Thrift stores in Halifax
- 11 shops
- 3 thrift
- 8 used books & secondhand
- 1 walking route
- within 8 km of downtown
Halifax has 11 thrift stores within 8 km of downtown: 3 charity shops, 2 used bookstores, and 6 secondhand shops. King Street has the most on one street, with two, and the King Street run links three shops, including reiyee Buy-Sell-Trade and Encore, in four minutes. Quebec City is 639 km away, Montreal 790, and Manhattan 951.
Book-hunting routes
1 routeShops a few minutes' walk apart, in walking order. Do a run in one go and the outliers another day.
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King Street run3 shops
reiyee Buy-Sell-Trade → Encore → Encore
· ~4 min
Showing 11 shops
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Elsie's Secondhand store
Mon–Sat 11:00–18:00
0.5 km -
reiyee Buy-Sell-Trade Secondhand store
Tue–Sun 12:00–18:00 · King Street run · stop 1
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Metro Care and Share Society Thrift store
Windsor Street · B3K 5C8
Mon–Thu 10:00–16:00, Fri 10:00–15:00, Sun 10:00–12:00
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2.0 km
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2.0 km
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Quality Used Books Used bookstore
Pleasant Street · B2Y 3R5
2.3 km -
The Salvation Army Thrift Store Thrift store
Mon–Sat 10:00–20:00
3.8 km -
John W. Doull, Bookseller Used bookstore
Main Street · B2X 1R9
4.6 km -
Habitat for Humanity ReStore Thrift store
Wright Avenue · B3B 1H4
6.5 km -
6.7 km
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7.4 km
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Book hunting in Halifax
Nearest-first is a decent route plan on its own: cluster your visits, start with the shops closest to each other, and save the outliers for days you're passing anyway. Thrift stores re-shelve constantly, most put new donations out every day or two, so a shop that was quiet on Saturday can be a different shop by Wednesday. Weekday mornings beat weekend afternoons, and it's always worth asking staff when the book cart comes out.
7 of the shops here have their opening hours on record, and 4 of those open on Sundays. Where no hours are listed, nobody has recorded them yet. 6 of the 11 are general second-hand shops.
If you want the odds on your side, read our guides to finding good books in thrift and charity shops and spotting the books worth grabbing before you set out.
Donating books in Halifax
3 of the shops here are charity-run and take book donations during opening hours. Ask at the counter for a receipt if you want to claim the donation against tax. Shops pay to dispose of what they cannot sell, so a bad donation costs the charity money. The test before you pack a bag: would someone buy this today? Recent fiction, classics, cookery and children's books move. Old textbooks, out-of-date travel guides and anything damp or mouldy do not.
Our guide to where to donate books covers which shops suit which books, and what to do with a whole house clear-out.
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Nearby: Thrift stores in Quebec City· Thrift stores in Montreal· Thrift stores in Ottawa· Thrift stores in Toronto· Thrift stores in Mississauga· Thrift stores in Hamilton
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