Halifax (former City) - Neighbourhoods

Neighbourhoods

Colloquial neighbourhood names
  • North End Halifax, north of North Street to Seaview Park
  • West End, Halifax, West of Windsor Street, between North and South Streets to Joseph Howe Drive
  • Quinpool district, Shopping and Dining area
  • South End Halifax, South of South Street to Point Pleasant Park
  • Spring Garden, shopping and dining area
  • Central Halifax, the original city, between North Street and South Street, from Lower-Water Street to Windsor Street
Official neighbourhood names

(including former villages, residential neighbourhoods; and modern names of housing developments and industrial parks)

  • Armdale, village neighbourhood
  • Bayer's Lake
  • Beechwood Park
  • Boulderwood
  • Bridgeview
  • Clayton Park
  • Convoy Place
  • Cowie Hill
  • Fairmount
  • Fairview,village neighbourhood
  • Fernleigh
  • Green Acres
  • Hydrostone post Halifax Explosion re-development neighbourhood
  • Jollimore, village neighbourhood
  • Kent Park
  • Leiblin Park
  • Melville Cove
  • Mulgrave Park, housing development in Mulgrave district
  • Rockingham, village neighbourhood
  • Sherwood Heights
  • Spryfield, village neighbourhood
  • Thornhill
  • Wedgewood
  • Westmount Subdivision
Historic neighbourhood names
  • Africville, now Seaview Park
  • Richmond, now The North End east of Novalea Drive facing the harbour.
  • Mulgrave (Halifax), north of Duffus Street, east of Gottingen Street in the North End.
  • Needham (Halifax), now The Hydrostone and much of the North End west of Novalea Drive.
  • Dutch Village, The West End west of Windsor Street
  • Fort Massey, East of Robie Street from Duke Street to South Street

Richmond, Needham and Mulgrave were voting district names. Historically, these working-class Catholic neighbourhoods used their parish names: Saint Stephen's, Saint Joeseph's, Saint Patrick's. Today they are the integrated and prosperous North End; the neighbourhood names are no longer in common use and the parish boundaries no longer exist.

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