There are some dates that just have baggage. December 6 has SO much baggage. We mark the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion on December 6. A French ship was packed with small containers of picric acid, TNT, guncotton and benzo that were dangerous enough on their own, but together would form the most deadly […]
Halifax Explosion 100
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The Halifax pop culture explosion
Non-fiction Catastrophe and Social Change, Based upon the sociological study of the Halifax disaster by Samuel H. prince (1920) T.N.T. by Allan Baddeley (1931) The Story of Dartmouth by John Patrick Martin (1957) The Town that Died: The True Story of the Greatest Man-Made Explosion before Hiroshima by Michael J. Bird (1962) 17 Minutes to […]
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Halifax Explosion: 100 years later
Explosion! Dartmouth’s Ordeal of the 1917 Disaster The Dartmouth Heritage Museum examines the dark side’s story of what happened 100 years ago on the morning of December 6, 1917. Dartmouth Heritage Museum, 26 Newcastle Drive, Dartmouth, to Jan 2018 The Halifax Explosion A documentary flick chronicling the morning of December 6 1917 (and its long-felt […]
