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Neighbourhood in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hydrostone

Hydrostone is a neighbourhood in the North End of the Halifax Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Hydrostone
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The place

Hydrostone is a neighbourhood in the North End of the Halifax Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. It consists of ten short parallel streets and is bordered by Duffus Street to the north, Young Street to the south, Isleville Street to the west and Novalea Drive to the east. The Hydrostone District has about 9.3 ha of landmass.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hydrostone

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.

    3.2 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.

    3 km · oldest chartered university in Canada, in Halifax, Nova Scotia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St. Mary's Basilica

    St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica is a Gothic Revival Catholic cathedral located in the downtown core of Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia.

    3.2 km · church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.5 km · Canadian university · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

    The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is a public provincial art museum based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The art museum's primary building complex is located in downtown Halifax and takes up approximately 6,200 square metres of space.

    3 km · art museum in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    1.6 km · cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

    The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a maritime museum located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The museum is a member institution of the Nova Scotia Museum and is the oldest and largest maritime museum in Canada with a collection of over 30,000 artifacts including 70 small craft and a steamship: the CSS Acadia, a 180-foot steam-powered hydrographic survey ship launched in 1913.

    3.1 km · maritime museum in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    2.9 km · public park in Halifax, Nova Scotia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Halifax City Hall

    Halifax City Hall is the home of municipal government in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Designed by architect Edward Elliot, and constructed for the City of Halifax between 1887 and 1890, it is one of the oldest and largest public buildings in Nova Scotia.

    2.8 km · city hall in Halifax, Nova Scotia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St. Paul's Church

    St. Paul's Church is a historically evangelical Anglican church in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, within the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island of the Anglican Church of Canada.

    2.9 km · Anglican church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 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 Hydrostone

Airports
Halifax / Stanfield (YHZ), 25 km
Stations
Halifax railway station, 3.9 km · Angus L. Macdonald Bridge, 1.4 km · A. Murray MacKay Bridge, 1.7 km
  • Quebec → Hydrostone
    637 km · quickest by air, 7h 20m · C$200–300
  • Montréal → Hydrostone
    789 km · quickest by air, 5h 43m · C$210–330
  • St. John's → Hydrostone
    899 km · quickest by air, 5h 34m · C$210–330
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hydrostone

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 Hydrostone. 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

    421 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    898 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,919 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,955 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,006 km

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Around it

Next door to Hydrostone

Hydrostone is 3 km from Halifax, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Halifaxmunicipality in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada3.1 km
  • Africvilleneighborhood in Halifax in Canada1.7 km
  • Spring Garden Roadcommunity in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada3.1 km
  • Armdalehuman settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada3.9 km
  • Clayton Parkhuman settlement in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada3.9 km
  • Deadmans Islandisland in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada3.6 km