Titanic Related Sites in Halifax, Nova Scotia - The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
- 1675 Lower Water Street.
- The exhibit "Titanic: The Unsinkable Ship and Halifax" explores Titanic's intimate connection with Halifax using the museum's unique collection of wooden Titanic artifacts, including one of the world's only Titanic deckchairs. The museum's preserved steamship, CSS Acadia, constructed the year after Titanic sank, displays features of Titanic, including identical lifeboat davits.
- Fairview Cemetary
- Corner of Windsor and Kempt Road.
- Contains 121 graves of Titanic victims, the largest concentration in the world. Graves range from the White Star Line presidential secretary to stewards, stokers and "the unknown child".
- Mount Olivet Cemetary
- Mumford Road (close to entrance opposite Mayfield Street).
- Near the entrance 19 victims are buried including J.F.P. Clarke, the bass player in Titanic's band.
- Baron de Hirsch Cemetary
- Windsor Street - open by appointment only, call 443-8227 or 422-1301.
- Contains ten, mostly unidentified, graves including the mysterious fugitive Michel Navratil.
- Karlsen's Wharf
- 2089 Upper Water St. (Just North of the new Casino site). Privately owned, not open to public.
- On April 17, 1912 the cable ship Mackay-Bennett loaded coffins and left from this wharf, owned by the Commercial Cable Company, to recover over 300 bodies of Titanic victims.
- Coaling Wharf No.4
- Just north of the MacDonald Bridge. Not open to the public.
- The bodies of Titanic victims were landed here protected by military security and then hauled by horse-drawn hearses up North Street to the temporary morgue at the Mayflower curling rink.
- Site of Mayflower Curling Rink
- 2660 Agricola Street.
- An army surplus store now occupies the site of the curling rink that provided a temporary morgue for families to view victims and for the large team of undertakers and coroners to work.
- Snow's Funeral Home
- 1740 Argyle Street ( My Apartment restaurant and bar ).
- This building, now a bar, still stands near the corner of George and Argyle. Snows looked after Titanic victims and later-on, coffins were piled on the sidewalk for Halifax Explosion victims.
- George Wright House
- 989 Young Ave. at Inglis Street.
- Halifax millionaire George Wright died in the sinking. He bequeathed his ornate home to the Local Council of Women who maintain it and periodically open it to the public.
- George Wright Memorials
- Christ Church Cemetary, Victoria Road, Dartmouth - south west corner, near Victoria Road.
- Wright's brother raised to this monument in Dartmouth's most historic cemetery.
- YCMA
- 1565 South Park Street, halifax, in front lobby.
- A plaque, with the wrong date for the sinking, commemorating a meeting room built in Wright's memory.
- George Wright's Commercial Buildings
- Wright owned huge pieces of Halifax real estate and two of his grand office properties survive at 1672 Barrington (Wright Building) and 1684 Barrinton (St. Paul's Building).
- South Park Street Houses
- South Park between Morris and Fort Massey Cemetery.
- Wright built this well-preserved neighbourhood with integrated homes for all three classes on South Park Street, Morris Street and Wright Court. Ironically, one of the South Park homes was home to Capt. DeCarteret of cable ship Minia, who recovered Titanic bodies and searched unsuccessfully for Wright's body.
- Grave of Titanic Survivor
- Camp Hill Cemetary, southwest corner, middle of 7th row in from Robie Street.
- Hilda Slayter, a young Halifax woman, survived the Titanic sinking. After her death in 1965, she was buried in the family plot at Camp Hill Cemetary.
- Home of Titanic Survivor
- St. Paul's Parish House, 1706 Argyle Street.
- Hilda Slayter grew up in this home before leaving for England, Europe and her Titanic voyage.
- Titanic Churches
- Saint Georges Anglican Church - 222 Brunswick Street.
- Saint Paul's Anglican Church - 1749 Argyle Street.
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church - corner Spring Garden and Barrington Street.
- Brunswick Street United Church - 2107 Brunswick Street.
- Memorial services and funerals were held for Titanic victims in these venerable Halifax churches, including the service for the "unknown child" at St. Georges by Mackay-Bennett crew.
- White Star Line Agency
- Hollis Street, between Sackville and Prince directly across from the Halifax Club at 1682 Hollis.
- The facade still stands of the four-story, brick office building, location of the Halifax agents of the White Star Line where extra staff worked to identify bodies and arrange burials in 1912.
- Halifax Hotel
- The Ralston Building, Hollis Street, between Salter and Sackville Street.
- Now demolished, this venerable hotel operated an information bureau with the latest news of body recovery and was probably where many families stayed, waiting to identify relatives.
- Intercolonial Railway Station
- Now a parking lot for the Naval dockyard below the Macdonald Bridge.
- Families arrived here to identify relatives, some in private railway cars, along with reporters who used special telegraph lines set up at the station. It was destroyed in the Halifax Explosion.
- Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management
- 6016 University Avenue (at Robie Street).
- Holds detailed original documentation of Titanic victims including photos and business cards recovered from bodies and correspondence from their families. Available on microfilm.
- Bedford Institute of Oceanography
- Near Mackay Bridge, Dartmouth.
- Groundbreaking research on Titanic's wreck was performed here by the Geological Survey of Canada, including the first tests of her steel plating and research on the "rusticle" bacteria growing over the wreck.
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