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Halifax's unusually pleasing harborside setting, now home to a city of some 115,000 (about three times as many in the greater metro area), first attracted Europeans in 1749, when Col. Edward Cornwallis established a military outpost here. (The site was named after George Montagu Dunk, second earl of Halifax. Residents tend to agree that it was a great stroke of luck that the city avoided the name Dunk, Nova Scotia.) The city plodded along as a colonial backwater for the better part of a century; one historian wrote that it was generally regarded as "a rather degenerate little seaport town."
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AttractionsFairview Lawn Cemetery
Chisholm Ave., off Connaught Ave. (about 4km/2 1/2 miles northwest of the Citadel)
Halifax, Nova Scotia Distance: 0.0 mi. (from destination center) Description: When the Titanic went down April 15, 1912, nearly 2,000 people died. Ship captains from... Read More Old Burying Ground
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Halifax, Nova Scotia Distance: 0.0 mi. (from destination center) Description: Fully restored in 1991, this was the first burial ground in Halifax, and between 1749 and 1844... Read More Nova Scotia's Coasts & Villages Tour
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