographic shift that was delayed several decades in the region compared with other parts of North America. Today, Halifax is the centre of HRM's urban core and is benefiting from increased cultural and economic diversity. GeographyThe original settlements of Halifax occupied a small stretch of land inside a palisade at the foot of Citadel Hill on the Halifax Peninsula, a sub-peninsula of the much larger Chebucto Peninsula that extends into Halifax Harbour. Halifax subsequently grew to incorporate all of the north, south, and west ends of the peninsula with a central business district concentrated in the southeastern end along "The Narrows". In 1969, the City of Halifax grew westward of the peninsula by amalgamating several communities from the surrounding Halifax County; namely Fairview, Rockingham, Spryfield, Purcell's Cove, and Armdale. These communities saw a number of modern subdivision developments during the late 1960s through to the 1990s, one of the earliest being the Clayton Park development at the southwestern edge of Rockingham. Since amalgamation into HRM, "Halifax" has carried on meaning the area that was covered by the dissolved city government, Halifax Peninsula and Mainland Halifax, now officially a Metropolitan Area. The communities of Mainland Halifax that were amalgamated into the City of Halifax in 1969 are reasserting their identities, though.[citation needed] Present-day neighbourhoodsImage:Halifaxnighttime.jpg Halifax skyline at night Colloquial neighbourhood names
Image:Ca-ns1hf.gif Flag of the former City of Halifax Official neighbourhood names
Historic neighbourhood namesNotes
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