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The exact number killed by the disaster is unknown. 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 first book published in many years about the explosion, it broke the record for the largest number of books ever sold at a book launch in Nova Scotia [1] and has been credited as creating a renaissance in published accounts about the 1917 disaster. [2] The book has been reprinted several times and has remained a definitive account of the ...
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.
The tree is donated each year to the people of Boston as a symbol of gratitude for its assistance following the 1917 Halifax Explosion. ... disaster was one of the largest accidental human-caused ...
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 ...
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]
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).
Mission Titanic: This disaster is based on the RMS Titanic, with most of the book focusing on the Halifax Explosion (1917) during World War I. While 2 ships the Mont Blanc a French ship carrying tons of explosives because it was heading out to war crashed with another ship all the explosives exploded & the glass became flying bullets blinding ...