Halifax Explosion
Smartphone Audio Walking Tour
Nova Scotia, Canada
$11.99 CAD
Follow the stories of tragedy, courage, and renewal after the Halifax Explosion.
Walk through the communities changed by 1917 with a professional, GPS-guided audio tour that plays automatically from your smartphone along the route.
Hear deeply human stories of survival and perseverance while visiting memorials, the Hydrostone, the Bell Tower, and places connected to the disaster and recovery.
Go when you are ready, pause to reflect at any stop, and explore this important chapter of Halifax history without time pressure.
Includes 28 narrated points of interest along a 5 km route.
📍Tour Highlights
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Vincent Coleman – Heroic railway dispatcher
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The Miracle of Ashpan Annie – Remarkable survival story
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Billy Wells – An extraordinary escape
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Halifax Protestant Orphanage – Tragedy and remembrance
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Hydrostone District – Rebuilding after the disaster
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Halifax Relief Commission Building – Coordinating recovery
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Fort Needham Park – Memorial landscape
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SS Mont-Blanc & SS Imo – Ships at the centre of the disaster
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Memorial Bell Tower – Landmark place of remembrance
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Richmond Staircase – Surviving neighbourhood landmark
Plus more GPS-triggered stories about the Halifax Explosion, courageous residents, rescue efforts, wartime Halifax, the tsunami, neighbourhood destruction and the community’s determined recovery.
The Halifax Explosion
Points of Interest
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