Half-a-million dollars will be spent on two stone memorials for the victims who died in the crash of Swissair flight 111 last year.
Officials with the province say at the moment the Nova Scotia Government is paying the bill.
They hope that over time foreign governments or corporations will reimburse provincial coffers.
The memorials will be made from granite quarried in New Brunswick.
Names of the dead will be inscribed on the stones.
One will be located at Whalesback, the other at Bayswater. Both sites are near Peggy's Cove.
The memorials are being fashioned to look like part of the natural rocky landscape when viewed from a distance.
229 people died when the plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean last September.
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