The Victoria School of Art and Design (at corner) was used to store coffins. Its principal, Arthur Lismer, drew and later published sketches of the disaster. Today the building houses the Five Fishermen Restaurant.
Date: December 1917
Photographer: W.G. MacLaughlan
Reference: Halifax Relief Commission Nova Scotia Archives 1976-166 no. 64 / negative: N-4273
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