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Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn Reference List 1. Lawson, Julie. NO SAFE HARBOUR: THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION DIARY OF CHARLOTTE BLACKBURN. Scholastic Canada Ltd.; 2006; ISBN: 0-439-96930-1. Keywords: Explosion; Marine Calamities; Fatalities; Children's Reactions Call Number: JUV.130.L3.N6 Notes: Gift of T. Joseph Scanlon Family Series title: Dear Canada 2. Verstraete, Larry. AT THE EDGE: DARING ACTS IN DESPERATE TIMES. New York: Scholastic; 2009; ISBN: 978-0-545-27335-0. Keywords: Explosion; Chemical Disaster; Tsunamis-Case Studies; Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Terrorism Call Number: JUV.135.V4.A8 (ELQ RC Annex) Notes: Contents: At the Edge of Disaster At the Edge of Terror At the Edge of Injustice At the Edge of the Impossible Abstract: More than twenty incredible true stories show people facing critical life-or-death choices, and the decisions that had to be made, at the edge... Includes sections about the Halifax explosion of 1917, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 3. Kitz, Janet F. SURVIVORS: CHILDREN OF THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Nimbus Publishing Ltd; 1992; ISBN: 1-55109-034-1. Keywords: Explosion; Children's Reactions; Caring for Survivors Call Number: JUV.150.K5.S8 (ELQ RC Annex) Notes: Both copies gifts of T. Joseph Scanlon Family Library owns 2 copies. Contents: December, 1917 Life in Richmond Morning, December 6, 1917 Explosion! Refuge What Next? A New Life Begins Back to School A Different Kind of School Looking Back Abstract: Over five hundred children from Halifax and Dartmouth were killed when the munitions ship Mont Blanc, blew up in the city's harbour on December 6, 1917. Hundreds more were injured, and many lost their families and homes. Survivors tells the story of seven children who survived the Halifax Explosion. All seven lived in Richmond, the northern part of Halifax close to the spot where Imo collided with Mont Blanc, causing the fore that ignited the tons of explosives in its hold. The book describes the children's family, school, and social life before the explosion: their activities on that day; their experiences of the explosion itself; and the difference it has made to their lives. 4. Robinson, Ernest Fraser. THE HALIFAX DISASTER: DECEMBER 6, 1917. St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada: Vanwell Publishing Limited; 1987; ISBN: 0-920277-07-1. Keywords: Explosion; Historical Account; Disaster Response; Scapegoating Call Number: JUV.150.R6.H3 (ELQ RC Annex) Notes: Gift of T. Joseph Scanlon Family Project consultant: Don Revell Contents: East Coast Port The City Wakens: Thursday, December 6, 1917 The Collision: Thursday, December 6, 1917, 8:45 A.M. The Exposion: Thursday, December 6, 1917, 9:06 A.M. The Damage The Struggle to Survive The Eye-witnesses The Blame In Remembrance 5. Boning, Richard A. 17 MINUTES TO LIVE. Baldwin, NY: Barnell Loft, Ltd.; 1973; ISBN: 0-87966-106-2. Keywords: Explosion Call Number: JUV.700.B6.S4 Notes: Gift of T. Joseph Scanlon Family LCCN: 72-97333 Series title: The Incredible Series Abstract: It was December 6, 1917. Few people in the city of Halifax paid any attention to the collision down in the harbor. It was just another accident in a crowded port. They could have no way of suspecting the deadly nature of the cargo carried by the French ship, the Mont Blanc. The situation was all too clear to Aime Le Medec, captain of the Mont Blanc. His vessel, loaded with munitions, was now ablaze as a result of the collision. There seemed to be no way to put it out. He and his crew shared this horrifying knowledge: when the flames reached the powder, the port would go up in a roar! While Le Medec struggles for an answer to the problem, the unsuspecting city goes about its business. On the bottom of the harbor a pair of divers are at work. On nearby Citadel Hill a small boy plays with a dog and a red rubber ball while a teamster looks on. In the barbershop of the Prince Edward Hotel a barer stands poised with a razor at the throat of a waiting customer. No one in Halifax was aware that at five minutes past nine the city was doomed to die. This is the story of those last minutes in the life of a city truly a countdown to death. 6. Payzant, Joan. WHO'S A SCAREDY-CAT!: A STORY OF THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION. Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada: Windmill Press; 1992; ISBN: 0-9696260-0-2. Keywords: Explosion Call Number: JUV.700.P3.W4 Notes: Gift of T. Joseph Scanlon Family Signed by the author Abstract: This is the story of two families in Dartmouth at the time of the Halifax Explosion, December 1917. Flossie Wright is a prankster, taking pleasure in practical jokes. Isobel Morton, whose father is listed as missing in the war, dislikes Flossie’s jokes, and is ridiculed by the other girl. Although Isobel knows she is a not a “scaredycat,” Flossie's jibes still hurt. Can Isobel prove her bravery and win Flossie's friendship in the terrible days that follow the Halifax explosion? Who's a Scaredy-Cat? is an enjoyable, historically detailed novel now back in print. Includes black and white illustrations by Marijke Simons. 