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Neighbourhood in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada

Armdale

Armdale is a neighbourhood of the community of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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The place

Armdale is a neighbourhood of the community of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Armdale

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Dalhousie University

    Dalhousie University is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, and two satellite medical school campuses, in Saint John, New Brunswick and in Cape Breton. Dalhousie offers over 200 degree programs in 13 undergraduate, graduate, and professional faculties.

    3.1 km · public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of King's College

    The University of King's College is a public liberal arts university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Established in 1789, it is the oldest chartered university in Canada, and the oldest English-language university in the Commonwealth outside the United Kingdom.

    2.8 km · oldest chartered university in Canada, in Halifax, Nova Scotia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mount Saint Vincent University

    Mount Saint Vincent University, often referred to as the Mount, is a public, primarily undergraduate, university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was established in 1873. Mount Saint Vincent offers undergraduate programs in arts, science, education, and professional studies.

    3.9 km · Canadian university · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Fairview Cemetery

    Fairview Cemetery is a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is perhaps best known as the final resting place for over one hundred victims of the sinking of the Titanic.

    2.7 km · cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Halifax Public Gardens

    The Halifax Public Gardens are Victorian-era public gardens formally established in 1867, the year of Canadian Confederation. The gardens are located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the Halifax Peninsula near the popular shopping district of Spring Garden Road and opposite Victoria Park.

    4 km · public park in Halifax, Nova Scotia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History

    The Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, part of the Nova Scotia Museum, is located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. The museum includes collections and exhibits concerning the natural sciences as well as artifacts of cultural significance to Nova Scotia.

    3.8 km · natural history museum in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bayers Lake

    Bayers Lake is a lake of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is located west of the Halifax Peninsula and the intersection of highways 102 and 103, and in the centre of Bayers Lake Business Park.

    3.2 km · lake in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Chocolate Lake

    Chocolate Lake is located in the Armdale neighbourhood of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The lake is surrounded by many private homes as well as a Best Western hotel and a city beach.

    800 m · lake in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Colpitt Lake

    This is a list of lakes in Nova Scotia.

    4 km · lake in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Long Lake Provincial Park

    Long Lake Provincial Park is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was initiated in 1981 by then Premier John Buchanan after Halifax's water supply had been shifted from the Spruce Hill/Long Lake/Chain Lakes watershed to the Pockwock Lake watershed near Hammonds Plains.

    2.1 km · provincial park in Nova Scotia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Armdale

Airports
Halifax / Stanfield (YHZ), 29 km
  • Quebec → Armdale
    636 km · quickest by air, 7h 30m · C$200–310
  • Montréal → Armdale
    788 km · quickest by air, 5h 53m · C$220–340
  • St. John's → Armdale
    902 km · quickest by air, 5h 44m · C$220–330
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Armdale

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Armdale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inGoing east on 104 takes you to Cape Breton or, alternatively, the ferry to Prince Edward Island.
  • Get aroundHalifax Transit operates two ferry routes that stop at .
  • Get aroundThe Halifax to Dartmouth ferry dates back to 1752.
  • Get aroundFor the same cost as bus fare, one can take the ferry back and forth between Dartmouth and Halifax, this is an excellent (and cheap) way to take in the skyline views, spot ships, and mingle with locals.
  • Get aroundThe Halifax-Woodside Ferry only runs Monday to Friday, there is little to do, and few places to go from the Woodside terminal.

From Wikivoyage: Halifax, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    419 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    895 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,916 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,952 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,003 km

If you know how people move in Armdale – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Armdale

Armdale is 4 km from Halifax, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hydrostonehuman settlement in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada3.8 km
  • Clayton Parkhuman settlement in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada2.7 km
  • Deadmans Islandisland in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada1.3 km
  • Quinpool Districtcommunity in Nova Scotia, Canada3.1 km
  • Cowie Hillhuman settlement in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada1.8 km
  • Fairmounthuman settlement in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada700 m