The Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre (WTCC), located in the heart of downtown Halifax, has been welcoming the world to thier facility for more than 25 years. It boasts three floors of multi-purpose meeting and banquet rooms include flexible meeting space, luxurious reception areas and comfortable conversation spaces. It is also connected to the Halifax LINK pedway system - one of the largest in North America. It provides quick access to and from the conference hotel along with shopping, restaurants and more, all within five minutes.

The Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre will be the host facility for all of the conference technical program events and the banquet

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The conference organizers have made arrangements to reserve a block of rooms for CCECE 2015 participants at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel.

1919 Upper Water Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3J5 Canada

Phone: 1 902 421 1700
Fax: 1 902 422 5805
Sales: 1 902 428 7803
Sales fax: 1 902 428 7850
Toll-free: 1 (800) 943 6760

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Reservation must be made by April 3rd, 2015 to receive this rate.

The conference organizers have made arrangements to reserve a block of rooms for CCECE 2015 student participants at the Dalhousie University Gerard Hall Student Residences at an economical student rate of $29.28 (plus tax) per night. Accommodations are available starting May 3rd and run until May 6th.

Gerard Hall is within walking distance of the World Trade and Convention Centre (11-14 mins, see walking map below) and on major bus routes connecting the Dalhousie campus with downtown Halifax (11-13 mins, see public transit map below).

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Walking Options

Public Transit Options

The Halifax Stanfield International Airport is the centre for domestic, regional and international flight services from Atlantic Canada. With over 600 flights a week, you can travel by air to Halifax on direct flights from many Canadian, U.S., European, and Caribbean destinations. Add to that hundreds more connecting flights and it's easy to get to Halifax from just about anywhere in the world. Halifax is geographically closer to Boston (fly time 1.45 hours) and New York (fly time 2.25 hours) than any other Canadian city and over one hour closer to Europe than any other major North American city. There are over 20 daily flights from Toronto (fly time 2 hours), 10 from Montreal (fly time 1.5 hours) and 11 from Ottawa (fly time 1.75 hours).

For more information: https://www.flyhalifax.com

VIA Rail Canada offers trans-continental connection with Western Canadian cities, and some U.S. destinations. The Ocean links Montreal and Halifax by night. You'll travel hundreds of kilometres while you sleep in comfort. When you wake up, you are in Atlantic Canada! The Ocean leaves Montreal in the evening, and travels along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River through the Matapedia valley. Continuing southwards across New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the train reaches Halifax in mid-afternoon. In the other direction, the Ocean leaves Halifax in the late morning, and arrives in Montreal the next morning. The Ocean runs three days a week.

For more information: https://www.viarail.ca