Wallis Heights, Nova Scotia

Wallis Heights
Subdivsion

Location within Nova Scotia

Coordinates: 44°41′11″N 63°36′22″W / 44.68639°N 63.60611°W / 44.68639; -63.60611Coordinates: 44°41′11″N 63°36′22″W / 44.68639°N 63.60611°W / 44.68639; -63.60611
Country  Canada
Province  Nova Scotia
Municipality Halifax Regional Municipality
Community Dartmouth
Community council Harbour East - Marine Drive Community Council
District 6 - Harbourview - Burnside - Dartmouth East
Postal code B3A
Area code 902
GNBC code CBNJH

Wallis Heights is a Canadian urban neighbourhood in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality.

Wallis Heights is situated immediately north of Shannon Hill at the southern end of the Bedford Basin, around the northern side of the MacKay bridge in the former city of Dartmouth. It was established by the Department of National Defence in the 1950s to house Royal Canadian Navy personnel attached to the Halifax naval base. The community is named after Provo Wallis.

Defence cutbacks to the Canadian Forces in the mid-1990s and rising real estate costs saw Wallis Heights sold to a private developer. Some units have been renovated and the entire neighbourhood has been resettled by civilians.

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