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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.
[3] [4] Janet Kitz went on to write two follow-up books: Survivors: Children of the Halifax Explosion (2000) which explored in more detail the stories of children who survived and December 1917: Revisiting the Halifax Explosion (2006) with Joan Payzant which looked at the impact of the explosion on the landscape of Halifax and Dartmouth.
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.
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 ...
Ashpan Annie (January 25, 1916 [1] – July 18, 2010) was the name given to Anne M. Welsh (née Liggins), a "Halifax Explosion" survivor.. At the time she was 23 months old. Her brother Edwin [2] and mother Anne were killed in the blast, which leveled most of the north Barrington Street structure
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.
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 ...