# Roots Earth in Halifax: audio stories about 40 places Canonical: https://rootsearth.com/cities/halifax Published: 16 September 2026 Roots Earth has audio stories about 40 places in Halifax, Canada, in North America. The Halifax stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Halifax, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people. The 40 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026. ## The 40 places in Halifax with audio stories In the order the app shows them. 1. Halifax Citadel 2. Old Town Clock 3. Halifax Waterfront Boardwalk 4. Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 5. St. Paul's Church 6. Grand Parade 7. Province House 8. St. Mary's Basilica 9. Halifax Public Gardens 10. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 11. Georges Island 12. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia 13. Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 14. HMCS Sackville 15. Old Burying Ground 16. Government House 17. Halifax City Hall 18. All Saints Cathedral 19. St. George's Round Church 20. St. Matthew's United Church 21. Alexander Keith's Brewery 22. Halifax Central Library 23. Scotiabank Centre 24. Neptune Theatre 25. Naval Museum of Halifax 26. McNabs Island 27. Point Pleasant Park 28. Halifax Farmers' Market 29. Spring Garden Road 30. Quinpool Road 31. North End 32. The Hydrostone 33. South End 34. Halifax Common 35. Camp Hill Cemetery 36. Fairview Lawn Cemetery 37. Africville 38. Dalhousie University 39. Saint Mary's University 40. Dartmouth ## Is there an audio guide for Halifax Citadel? Yes. Halifax Citadel has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. It is place 1 of the 40 Halifax places in the app, at 44.6475, -63.5803. Every one of the other 39 places in the list above has the same two stories. Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself. ## How to use Roots Earth in Halifax Open Roots Earth and choose Halifax. The city has its own map of places with all 40 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order. You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. --- **In full** All 40 places in Halifax, in the app's order, with their coordinates. ## All 40 places in Halifax, with coordinates Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print. ### 1. Halifax Citadel - Coordinates: 44.6475, -63.5803 - In one line: A Victorian star-shaped fortress crowning the hill above Halifax, built between 1828 and 1856. The fourth fort on this commanding height, it guarded the harbour for the British Army and still fires its famous Noon Gun. ### 2. Old Town Clock - Coordinates: 44.64722, -63.5775 - In one line: A three-tiered octagonal tower on the slope of Citadel Hill, ticking since 1803. Commissioned by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and fitted with works by the royal Vulliamy clockmakers of London, it remains one of Halifax's most beloved landmarks. ### 3. Halifax Waterfront Boardwalk - Coordinates: 44.647, -63.569 - In one line: A long wooden boardwalk tracing the edge of one of the world's great natural harbours. A working waterfront since the 1790s and a wartime convoy departure point, it now links historic ships, museums, and memorials along the harbour's busy shore. ### 4. Maritime Museum of the Atlantic - Coordinates: 44.64769, -63.57106 - In one line: Canada's oldest and largest maritime museum, founded in 1948 on the Halifax waterfront. It holds the world's foremost collection of wooden Titanic artifacts, a major Halifax Explosion exhibit, and the survey ship CSS Acadia moored alongside. ### 5. St. Paul's Church - Coordinates: 44.6475, -63.57472 - In one line: The oldest building in Halifax and the oldest surviving Protestant church in Canada, opened in 1750. A Georgian colonial church on the Grand Parade, modeled on a James Gibbs design, it still bears a silhouette in glass from the 1917 explosion. ### 6. Grand Parade - Coordinates: 44.6482, -63.575 - In one line: The civic heart of Halifax, laid out in 1749 at the city's founding as a central square in the colonial grid. Saint Paul's Church stands at its south end and City Hall at its north, with a granite war cenotaph between them. ### 7. Province House - Coordinates: 44.64791, -63.5734 - In one line: Canada's oldest legislative building still in use, built between 1811 and 1819 in elegant Palladian style. Here Joseph Howe won a landmark trial for press freedom, and the colony achieved the first responsible government in the British Empire beyond Britain. ### 8. St. Mary's Basilica - Coordinates: 44.64444, -63.57325 - In one line: Saint Mary's Basilica rises above Spring Garden Road with a granite spire often called the tallest of its kind in North America. Built in stone from 1820 and expanded in Gothic Revival style, it became a minor basilica in 1950. ### 9. Halifax Public Gardens - Coordinates: 44.64278, -63.58222 - In one line: The Halifax Public Gardens form a 16-acre Victorian formal garden near Spring Garden Road, with a bandstand, fountains, ponds, and geometric flower beds. Established through an 1874 amalgamation, the gardens are a National Historic Site and one of Canada's finest. ### 10. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 - Coordinates: 44.63778, -63.56583 - In one line: The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 occupies the waterfront shed where roughly 1. 