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Besides normally being St. Nicholas Day, transferred because today is Sunday.

Today is the ninety-second anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, the world's largest non-nuclear explosion (man-made) and which killed outright almost 2,000 and injured over 9,000.
 
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I'm from Halifax originally and still remember my grandmother's stories of what all went on.I my be wrong but at the time was it not the largest non man made(meaning atomic) explosion on record.?......If you go downtown there is a church window where a shadow is forever imprinted on the window from the flash of the flare.
i'm had been told the explosion could be heard in the annapolis valley which is over 70km's away.Another tidbit is that many of the victims froze to death from shock and hypothermia and not from the initial explosion.
 
I got to hear a first hand account from an older man that was living in hali at the time, and some from an ex-teacher, that could remember hearing the explosion in pictou county (about 100km away) thousands of windows were smashed out from the shockwave, pretty much any window that was closed and fasted east on the halifax side was smashed in. heard they found one of the ships anchors 2-3Km away. Some reports i heard said that you could see the floor of harbour. The fine people of boston stepped up with releaf efforts and helped to save a lot of lives. Since NS has sent the best pine they could find for bostons christmas tree, to say thank you.
 
Scarey said:
Another tidbit is that many of the victims froze to death from shock and hypothermia and not from the initial explosion.
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There was a blizzard that started that night and trains had difficulty getting to Halifax for several days.
 
marikiss said:
The fine people of boston stepped up with releaf efforts and helped to save a lot of lives. Since NS has sent the best pine they could find for bostons christmas tree, to say thank you.
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Similar to the BBC series Connections. The decline of the Wood, Wind and Sail economy in the Maritimes - and in this case specifically Nova Scotia, nicely meshes with the expansion of Boston and the development of street cars. Skilled craftsmen from Nova Scotia looking for work and their families could move to Boston and live in what we would now term suburbs rather than having to be in the city with the stark choice of nice but expensive or affordable and unpleasant.

This goes in significant part to explain why Boston gave so very generously to the Halifax Relief Fund, and as you mentioned why as a result to this day the Province of Nova Scotia sends the large Christmas Tree that is set up on Boston Common.


In a similar manner as was mentioned on a thread last week to the masses of tulips which bloom each year in Ottawa as a gift from the Netherlands.
 
Scarey said:
I'm from Halifax originally and still remember my grandmother's stories of what all went on.I my be wrong but at the time was it not the largest non man made(meaning atomic) explosion on record.?......
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Scarey, I believe that it still is the largest non-atomic explosion.

As part of the Manhattan Project it was studied to get some idea of scale.
 
marikiss said:
I got to hear a first hand account from an older man that was living in hali at the time, and some from an ex-teacher, that could remember hearing the explosion in pictou county (about 100km away) thousands of windows were smashed out from the shockwave, pretty much any window that was closed and fasted east on the halifax side was smashed in. heard they found one of the ships anchors 2-3Km away. Some reports i heard said that you could see the floor of harbour. The fine people of boston stepped up with releaf efforts and helped to save a lot of lives. Since NS has sent the best pine they could find for bostons christmas tree, to say thank you.
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Yes.I jokingly refer to this as "the holy shit" anchor.It's a myth.It's actually the Anchor of the HMCS Bonaventure that is a memorial to the sailors who died at sea during peacetime.It is in point pleasant park.Some 10kms away.

However, some the locals over the years(me included) have had fun with tourists by referencing the explosion and in way or another stating"It really was a big boom;)".Hence the"holy shit" moment.
 
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