Talk:Halifax (former city)/Archive 1

message: :Isn't Halifax the blindness and blindness research capital of the world, as a result of 1917?  --Connel MacKenzie 08:52, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
::That's mentioned in the Halifax explosion article, but I'm not sure what the current state of affairs is. - rernst 21:01, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blindness/blindness research hub

message: I was just reading over this article and found the statistics to be somewhat misleading (particularly the racial and religious make-ups). The current content is extremely basic -- I was hoping some brave soul might take it upon themselves to fix that (I would, but I'm notoriously bad at such things).
Statistics Canada has extremely detailed records for Halifax available: I think we can do better than "white: 93%, black: 7%". The religious statistics are even worse: there are four items, three of which veing various forms of Christianity and the fourth being a misleading "no religion". I dare say that there's a bit of a bias there. Statistics on religion are also plentiful.
There was an edit made to remove the smaller statistics and round the rest of them.  Perhaps they are lacking, as mentioned above, but they are still relevant unless someone can show otherwise. - Haunti 23:17, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statistics clean-up 

message: Okay, I did it.  Today I changed the article first paragraph to be about HRM.   Here is my rational.  I spent 2 days creating a proper CBRM page, modeled on the Halifax page.  The Halifax, Nova Scotia page has information about dartmouth, bedford, etc on it.  It has the HRM flag, crest, etc, etc on it.  So today I edited it to say "Halifax Regional Municipality, commonly known as Halifax".  
I am slowly working through the countys of Nova Scotia and upgrading maps and adding a side bar with statistics, so I am concerned about consistency.   (Hi Plasma East!)
I think, in order to be fair and consistant, that there needs to be a Halifax, Former City, Nova Scotia, page, and there needs to be a redirect from the HRM page to the Halifax, Nova Scotia page.  Now, I am willing to be way more aggressive if we decide to (or alternately, I may be bold and just do it).  We could make the Halifax page the historic city/current community page, and move ALL the info off of the current Halifax, Nova Scotia page onto the HRM page.  
The thing that is important to me is that the old city and town pages should not be purely historical articles.  These communities still exist, they still have identity.  Changing the service delivery model and governance does not wipe out the community.  Most neighbourhoods with strong identities do not have their own governments!  
But a Halifax only page would have to have the old flag and crest on it (not in the city sidebar, since it is no longer a city).  Not HRMs.  Right now the page is BAD wiki.  It is not clear or factually correct.  It is not encyclopedic.  Its confusing.  Lets fix it.  Thoughts? - WayeMason
:Good idea.  The only quibble I have with your proposal as it stands is what we would call the "former city of Halifax" page.  "Halifax, Former City, Nova Scotia" doesn't sound quite right.  Maybe just "City of Halifax, Nova Scotia", which was its name before amalgamation, or "Former City of Halifax, Nova Scotia".- Haunti 14:04, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal To Move content 

message: I didn't think the issue would be that simple, and thank you The Singing Badger for providing evidence of a dispute. - Haunti (give'r) 00:26, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  No probs. If only someone would a get a tape measure and find out the answer to the mystery... The Singing Badger 01:18, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure they would if it wasn't for the smell. - Haunti (give'r) 01:18, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Second-largest harbour dispute

message: The subsection 'The Dawn of the 20th Century, World War I and the Halifax Explosion' describes the Halifax Explosion *twice*, and can't seem to make up it's mind whether the Belgian ship was the Imo (last paragraph) or the Emo (3rd paragraph). Can someone with local knowledge please clear this up and clean up that section? Palfrey 12:38, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm pretty sure it was Imo Ouuplas 01:56, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content overview 

message: Where is "Fairmount"? Ouuplas 01:56, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn’t call Fairmount a neighbourhood, it's a private development in Armdale. (See  for location.) To list it as a Halifax neighbourhood is, in my humble opinion, advertising. If no one objects, I’ll remove it. OldCommentatorOldCommentator 20:12, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Neighbourhoods

message: The introductory paragraph concerning Halifax’s founding was somewhat misleading and I took the liberty of clarifying it. 
I’m confident that most historians would say the primary reason for Halifax was the pressure from New Englanders for a military base to challenge the 'hostile' French presence to the north. At the time, the English (including the colonists) didn’t make the distinction between Quebec and Acadian that we do today; nor were the Acadians “remnants.” When Cornwallis led his transports into the harbour, the famous Expulsion was still six years in the future.
I also think it's important to recognize that Halifax was established as both a town (he brought over 2000 settlers with him) and a naval station.--OldCommentator 15:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Founding and Early History

message: Can we have this named "Halifax "or "Halifax Nova Scotia" juswt like the legal name --Vic 23:06, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The name is just Halifax