Titanic Sites
a list of places
Share- Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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Fairview Lawn Cemetery (9:00 am)
3720 Windsor St, Halifax, NS
Resting place for 121 Titanic victims, including the unknown child; J. Dawson - the passenger the famous Titanic movie character shares a name with; and John Law Hume, member of Titanic's band. -
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Baron de Hirsch Cemetery (9:00 am)
Connaught Ave & Windsor St, Halifax
Ten Titanic victims are buried in this Jewish cemetery, which is not normally open to the public. -
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Mount Olivet Cemetery (10:00 am)
7076 Mumford Road, Halifax
Mount Olivet is home to 19 Titanic graves, including that of J.F.P. Clarke, a member of the Titanic band. -
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Nova Scotia Archives (11:00 am)
6016 University Avenue, Halifax
Check out their virtual Titanic exhibit or stop in and conduct your own Halifax and the Titanic research. -
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George Wright House (12:00 pm)
989 Young Avenue, Halifax
Home of George Wright, Halifax resident and Titanic victim, now owned by the Local Council of Women. -
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1209 Marginal Rd, Halifax
Samuel Cunard founded the world reknowned Cunard shipping line whose ship, Carpathia, rescued 705 Titanic survivors. -
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Saint Mary's Basilica (1:30 pm)
1508 Barrington Street, Halifax, NS
Saint Mary's Cathedral (it was not called a Basilica until later) held a mass for four female victims of the Titanic who are buried in Mount Olivet Roman Catholic Cemetery in Halifax. Following the mass, representatives of the White Star Line called the Glebe House to thank the priests. -
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St. Paul's Church (2:00 pm)
1749 Argyle Street, Halifax, NS
St. Paul's, which is the oldest protestant church in Canada, held a memorial for the Titanic victims just days after the disaster took place. -
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Hilda Slayter's House (2:30 pm)
1706 Argyle Street, Halifax
Home of Hilda Slayter, Titanic survivor. The building now serves as the St. Paul’s Church Parish House. -
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Site of Snow's Funeral Home (3:00 pm)
1740 Argyle Street, Halifax
Former site of Snow’s Funeral Home. John Snow & Sons lead a team of emblamers that came in from across the Maritimes to prepare the bodies of the victims. The historic building - which can be identified by its flat roof - is connected to the Five Fishermen Restaurant & Grill. -
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Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (3:30 pm)
1675 Lower Water St, Halifax
Visit the Museum's permanent Titanic exhibit, featuring the only surviving deck chair and many other documents, photos, and artifacts that explore the story of the ship and its Halifax connections. -
- Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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The Cable Wharf (10:00 am)
1751 Lower Water St., Halifax
Cable ship Minia, which was designed to lay and maintain cables but also aided in the search for Titanic victims, was based out of this wharf in the years following its construction in 1913. Ten interpretive panels located around the wharf highlight the stories of ships and crew that were part of the cabling era in the 1900s. -
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Brunswick St. United Church (11:00 am)
2107 Brunswick St., Halifax
A memorial service for 50 Titanic victims was held here on May 3, 1912. Most of the original church was destroyed by fire in 1979. -
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St. George's Round Church (11:30 am)
2222 Brunswick St., Halifax
The Halifax-based cable ship, Mackay-Bennett, spent five days at sea searching for Titanic victims, recovering 306 bodies and buring 116 of them at sea. The crew later held a memorial service for the unknown child at St. George's Round Church. -
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Former site of Mayflower Curling Club (1:00 pm)
2660 Agricola St., Halifax
The curling rink served as a temporary morgue for Titanic victims brought back to Halifax. -
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Dartmouth Heritage Museum (2:00 pm)
26 Newcastle St, Dartmouth, NS
The Museum's collection includes a letter written by cable ship Minia crew member Francis Dyke, to his mother, describing his experiences with the Titanic recovery effort. -
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Bedford Institute of Oceanography (4:00 pm)
1 Challenger Drive, Dartmouth, NS
The exhibit at BIO showcases a model of Titanic, as it sits today on the ocean floor, and a host of photographs taken from the submersible that found the ship in 1991. -
- total distance: 11 miles (18 km)
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