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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.
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.
The novel takes place during the week of the Halifax Explosion - 2 December 1917 to 10 December 1917. Penelope Wain believes that her cousin, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father, Colonel Geoffrey Wain. The family is under the impression that Neil had died in the disgrace of desertion. Neil, however, had not died ...
A Romance of the Halifax Disaster (1918) is a rare novella by Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel Frank McKelvey Bell based on the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Bell, after the explosion, had assisted in the medical rescue. His experiences during this time allowed him to write about the physical trauma suffered by Haligonians.
Burden of Desire (1992) is a large mass-market book based on the Halifax Explosion of 1917 written by Canadian-born journalist Robert MacNeil. [1] MacNeil, who hosted the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, has also published other fiction and non-fiction books including The Story of English (1986), Breaking News (1999) and Wordstruck: A Memoir (1989).
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.
Her first major book was about the ferry that connects Halifax and Dartmouth. She also wrote children's books including Who's a Scaredy-Cat! - A Story of the Halifax Explosion, which is a story surrounding two families in Dartmouth at the time of the Halifax explosion. After her idea for Scaredy-cat was rejected, Payzant stated that "I knew ...
In November 2020, Wilfrid Laurier University Press printed Scanlon's book on the devastating 1917 Halifax explosion. Finished in 2007, the manuscript was edited after Scanlon's death by Canadian military historian Dr. Roger Sarty, [23] and published with the title Catastrophe: Stories and Lessons from the Halifax Explosion. [24]