Trade Centre Limited was created by an Order in Council on 17 November 1981 to own and operate the new
World Trade and Convention Centre (WTCC), championed by then-Premier
John Buchanan who envisaged the new facility as a scaled-down version of the famous
World Trade Center in
New York City. The trade centre would be built next to the Halifax Metro Centre (now
Scotiabank Centre), which had opened in 1978. As the two facilities were to be physically connected and operated a whole, an agreement was signed in 1982 transferring management of the Metro Centre to TCL, although the city retained ownership of the arena. TCL was heavily involved in planning and marketing for the new
Halifax Convention Centre. On 23 April 2014, the province introduced the Halifax Convention Centre Act, legislation that saw the provincial government and the Halifax Regional Municipality jointly establish the Halifax Convention Centre Corporation to manage and operate the new facility. The new legislation allowed Trade Centre Ltd. employees to be transferred to the Halifax Convention Centre Corporation (which operates as Events East Group). On 1 April 2017, Events East Group took over the operations of Trade Centre Limited. Trade Centre Limited employees were also redesignated as Events East employees on this date. A limited board was appointed to oversee the winding-down of the corporation. Financial accountability of the organisation remained with the Province of Nova Scotia until 28 February 2018, when it was transferred to the shareholders of the new Halifax Convention Centre Corporation (i.e. the Halifax Regional Municipality and the Province of Nova Scotia). The World Trade and Convention Centre building was sold to Armco Capital, a Halifax developer, on 9 April 2018. On 1 March 2019, the assets and liabilities of Ticket Atlantic were transferred from TCL to Events East. On 31 March 2019, the corporation was formally wound up. ==Business areas==