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Moving to Halifax Guide

Moving Abroad
7 min readAug 19, 2021

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How to move to Halifax, Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 — jobs, companies, housing, childcare and essential websites to help you settle in Halifax.

If you see “HRM” mentioned, that’s the abbreviation used for Halifax. It stands for Halifax Regional Municipality.

Halifax Town Clock

Contents

  1. 👩‍💻 Jobs
  2. 📋 Largest companies in Halifax (200+ employees)
    - Accounting
    - Advertising & Marketing
    - Aviation
    - Biotechnology
    - Defence
    - Education
    - Engineering
    - Entertainment
    - Finance
    - Government
    - Healthcare
    - HR, Management Consulting, Recruiting
    - Hospitality
    - Insurance & Pensions
    - Law Firms
    - Media & Publishing
    - Military
    - Real Estate
    - Security
    - Shipbuilding
    - Technology
    - Telecommunications
    - Transportation
    - Utilities
    - Waste Management
  3. 🏡 Housing
    - Rental websites
    - Rental companies / Property Management companies
    - Tenant Rights / Legal Aid
  4. 👧 Childcare
  5. 🏥 Healthcare
  6. 🚗 Driving & Cars
  7. 🖥️ Internet, TV, Cell Phones
    - Internet, TV
    - Cell Phones
  8. 📚 Schools
    - Public schools
    - Homeschooling
    - Private schools
  9. 👩‍💼 Immigration Lawyers (Law Firms)
  10. 📱 Websites
    - Websites for Halifax
    - Websites for Nova Scotia
  11. 📝 Contact: Question? Suggestion?

👩‍💻 Jobs

📋 Largest companies in Halifax

These companies have at least 200 employees and at least one office in Halifax, NS or the HRM

A way to find a job quicker is often to look at the biggest companies first. Due to their size, these major companies often have more job openings, sooner.

Dalhousie University

Accounting

  • Baker & Tilly, 1,001–5,000 employees globally
  • BDO, 10,000+ employees globally
  • Deloitte, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Ernst & Young (also called EY), 10,001+ employees globally
  • Grant Thornton, 5,001–1,000 employees globally
  • KPMG, 10,001+ employees globally
  • PWC (also called Price Waterhouse Cooper), 10,001+ employees globally

Advertising & Marketing

  • Cossette, 501–1,000 employees
  • Pattison Outdoor, 201–500 employees
  • Resulta, 201–500 employees

Aviation

  • Gate Gourmet, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Inland Technologies, 501–1,000 employees
  • PAL Airlines, 201–500 employees

Biotechnology

  • Immucor, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific, 10,001+ employees globally

Defence

For military, see the Military section

  • Lockheed Martin, 10,001+ employees globally

Education

  • Dalhousie University, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Halifax Regional Centre for Education (K-12 public school district), 10,001+ employees
  • Mount Saint Vincent University, 201–500 employees
  • Nova Scotia Community College, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Saint Mary’s University, 201–500 employees

Engineering

  • AECOM, 10,001+ employees
  • BMT Group (also called BMT Canada), 1,001–5,000 employees globally
  • CBCL Limited, 201–500 employees
  • Dillon Consulting, 501–1000 employees
  • Golder Associates, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Hatch, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Schneider Electric, 10,001+ employees globally
  • SNC-Lavalin, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Stantec, 10,001+ employees globally
  • WSP, 10,001+ employees globally

Entertainment

  • Events East, 201–500 employees

Finance

  • BMO, 10,001+ employees
  • CIBC, 10,001+ employees
  • Citgo Group Limited, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • HSBC, 10,001+ employees globally
  • IG Wealth Management, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • RBC Bank, 10,001+ employees globally — and a large office in Halifax for technology.
  • Scotiabank (formerly Bank of Nova Scotia), 10,001+ employees
  • TD Bank, 10,001+ employees globally

Government

  • Canada Border Services Agency, 10,001+ employees
  • Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Canada Post (crown corporation), 10,001+ employees
  • Canada Revenue Agency, 10,001+ employees
  • Defence Construction Canada (crown corporation), 501–1,000 employees
  • Government of Canada (Federal), 10,001+ employees
  • Government of Nova Scotia, 10,001+ employees
  • Halifax Regional Municipality, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Halifax Regional Police, 501–1,000 employees

