| LC control no. | sh2004001928 |
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| Topical heading | Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917 |
| See also | Explosions--Nova Scotia |
| Found in | Work cat.: Bell, F.M. A romance of the Halifax disaster, 1918. The Man of Kent Kyle'S WW1 WWW Site, 6 Jan. 2004: The Halifax Explosion 6 Dec. 1917 page (at 9:05 on the 6th December 1917, a munition ship exploded in Halifax harbour, (Nova Scotia, Canada). This explosion was so vast that it killed over 2,000 people and completely flattened two square kilometres of northern Halifax; the largest man-made explosion until the dropping of the bomb at Hiroshima in 1945) HalifaxExplosion.org WWW Site, 6 Jan. 2004 (Thursday morning in Halifax, on December 6th, 1917, Imo, a relief ship, and Mont Blanc, a French single-screw freighter, collided. The Mont Blanc exploded) Halifax Regional Municipality WWW Site, 7 Jan. 2004: Halifax Explosion page (Thursday, December 6, 1917; Over 2,000 people killed; Around 9,000 more were injured, many permanently; 325 acres, almost all of north-end Halifax, were destroyed) |
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