Canada - QE Classic, NS

SUBWAY QUEEN ELIZABETH CLASSIC BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

FOR SENIOR VARSITY GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAMS
 

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
December 26th - 31st, 2009
6 Days/5 Nights

Day 1
Leave from your departure city for Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Upon arrival the team will pick up its 15 passenger van and transfer to your hotel for the next 5 evenings, the Holiday Inn Select Halifax Centre, located in the heart of Halifax.

Day 2
First day of the tournament today.

Later today, maybe take a trip to Peggy's Cove.  According to legend, Peggy's Cove was named after the only survivor of a schooner that ran aground and sank in 1800...a woman named Margret. Local folk called her "Peggy" and her home came to be known as Peggy's Cove.

Day 3
Continued tournament play today.

Today, you may choose to visit the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic to learn about the Halifax Explosion.  At 7.30 a.m. on December 6, the French ship Mont-Blanc left her anchorage outside the mouth of the harbour to join a convoy gathering in Bedford Basin. She was loaded with 2,300 tons of wet and dry picric acid, 200 tons of TNT, 10 tons of gun cotton and 35 tons of benzol: a highly explosive mixture. At the same time the Norwegian vessel Imo, in ballast, set off from the Basin bound for New York to pick up a cargo of relief supplies for Belgium. At the entrance to the Narrows, after a series of ill-judged manoeuvres, the Imo struck the Mont-Blanc on the bow.  Although the collision was not severe, fire immediately broke out on board the Mont-Blanc. The captain, pilot and crew, expecting the ship to blow up immediately, launched the lifeboats and took refuge on the Dartmouth shore.

Day 4
Final day of the tournament today.

Day 5
Free day to spend in Halifax today.  Perhaps your group would like to visit the Halifax Citadel.  The Halifax Citadel has been commemorated as a nationally significant symbol of Halifax's role as a principal naval station in the British Empire and of the city's importance to Canada's development and evolution from colony to nation.

Day 6
Transfer back to the airport in Halifax for the return flight back to your original departure city.