On the 6th of December 1917 two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. In this book, I shall discover what really happened on that fateful day in December and piece together the impacts that the collision had and the international response, that was hampered by one of the harshest blizzards in recent Halifax memory.This book, based on the curriculum for Secondary School standard, which detail the Halifax Explosion in a precise format perfect for students.
Hell in Halifax : The Story of the First World War's Forgotten Disaster