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Halifax Hist. 
n. a standard of exchange which served as a system of account in colonial times, being officially adopted in Lower Canada and later in Upper Canada, where York Currency had long predominated.
See also: Halifax currency York currency
- 1764 From the Date of the Publication hereof . . . Forty-Eight Sols Marqués shall be deemed to be equal to One Shilling Halifax; and Thirty of said Sols Marqués equal to One Shilling York Currency.
- 1827 Just Published, and for Sale by Edward Leslie & Sons, price 2s. 6d. C'y, Computation Tables, for reducing British Sterling to Halifax Currency (the Dollar at 4s 4d) and Halifax to Sterling, by Robert Adams.
- 1938 . . . from 1796 onwards the dollar was equivalent to five shillings, Halifax (i.e. four dollars were equal to a pound Halifax), whilst five livres, French money, were equal to was equivalent to one pound, three shillings and fourpence, Halifax, or twenty-eight livres, French currency.
- 1764 From the Date of the Publication hereof . . . Forty-Eight Sols Marqués shall be deemed to be equal to One Shilling Halifax; and Thirty of said Sols Marqués equal to One Shilling York Currency.