The Halifax Explosion

Story ID:	3276
Written by:	Michael Timothy Smith (bio, link, contact, other stories)
Story type:	Family History
Writers Conference:	$500 2007 Family Memories Writing Project
Location:	Halifax Nova Scotia Canada
Year:	1917
Person:	Halifax

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Posted 12/06/2007 10:00 by Gail Lee Martin | Reply

A well written and researched story and to have such a family connection is incrediable. Your story and an annual Christmas tree has kept those memories alive for 90 years. Gail

Posted 12/09/2007 17:12 | Reply

Thank you, Gail
It's amazing so many have never heard about it.
Mike

Posted 12/09/2007 16:10 by Kathe M. Campbell | Reply

What a devastating piece of history I had never heard of. Thank you for enlightening us...........Kathe

Posted 12/09/2007 17:15 | Reply

Thanks, Kathe

Each year they have a service in Halifax for the memory of those lost.
They had a couple of people there who survived the event. They are both in their 90's. One of them still remembers it. He was 6. A lady that was there was only about a year old at the time.

Mike