What's open and closed for Heritage Day 2022 in Halifax area
Many businesses and services will be closed on Monday for Heritage Day in Nova Scotia. Here's a list of what's open and what's not across the Halifax region.
Groceries
Sobeys, Atlantic Superstore, Costco and Walmart are closed. Gateway Meat Market in Dartmouth will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Beer, wine and liquor
NSLC: Closed, but agency stores will be open.
Garrison Brewing: The downtown Halifax location will be open from noon to 7 p.m., while the Quinpool Road location will be open from noon to 11 p.m.
Propeller Brewing: The Halifax and Dartmouth locations will be open from noon to 8 p.m.
Nine Locks Brewing: Open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Moosehead Cold Beer Store: Open from 10 a.m. to midnight.
Private liquor stores Bishop's Cellar (10 a.m. to 10 p.m.), WestSide Beer, Wine and Spirits (noon to 8 p.m.), RockHead (noon to 8 p.m.) and Harvest Wines and Spirits (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) are all open.
Malls
The Halifax Shopping Centre, Mic Mac Mall, Sunnyside Mall, Bedford Place Mall, Scotia Square and Park Lane Mall are all closed, although the movie theatre at Park Lane will be open.
Halifax Public Libraries
All library branches are closed.
Transit
Halifax Transit's buses and ferries will be operating on holiday service.
Waste collection
There will be no waste collection on Monday.
Recreation
Several city recreation facilities will be closed, so residents should call ahead to find out whether they're open. The Halifax skating oval will be open and will have free public skates throughout the day.
Federal services
The designation of the third Monday in February as a statutory holiday is by provincial legislation and doesn't cover federal government employees, nor federally regulated industries such as telephone companies, railways and airlines.
That means many federal services will be offered on Monday.
Service Canada offices will be open. Canada Post outlets will be open regular hours and there will be mail delivery.
This year's Heritage Day honours Grand Pré, which is celebrating a decade of being a UNESCO World Heritage Site. French explorers settled in Mi'kma'ki in the early 1600s and built an Acadian community in Grand Pré in 1682.
About 66 per cent of the Acadians in Nova Scotia were expelled by the British in 1755.
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