Canadian disasters
September 5, 2026
The Halifax Explosion triggered the largest man-made explosion before the nuclear age.
On my walk at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I visited the memorials remembering the victims and unidentified Catholic dead who perished when a collision of the Mont-Blanc and the Imo ships in Halifax harbour triggered the largest man-made explosion before the nuclear age. On December 6, 1917, a French cargo ship […]
