Licensed Daycares in Upper Tantallon, NS

8 licensed childcare providers, 6 group centres and 2 licensed family homes, regulated by the NS EECD (Nova Scotia).

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Upper Tantallon has 8 licensed programmes. 1 publishes its hours.

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Daycare listings in Upper Tantallon

Daycare & Childcare in Upper Tantallon

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Licensed centres

One organisation runs four of the seven licensed providers in Upper Tantallon. The five centres that report capacity hold 491 licensed spaces. None has a public review. That is the Nova Scotia norm rather than a local peculiarity. Two of the seven are approved for infants and five for toddlers, which is more age detail than Nova Scotia listings usually carry and makes this page more useful than most in the province.

🗓 Last updated: August 2026✓ Data verified against NS licensing records📊 Reviews from Google + parent submissions🏷 Reviewed by Kudzi K., Founder & Editor

What to know about childcare in Upper Tantallon

Giant Steps Children's Centre is the organisation in question. That includes a family home agency, the French Village site at 164 spaces, a Wyndham Drive site at 86 and a fourth entry at 54. So one organisation holds well over half the licensed capacity here, which matters when someone tells you the waitlist is long. One list, not four.

Fox Hollow Child Care Centre runs two more. It has a 50-space centre and a family home agency of its own, which means the two largest organisations here account between them for six of the seven listings a parent will find on this page, and only one entry on the list is answerable to nobody else. Friends for Life Early Learning is the one fully independent centre. It holds 137 spaces, and it is the listing to start with if you would rather your first choice and your second choice did not answer to the same board, draw on the same staffing pool and share a single waiting list between them. Upper Tantallon sits inside Halifax Regional Municipality, along St. Margarets Bay. Both the Canada-wide fee reductions and the provincial subsidy apply here, and Halifax proper is close enough that widening the search toward Bayers Lake or Clayton Park is realistic if nothing local opens up before you need it.

Parents also ask

How many licensed providers are in Upper Tantallon?

Is one organisation dominant?

Do they take infants?

Tips for choosing childcare in Upper Tantallon

Verify Licensing

Confirm the centre holds a current provincial licence. A licence means the province checked baseline health, safety and staffing standards — it is a floor, not a ranking.

Read Parent Reviews

Reviews cover what an inspection report never will: what drop-off feels like, whether messages get answered, how long staff stay.

Ask About Curriculum

Ask what a Tuesday actually looks like. "Montessori" and "play-based" mean different things at different centres, so the daily schedule tells you more than the label does.

Consider Schedule Fit

Check the posted open and close times against your commute, not just your workday. Then ask what happens when you're late.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many licensed providers are in Upper Tantallon?

Seven, holding 491 licensed spaces across the five centres that report capacity.

Is one organisation dominant?

Yes. Giant Steps Children's Centre accounts for four of the seven listings, including the 164-space French Village site.

Do they take infants?

Two of the seven are licensed for infants and five for toddlers, which is more age detail than most Nova Scotia listings carry.

How many daycares in Upper Tantallon publish their opening hours?

1 of the 8 licensed programmes MapleCub has on file in Upper Tantallon publish their hours. The rest have not listed opening and closing times, so call to confirm.

Ask about spots near you

We email the centre and ask whether they have room for your child's age group. If they answer, we send you what they said. We don't hold live vacancy data, and centres aren't obliged to reply.

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