A brief but gripping account of the explosion in Halifax harbour and stories of the heroes and survivors coping with the devastation. On the morning of December 6, 1917, a munitions vessel loaded with explosives collided with a cargo ship in Halifax harbour triggering the worst man-made explosion p
Exploded identity: a saga of the Halifax Explosion
โ Scribed by Catherine M. Mildon
- Publisher
- Trafford Publishing
- Year
- 2006;2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 213 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
I was four and half years old and living in Halifax with my seven siblings the day my city was devastated by an exploding ship in the harbour. It threw me to the floor as our windows collapsed. In the days, weeks, months and years that followed, this vivid, terrifying moment and the stories of altered lives dominated our daily thoughts and conversations. As CEO of the Northern Electric Company in Halifax, my father was heavily involved in the immediate demands. Years later I felt driven to record my family experiences and to study thoroughly the record of those awful days. As I wrote, I was struck by the overwhelming determination, heroism and cooperation that the unheralded citizens of Halifax demonstrated in the face of death, destruction and snowstorms.
For centuries women have known that when war came they would be needed for their sheets torn up for bandages, for clothing and for food. So, the women of Halifax met in August 1914 and made tentative plans should Halifax be...
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