Healthcare

  • Bayshore Healthcare, 10,001+ employees
  • Northwood (continuing care), 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Nova Scotia Health Authority, 10,001+ employees

HR, Management Consulting, Recruiting

  • Mercer, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Kelly, 10,001+ employees globally

Hospitality

  • Best Western Hotels, 1,001–5,000 employees globally
  • Hilton, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Marriott, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Wyndham Hotels, 10,001+ employees globally

Insurance & Pensions

  • Admiral Insurance, 201–500 employees
  • Axis Capital, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • LifeWorks, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Manulife (bought Maritime Life), 10,001+ employees globally
  • Marsh, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia, 201–500 employees

Law Firms

  • Cox Palmer, 201–500 employees
  • McInnes Cooper, 201–500 employees
  • Stewart McKelvey, 201–500 employees
  • Torys, 501–1,000 employees

Media & Publishing

  • CBC, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • CTV News, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Global News, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Rogers Media, 10,001+ employees
  • Stingray Radio, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • The Chronicle Herald, 201–500 employees

Military

  • Canadian Coast Guard, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Department of National Defense, 10,001+ employees
  • Royal Canadian Navy, 10,001+ employees

Real Estate

  • Avision Young, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Coldwell Banker, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Engel & Völkers, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Killam Apartment REIT, 501–1,000 employees
  • Royal LePage Atlantic, 201–500 employees

Security

(for police, see the Government section)

  • Commissionaires, 10,001+ employees
  • Garda, 10,001+ employees
  • Paladin Security Group, 10,001+ employees

Shipbuilding

  • Babcock, 10,001+ employees
  • Irving Shipbuilding, 1,001–5,000 employees

Technology

  • CGI, 10,001+ employees globally
  • IBM, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Introhive, 201–500 employees
  • IQVIA, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Jonas Software, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Magnet Forensics, 201–500 employees
  • NTT Data, 10,001+ employees globally
  • OnX Canada, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • RedSpace, 201–500 employees
  • ResMed, 5,001–10,000 employees globally
  • RBC Bank, 10,001+ employees globally — and a large office in Halifax for technology.
  • Salesforce, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Ubisoft, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Web.com, 1,001–5,000 employees globally

Telecommunications

  • Bell, 10,001+ employees
  • Eastlink, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Shaw Communications, 10,001+ employees
  • Telus, 10,001+ employees

Transportation

  • CN (Canadian National Railway), 10,001+ employees
  • Day & Ross, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Seaboard Transport Group, 1,001–5,000 employees

Utilities

  • Emera, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Halifax Water, 201–500 employees
  • Nova Scotia Power, 1,001–5,000 employees

Waste Management

  • GFL Environmental, 5,001–10,000 employees

Source: employee count data from Linkedin.com

🏡 Housing

Rental websites

Rental companies / Property Management companies

Tenant Rights / Legal Aid

👧 Childcare

🏥 Healthcare

🚗 Driving & Cars

  • Transfer your drivers licence, Nova Scotia Registry of Motor Vehicles: novascotia.ca/sns/rmv/licence
  • Register your car & get new plates, Nova Scotia Registry of Motor Vehicles: novascotia.ca/sns/rmv/registration
  • Get auto insurance for your car. In Nova Scotia you have to pick your own car insurance provider. Try TD Insurance, Johnson Insurance, Brokerlink, Surex or others.

🖥️ Internet, TV, Cell Phones

Internet, TV

Cell Phones

📚 Schools

Public schools

Homeschooling

Private schools

👩‍💼 Immigration Lawyers (Law Firms)

Check a lawyer’s name in the free online directory of the Nova Scotia Barrister’s Society to make sure they are licensed and legal. They are the regulatory body for lawyers in Nova Scotia. members.nsbs.org/LawyerSearch

📱Websites

Websites for Halifax

Websites for Nova Scotia

📝 Contact: Question? Suggestion?

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