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The Halifax Explosion Remembrance Book, an official database of the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, identified 1,782 victims. [103] As many as 1,600 people died immediately in the blast, tsunami, and collapse of buildings.
1917 Halifax Explosion: Explosion: Halifax, Nova Scotia Estimate; 1,950 recorded names 1,012 1914 RMS Empress of Ireland: Shipwreck: St. Lawrence River, Quebec 890 1711 Quebec expedition (1711) Shipwreck: Quebec: Failed expedition that led to the drowning of about 890 676 2021 2021 Western North America heat wave: Heat wave: Alberta and British ...
New Waterford, Nova Scotia: Maritimes 65 1917 December 6: Halifax Explosion: Wartime explosion Halifax, Nova Scotia Maritimes 1782 World War I 1918 January 23: Allan Mine explosion: Mining disaster Stellarton, Nova Scotia: Maritimes 88 1918 February 14: Grey Nuns Motherhouse fire: Fire Montreal, Quebec: Central Canada 53+ [8] 1918 February 24
SS Mont-Blanc was a cargo steamship that was built in Middlesbrough, England, in 1899 for a French shipping company. [1] On Thursday morning, December 6, 1917, she entered Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada, laden with a full cargo of highly volatile explosives.
Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery is a 1989 Canadian non-fiction book by Janet Kitz describing the experience of the Halifax Explosion with an emphasis on the experience of ordinary people and families who became victims or survivors of the 1917 munitions explosion in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He was two years old when he was blinded by the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917. [1] At the time of his death in 2009, Davidson was the penultimate living survivor with permanent injuries from the Halifax Explosion, [2] which killed more than 1,600 people. [1] Davidson was born to parents Georgina (née Williams) and John William Davidson.
Richmond was a Canadian urban community occupying the northern extremity of the peninsular City of Halifax. (Now part of the Halifax Regional Municipality.)It was the epicentre of the Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917, the worst disaster in Canadian history, in which as many as 2000 people died and thousands more were injured.
6 December 1917 Halifax Explosion: The cargo ship collided with Mont-Blanc ( France) at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mont-Blanc caught fire and was obliterated in a massive explosion that killed approximately 2,000 people and drove Imo ashore. Imo subsequently was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. USS Ingraham United States Navy: 22 August ...