Wednesday, February 19th, 2025, 7:00 pm (Atlantic), in-person at the Lindsay Children’s Room on the 2nd floor at the Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Click here to join the Zoom call.
Keith Mercer is the Cultural Resource Manager for Parks Canada in Mainland Nova Scotia. Michael Kilfoil was the Project Manager for the “Fortress Halifax: A City Shaped by Conflict” exhibit development.
Abstract:
In 2022, Parks Canada opened a new flagship exhibit at the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site. “Fortress Halifax: A City Shaped by Conflict” replaced the “Tides of History,” an aging but much-loved theatre-style historical experience from the late 1970s. Learn about the exhibit renewal project and how historians attempted – and sometimes struggled – to diversify the range of stories told at this British military site.
