The province is divided into seven districts for soccer:[1] Prior to 1912, there was no association football for civilians.

A club had appeared now and again, in Halifax, "like a shooting star," but was not able to live on account of having no opposition.

During the early spring of 1912 one, Mr. L. Leach conceived the idea of forming an Association Football Club at the Nova Scotia Car Works, and with Messrs Bradshaw, Wilkinson, R.G.

In the fall, Dartmouth Rope Works and also the Wanderers Football Clubs were formed, and Mr. A.H. Leighton secured a trophy from Morton and Craigg's for Competition among all Amateur Association Football Clubs of Halifax and Dartmouth.

This competition brought all the Naval, Military and Civilian Clubs together in friendly combat, and under the guiding influence of the following Committee: Capt.

The competition was a great success, and the interest created made it evident that the time was ripe for the forming of a Provincial Governing Body.

Niobe, Nova Scotia Car Works, Royal Canadian Regiment, R.C.

At its second annual meeting in 1914, the provincial body elected F.J. Gardner as President and voted to pay the $25 fee and join the Dominion of Canada F.A.

With the resumption of activities following the war, the provincial body was reformed in time to put together a team to play the Scottish F.A.

The Scots, made up of players from the Scottish professional league, won by seven goals to one.

The team that represented Halifax was Wilson – O'Dell, Taylor – Fox, Campbell, Hunt – Ferguson, Carpenter, Jamieson, Sellings and Beston, a crowd of 3,000 watched.

sent George W. Crossan, its President, to Toronto to attend the 1921 annual meeting of the Dominion of Canada Football Association.

C. Ireland was Secretary in 1929 before in 1931 T. Bruce Taylor was elected President with Thomas Greeley as Secretary-Treasurer.

This year for the first, time Nova Scotia entered a team for the Dominion Championship.

That team was Halifax St. George's Aces, who played the Aldred Soccer Club of Montreal in early August.

In 1936 T. Bruce Taylor was returned as President, along with Robert Barrett as Vice-President and Thomas Greeley as Secretary-Treasurer.

Beyond this time, no record has been found of the Nova Scotia Football Association being in operation beyond the 1936 season until the years following World War Two.