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A monument commemorating the Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis, which Canada turned away in 1939, will no longer be housed at the Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax.
The Halifax Women's History Society officially unveils a bronze monument, The Volunteers, to pay tribute to women volunteers during the Second World War, on Nov. 16, 2017.
The first monument, "The Last Steps Memorial Arch," was installed last year on the Halifax waterfront. It pays tribute to the departure from Pier 2 of 350,000 soldiers who boarded ships bound for ...
Members of the Halifax North (Women’s) Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Association in a practice at their headquarters on West Young Street. Halifax Civil Emergency Corps, September 1942.
Voters in Halifax County say they want a part of history to stay put. ... The final count shows 9,636 voters wanted the monument to stay where it is, while 5,746 voted to move the monument.
HALIFAX, NS – A four-metre high concrete arch has been officially unveiled as Nova Scotia’s first monument dedicated to peace officers killed in the line of duty.
Police say a pedestrian walking along Monument near Pepper Ave. was hit by a car just after 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20. The pedestrian was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries.
This is the very first significant monument to women in the Halifax area." The design sketches unveiled Thursday show three life-size figures, each from a different generation.
ENFIELD, N.C. (WTVD) -- The mayor of a town in Halifax County had a Confederate monument in his town bulldozed and removed while he broadcast it live on Facebook. Mondale Robinson is the mayor of ...
Columbus K. Lassiter, vice president of American Locomotive Co. and a Monument Avenue resident, ... including the Colonial Revival-style Halifax (1921) at 3009 Monument Avenue, ...
(Left to right) Emma Hudson, Antonello Tiozzo, Emma Knowles, Serena Cattaneo and Rutendo Chinogureyi are working on the new monument at Shibden Hall in Halifax An all-female team of stonemasons ...