The Halifax Explosion: 100 Years Ago
A massive explosion killed 2,000 people in the Canadian port of Halifax on 6 December 1917, injuring thousands more and leaving many homeless.
The simulation shows the propagation of the shock front generated by the detonation, which released the equivalent energy of approximately 2.9 kilotons of TNT. The extent and severity of building damage from the explosion is indicated on the model of the modern city of Halifax.
The disaster resulted from a collision between two ships - SS Mont Blanc, loaded with high explosives bound for France, and the SS Imo, a Norwegian vessel chartered to pick up famine relief supplies for civilians in occupied Belgium.
Fire broke out on the Mont Blanc, detonating its cargo and causing the most powerful man-made explosion in history until the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
The force of the blast wrecked much of Halifax, the damage compounded by a tsunami. Nine thousand people were injured. Many were blinded by flying glass. A dense plume of smoke rose more than 3,600 meters above the stricken city.
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The Halifax Explosion: Birth of Canadian Red Cross disaster response
On December 6, 1917, the deadliest disaster in Canadian history occurred. Just after 9 a.m., the French munitions ship Mont-Blanc exploded following a mid-harbour collision with the Belgian relief ship Imo. What followed was the largest human-made explosion prior to the detonation of atomic bombs in 1945. Instantly, the city’s north end was levelled by the blast and a resulting tsunami. Nearly 2,000 people died, about 9,000 were injured, 10,000 were rendered homeless and some 15,000 others had damaged or inadequate shelter.
The Halifax Explosion marked the first Canadian Red Cross involvement in domestic disaster relief – an activity that would become a core element of its work and continues to this day.
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Joel Zemel briefly discusses the events leading up to the disaster. His book Scapegoat, the extraordinary legal proceedings following the 1917 Halifax Explosion has won the following awards: 2016 John Lyman Book Award (Canadian Naval and Maritime History), 2015 Bronze IPPY Award & 2014 Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction.
Joel's new book is a biography entitled Betrayal of Trust, Commander Wyatt and the Halifax Explosion. Release date: 16 September 2017.
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A city destroyed: 100 years after the Halifax Explosion
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Halifax Explosion reenacted Moment 1917 disaster
This was great reenactment that Government of Canada did at the time and made these small one minute video to help educate the Canadian polutaion. People are just only now realizing from the internet that 1 minute in one person mind can be and eternity.These video have helped to teach all Canadians thee very import moments in their own history what moments that change the face of Canadians History for every.
Halifax Explosion
One man's heroism during this 1917 disaster in Halifax Harbour which killed or injured thousands of people.
What do you think you're doing? shouted chief clerk William Lovett as train dispatcher Vince Coleman turned back towards the office. We've only got a minute or two left! Anyone in the office won't stand a chance, and you're a married man with a family to think of! But Vince Coleman was thinking about the passenger trains speeding towards the threatened harbour. He had to stop them.
In that moment of pure and selfless action, Coleman telegraphed his urgent warning. At precisely 9:06 on December 6, 1917, the worst man-made explosion ever before the atomic bomb on Hiroshima] tore through Halifax, claiming 2,000 lives, including the life of Vince Coleman.
The Great War had brought prosperity to Halifax. The harbour bustled with convoys of men and materials bound for Europe. But on the evening of December 5, two ships' captains anxiously awaited departure. Aboard the Imo, a Belgian relief ship at anchor in the harbour, Captain From was annoyed that a late inspection had forced him to delay departure until morning.
Outside the harbour sat the French steamship Mont Blanc, its captain Aimé Le Medec awaiting morning access to the harbour and official clearance. Captain Le Medec had good reason to feel uneasy. Four days earlier his freighter had been loaded with tons of picric acid, TNT, gun cotton and benzol. The Mont Blanc was a floating bomb.
At 7:30 a.m., on December 6, the Mont Blanc began its slow entry into the harbour just as the Imo pulled up anchor. Forced to the wrong side of the channel by a steamer and tugboat, the Imo continued its improper course in direct line with the incoming Mont Blanc. The two ships sighted each other. There was a confusion of whistle blasts, misunderstood signals and, at 8:45 a.m., a disastrous collision.
As black smoke and flames rose from the Mont Blanc, crowds gathered on the Pier to watch the excitement. Factory workers, stevedores, mothers and children rushed to the best vantage points. Few people had any idea of the danger.
But one sailor who knew about the imminent explosion ran past the railway freight yards, warning Coleman and Lovett to clear out. Vince Coleman knew what was at stake when he ran back to tap out his crucial message. In the worst catastrophe in Canadian history, one man sacrificed his life to save 700 others.
