[halifaxboyns]

Part of the main issue (to me) is that people have strong feelings about the part of the place within HRM. "I'm from Dartmouth or I'm from Sackville" and there hasn't been as much acceptance of the greater community. I really don't know how that question gets solved - other than continually reminding folks that the likelihood that HRM would break up is virtually none.

I remember that before HRM existed; many of the airline schedules showed Halifax in their schedules as Halifax/Dartmouth. After we became HRM - it just became Halifax. Being from Halifax, I never had an issue with the name but I also never understood this huge issue with the name not including Dartmouth or Sackville or anything else. If we had to list every community - the name would be ridiculous. Would the answer to this issue be that ensuring in documents HRM produces the history of how HRM came to be acknowledged all the other 'former' cities/entities? For example: Having text about HRM; then about old Halifax/Dartmouth and the pre-amalgamation entities?