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Explosion In Halifax Harbour December 6, 1917 Courtesy of Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, MP207.1.184/270,M90.61.15, 40459.tif http://maritime.museum.gov.ns.ca Materials From Halifax Public Libraries www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca NON-FICTION: Christian Science War Time Explosion in Activities, by the Christian Science Amazing Medical Stories, by War Relief Committee. Boston: Halifax Harbour George Burden & Dorothy Grant, 79- Christian Science Publishing Society, December 6, 1917 84. Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Lane 19__ . Editions, 2003. Cinders and Saltwater: The Story INTRODUCTION: Autobiography, by Benjamin of Atlantic Canada Railways, by Russell, 264-273. Halifax: Royal Shirly E. Woods, 178-180. Halifax: The morning of Tuesday, December Unable to control the blaze, and fully Print and Litho, 1932. Nimbus, 1992. 6, 1917 dawned clear and aware of the dangerous cargo, the unseasonably warm in Halifax. The Mont-Blanc crew abandoned ship, Behind the Headlines! From Moose Crime Wave: Con Men, Rogues harbour was busier than usual, and the vessel drifted toward the River to Shangri-la, by Ralph Kelly and Scoundrels from Nova teeming with ships whose schedules Richmond Pier on the Halifax side. Morton, 15-17. Halifax: Nimbus, Scotia’s Past, by Dean Jobb, 57-66. were dictated by the commerce of Shortly after nine a.m., as hundreds 1986. Porter’s Lake: Pottersfield, 1991. World War I. Halifax Harbour watched from the shoreline and from served as a gathering point for ships windows, the Mont-Blanc exploded The Bicentennial of the Halifax Darkest Hours: The Great Book of being escorted by convoy to Europe, in a ball of fury, laying waste two Fire Department: 1768-1968: 200 Worldwide Disasters From and it was bustling with activity. and a half square miles of the city, Years of Firefighting, prepared by Ancient Times to the Present, by killing close to 2,000, wounding Pearl Connelly, 22-26. Halifax: Jay Robert Nash, 227-228. New Shortly before nine a.m., two ships 6,000, and leaving 25,000 homeless. McCurdy Print, 1968. York: Pocket/Simon & Schuster, began their opposing journeys in the Dartmouth’s north end, including the 1977. harbour’s confines. The Mont- Mi’kmaq community of Turtle “Big Bang Theories: Remembering Blanc, a munitions ship loaded with Grove, was also devastated. the Halifax Explosion with Dartmouth’s Day of Anguish: The close to three thousand tons of Townhouses and a TV Movie,” by Explosion, December 6, 1917, by explosive material, was steaming Much has been written about the Robert Plowman, The Coast. Harry Chapman. Dartmouth: into the harbour while the Belgian Explosion, examining the October 23, 2003, 11-12. Dartmouth Museum Society, 1992. relief ship, Imo, was approaching circumstances before and after the the Narrows on its way out of collision. What follows is an Canadian Disasters, by René “The Day Halifax Blew Up”, by Halifax. For reasons unknown, both extensive list of related materials Schmidt, 27-30. Richmond Hill, Ont.: Kenneth MacGillivray in the In the ships headed for the same point in currently in the collection of Halifax Scholastic-TAB, 1985. Face of Disaster: True Stories of the crowded harbour and were Public Libraries. A brief description Canadian Heroes from the unable to correct their positions in of other sources in the community is Catastrophe and Social Change, Archives of Macleans, ed. by time to avert disaster. The Imo also included. Also, an annotated list Based Upon a Sociological Study of Michael Benedict, 242-253. collided with the Mont-Blanc. The of websites is available at the Halifax Disaster, by Samuel Toronto: Penguin Books, 2000. collision spilled a number of barrels www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca . Henry Prince. New York: n.p., 1920. of benzol, and the leaking fuel “Death in Halifax,” by Edmund caught fire. As the fire intensified, Christ Church, Dartmouth, Nova Gilligan. (An excerpt from Reader’s black smoke billowed skyward. Scotia: 1817 to 1959, by Charles Digest, condensed from The Walter Bayer, 58-67. n.p.: 1960. American Mercury, February 1938). December 6/The Halifax Solution: Final Report of the The Halifax Catastrophe: Forty “Halifax Explosion-A Great An Alternative to Nuclear War, by Massachusetts-Halifax Health views showing extent of damage in Disaster- December 6, 1917.” In Leslie Choyce. Porter’s Lake: Commission with Appendices: Canada’ historic city as the result More Tales Told Under the Old Pottersfield, 1988. October 1919 to October 1929. of a terrific explosion on Town Clock, by William C. Borrett. Halifax: The Commission, 1932. Thursday, December 6, 1917, Halifax: Imperial, 1943. Devastated Halifax: Views of the which killed 1,500 men, women, Greatest Disaster in the History of Four Years Work of the and children, injured 3,000 and “The Halifax Explosion and Going the American Continent, Caused Massachusetts - Halifax Health rendered 6,000 homeless, causing to Siberia.” Cape Breton’s by the Explosion that Followed the Commission: A Progress Report, property damage of nearly Magazine, Issue 34, 7-12. Collision of the French Munition by B. Franklin Royer. Halifax: The $50,000,000. Halifax: Royal Print Ship “Mont-Blanc” and the Commission, 1923. and Litho, 1917. The Halifax Explosion and the Belgian Relief Ship “Imo” in Royal Canadian Navy: Inquiry Halifax Harbour, December 6th, “Garden City Blossoms,” by Mark Halifax, Cornerstone of Canada, and Intrigue, by John Griffith 1917. Halifax: G.E. Weir, 1917. Campbell. East Coast Living. 