We returned to Halifax this morning and spent almost four hours touring the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic on the city's waterfront.
The museum includes exhibits on the part Halifax played in early Nova Scotia defense, maritime trade, and ship building in Nova Scotia. It also had special exhibits on the recovery of the Titanic victims to Halifax and the terrible devastation to the city when an ammunition ship exploded in the harbor in 1917.
Halifax was the home of Samuel Cunard, founder of the Cunard Steamship Company that pioneered high-speed passenger liners providing passage from Europe to New York. The museum includes a large exhibit on Cunard and includes many models.
Nova Scotia became enamored with racing fishing schooners and the Banks schooner became a trademark of the province. The Bluenose was a famous competitor in this endeavor and is in port at Lunenburg where we will hopefully see it this week.
The owners of the Titanic contracted with local ships to recover the bodies of the Titanic because they were the closest boats available that were equipped for the North Atlantic. The recovery of over 300 of the bodies and the burial here of many of those had a great affect on the community.
Just a two short years later the north end of the waterfront was leveled when the Mont Blanc, a ammunition carrier during WWI exploded creating the largest man-made explosion until Hiroshima and killing over 3000 residents.
After lunch on the waterfront we went back for a tour of the CSS Arcadia, a hydrographic research vessel built for the Canadian government in 1913 in England and used until the 1950's. 
The ship was elegantly equipped for the comfort of the scientific complement aboard and spent six months a year charting Canadian and Atlantic waters except for the war years when it was turned over to Canada's navy.
It started raining as we completed touring the Arcadia so we headed back to Peggy's Cove and settled in for the evening including ordering fresh-cooked lobster from the pound next door. Ummmm!
Hanna is expected to pass over Nova Scotia early in the morning and the forecast is for another wet day.
