Starting another trip to see Sarah we flew into Halifax last night and got to spend one day here before heading off to our first Sarah concert ...
1Queen Elizabeth High School The now closed Queen Elizabeth High School, from where Sarah McLachlan graduated in 1986. I hadn't noticed my kilt was up at the back, how embarassing!
2Queen Elizabeth High School the demolition has begun ...
3Queen Elizabeth High School Queen Elizabeth High School closed following a merger with St. Patrick's High School to form Citadel High School
4Halifax Metro Centre ... where Sarah will be performing later today :)
5Halifax Town Clock the front of the clock, looking up ... before we climbed the stairs up to Fort George
6Views from Citadel Hill towards MacDonald Bridge
7Views from Citadel Hill of Halifax Town Clock and onwards to George's Island
8Fort George (Citadel) Entry to the Citadel
9Fort George (Citadel) we have matching outfits!! ;)
10Fort George (Citadel) Citadel Parade Ground
11Fort George (Citadel) Citadel Parade Ground
12Fort George (Citadel) Citadel Parade Ground
13Fort George (Citadel) From here you can watch the sentry change every hour and then visit the lock-up where troublesome soldiers were held.
14Fort George (Citadel) Me on a cannon. Not much more to add really! ;)
15Fort George (Citadel) same photo only closer
16Fort George (Citadel)
17Fort George (Citadel) Citadel Parade Ground and Signal Masts
18Fort George (Citadel) behind the Soldiers' Barracks
19Fort George (Citadel) it looks such a nice day, but no, as you can see by the icicles it's icy icy cold!!
20Fort George (Citadel) the rear
21Fort George (Citadel) steps up from the rear of the Citadel to the Parade Ground
22Fort George (Citadel) Citadel Parade Ground
23Fort George (Citadel) Citadel Parade Ground
24Fort George (Citadel) Soldiers' Barracks
25Fort George (Citadel) bridge across the moat
26Fort George (Citadel) what used to be the moat of Fort George
27Fort George (Citadel) I'll keep guard
28Fort George (Citadel) Signal Masts
29Views from Citadel Hil of Halifax Metro Centre and Halifax Town Clock
30Halifax Town Clock the rear of the clock
31Views from Citadel Hil towards MacDonald Bridge
32Nova Scotia House of Assembly is where the Nova Scotia Legislature
33Art Gallery Of Nova Scotia shop
34Art Gallery Of Nova Scotia the Dominion Building part, which the gallery moved to in 1988
35Bank of Nova Scotia head office and Halifax main branch - designed by Canadian architect John M Lyle
36The Mitchell House Th
37C.S.S. Acadia Acadia served Canada from 1913–1969, charting the coastline of almost every part of Eastern Canada including pioneering surveys of Hudson Bay
38Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
39Halifax Seaport at the waterfront
40Cunard statue statue of Sir Samuel Cunard, founder of Cunard Line and a native of Halifax
41Pier 21 museum is situated in Canada's last remaining ocean immigration shed
42Acadian memorial Monument to Imprisoned Acadians on Georges Island, Bishops Landing
43Edward Cornwallis statue statue of Lieutenant General Edward Cornwallis, a British military officer who founded Halifax
44National Film Board building Home of the NFB until destroyed by fire in 1991. Previously St. Mary’s Young Men’s Total Abstinence and Benevolent Society Hall (no really!)
45St. Mary's Basilica boasts the tallest granite spire in North America
46Sir Winston Churchill at Spring Garden Road Memorial Public Library
47George's Island Georges Island is a glacial drumlin in Halifax Harbour
48George's Island ... and me
49George's Island Lighthouse
50Train carraige outside Pier 21
51Waverley Inn Hotel for our first stay in Halifax. A historic bed and breakfast style Inn, first opened in 1876
