A
harbour around which
Halifax Regional Municipality sprung up/was built. On one side of the harbour used to be
Dartmouth, a city
comprised of several smaller towns accidentally
merged together, and on the other,
Halifax; the two together are connected by two huge
suspension bridges, and were referred to
affectionately as The Twin Cities. However,
Halifax Regional Municipality sprang up as a merging of
Halifax,
Dartmouth, and three other near communities about 5 years ago, and people have been quite successful in pretending this never happened ever since.
Within this harbour an explosion, The Halifax Explosion, took place; a munitions ship collided with another ship causing a catastrophic explosion that destroyed much of both Halifax and Dartmouth.