Halifax Explosion 100th Anniversary Advisory Committee


The Halifax Explosion 100th Anniversary Advisory Committee is no longer active. The committee began meeting in August 2014, and their final meeting was held in January 2018. 
The committee's role was to advise staff on the development and implementation of a commemorative program for the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion

More detail about the committee’s role can be found in the Terms of Reference  [PDF]. 

In October 2016, the Halifax Explosion 100th Anniversary Advisory Committee requested that the municipality commission a work by Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke to commemorate the Halifax Explosion - Achieving Disaster, Dreaming Resurrection: Witnessing The Halifax Explosion, 6 December 1917, and After [PDF]

You can find agendas and minutes online. You can also search for records of board and committee meetings.

Membership

Craig Walkington, Chair 
Pat Jessup, Vice Chair
Barry Cahill
Marilyn Elliott
Renee Gruszecki
Dan O'Brien
Will Robinson-Mushkat
David Sutherland

Staff contact for the Halifax Explosion 100th Anniversary Advisory Committee

Sharon Chase
Legislative Assistant 
chases@halifax.ca
902.490.6732

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