Trip to Halifax

Hi,

Here are a couple extra random pictures from this weekend. 

It was a holiday weekend up here so they had some bicycle and foot races and other events going on.  The Marathon ended just a block from my hotel, in front of the ScotiaBank Center, as shown in the 1st picture below, as seen from the Citadel in the south part of town.

Here is a memorial and some wreaths that were placed there in honor of all who lost the Canadians/Canadiens that had lost their lives in the wars of the last century.

This is the pier where HMCS Sackville will be moored in a couple weeks (I thnik).

This is either meant to be a giant wave statue, or a giant tongue, I;m not sure which.

Here also is a kids playground at the waterfront.

These were some neat looking benches made to look like indigenous canoes.

This is the Ship Acadia which had served both in the RCN and as a Hydrographic Survey Ship, and is apparently the only ship to have survived WWI, WWII and the Great Halifax Explosion of 1917.

This is a view of the Citadel from street level.  They were firing off several canons Monday @ noon.  You can just make out the smoke of one of the canons being fired.  I suspect it was either in tribute to Queen Victoria's Birthday, or to ward off a Godzilla attack.  My money is on the latter of the two possibilities.

This next picture is of another memorial, sorry for it being sideways, I thought I had uploaded it correctly, but apparently not.

I also took a tour of the Citadel and the Museum of the Atlantic, which had some nice models inside.  Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me then.  The Citadel and the Museum of the Atlantic are both nice facilities.  Neither is overly large but have some interesting displays, especially about the Halifax Eplosion of 1917, where a relief ship collided with a munitions ship, eventually setting off an explosion that (if I am recalling correctly) was the largest manmade explosion prior to the atom bomb, and which destroyed a large part of the ciity.

All in all if you get a chance to ever visit Halifax, especially during nice weather, it is a very nice destination with a fair bit of history.

Pat

Don & Greg,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll try and check it out if I can, either on this trip, or another I am taking later this year.

Pat

checkmateking02

Nice shot!  I think Trumpeter makes a 1/700 kit of Tribal class ships.  Does the class go back to WWII?

 

Hi,

No, these are the ships Canada built in the 1970s.  But they are nice looking ships too.  Additionally, although its not here at the moment, if I am understanding correctly apparently starting in June the HMCS Sackville (a Flower Class Corvette) is supposed to be tied up at not too far away on the other side of my hotel at the Museum of the Atlantic.  Fortunately I'm supposed to come back up here later in June, so I'm hoping that I might be able to see that ship then.

Pat

I'm a little jealous as I've been wanting to visit Nova Scotia. This fall might be the year, who knows.

Just saw Don's post with the museum tip, thanks for that.

Anyone visiting Nova Scotia who is interested in avaition history should visit Baddeck, and Alexander Bell's museum there.  It is not well known, but after Bell got rich from the telephone, he got interested in trying to invent the airplane.  He shared his time between Canada and the US, and formed the AEA (I think that stood for Aerial Experimenters Association, or something similar).  He did not succeed- the Wrights beat him to it (Langley was ahead of him too), but Bell did invent the hydrofoil boat.  I will be visiting this August but my aviation friends told me it is not to miss.

Nice shot!  I think Trumpeter makes a 1/700 kit of Tribal class ships.  Does the class go back to WWII?