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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

I believe it is safe to say with a high degree of certainty that numerous unsolved mysteries surrounding the 6 December 1917 Halifax Explosion still exist

James Robinson Johnston was the first Black person from Nova Scotia to earn a Bachelor of Letters degree, the first to graduate from any university, and the first to practice law in Nova Scotia

People reported hearing a whistling sound just before the shell landed atop a Victorian-style double house in the South End

In 1847 Halifax, one man’s vision of opening a zoological garden became a reality