Our Mandate

Our mandate is to promote Dartmouth’s identity, preserve its heritage, and encourage the development of a healthy and inclusive community by:

• Building awareness of all of Dartmouth’s many attributes
• Communicating these attributes to residents and visitors alike
• Forming partnerships with local and regional organizations
  
• Advocating, through community engagement and other means, the development of a vibrant, progressive community
  
• Promoting Dartmouth-based events, organizations, news, activities and points of interest

Advocacy & Promotional Work

• Developed the Explore Dartmouth web site, Destination Dartmouth Facebook Page, and a video to promote Dartmouth’s many assets, including tourism and investment opportunities.
  
• Requests to include the name Dartmouth on the cover of HRM’s Centre Plan.
  
• Provincial policies submitted to all Dartmouth area candidates in the May 2017 provincial election.
  
• Establishing a sponsorship program and preliminary fundraising work.
  
• Promoting Dartmouth’s business areas: Downtown, Burnside, Main Street (Village on Main).
  
• Requested that Halifax Water Commission use the proper name of the Municipality in its public notices.
  
• Established a Shubenacadie “Canal District”, in cooperation with the Shubenacadie Canal Commission, Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission, and Develop Nova Scotia.
  
• "Canal Walk" brochures developed in cooperation with the Canal Commission.
  
• "Welcome To Dartmouth" flyers developed and distributed to hotels and tourism bureaus.
  
• Monitoring water quality issues with Dartmouth's lakes.
  
• Partnered with the Nova Multifest Society to develop a major multicultural festival for the Dartmouth waterfront.
  
• Presentation on the need for a Lake Protection policy in the Centre Plan and an Urban Lakes Management Plan for HRM.