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The response to the explosion from Boston and the appreciation in Halifax cemented ongoing warm Boston–Halifax relations. In 1918, Halifax sent a Christmas tree to Boston in thanks and remembrance for the help that the Boston Red Cross and the Massachusetts Public Safety Committee provided immediately after the disaster. [166]
The bond between the two cities became stronger following the Halifax Explosion in 1917, after Boston sent significant aid and disaster relief to Halifax. Boston, which is the capital of Massachusetts (the most populous state in the New England region), is the most populous city in New England.
The Boston Christmas Tree is the City of Boston, Massachusetts' official Christmas tree.A tree has been lit each year since 1941, [1] and since 1971 it has been given to the people of Boston by the people of Nova Scotia in thanks for their assistance after the 1917 Halifax Explosion.
Halifax Explosion – French cargo ship Mont-Blanc, loaded with explosive material, collided with Norwegian ship Imo in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia. The collision caused a fire that ignited the explosive material on Mont-Blanc, causing the biggest man-made explosion in recorded history until the Trinity nuclear test in 1945.
The Halifax Explosion occurred on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the huge detonation of the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship, fully loaded with wartime explosives, which accidentally collided with the Norwegian SS Imo in a part of Halifax Harbour called "The Narrows". About 2,000 ...
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.
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.