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The Five Fishermen Restaurant is housed in a building that was originally constructed as a schoolhouse in 1817. It is across the street from St Paul's Anglican Church, the oldest building in Halifax, built in 1750, the year after Halifax was founded.
The building changed hands after becoming too small for the increased number of students. Its new proprietor was Anna Leonowens. Her purpose was to start an Art school, thus the Halifax Victorian School of Art was born. Anna was a verbose and overbearing character well known not just in Halifax, but also in other places in the world. Before coming to Halifax, Anna was the governess to the children of the King of Siam, an experience she would later write a book about called “Anna and the King of Siam”. That book would be translated into a Broadway musical, an Academy Award winning movie and many other versions of “The King and I”.
It wasn't long after Anna relocated her art school that the building was taken over by the Snow family. It became the John Snow & Co. Funeral Home and played a significant part in two of the world's greatest disasters.
In April, 1912, when the great ship the R.M.S Titanic went down off the coast of Newfoundland rescue operations took place out of the nearest mainland port – Halifax. Some of the wealthier victims such as John Jacob Astor IV, the wealthiest man on the ship and Charles M. Hayes, the president of Grand Trunk Railway, among other passengers were brought to Snows Funeral Home so appropriate arrangements could be made.
After the Titanic sunk John Snow boarded the cable ship Mackay-Bennett, taking with him 125 coffins, all the embalming fluid in the city, ice, as well as iron to weigh down bodies buried at sea.
Each Titanic victim's body was assigned a number before the task started of trying to identify the bodies. Any personal possessions found on a body were put in bags labeled with that number and the tombstones were engraved with the corresponding number. Space was left on each tombstone so names could be added later for those who were eventually identified.
It is sad to walk through the cemetery and see how many of the tombstones only have the assigned number because the victims were never identified.
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