DID YOU KNOW

[Sentryduty]

I had heard about the Halifax explosion, but never read up on it. quite frightening the number of explosions with big death tolls caused by ammunition transport.

My family settled just outside the city of Halifax (Mount Uniacke NS) when they came to Canada in the late 1700's and many still remain there. Having grown-up for a time in the area, and later in Dartmouth (now part of Halifax Regional Municipality annexation) the Halifax Explosion is a well known piece of local history, taught in school and recounted as 2nd and 3rd hand memory.

Numerous books and accounts have been written as well as a "Canadian Heritage Moment" vignette that credits a telegraph operator with stopping an approaching passenger train before the explosion.