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Downtown car rental - Travel Guide |
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HALIFAX, set on a steep and speculate promontory beside one of the world's finest harbors, has become the focal point of the Maritimes, the region's financial, educational and transportation centre, whose metropolitan population of over 500,000 makes it seven times the size of its nearest rival, New Brunswick's Saint John. This pre-eminence has been achieved since World War II, but long before then Halifax was a naval town par excellence, its harbor defining the character and economy of a city which rarely seemed to look inland.
The British were the first to develop Halifax, founding a base here in 1749 to counter the French fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island. When New France was captured shortly afterwards, the town became a heavily fortified guarantor of the Royal Navy's domination of the North Atlantic, a role reinforced when the British lost control of New England. The needs of the garrison called the tune throughout the nineteenth century: the waterfront was lined with brothels; martial law was in force till the 1850s; and most Haligonians, as the local citizenry are known, were at least partly employed in a service capacity.
In the twentieth century Halifax acted as a key supply and convoy harbor in both world wars, but since then its military importance has declined, even though the ships of the Canadian navy still dock here. Disfiguring office blocks reflect the city's new commercial successes, but interrupt the sweep of the town as it tumbles down to the harbor from the Citadel, the old British fortress that is the town's most significant sight. Nevertheless, Halifax retains a compact, bustling centre whose appealing and relaxing air is a far cry from the tense industriousness of many a metropolis
The City
With its shopping malls and brusque tower blocks, the commercial and social heart of modern Halifax clambers up the steep hillside from the harbor front, its narrow streets dotted with scores of bustling bars and restaurants. The city's main attractions - most notably the Art Gallery, with its eclectic collection of modern Canadian paintings, the Maritime Museum and the Georgian Province House - all huddle close together in the lower part of town beneath Halifax's star turn, the Vaubanesque Citadel . On a sunny day, a pleasant diversion is a trip to see a couple of the outer fortifications built to defend Halifax harbor, and you can also catch the ferry over to neighboring |
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