Janet F. Kitz ONS MSM (January 12, 1930 – May 10, 2019)[1] was a Scottish-born Canadian educator, author and historian based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

However, while taking anthropology courses at Saint Mary's University, Kitz grew interested in the disaster and its effects on the people of Halifax.

[6] Kitz's work at the museum led her to write the 1989 book Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery.

[11] She worked with the families of sailors from the ship SS Curaca, sunk during the explosion, to have their names inscribed on a monument in Halifax's Fairview Cemetery in 2001.

[13][14] Kitz served as a board member on the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Halifax, the Women's Auxiliary of the Isaac Walton Killam Hospital for Children and as chair of the Point Pleasant Park Commission.