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Há 5 dias · Halifax's largest agricultural district is in the Musquodoboit Valley; the total number of farms in Halifax is 150, of which 110 are family-owned. Fishing harbours are located along all coastal areas with some having an independent harbour authority, such as the Sheet Harbour Industrial Port, [102] and others being managed as small craft harbours under the federal Fisheries and Oceans Canada .
Há 1 dia · The RCMP is commonly known as the Mounties in English (and colloquially in French as la police montée ). The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was established in 1920 with the amalgamation of the Royal North-West Mounted Police and the Dominion Police. Sworn members of the RCMP have jurisdiction as a peace officer in all provinces and territories ...
Há 3 dias · During the First World War, 259 infantry brigades were raised by the British Army, two by the Royal Navy, and one from the Royal Marines. Of these brigades, fifty-three were held in reserve or only used for training, while another nine only served in British India . The pre war regular army only had eighteen infantry brigades, with another ...
Há 2 dias · Halifax is a navy creation. It owes its existence largely to its location on one of the largest and deepest ice-free natural harbours in the world, which, over time, made Halifax one of the most important Canadian commercial ports on the Atlantic seaboard.
Há 3 dias · Several Canadians served in the British military during the Crimean War, with the Welsford-Parker Monument in Halifax the sole Crimean War monument in North America. Alexander Roberts Dunn, the first Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, earned the medal for his actions during the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Há 1 dia · Brigadier-General Christopher D'Arcy Bloomfield Saltern Baker-Carr (1878-1949), 1st Brigade, Tank Corps; Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres (1752—1825), Governor of Jamaica; Brigadier Stanley Thomas Baldry (1925—2021), Commanding Officer, 29th Engineer Brigade; Brigadier-General Anthony Hugh Baldwin (1863—1915), Manchester Regiment
Há 3 dias · Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s.
