Laura and I were staying in a cabin near Shelbourne, Nova Scotia when Swiss Air Flight 111 overflew us and then crashed north of us in the North Atlantic Ocean. We found out about the disaster the following morning.

We've previously visited both memorial sites of the disaster but this is the first time I've taken photos of the Internment Site.

Memorials and tributes

A non-denominational memorial service was held on the grounds of East St. Margaret's Elementary School in Indian Harbour on 9 September 1998. Among those in attendance were 175 relatives of the crash victims, Swiss president Flavio Cotti, Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien, and Nova Scotia premier Russell MacLellan.^[68][69][70] A memorial service was also held in Zürich on 11 September 1998.^[71] The following year, another memorial was held in Nova Scotia.^[72]

Two memorials to those who died in the crash were established by the Government of Nova Scotia. One is to the east of the crash site at The Whalesback, a promontory 1 kilometre (0.62 mi; 0.54 nmi) north of Peggy's Cove.^[73] The second is a more private, but much larger commemoration located west of the crash site near Bayswater Beach Provincial Park on the Aspotogan Peninsula in Bayswater.^[74] Here, the unidentified remains of the victims are interred. A fund was established to maintain the memorials and the government passed an act to recognize the memorials.^[75][76] Various other charitable funds were also created, including one in the name of a young victim from Louisiana, Robert Martin Maillet, which provided money for children in need,^[77][78] and one in the name of Robert's mother, Karen E. Maillet-Domingue (also a victim), which granted.

Bayswater Internment Site

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