Anchor -- S.S. Mont Blanc

This little piece of history sits atop a stone monument at the place where it came to rest on the morning of December 6, 1917.  When the munitions in the hold of the S.S. Mont Blanc blew up to cause the Halifax Explosion, this shank of the anchor of the Mont Blanc flew 2.3 miles over the entire peninsula of Halifax and across the Northwest Arm to land here on the mainland side of the Northwest Arm near Armdale.  This piece of the anchor weighs half a tonne.