Founded as a benevolent and social society, The Royal Saint George’s Society of Halifax celebrates the best of England’s, and indeed all the British Isles’, traditions, arts & letters, common law and parliamentary government, industry, sciences and enterprise, and their contributions to Canada’s past, present, and future. We may sing Gilbert & Sullivan and whistle The Beatles tunes, quote Kipling and Churchill, dream of Cotswold country lanes and read Jane Austin, Shelley and Keats but we’re Canadians, living in the present and looking ahead.

In today’s hectic world, heritage is the all-important sweet-spot where the past and the present come together for everyone’s benefit. It’s not about folkways and festivals, monuments to military heroes and victories at sea, past poets, ancient cathedrals and celebratory Saint George’s Day dinners. Heritage fosters a sense of place, national pride, a commitment to involved citizenship and the common-good.

Although founded in 1768, we are the first and oldest Saint George’s Society in the British Commonwealth, if not the world, we’re not a relic of the past. We’re forward thinking and moving ahead.

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The Royal St .George’s Society of Halifax is a founding, active member of

The Isles Heritage Connection

The Charitable Irish Society of Halifax, Welsh Nova Scotia, The Scots, The Royal St. George’s Society of Halifax.

The Isles Heritage Connection  member organizations  welcome their fellow organizations to a wide variety of numerous programs and social events, including The Scot’s annual Robbie Burns Night, The Charitable Irish’s  St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, and The Royal St. George’s Chester Garden Party, St. George’s Day Dinner and more (see calendar for upcoming events).