7. Russell R. Dynes and Kathleen J. Tierney (Eds.). DISASTERS, COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses; 1994; ISBN: 0-87413-498-6. Keywords: Disaster Research, Collective Behavior, Panic, Helping and Volunteering, Rumors, Social Movements, Stress, Sheltering, Explosion, Evacuation Call Number: 5.28.D8.D5 Notes: LCCN: 93-46766 DRC Book and Monograph No. 28 Library owns 4 copies, one of which was from the Fritz collection 2 copies stored in ELQ RC Annex. Contents Drabek, Disaster in Aisle 13 Revisited Kreps, Disaster Archives and Structural Analysis: Uses and Limitations Fitzpatrick and Mileti, Public Risk Communication Perry, A model of Evacuation Compliance Behavior Scanlon, EMS in Halifax after the 6 December 1917 Explosion: Testing Quarantelli's Theories with Historical Data Bolin, Postdisaster Sheltering and Housing: Social Processes in Response and Recovery Britton, Moran, and Correy, Stress Coping and Emergency Disaster Vollunteers: A Discussion of Some Relevant Factors Bates and Pelanda, An Ecological Approach to Disasters Johnson, Johnston, and Feinberg, MicorStructure and Panic: The impact of Social BOnds on Individual Action in Collective Flight from the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Lewis and Kelsey, The Crowd Crush at Hillsborough: the Collective Behavior of an Entertainment Crush Stallings, Collective Behavior Theory and the Study of Mass Hysteria Wenger and James, The Convergence of Volunteers in a Consensus Crisis: the Case of the 1985 Mexico City Earthquake Turner, Rumor as intensified Information Seeking: Earthquake Rumors in China and the United States Aguirre, Collective Behavior and Social Movement Theory Killian, Are Social Movements Irrational or Are they Collective Behavior? Taylor, An elite-Sustained Movement: Women's Rights in the Post-World War II Decades Marx, Fragmentation and Cohesion in American Society 8. Dynes, Russell R. and E. L. Quarantelli. THE PLACE OF THE EXPLOSION IN THE HISTORY OF DISASTER RESEARCH: THE WORK OF SAMUEL H. PRINCE. Ruffman, Alan & Colin D. Howell. Ground Zero a Reassessment of the 1917 Explosion in Halifax Harbour Canada's Most Tragic Disaster. Halifax, Canada: Nimbus Publishing; 1994; pp. 54-67. Keywords: Explosion, Sociology Call Number: 20.273.D8.P5 9. Dynes, Russell R. and E. L. Quarantelli. THE PLACE OF THE 1917 EXPLOSION IN HALIFAX HARBOR IN THE HISTORY OF DISASTER RESEARCH: THE WORK OF SAMUEL H. PRINCE. Newark, DE: Disaster Research Center; 1992. Call Number: 25.182.D8.P5 Notes: replaced by pp 189 10. Beed, Blair. 1917 HALIFAX EXPLOSION AND AMERICAN RESPONSE. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Nimbus Publishing Limited; 2010; ISBN: 978-1-55109-800-5. Keywords: Explosion; Marine Calamities; Historical Account; Children's Reactions; Disaster Response; Disaster Recovery Call Number: 130.B4.N5 Notes: Canadian Catalog No. C2010-902190-8 Contents: Halifax Before December 6, 1917 December 6 and the Richmond District Massachusetts to the Rescue Stories of Haligonians The Dominion of Canada Unites The United States Responds The British Empire Contributes Social Standards of the Era Return to Daily Life What of the Children? Christmas 1917 Entering 1918 Halifax After World War I Abstract: 1917 Halifax Explosion and American Response is the captivating story of Canada’s worst disaster and American relief efforts. Survivors’ accounts, newspaper articles, and official reports reveal the heartwarming stories of the doctors, nurses, relief workers, and ordinary citizens who came to the aid of the devastated city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. 11. Chapman, Harry. THE HALIFAX HARBOUR EXPLOSION: DARTMOUTH'S DAY OF SORROW. Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada: Dartmouth Historical Association; 2007; ISBN: 978-0-9739301-3-9. Keywords: Explosion; Historical Account; Disaster Recovery Call Number: 130.C4.H3 Notes: Gift of T. Joseph Scanlon Family Contents: A Nation at War Fire, Death, and Destruction Rebuild and Remember Abstract: The Halifax Harbour explosion of 1917, Canada’s worst disaster, was also the worst disaster in the history of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, the town across the harbour from Halifax. As the explosion passes from living memory, citizens on both sides of the harbour are intensifying the effort to record and memorialize the suffering, loss and damage; the heroic generosity of rescue and relief; and the quieter heroics of “just getting on with it” in the face of sudden great loss. Increasingly, historians are documenting the remaining objects and sites connected with the explosion and, of course, telling the story in light of newer perspectives. Dartmouth’s Day of Sorrow examines the explosion and aftermath in the small harbour town of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
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