The five hundred Germans who came to Halifax immediately after its founding built their dwellings to the north of the citadel. In 1755 they constructed a Lutheran Church which still stands witness to their skill as carpenters. A short distance out Brunswick Street one comes to it, a plain little edifice with a grave-yard beside it. Of three successive pastors sent from Hanover to minister to this congregation, every one was wrecked during the voyage to Halifax.
On the way to the old "Dutch" church one passes the round temple of St. George's, beyond the old Garrison Chapel. The Dockyard is two blocks east of the "Dutch" church. Further out Water Street are the Intercolonial Railway station, the Naval Cemetery, with Wellington Barracks and Admiralty House near-by, and the immense Halifax Dry Dock and marine railway. All the foregoing points of interest may be reached by trams from the centre of the city.
On the outermost borders of this dreary north suburb, reached by the Belt Line car, is Fairview Cemetery where orderly rows of granite headstones—nameless, but each bearing a number—mark the graves of unidentified dead brought to Halifax by rescue ships after the sinking of the Titanic, South of City Hall,[1] near the corner where Bar-
- ↑ From Fraser Brothers' office, opposite the Halifax and Queen Hotels, sight-seeing carriages leave every week-day
