On a warm July night a year ago, crews dredging as part of an expansion at Irving's shipyard started pulling out a treasure ...

Terra Arnone: Cuthbertson's take is a touch more academic than Bacon's riveting account, but does better probe the Explosion's prevailing how-and-why narratives Advertisement oop Story continues below ...

Almanac: The Halifax explosion 02:16. And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: December 6th, 1917, 98 years ago today ... the day an immense explosion wiped out much of the port city of ...

The Halifax Explosion was the largest mass-blinding event in Canadian history, ... 1917, disaster. It debuts Friday at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and runs until Dec. 12.

When an explosion tore through Halifax in 1917, Boston quickly sent a relief train stuffed with supplies, and the cities are still bound by the gesture of goodwill in the face of tragedy Latest U.S.

Nova Scotia isn’t defined by tragedy. With a rich maritime history, cosmopolitan seaport, tourist-friendly locals and one of the most picturesque lighthouses in North America, it was my favorite ...

The Halifax Explosion: Canada's Worst Disaster. By Ken Cuthbertson. HarperCollins /Patrick Crean Editions, 382 pages, $34.99. The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy ...

Artifacts from the Halifax Explosion, including this hull plating, are on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic commemorating the 100th anniversary of the disaster.

It is simply, descriptively remembered as The Halifax Explosion. Canada records the disaster’s official death toll at “1,963, with another 9,000 injured and 6,000 left homeless.” ...