Linny, I hope you don't mean do I remember the explosion personally, since it happened in 1917.
Welcome, Vicky.
I've been to N.S. (on the back of a motorcycle, in the rain), but not to Halifax. You flew so didn't get to see much of the scenery, I'm guessing. Beautiful province.
The most recent disaster off the coast of NS was the crash of Swissair 111 that killed 228 people in 1998. That one I remember, Linny.
What are residents of Halifax, England called? Here they are Haligonians. (In Ontario, everybody from "down East" is called a Coaster.)