Shannon Park, Nova Scotia
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Shannon Park is a former military community on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. It is immediately south of the A. Murray MacKay Bridge in the former City of Dartmouth.
Although presently unused, Shannon Park remains part of the CFB Halifax defence complex. Shannon Park, along with the adjacent military community of Wallace Heights, was primarily used for housing the families of personnel serving with the Canadian Navy.
With defence cutbacks reducing the number of personnel serving in the navy, Shannon Park and Wallace Heights were closed in the mid-1990s and remaining residents were moved to military housing at Willow Park.
Immediately north of the community on the other side of the MacKay bridge lies the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, as well as a Canadian Coast Guard communication centre, and a Canadian Food Inspection Agency laboratory.
Should HRM be successful in its bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, urban planners envision Shannon Park to be used for locating the proposed sports stadium and athletes village, along with several additional venues. Shannon Park sits astride several transportation routes, namely, Highway 111 and a CN Rail freight line, as well as the harbour.
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