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Visit S.S. England Cholera Victims Memorial Site, McNabs Island, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
In 1866, the S.S. England, a steamship from Liverpool, England, headed for New York with 1202 passengers, suffered an outbreak of cholera. The ship had to redirect to Halifax.
Port authorities because of the potential devastation if the disease reached the city, ordered the England to McNabs Cove. Over 400 stricken passengers were transferred to the Pyramus, a surplus naval ship.
Here is a potters field, where prisoners from the mainland buried stricken victims of a cholera epidemic, just over 200 of the victims are buried on the island, marked by this fallen memorial column. Hugonin Point.
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