the bluenose ghosts festival, which was inspired by the books, highlights the cultural heritage of the halifax regional municipality and continues to collect stories of downtown dartmouth. the festival offers school programs and activities, cemetery tours, haunted houses, and other related events. students in saint mary's university's history department are offered unique research projects as well as curriculum aligned educational programs and fine art projects for elementary and junior high students. in the present day, stories are still being collected in dartmouth, nova scotia in honour of helen creighton's extensive work on the subject.