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

Armdale is a neighbourhood of the community of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
- 01Dalhousie 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 - 02University 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 - 03Mount 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 - 04Fairview 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 - 05Halifax 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 - 06Nova 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 - 07Bayers 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 - 08Chocolate 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 - 09
- 10Long 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
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Getting to Armdale
- Airports
- Halifax / Stanfield (YHZ), 29 km
- Quebec → Armdale636 km · quickest by air, 7h 30m · C$200–310
- Montréal → Armdale788 km · quickest by air, 5h 53m · C$220–340
- St. John's → Armdale902 km · quickest by air, 5h 44m · C$220–330
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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Next door to Armdale
Armdale is 4 km from Halifax, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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