If you git me to cryin', Val Peyson, I'll wish you was in halifax.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
And Plouff, in his big apron, would be told to go to halifax, which infuriated him, for he thought halifax, Nova Scotia, was meant, and he had some mysterious feud with Nova-Scotiamen generally.
"Command"
William McFee
halifax has also the credit of bestowing office upon Newton and patronising Congreve.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen