Halifax

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Contents 1 Places 1.1 Australia 1.2 Canada 1.3 United Kingdom 1.4 United States 2 Companies 3 Music and television 4 Military 5 People 5.1 Surname 5.2 Titled 5.3 Fictional 6 Sports 7 Other 8 See also

Halifax often refers to:

• Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada
• Halifax, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom

Halifax may also refer to:

[edit] Places

[edit] Australia

• Halifax Bay, North Queensland

[edit] Canada

British Columbia

• Halifax Range, a mountain range

Nova Scotia

• Halifax, Nova Scotia, disambiguation page

• Halifax County, Nova Scotia, one of the province's 18 counties
  • Halifax Regional Municipality, a regional municipality in Halifax County
    • Halifax Stanfield International Airport
    • Halifax Urban Area
    • Mainland Halifax
    • Halifax Peninsula
      • City of Halifax
      • Halifax (electoral district)
    • Halifax West (electoral district)

Prince Edward Island

• Halifax Parish, Prince Edward Island

[edit] United Kingdom

• Halifax, West Yorkshire, England (original source of the word "Halifax")
  • Halifax (UK Parliament constituency)

[edit] United States

• Halifax, Massachusetts, in Plymouth County
• Halifax County, North Carolina (named for George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax)
  • Halifax, North Carolina
• Halifax Township, Pennsylvania, in Dauphin County
  • Halifax, Pennsylvania
• Halifax, Vermont, in Windham County
• Halifax County, Virginia (named for George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax)
  • Halifax, Virginia
• Halifax River, in Florida (named for George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax)

[edit] Companies

• Halifax (United Kingdom bank)
• Halifax (Irish bank), part of the HBOS Group

[edit] Music and television

• Halifax f.p., an Australian television drama series
• Halifax (band), an American rock band
• The Halifax III, a 1960s Canadian folk music band

[edit] Military

• Halifax Regiment (Duke of Wellington's)
• Handley Page Halifax, a British bomber plane during World War II
• Halifax-class frigate, of the Canadian Navy
  • HMCS Halifax (FFH 330), the lead ship of the Halifax class
• HMS Halifax, the name of Royal Navy ship

[edit] People

[edit] Surname

• William Halifax, Lord Stirling (1786-1871)
• Joan Halifax (born 1942), Zen Buddhist roshi

[edit] Titled

• Earl of Halifax, a British title created four times and held by, among others:
  • Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)
  • George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1685-1739)
  • George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716-1771)
  • Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800-1885)
  • Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1839-1934)
  • E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881-1959) (created Earl of Halifax in 1944)
  • Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1912-1980)
  • Charles Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax (1944- )

[edit] Fictional

• John Halifax, central character of John Halifax, Gentleman, 1856 novel

[edit] Sports

• Halifax RLFC, a rugby league club
• F.C. Halifax Town, a football club

[edit] Other

• Halifax College, a college of the University of York, England
• Halifax Explosion, an explosion in Halifax, Nova Scotia caused by a munitions ship that crashed into another ship
• Halifax Gibbet, an early guillotine.

[edit] See also

• All pages beginning with "Halifax"

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