One woman, Mary Jean Hinch, lost 10 children and her husband in the explosion.
The disaster, towards the end of the First World War, made headlines around the world. The commission also administered pensions for those the explosion widowed or left unable to work. Nearly 2000 people were killed and thousands more wounded in the blast. Newspapers Limited, One Yonge Street, 4th floor, Toronto, ON, M5E 1E6, wartime blast that killed or injured about 11,000 people, large-scale calamities are not restricted to faraway places. You don't carry that stuff around," said Cuvelier, a baby who was at home on Lady Hammond Road on the outskirts of the blast zone at the time of the disaster. She interviewed survivors who had been children in 1917, many of whom had never spoken of the enormous explosion out of respect for the impenetrable grief of their parents. For 19-1/2 minutes, a dazzling display of fireworks captivates onlookers as the Mont Blanc drifts and burns. And they thought they only had 10 seconds, not 19-and-a-half minutes.". George H. Cox, a doctor and eye specialist from New Glasgow, about 150 kilometres northeast of Halifax, arrived at the Rockingham train station outside Halifax the next day. A bin full of broken glass rests on Deborah Clark’s kitchen table in Hammonds Plains. It's hard to say. One of the commission's lasting legacies is Canada's first public-housing project, the Hydrostone development not far from the blast site itself. It was such a cataclysmic event, so traumatic, that I think people probably didn’t want to revisit those horrors,” said Craig Walkington, chairman of the Halifax Explosion 100th Anniversary Advisory Committee. "The city went to sleep until the Second World War.". This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only.
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On Wednesday, a Halifax Explosion commemoration ceremony will be held in Fort Needham Memorial Park, not far from the spot in Halifax harbour where the French munitions ship SS Mont-Blanc blew up, levelling much of the city’s north end and a Mi’kmaq village on the other side of the harbour. “They had the good sense to retain a famous English town planner, Thomas Adams,” Cahill said. The next three days were a horror story,” local author and historian Dan Soucoup said. This left northenders without a clinic within walking distance, according to Shutlak. Corrections & Requests to Alter Published Content, National Air Photo Library, Natural Resources Canada, University of King's College School of Journalism, Silver Award: Best Community News Web Site (Media) 2019. And at 9:04 a.m. — the exact moment of the blast — a cannon will be fired from the ramparts atop the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site, the 19th-century British fort that overlooks the city. She and her unborn son were the only survivors in her family. "It was harder for people in the north end to access the care they needed," she said. bay can 'never' be respected, Court injunction creates calm in southwest N.S., as defining moderate livelihood fishery continues, Nova Scotians urged to avoid Campbellton region; no new COVID-19 cases reported, Water damage to roof forces New Brunswick museum to close its doors, Jurors in N.B. It’s an early winter morning, and two ships in Halifax harbour are exchanging a cacophony of horn blasts. When the Mont Blanc, laden with thousands of tons of explosives, came upon the Imo on the wrong side of the harbour, it asserted its right-of-way using loud whistles – the very horn blasts that attracted little Eric Davidson.