Today, Government and its partners announced details about Titanic commemorative events taking place this April.
Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent will host Titanic Eve - Night of the Bells on Saturday, April 14, at 9:30 pm in the Grand Parade, Halifax. Mr. Pinsent will be joined by twenty-one performers and musical groups, including Laura Smith, Lennie Gallant, John Gracie, the Stadacona Band of the Maritime Forces Atlantic and the Nova Scotia Mass Choir.
For complete details, including information about The Gathering on April 14, at 7:30 pm and the Titanic Spiritual Ceremony on Sunday, April 15, at 3 pm, visit Nova Scotia Tourism's Titanic event listing .
To volunteer for events from April 7 to 15 in Halifax Regional Municipality, visit the Events Nova Scotia website.
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Last week, Government and its partners put out a call for volunteers interested in supporting Titanic commemorative events taking place in Halifax Regional Municipality this April.
Using a new online tool developed by Events Nova Scotia, volunteers are able to sign up for a limited number of opportunities that include greeting visitors at events, providing onsite information services and offering operations support.
People interested in volunteering for morning, afternoon or evening shifts from April 7 to 15 can apply online at the Events Nova Scotia website.
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The Nova Scotia Archives has many interesting items related to the RMS Titanic. One of the newest additions to their collections is a set of British newsmagazines from April and May 1912 that profile the disaster in great detail.
The archives has digitized one issue of the Daily Graphic and three issues of The Sphere so researchers anywhere can explore maps, diagrams, photographs and extensive articles covering one of the landmark events of the early 20th century.
Take a peek at this video to learn more about these significant pieces of history and then read them online at your leisure. They are presented using a zoom tool so you can examine the pages in great detail, as if you had them in your own hands.
The archives will soon be adding significant new Titanic content to their website, so follow them on Facebook or Twitter to hear announcements first.
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Join history buffs at the Maritime Museum for a free, special event at 7:00 p.m. to launch Halifax and Titanic, an illustrated history of the Halifax connection to the Titanic disaster.
When Titanic went down off the coast of Newfoundland, the city of Halifax was the base from which recovery operations were mounted. From the recovery, 337 bodies were found and 128 were buried at sea and 209 were delivered to Halifax, of which 150, were buried in three Halifax cemeteries. For the upcoming one-hundredth anniversary of the sinking, author John Boileau examines the relationship between the city and the unprecedented tragedy.
John Boileau served in the Canadian Army for thirty-seven years, retiring as colonel in 1999. He is the author of Halifax and the Royal Canadian Navy as well as seven other books.
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Gerry Lunn is the Curator of Interpretation at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. From guiding visitors to creating exhibits, Gerry has a long history of interpreting Nova Scotia's rich marine history.
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic has what is generally recognized as the world's finest collection of wooden artifacts from Titanic. Halifax was the closest major port to the 1912 sinking and all of the recovered bodies were brought to Halifax, along with many pieces of wreckage.
These fragments, including a near perfectly preserved deckchair and large pieces of oak carving, are featured as part of the museum's permanent exhibit.
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Garry Shutlak, Senior Reference Archivist at the Nova Scotia Archives, has studied the RMS Titanic and its connection to Nova Scotia throughout his decades-long career at the archives.
The Nova Scotia Archives holds unique and significant items related to the recovery, identification, and disposition of Titanic victims brought to Halifax.
The archives also holds several photographs taken at the time of the disaster, the most complete known record of bodies
recovered from the disaster site, and rare British newsmagazines from April and May 1912 that extensively cover the event.
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Here we'll be updating you about Titanic events, exhibits, and anything newsworthy happening here in Nova Scotia and around the world.
We will be featuring exclusive content from the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, the Nova Scotia Archives, and other organizations that are observing the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
Watch this space for interviews, behind the scenes video, and more.
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