Halifax in Pictures

Last night we had the party for the gold and above.  There are about 160 of us in this group.  We were entertained with a  classical piano concert.  It was very nice.  After that we went to Compass Rose where I thought we were going to have lobster.  But no, they will be served tonight.  I was not impressed with any of the selections so I just had a baked potato and spinach.

Back to the cabin and we started to watch "The Lone Ranger" starring Johnny Depp.  What a bomb.  Not at all like Bob and I remember the Lone Ranger as kids.  But we watched about half of it and will finish up tonight.

And now for the pictures of Halifax.

 It still amazes me that these cruise ship float the way they do.  They look top heavy to me.  This is the Crystal Symphony coming into port after us.

As you enter the Museum, this figure greets you.

This explains a little about piracy.

This is a model built for the Museum.  It is to scale and very well done.

View of Halifax from the ship.

 Another view of Halifax from the ship.

This is the Weston Hotel.  I thought it looked like a hospital.

After the Museum we drove around Halifax to the Fairview Lawn Cemetery.

The stones are arranged like the hull of a ship.  There are some stones larger than other.  These have been paid for by family.

If they knew the names, they marked it as such.  Some are just the date.

Alma Paulson lost her four children but those bodies were never recovered.  Her husband wanted the names of the four children listed on her stone.  He had come to America a year before to get work.  She was traveling to be with him with her children.

They recovered a pair of tiny shoes and kept saying the unknown child.  A few years ago, a group got permission to dig up the remains and test it to see if they could find out who this child was.  After several tests, they now believe he is Sidney Leslie Goodwin.

The family had this stone added to his grave.  So now he is no longer the unknown child.

The numbers on the stones are the order the bodies were recovered.  This tour was sort of grim but interesting non the less.