Port of Halifax
Port, Halifax, Canada.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- Halifax, Canada
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Industry today
PORT OF HALIFAX
Halifax merchant Benjamin Wier acted as agent for many blockade runners carrying British arms, taking Confederate cotton for re-export to Britain. In August 1864 the runners Old Dominion and City of Petersburg brought 2,000 bales of cotton here from Wilmington. In March 1865 Seward complained that Halifax had been a naval station for blockade runners.
Then
Halifax merchant Benjamin Wier acted as agent for many of the blockade runners carrying British arms, and took Confederate cotton for re-export to Britain in return for ship repair facilities. In August 1864 the runners Old Dominion and City of Petersburg brought 2,000 bales of cotton to Halifax from Wilmington.
U.S. Secretary of State Seward complained on March 14, 1865, that Halifax had been for more than a year a naval station for vessels running the blockade.
Now
Industry today
The Port of Halifax and the Halifax Shipyard remain major employers in the city.