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About Us

NSFM is a 120-year-old non-profit organization that helps municipalities tackle issues that are pressing for their communities.

NSFM helps all municipalities in the province through:

  • Advocacy – bringing municipalities together and working on solutions to their shared issues
  • Collaboration – facilitating collaboration amongst municipalities, connecting them with other organizations, other levels of government, and other provincial associations
  • Education – sharing best practices, finding creative solutions, and introducing municipalities to new opportunities
  • Sustainability – helping municipalities prepare for the future so they can rise to all challenges, not only environmental but also organizational

Mission

To enable effective local government for Nova Scotia’s communities by facilitating strategic advocacy, collaboration, and education.

Vision

Effective local government and strong, sustainable communities.

Five Guiding Principles

  1. We commit to focused advocacy, passionately championing the causes and issues that align with our vision and mission.
  2. We believe that collaboration is essential for achieving our best outcomes.
  3. We commit to continuity rooted in the belief that financial stability is essential to achieving our mission and making a lasting impact.
  4. We commit to honesty, transparency, and ethical behaviour in all our interactions and decisions.
  5. We commit to being responsive in all our interactions and operations.

Legislation

The Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities, formerly the Union of Nova Scotia. Municipalities were incorporated in 1981 under the Act to Incorporate the Union of Nova Scotia_Municipalities.

The Act was amended on May 22, 2003.

pdf NSFM By-laws(388 KB)

Incorporation

pdf CHAPTER 103-ACTS OF 1981 An Act to Incorporate the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities (UNSM)(55 KB) (As amended up to and including May 2003). 

From UNSM to NSFM

A request was made to the Province of Nova Scotia to amend the legislation to incorporate our new name, Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities. That request was granted by an Order In Council on September 3, 2019.

pdf Order In Council published in the Royal Gazette(350 KB)

2024 Annual Report

To review  NSFM 2024 Annual Report