Fairview, Nova Scotia
Coordinates: 44°39′17″N 63°38′17″W / 44.65472°N 63.63806°W
Fairview (2011 population: 15,789) is a former community and current neighbourhood within the urban core of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Fairview is named after Fairview Cove, which forms the extreme southern end of Bedford Basin at the northern edge of the isthmus connecting the Halifax Peninsula with the larger Chebucto Peninsula.
As such, Fairview sits astride and is bisected by several major transportation corridors:
The area known as Fairview was established at the junction of several railway lines operated by various companies in the 19th century. Fairview Station was located in a former German settlement of Dutch Village.
The Dutch Village was one of the original homes of the Foreign Protestants that arrived in Halifax in the 1750s. First known as the Westerwald (western forest), it was called the Dutch (Deutsch) Village by non-German locals. Some of the passengers of the Foreign Protestant ships were settled temporarily in the Dutch Village while they waited for a more permanent settlement in Lunenburg County.
A section of the original, old Dutch Village Road that had been an exit to Highway 102 was renamed "Westerwald Street" in November 2002 in honour of the old settlement. Dutch Village Road now forms the main commercial street at the foot of Fairview's slope,the corner of Westerwald Street, Bayers Road to the Basin end of Joseph Howe drive.
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