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The Halifax Explosion occurred in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the morning of December 6, 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship fully loaded with wartime explosives, was involved in a collision with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the French ship ignited her explosive cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District of Halifax. Approximately 2,000 people were killed by debris, fires, and collapsed buildings, and it is estimated that nearly 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons, with an equivalent force of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT. In a meeting of the Royal Society of Canada in May 1918, Dalhousie University's Professor Howard L. Bronson estimated the blast at some 2400 metric tons of high explosive.
Mont-Blanc was under orders from the French government to carry her highly explosive cargo overseas to Bordeaux, France. At roughly 8:45 am, she collided at slow speed (1 to 1.5 miles per hour or 1.6 to 2.4 kilometres per hour) with the 'in-ballast' (without cargo) Imo, chartered by the Commission for Relief in Belgium to pick up a cargo of relief supplies in New York. The resultant fire aboard the French ship quickly grew out of control. Without adequate and accessible firefighting equipment, the captain, pilot, officers and men were forced to abandon her within a few minutes following the accident. Approximately 20 minutes later (at 9:04:35 am), Mont-Blanc exploded with tremendous force. Nearly all structures within a half-mile (800 m) radius, including the entire community of Richmond, were completely obliterated. A pressure wave of air snapped trees, bent iron rails, demolished buildings, grounded vessels, and carried fragments of the Mont-Blanc for kilometres. Hardly a window in the city proper survived the concussion. Across the harbour, in Dartmouth, there was also widespread damage. A tsunami created by the blast wiped out the physical community of Mi'kmaq First Nations people that had lived in the Tuft's Cove area for generations. There were a number of casualties including five children who drowned when the tsunami came ashore at Nevin's Cove.
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Un brin d’histoire - L’explosion d’Halifax
Une catastrophe méconnue survenue il y a cent ans a donné naissance à une grande institution, L'INCA telle qu'on la connait maintenant. Il s'agit de l’explosion d’Halifax.
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6 décembre 1917-L'explosion d’Halifax, survenue sur la côte Est, a semé la mort et la destruction.
L’explosion d’Halifax a été la plus grosse explosion causée par l’homme qui ne se soit jamais produite avant l’apparition des armes nucléaires. À 9 h 4, le matin du 6 décembre 1917, deux navires, le navire de secours belge Imo et le navire français Mont Blanc chargé de tonnes d'explosifs sont entrés en collision dans le passage séparant le port d’Halifax et le bassin de Bedford. La déflagration qui a suivi a dévasté une grande partie d’Halifax et de Dartmouth, tuant près de 2 000 personnes.
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The Halifax Explosion Documentary
Eyewitness accounts capture the force and horror of the explosion the largest non-nuclear detonation in history!
Images from the Halifax explosion that happened back in 1917.
The Halifax Explosion occurred in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the morning of December 6, 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship fully loaded with .
Thu, Dec 6: Nova Scotians tweet tales to mark the 95th anniversary of the massive Halifax explosion. Ross Lord reports. For more info, please go to .
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Eric Christopher Mestre - The Ballad of the Halifax Explosion
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We all grew up in Halifax & had family who lived through the explosion.
The Ballad of the Halifax Explosion
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Lyrics by Edwin R. Morris & Music by Eric C. Mestre
On December the 6th, 1917
Such a terrible day - the world had never seen
In a silent moment the world stood still
From the harbour narrows to Fort Needham hill
SAILORS AND SHIPBELLS AND BLACK, BLACK POWDER
ALL MIXED TOGETHER IN HALIFAX HARBOUR
WE WILL REMEMBER OUR HISTORY WELL
THE DAY THE NORTHEND WAS BLOWN TO HELL
Two ships that sailed into the harbour together
Sailed into history of fate forever
Anchors and metal were blown everywhere
From Albro Lake to Dartmouth Queen Square
Chorus
The Monte Blanc and Imo we will never forget
On the morning the two vessels mortally met
Many north end fire trucks all did arrive
Then came the explosion that left none alive
The stories that tell us of many a loss
Also show us – what these real heroes cost
Angels came from the sky I am told
To carry up to heaven 2000 souls
Chorus
A train from Boston the next day arrived
With a cargo of love and a ton of supplies
Cemeteries in Fairview grew
For the hundreds of victims – we never knew
Chorus x 2
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The Halifax Explosion - Sixty Symbols
Sixty Symbols regular Dr Meghan Gray on an infamous event that occurred in her home town - the Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917.
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Remembering the Halifax Explosion: Dec. 6, 2016
Dec. 6 marks 99 years since two warships collided in the narrows of Halifax Harbour, causing a massive explosion that left parts of the city in ruins.