Richard Flynn

Halifax, October 2009

Photos from the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and its Titanic exhibits, from Halifax Harbour, and from the Citadel.

A boat on Halifax Harbour.
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Halifax water-front.
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This year’s Atlantic Hurricanes: a display inside the entrance to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, in Halifax.
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The most prominent exhibits in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax relate to the sinking of the Titanic on the night of 14th-15th April 1912: boats from Halifax were the first to arrive at the scene to pick up survivors and to gather the bodies of the dead. It’s funny how the final sentence of the French here isn’t in the English.
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A facsimile of a poster in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic for the never-to-take-place return voyage of the Titanic from New York back to Southampton. The ship famously sank on her maiden voyage east of Nova Scotia.
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A display in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic about the ships from Halifax which were the first to assist the Titanic as (or rather, after) she sank.
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Details in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic of the painstaking work which the Deputy Registrar of Deaths undertook in identifying the 209 bodies brought back to Halifax from the site of the Titanic’s wreck.
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Details in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic of the 150 victims of the wreck of the Titanic buried in three cemeteries in Halifax.
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On-board the CSS Acadia, part of the permanent collectiion of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax.
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On-board the CSS Acadia, part of the permanent collectiion of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax.
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A yacht crosses Halifax Harbour.
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On-board the CSS Acadia, part of the permanent collectiion of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax.
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The CSS Acadia, part of the permanent collection of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax.
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A man-hole cover in Halifax, manufactured in North Sydney. The North Sydney in question is of course the one in Nova Scotia, not in New South Wales. I have read a couple of stories about people excited to find bargain flights to Sydney who end up in Atlantic Canada rather than in Australia; the problem is compounded slightly by American-centric booking systems which only deal with two-letter codes for states: ‘NSW’ is compressed to ‘NS’, which is the same code used by Nova Scotia.
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Rigging at the Halifax Citadel.
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Canons lined up at the Halifax Citadel.
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The Halifax Citadel. The bridge in the distance is the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge, which connects Halifax to the neighbouring town of Dartmouth, which is across the harbour.
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Entering a (former) ammunitions store underneath the Halifax Citadel.
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Steps down to the military cells in the Halifax Citadel.
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In the Halifax Citadel.
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The main building of the Halifax Citadel.
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The insignia of George III on a canon at the Halifax Citadel.
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A canon at the Halifax Citadel, trained over the city.
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The Cunard liner Queen Victoria moored at Halifax, which I would later see again at Quebec.
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