Halifax-area recreation farm asks neighbours to hold off on fireworks

Josh Hoffman · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 29, 2025 6:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

With Canada Day looming, a popular recreation workplace successful the Halifax country is asking neighbours to not acceptable disconnected large and colourful pyrotechnics due to the effect they person connected their animals. 

On Friday, Hatfield Farm posted connected societal media that the usage of fireworks on recent nights had caused their horses to panic and stampede.

"They're going to termination somebody," Brian Hatfield, proprietor of the workplace successful Hammonds Plains, N.S., said successful an interview.

Hatfield said helium and his woman had to pursuit down the horses to effort to settee them down, which tin beryllium precise dangerous.

He's disquieted they could get wounded oregon an adjacent much superior mishap could hap if the horses break done a obstruction and get retired onto the adjacent Hammonds Plains Road, helium said. 

Hatfield said helium realizes he can't halt everyone from utilizing fireworks, but helium hopes anyone near the workplace who plans to usage them to celebrate will astatine least give unit a heads-up truthful horses tin beryllium tied up wrong for the night. 

"If radical could archer america that they're having fireworks, we tin instrumentality precautions," helium said. 

Trying to halt 'this insanity'

A radical calling for Nova Scotia to prohibition nationalist usage of fireworks formed successful 2022 aft fireworks successful Canning, N.S., caused a equine to panic and interruption its leg, which led to it being euthanized. 

"That's wherefore we're present and that's wherefore we proceed to effort and get this insanity to stop," said Hugh Chisholm, who sits connected the steering committee for the radical known arsenic #FireworksHurt.

The Nova Scotia Equestrian Federation's telephone for the prohibition of fireworks aft the 2022 incidental shows galore equine owners hold with Hatfield Farm, Chisholm said. 

He said helium wants Nova Scotia to travel successful the footsteps of Prince Edward Island, wherever fireworks person been amerciable for decades. 

The lobby radical isn't opposed to fireworks being acceptable disconnected during sanctioned events connected holidays similar Canada Day and New Year's Eve, helium said, but members of the nationalist shouldn't beryllium allowed to acceptable them disconnected whenever and wherever they want. 

"It's clip to accidental that your 5 minutes of amusive is not worthy the interaction that it has connected everybody else, the people, the animals, the environment, the hazard of fire, and truthful on," Chisholm said.