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A walk along Halifax Harbor & visit to Peggy's Cove 01_The Volunteers

This statue depicts women volunteers who aided in the war at home. The show an elderly woman knitting, an African-Nova Scotian woman serving food and a young girl collecting scrap metal in a wagon. The creator of the display, Marlene Hilton Moore, was chosen through a national competition. The statues are life-size renderings made of clay and cast in bronze that stand on Nova Scotia granite bases.
A walk along Halifax Harbor & visit to Peggy's Cove

August 5th 2018
It started as a rainy day, but the radar indicated the weather would clear by the afternoon. We had about an hour and a half drive so we decided to head out to Halifax and walk around the waterfront in hopes the weather would be cleared by the time we got there. Our first encounter was a couple of statues at the boardwalk entrance. We continued our walk down the boardwalk and through the colorf ... read more
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