Molly Pitcher
Active member
I saw on CBC tonight the two part show "Shattered City". Now I knew about this because a lady from Halifax was my neighbor when I was a kid growing up in Rhode Island. Most of you will have never heard of it, even some of you Canadians as the indepth part of the show revealed.
On December 6, 1917 a French ammunition ship bound for the war on the western front in WWI blew up in Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia. About 2,000 people died and another 9,000 were injured. That's the minimum. The toll may be higher but as entire families were wiped out nobody could be sure.
The blast was the largest in recorded history prior to the atomic bomb.
Bostonians made a massive effort to help. Being a maritime city much in contact with Halifax they saw it as family in need. To this day Halifax sends Boston a Christmas tree in honor of the time they came when the need was great.
http://www.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion/
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kylet1/halifax.htm
and other sites I'm sure you can Google.
On December 6, 1917 a French ammunition ship bound for the war on the western front in WWI blew up in Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia. About 2,000 people died and another 9,000 were injured. That's the minimum. The toll may be higher but as entire families were wiped out nobody could be sure.
The blast was the largest in recorded history prior to the atomic bomb.
Bostonians made a massive effort to help. Being a maritime city much in contact with Halifax they saw it as family in need. To this day Halifax sends Boston a Christmas tree in honor of the time they came when the need was great.
http://www.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion/
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kylet1/halifax.htm
and other sites I'm sure you can Google.