Halifax, day 2

 July 19, 2024

Finally found level parking and climbed up to the Halifax Clock Tower.

And then to the Citadel, built above the harbor to protect from the French and the Americans. 

Matthew would have shared this tent with 4 other soldiers and their great. It was a miserable existence. 

Beautiful old building that survived the Explosion of 1917

Halifax City Hall

St Paul's Anglican Church

Window damaged in the Explosion - while the others were replaced they left this one

The former parsonage

Cool display we came across while walking past store fronts to a brewery. 

Elf anyone?

We decided to visit the various sites affected by the Explosion as we worked out way out of the city. 

This anchor shaft from the Mont-Blanc, weighing 1140 lbs, was hurled 2.35 miles away. 

We went to the cemetary where the victims of the Titanic and the Explosion were buried. 

If the families did not claim the body to be buried at home,  they were buried here and at the Jewish cemetary. The unidentified were buried with just the date of death but, if they were later identified, their name was engraved on the stone. 

The markers were placed in the shape of a bow of a ship.

On the other side of the cemetary were the Explosion victims burial sites.

The Bell Tower Memorial, site of a church destroyed by the Explosion

Vince Coleman was the train dispatcher who sent a message that the wharf was on fire and to stop any trains coming in. He was killed moments later but saved over 300 lives with his dispatch. His message is in the steel border

The Mi'kmaq community of Turtle Grove was destroyed. 

Pride flag on the bridge across the harbor

1200 lb canon from the Mount-Blanc hurled over 2 miles across the harbor. 

After so much heartbreak we left Halifax and drove to Antigonish and stopped in here, a specialty chocolate venture begin by a refugee family from Syria

And ended our day at Half Cocked Brewery

Before settling in for the night at their site for boondockers.