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The knowledge of this particular vessel, the only sister ship to SS Mont-Blanc, is important from an archival perspective

Entrepreneur and building contractor John Brookfield and his son, Samuel Manners Brookfield, contributed greatly to the building trades

Joseph Zatzman's most notable legacy in this position was his enormous impact on the creation of Burnside Industrial Park

Richard Byrne, Denny Doherty and Pat LaCroix formed the Halifax Three at the beginning of the Folk Music craze of the early 1960s

Aileen Meagher was an Olympic athlete, a school teacher, and an accomplished artist

Were it not for decades of dedicated work by Janet Frame Kitz, an incalculable amount of knowledge concerning the Halifax Explosion would have been forever lost

R. Fraser Alexander Johnston (1867-1951) was a native of Red Islands, Richmond County in Cape Breton

Prior to the catastrophic 6 December 1917 explosion in Halifax Harbour, Acting Commander F. Evan Wyatt and his second wife, Dorothy Brookfield, were the darlings of the city’s social elite

At least ten shops were damaged or completely destroyed from the Gottingen Street area to Barrington and Sackville Stree

Carrie Best (1903-2001) knew all too well about the damaging effects of racist policies