Wednesday, March 13, 2024
On December 6th 1917, a devastating explosion took place in Halifax Harbour taking almost 2000 lives and injuring 9000 more. Join us as we look into the fatal errors that contributed to the largest accidental explosion in history.
References for this episode:
- Bacon, J. U. (2017). The Great Halifax Explosion. HarperCollins.
- MacDonald, L. M. (2005). Curse of the Narrows. HarperCollins .
- Walker, S. M. (2011). Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917. Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
- Smith, A. (2017, December 3). The “ordinary man” who died for strangers when Mont-Blanc exploded. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/vincent-coleman-telegraph-halifax-explosion-train-dispatcher-1.4425343
- Pomeroy, R. (2023, June 19). The largest accidental explosion of all time. Big Think. https://bigthink.com/the-past/halifax-largest-accidental-explosion/
- Halifax explosion. (n.d.). The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/halifax-explosion#:~:text=Halifax%20was%20devastated%20on%206,first%20atomic%20bombs%20in%201945
- Walker, N. (2017, December 6). The disaster that reshaped a city. Canadian Geographic. https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-disaster-that-reshaped-a-city/
- Nova Scotia Archives Photographic Collection
- Archives, N. S. (2021, December 2). Nova Scotia Archives. Nova Scotia Archives. https://archives.novascotia.ca/photocollection/archives/?ID=6230
- Archives, N. S. (2017, December 6). Nova Scotia Archives. Nova Scotia Archives. https://archives.novascotia.ca/explosion/archives/?ID=6
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