Introduction to Halifax

The capital of Nova Scotia, Canada, is the largest port city among the Atlantic coastal provinces. Located in the middle of the southeast coast of Nova Scotia Peninsula, it has an important strategic position and is known as the "Guardian of the North". Population 1 1.8 million, and the population of metropolitan area is about 330,000, accounting for about 1/3 of the total population of the province. British Scottish immigrants 1749 settled here. Established in 184 1, before 1905, it was a British land and naval base. The harbor is a submerged valley bay with a water depth of 26 meters at the entrance and a water depth of 15 meters at the shallowest part of the harbor road.

It is not frozen in winter, and the tidal range is large, with an average of 8.5 meters. The outer harbor is 9.6 kilometers long and 1.6 kilometers wide. Bedford Bay in the inner harbor is 6.4 kilometers long and 4 kilometers wide. It is an excellent haven and the second largest natural deep-water port in the world. A long and narrow waterway connects the internal and external ports, and there are well-equipped deep-water docks on both sides of the bay, which can park all kinds of giant ships and warships and have the largest modern container terminal in Canada. Export grain, fish, wood and gypsum, and import crude oil and coal. There are many military facilities. During World War II, Sri Lanka was once the gathering place and escort base of allied ships in the North Atlantic, and now it is the seat of Canadian Atlantic Fleet Command and an important naval base. The city is located on an island on the west side of the bay.

Canada's national railway takes this as the eastern terminal, and there are expressways leading to various places. There is an international airport in the east of the city. After the completion of the cross-sea bridge, Dartmouth on the east side of the bay developed rapidly and became an important industrial zone. Industry is mainly shipbuilding, oil refining, automobile assembly, sugar production and wood processing. There are many universities and colleges in the provincial cultural and educational center, among which Dalhousie University and St. Mary's University are famous institutions. St Mary's University ranked 8th in the basic category of Macquarie Canadian University in 20 13. There are many historical sites in the city, such as the old colonial castle (Halifax Castle) built in 1828.