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06 Dec 07 - 04:48 PM (#2210003) Subject: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Sandy Mc Lean It was 90 years ago today. The worst disaster in Canadian history. http://www.halifaxexplosion.org/intro.html |
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06 Dec 07 - 05:10 PM (#2210018) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Beer And thanks still goes to Boston for helping. Beer (adrien) |
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06 Dec 07 - 05:21 PM (#2210026) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Rapparee One of the major disasters of the world, in my opinion. An awful thing. |
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06 Dec 07 - 06:07 PM (#2210060) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: skipy Beyond dreadful! & in 8 hours it will be the anni. of Pearl Harbour! 7.15 Sunday 7th Dec. 1941 Skipy |
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06 Dec 07 - 07:49 PM (#2210133) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Beer Thanks for that reminder as well Skipy. |
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06 Dec 07 - 08:05 PM (#2210145) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Neil D Bad anniversaries come in threes. December 6 - Halifax explosion December 7 - Pearl Harbor December 8 - John Lennon assassinated |
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06 Dec 07 - 08:06 PM (#2210146) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: katlaughing Thanks for the link and reminder. |
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06 Dec 07 - 08:10 PM (#2210148) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Beer I guess we should look up what happened on the 9th. Thanks Neil |
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06 Dec 07 - 08:16 PM (#2210155) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Beer Just found this but it really does not apply. December 9th, 1992 : Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce a formal separation 1992 |
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06 Dec 07 - 09:13 PM (#2210188) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Bee I watched a bit of ATV (CTV Halifax) coverage of the Halifax Explosion tonight. They interviewed a man (whose name I missed) who was thirteen at the time. What a memory for detail the fellow has! Worth looking for the footage, if it interests anyone. |
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06 Dec 07 - 09:31 PM (#2210194) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Neil D Just found this but it really does not apply. December 9th, 1992 : Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce a formal separation 1992 Ahh. Weren't we all just so devastated? (;^) |
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06 Dec 07 - 09:49 PM (#2210201) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Beer I know your joking in a way, but I felt devastated with her death, much like John Lennon. |
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07 Dec 07 - 12:29 AM (#2210258) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Donuel Thats a pretty old boom. Iran had a boom 4 years ago when a train exploded on its way west. It broke windows TEN miles away. They lost a lot of IEDs that day. |
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07 Dec 07 - 08:13 AM (#2210431) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Bee Indeed, Donuel, ours was an old boom, but it reshaped our city, and has entered our collective memory through its moments of magnitude, horror, destruction, and acts of heroism, compassion and endurance. The city was further devastated by a blizzard immediately following, extreme cold temperatures and a severe shortage of various supplies. The signs of the explosion still mark Halifax, many a 100 to 200 year old building sports a shoddy second or third floor and roof dating from that event, as housing was desperately needed and work was done fast and careless. It altered the lineage of many a family, and lineage is something we Nova Scotians have always considered something one should know about. I don't see it as a big boom contest. Im sure the Iranians will remember as they see fit, as we do. |
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07 Dec 07 - 10:42 PM (#2211049) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: GUEST,ed The biggest artificial explosion until the first atomic bomb test explosion in 1945,still one of the world's largest artificial non-nuclear explosions to date. |
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07 Dec 07 - 10:51 PM (#2211056) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Helen Years ago I read a novel called Burden of Desire by Robert MacNeil (of The MacNeil Lehrer Newshour team) about the Halifax explosion. It was very graphic in portraying the devastation and the effects on the lives of the people there. Helen |
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08 Dec 07 - 07:56 AM (#2211204) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: gnu Boston Christmas Tree. |
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08 Dec 07 - 10:26 AM (#2211275) Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Explosion From: Bee Boston always had close connections with Nova Scotia. Many a lad or lass moved to "the Boston States" from Cape Breton and other parts of the province, for work which was plentiful there, and often there were relatives ahead of them to offer shelter and advice. Boston, in my experience, is one of the few US cities where most people will know something about NS, and often will have ancestors who came from here. It's my favourite US city, having taken a vacation there years ago. I didn't meet a single person who wasn't kind, generous and entirely welcoming, and the parts of the city I saw were beautiful. Of course, it likely helped that my goals were galleries, museums, second hand stores, bookshops and pubs with live music! |