Eastern Passage is an unincorporated suburban community in Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia, Canada.

The construction of CFB Shearwater, a military air base, at the northern boundary of the community during World War I, and the construction of the Imperial Oil (later Esso), Texaco (later Ultramar) oil refineries, the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant and automobile import/export facility following World War II redefined the local economy.

New highway connections have resulted in the majority of area residents commuting to Downtown Halifax or Dartmouth.

Prior to the European settlers, Eastern Passage was a season home to the Mi'kmaq for thousands of years.

[4][5] During the American Civil War, The iron Confederate naval cruiser Tallahassee sailed into Halifax Harbour on August 18, 1864, to take on bunker coal and water and then used the Eastern Passage channel to escape, for it was believed that Union naval forces were waiting at the main harbour entrance.

An American naval air station was constructed at Eastern Passage during World War I to patrol against German submarines.

In the 1920s and 1930s, a number of Eastern Passage residents from the Hartlan and Henneberry families proved important sources of Canadian folk songs and stories to Nova Scotia folklorist Helen Creighton.

During the second world war Hartlen's Point was bought out in order to build a military complex at the mouth of the harbor.

[6] Serious reductions to the CFB Shearwater base in the 1990s and the shutdown of the Ultramar Refinery challenged the economy of Eastern Passage in the 1990s.

The Eastern Passage is largely used by small recreational boats and fishing vessels during inclement weather as the island affords shelter from prevailing winds.

Around 2016 a dirt BMX park, originally promised by at the time MLA, Becky Kent, was built.

Eastern Passage hosts a variety of youth sport programs that includes baseball, basketball, soccer, and softball.