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The Halifax Explosion Memorial Bell Tower. The Halifax Explosion was one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions. An extensive comparison of 130 major explosions by Halifax historian Jay White in 1994 concluded that it "remains unchallenged in overall magnitude as long as five criteria are considered together: number of casualties ...
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 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 ...
Reintroduction of wolves. Wolves were reintroduced to the park in 1995, after being driven extinct in the area nearly 100 years ago. It is estimated that approximately 500 wolves are present now ...
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.
Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion is a two-part miniseries produced in 2003 by CBC Television. It presents a fictionalized version of the Halifax Explosion, a 1917 catastrophe that destroyed much of the Canadian city of Halifax. It was directed by Bruce Pittman and written by Keith Ross Leckie.
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.
Wolves don't increase in number "exponentially" The VWP has mapped the home ranges of the wolf packs in its study area. The map provides a visual lesson to a key wolf fact: packs live in home ...