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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 ...
The Bedford Magazine explosion was a conflagration resulting in a series of explosions from July 18 to 19, 1945, in Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada. During World War II , the adjacent cities of Halifax and Dartmouth provided heavy support for Canada's war effort in Europe.
A view of the Halifax Explosion pyrocumulus cloud, most likely from Bedford Basin looking toward the Narrows 15–20 seconds after the explosion. On 6 December 1917, SS Imo and SS Mont-Blanc collided in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mont-Blanc carried 2,653 tonnes of various explosives, mostly picric acid. After the collision the ship ...
In Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice, the shadowy schooner The Golden Fang is revealed as reoutfitted Nova Scotian racing schooner Preserved, so named for being said to have survived the explosion. The novel Black Snow (2009) by Halifax journalist Jon Tattrie follows an explosion victim's search for his wife in the ruined city. [2]
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.
Richmond was a Canadian urban community occupying the northern extremity of the peninsular City of Halifax. (Now part of the Halifax Regional Municipality.) It was the epicentre of the Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917, the worst disaster in Canadian history, in which as many as 2000 people died and thousands more were injured. From the ...
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.
Train explosion. The cause of the event was unclear, but reports from the Liverpool Daily Post said that smoke was reported before the explosion. 14 September 1945 Canada: Montreal, Quebec: 11 42+ Explosion at a warehouse. 16 April 1947 United States: Texas City, Texas: 581 5,000+ Texas City disaster: 18 August 1947 Spain: Cádiz: 147+ 5,000 ...