4.2. by Joan M. Payzant, 136-138. Armstrong. Vancouver: U.B.C. Halifax: Metro Guide Publishing, Burlington, Ont.: Windsor Press, 2002. Disaster Canada, by Janet Looker, 1997. Publications, 1985. 232-240. Toronto: Lynx Images, The Halifax Explosion: December 2000. Great Canadian Disasters, by Halifax, December 6, 1917: A 6, 1917, compiled and edited by Frank Rasky, 143-165. Toronto: Photo-Documentation of the Graham Metson. Toronto: McGraw- Disasters that Made History, by Longmans Green & Co., 1961. Halifax Explosion, researched by Hill, Ryerson, 1978. Webb Garrison, 76-80. Nashville: Graham Metson. West House Abingdon, 1973. Great Halifax Explosion, Museum: Halifax, 1977. The Halifax Explosion: Surviving December 6, 1917, by Joan the Blast that Shook a Nation, by Edwardian Halifax: Postcard Horwood. St. John’s: Avalon, 1976. The Halifax Disaster, by Ernest Joyce Glasner. Canmore, AB: Glimpses of an Era, 1900-1920, by Fraser Robinson. St. Catherine’s, Altitude Publishing, 2003 Dan Soucoup, 78-81. Halifax: The Great International Disaster Ont.: Vanwell, 1987. Nimbus, 1998. Book, by James Cornell, 229-231. “Halifax in Ruins: Streets Littered New York: Scribners, 1976. The Halifax Explosion, by Kate with Dead; French Munition Boat “The Explosion - A Child’s Story,” Carmen. Ottawa: Canadian Library Collides in the Harbour with a by Darren Brackley in Shunpiking. Grim Visions: Arthur Lismer and Association, 1981. Belgian Relief Ship and Blows Up; December 1997, 5. the Halifax Explosion, by Alan Two Spare Miles a Burning Ruin,” Ruffman. Halifax: Mount Saint “The Halifax Explosion,” by in the Times Series (Times of Explosion, Dec. 6, 1917: 75 Years: Vincent University Art Gallery, Charles Bruce Fergusson. Journal Halifax). Vol. 4, No. 2 ( 2002). A Special Project of the Daily 1990. of Education. (February, 1968): News. Dartmouth: Daily News, 25-31. The Halifax Explosion: Realities 1992. Ground Zero: A Reassessment of and Myths, by Alan Ruffman. the 1917 Explosion in Halifax “Halifax Explosion,” by Thomas H. Halifax: Geo-Marine Associates, Explosion in Halifax Harbour, Harbour, by Alan Ruffman and Raddall. In Atlantic Anthology, ed. 1987. December 6, 1917: The Salvation Colin D. Howell. Halifax: Nimbus, Will R. Bird. Toronto: McClelland Army’s Relief Operations, by 1994. and Stewart, 1959. Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Great Ralph Pilgrim. Halifax: n.p., 1994. Harbour, 14. Halifax: John Halifax and Its People 1749-1999, “The Halifax Explosion,” by Evelyn Quinpool, 1941. 54-45. Halifax: Nimbus, 1999, 54- Richardson. Nova Scotia Historical 56. Quarterly, 1977, 305. Halifax 09:06 December 6, 1917: Historic Halifax in Tales Told “The Inquiry into the Halifax Miracles and Mysteries: The A Photo-Documentation of the Under the Old Town Clock, by Explosion of December 6, 1917: Halifax Explosion, December 6, Halifax Explosion. West House William Coates, 186-192. Borrett. Legal Aspects,” by Janet F. Kitz. 1917, by Mary Ann Monnon. Museum: Halifax, 1977. Toronto: Ryerson, 1948. Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Windsor, N.S.: Lancelot, 1977. Historical Society, 2002, 64-78. Halifax: Warden of the North, by History of Canadian Architecture, More History with a Twist, by Thomas H. Raddall, 250-256. by Harold Kalman, 660. Vol. 2. Don “Just One Big Mess” the Halifax Bruce Nunn, 116-119. Halifax: Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Mills, Ontario: Oxford, 1994. Explosion, 1917 [video recording]. Nimbus, 2001. 1948. National Film Board of Canada, The Morning of Armageddon. Hugh MacLennan: A Writer’s 1993. [video recording]. Star Screen Halifax’s North End: An Life, by Elspeth Cameron. Toronto: Group; SMA Distribution, 1993. Anthropologist Looks at the City, University of Toronto Press, 1981. Like a Weaver’s Shuttle: A by Paul A. Erickson, 54-64. (Reminiscences though out.) History of the Halifax-Dartmouth A Name for Himself: A Biography Hantsport: Lancelot, 1986. Ferries, by Joan M. Payzant and of Thomas Head Raddall, by Joyce “The Hydrostone’s Heaven to Me,” Lewis J. Payzant, 144-147. Halifax: Barkhouse, 1-7. Toronto: Irwin, Halifax’s Other Hill: Fort by Barbara Fuller. Halifax Nimbus, 1979. 1986. Needham from Earliest Times, by Magazine. Halifax: Jan 1982, 44. Paul A. Erickson, 26-34. Halifax: The Little Dutch Village: Historic “Names of the Identified Dead in the Dept. of Anthropology, Saint In My Time: A Memoir, by Halifax West, Armdale, Fairview, Explosion at Halifax, 6 December Mary’s University, 1984. Thomas H. Raddall, 30-41. Toronto: by Devonna and Don Edwards, 43, 1917," by Leland H. Harvey, in McClelland and Stewart, 1976.