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Halifax Explosion - Canadian Heritage Spot

submitted by NicoleBee

1 decade 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago

A Canadian Heritage short on the 1917 explosion that devastated Halifax, still considered one of the largest man-made, conventional explosions ever. A telegraph worker for (cpr?) tries to contact a train heading into the city before it is too late.

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rosekat says...

This blew my mind when I was a kid. Huh, the wiki article states that there were actually 300, not 700 people aboard the train that was successfully contacted and alerted. Vince Coleman is a hero regardless! Great post.

The whole story is a trip, there are still signs of the explosion if you know where to look.

The explosion was the largest manmade blast until the detonation of the atomic bomb. *dark

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I'd * promote it if I could. 91 years ago yesterday.

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December 6th, 1917.

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Texas had hers about 66 years ago-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster
2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate went off on a ship docked in port.....Nasty bad-

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