After the Halifax Explosion , Deputy Mayor Colwell , five aldermen , and twelve citizens , including Lieutenant-Governor MacCallum Grant and Justice Harris , assembled in the City Collector 's Office , which was the only room still serviceable after the explosion . An emergency joint meeting of the Members of the City Council present and Citizens in attendance was chaired by the Lieutenant-Governor , and would continue to meet there from December 1917 to late February 1918
Halifax Explosion
Halifax Explosion
Halifax City Hall