5 million immigrants arrived between 1928 and 1971. Often called Canada's Ellis Island, it opened as a museum in 1999 and became a national museum in 2011. ### 11. Georges Island - Coordinates: 44.64083, -63.55972 - In one line: Georges Island guards the mouth of Halifax Harbour with Fort Charlotte, fortified from 1750. For two centuries it defended the city, held Acadian prisoners during the expulsion, and hid a network of tunnels. It is now a National Historic Site. ### 12. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - Coordinates: 44.64801, -63.57265 - In one line: The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia occupies the 1867 Dominion Building and holds over 18,000 works, with a focus on folk art. Its centerpiece is the tiny painted house of Maud Lewis, relocated inside the museum during the 1998 expansion. ### 13. Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Coordinates: 44.64523, -63.58517 - In one line: The Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History on Summer Street explores the province's natural world through geology, wildlife, and cultural artifacts. Rooted in the Provincial Museum of 1868, it moved to its current home in 1970 and is famous for Gus, its long-lived tortoise. ### 14. HMCS Sackville - Coordinates: 44.64746, -63.56926 - In one line: HMCS Sackville is Canada's last surviving Flower-class corvette, commissioned in 1941 to escort convoys across the Atlantic. The small warship engaged three U-boats in 1942 and now serves as a museum and naval memorial in Halifax. ### 15. Old Burying Ground - Coordinates: 44.6434, -63.5728 - In one line: Halifax's first cemetery, opened in 1749 and closed in 1844, holds roughly 12,000 burials beneath about 1,200 weathered stones. A grand Crimean War arch crowned by a lion guards its Barrington Street gate. ### 16. Government House - Coordinates: 44.64341, -63.57129 - In one line: Begun in 1800 and occupied from 1805, this Georgian mansion on Barrington Street is the official home of the Lieutenant Governor and the oldest viceregal residence still in use in North America. ### 17. Halifax City Hall - Coordinates: 44.64861, -63.57528 - In one line: Built between 1887 and 1890 in sandstone with a soaring clock tower, this ornate city hall anchors Grand Parade. Its north clock face stays frozen at four minutes past nine, marking the 1917 Halifax Explosion. ### 18. All Saints Cathedral - Coordinates: 44.64044, -63.57968 - In one line: Designed by Ralph Adams Cram and built between 1907 and 1910, this Gothic Revival stone cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, stretching 255 feet beneath soaring vaults. ### 19. St. George's Round Church - Coordinates: 44.6534, -63.5829 - In one line: Begun in 1800 under Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, this rare circular wooden church in Palladian style served Halifax's German Lutheran community. Rebuilt after a 1994 fire, it remains a striking National Historic Site. ### 20. St. Matthew's United Church - Coordinates: 44.64387, -63.57195 - In one line: Founded in 1749 as Halifax's home for dissenting Protestants, this congregation rebuilt on Barrington Street after an 1857 fire. Its Gothic Revival church traces a path from Presbyterian roots to the United Church of Canada. ### 21. Alexander Keith's Brewery - Coordinates: 44.6446, -63.5702 - In one line: Founded in 1820 by Scottish brewer and future Halifax mayor Alexander Keith, this ironstone-and-granite brewery on Lower Water Street is one of North America's oldest, famed for its India Pale Ale. ### 22. Halifax Central Library - Coordinates: 44.6429, -63.5753 - In one line: Opened in 2014 on Spring Garden Road, this glass landmark resembles stacked books offset at angles. Designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen with Fowler Bauld and Mitchell, its cantilevered top floor and skylit atrium drew global acclaim. ### 23. Scotiabank Centre - Coordinates: 44.64833, -63.57667 - In one line: Halifax's largest arena opened in 1978 as the Metro Centre and was renamed Scotiabank Centre in 2014. Seating around 10,600 for hockey, it hosts the Mooseheads, major championships, and concerts on Argyle Street downtown. ### 24. Neptune Theatre - Coordinates: 44.64612, -63.57421 - In one line: Founded in 1963 inside a 1915 former cinema on Argyle Street, Neptune Theatre is Atlantic Canada's largest professional company. Named for the first recorded play in North America, it stages classics, new Canadian works, and runs a theatre school. ### 25. Naval Museum of Halifax - Coordinates: 44.65958, -63.59264 - In one line: Housed in Admiralty House, a Palladian Georgian mansion completed in 1818, this museum opened in 1974 to tell the story of the Royal Canadian Navy. Its rooms hold ship's bells, uniforms, models, and artifacts from HMCS Niobe. ### 26. McNabs Island - Coordinates: 44.6, -63.52 - In one line: The largest island in Halifax Harbour, McNabs spans about 395 hectares and carries the name of Peter McNab, who bought it in the 1780s. Old forts, a lighthouse, Victorian gardens, and Mi'kmaq shell middens dot its now-protected shores. ### 27. Point Pleasant Park - Coordinates: 44.62278, -63.56917 - In one line: At the southern tip of the Halifax peninsula, this 75-hectare park has been leased from Britain since 1866 for one shilling a year. It holds the Prince of Wales Tower, North America's oldest Martello tower, built in 1796. ### 28. Halifax Farmers' Market - Coordinates: 44.6476, -63.57177 - In one line: Founded in 1750, this is billed as the oldest continuously operating farmers' market in North America. After a 2010 split, it runs as two markets: one at the Halifax Seaport, one at the historic Keith's Brewery site on Lower Water Street. ### 29. Spring Garden Road - Coordinates: 44.64261, -63.57844 - In one line: Spring Garden Road is Halifax's premier shopping street, named for a freshwater spring beneath it. Lined with shops, the Central Library, and the Public Gardens, it ranks among the busiest commercial districts in Atlantic Canada. ### 30. Quinpool Road - Coordinates: 44.64592, -63.59489 - In one line: Quinpool Road is the commercial heart of Halifax's West End, named after Quinn's Pool on the Northwest Arm. Its restaurants, bakeries, and shops form a lively boundary between the city's North End and South End neighbourhoods. ### 31. North End - Coordinates: 44.66314, -63.60128 - In one line: The North End is Halifax's historic working-class and African Nova Scotian neighbourhood, devastated by the 1917 explosion and once home to Africville. Today its streets blend deep heritage with galleries, restaurants, and rapid gentrification. ### 32. The Hydrostone - Coordinates: 44.66444, -63.60278 - In one line: The Hydrostone is a planned North End neighbourhood built after the 1917 Halifax Explosion to rehouse displaced families. Designed by Thomas Adams in Garden City style, its tree-lined boulevards became a National Historic Site in 1993. ### 33. South End - Coordinates: 44.63, -63.58 - In one line: The South End is Halifax's most prosperous neighbourhood, filling the southern Halifax Peninsula. Home to Dalhousie University, Pier 21, and grand residences, it is among Canada's wealthier districts, shaped by a deep railway cut completed around 1918. ### 34. Halifax Common - Coordinates: 44.64941, -63.58928 - In one line: Halifax Common is Canada's oldest urban park, set aside in 1749 as pasture, militia camp, and clear firing ground for the Citadel. Today its North Common holds sports fields, the Emera Oval, and gathering space for the city. ### 35. Camp Hill Cemetery - Coordinates: 44.64275, -63.58617 - In one line: Camp Hill Cemetery, established in 1844 beside Robie Street, is the resting place of many prominent Nova Scotians, including Joseph Howe, Alexander Keith, Enos Collins, and civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond. ### 36. Fairview Lawn Cemetery - Coordinates: 44.661, -63.622 - In one line: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, opened in 1893 in Halifax's North End, holds 121 victims of the Titanic disaster, more than any other burial ground on Earth. Curved rows of grey granite markers follow the sloping land. ### 37. Africville - Coordinates: 44.67458, -63.6185 - In one line: Africville was a Black community on Bedford Basin, settled from 1848 by descendants of refugees who reached Nova Scotia after the War of 1812. Demolished by Halifax in the 1960s, it is now a National Historic Site and memorial park. ### 38. Dalhousie University - Coordinates: 44.63694, -63.59167 - In one line: Dalhousie University, founded in 1818 by the Earl of Dalhousie, is Atlantic Canada's largest research university. Its leafy Studley campus in south-end Halifax draws over 20,000 students and counts three Canadian prime ministers among its graduates. ### 39. Saint Mary's University - Coordinates: 44.63169, -63.57975 - In one line: Saint Mary's University, tracing its roots to 1802, is among Canada's oldest universities and its first founded by Roman Catholics. Its south-end Halifax campus, home to about 6,000 students, centres on the McNally and Burke buildings and the Sobey School of Business. ### 40. Dartmouth - Coordinates: 44.67, -63.57 - In one line: Dartmouth, founded in 1750 across the harbour from Halifax, is known as the City of Lakes for its 23 lakes. Linked by North America's oldest saltwater ferry, it joined the Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996 yet keeps its own character. ## Roots Earth in short Roots Earth has audio stories about 5,665 places in 130 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people. - No account - Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection - Audio stories in English and German in every city, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 of the 130 cities Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app). ## More from Roots Earth - [North America in the Roots Earth catalogue](https://rootsearth.com/cities#north-america): every city in North America with its number of places and its languages. - [What Roots Earth is](https://rootsearth.com/app): the app in one page, how it works and what is in it. - [Questions travellers ask](https://rootsearth.com/faq): the cities, the languages, the account, listening without a connection. - [The 7 languages](https://rootsearth.com/languages): the seven languages with their codes and how many cities each one covers. - [Montreal](https://rootsearth.com/cities/montreal): 50 places in Canada with audio stories. - [Ottawa](https://rootsearth.com/cities/ottawa): 42 places in Canada with audio stories. - [Quebec City](https://rootsearth.com/cities/quebec-city): 45 places in Canada with audio stories. - [Toronto](https://rootsearth.com/cities/toronto): 48 places in Canada with audio stories. 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