REMEMBERING THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION

In a city of almost 60,000, a number greatly inflated from the projected census of 50,000, due to the hundreds of soldiers and sailors and war workers that had taken up residence in Nova Scotia’s capital city, nearly 2,000 had died as a result of the explosion that followed the collision of the overloaded munitions ship SS Mont Blanc and the Belgian relief ship SS Imo in the tricky shipping channel called, The Narrows, located between the two communities.