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Looking north from a grain elevator towards Acadia Sugar Refinery, circa 1900, showing the area later devastated by the 1917 explosion. Dartmouth lies on the east shore of Halifax Harbour, and Halifax is on the west shore. By 1917, "Halifax's inner harbour had become a principal assembly point for merchant convoys leaving for Britain and France."
The tree is donated each year to the people of Boston as a symbol of gratitude for its assistance following the 1917 Halifax Explosion. (Charles Krupa / Associated Press) ... If it’s in the news ...
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.
Vince Coleman. Patrick Vincent Coleman (13 March 1872 – 6 December 1917) [1] was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways (formerly the ICR, Intercolonial Railway of Canada) who was killed in the Halifax Explosion, but not before he sent a message to an incoming passenger train to stop outside the range of the explosion.
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.
On December 6, 1917, at 9:04.35 AM, the Halifax Explosion destroyed much of the city. Boston authorities learned of the disaster via telegraph, and quickly organized and dispatched a relief train around 10:00 PM that night, to assist survivors.
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.. She played a key role in the recognition of the 1917 Halifax Explosion, the largest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb and the worst man-made disaster in Canadian history.
In 1917, the Halifax Explosion, which killed over 2000 people and decimated a large section of Halifax's north end, demolished much of the company's infrastructure, including gas lines, overhead electric lines and tram car tracks and catenary. Nine NSLP employees were killed in the disaster, including a motorman, James Arthur Bennett, 34, whose ...