Plays, special exhibitions, films and events, as well as shop windows commemorating the anniversary, are spread throughout the city. Canadian troops and supplies passed through the port on their way to Europe, while the injured were sent back to convalesce in city hospitals. The city, which was a hub for undersea cables from Europe, lost all communications with the rest of the world. Unusually for a Canadian city at the time, Halifax had a large black population concentrated in a neighborhood known as Africville. I really don’t think it needs to be the primary way of identifying Halifax and its experience.”

Source: New York Times December 06, 2017 17:26 UTC