You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Wrecked homes on Campbell Road in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in December 1917.

Shortly after 9 a.m. on Dec. 6, 1917, in the midst of the First World War, the largest human-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb was set off when the munitions ship Mont Blanc and the steamer Imo ...

Modern-day Halifax's highrises encased in glass, top, make for a much different vista than in 1890, bottom. The Dec. 6, 1917, Halifax Explosion remains one of the deadliest disasters in Canadian ...

On Wednesday night, Dec. 5, 1917, with Canadians entering their fourth year of the Great War, schoolkids across Halifax went to bed dreaming of what they would find under the Christmas tree, just 20 ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 6, 1917, more than 1,700 people were killed when an explosives-laden French cargo ship, the Mont Blanc, collided ...

If you were walking around Halifax, Nova Scotia, on this day back in 1917, you'd have been among the lucky ones. The survivors. A massive explosion on the waterfront had rocked the city on December 6, ...

A towering Christmas tree from Canada stands on Boston Common. It was lit Thursday night with great fanfare, including fireworks, Santa and song. The Boston tradition always brings good cheer. That's ...

Dec. 6, 1917 – exactly 100 years ago – marks one of the most extraordinary episodes of American heroism, when common U.S. citizens rushed to the scene of a disaster unlike anything the world had seen ...

Students and teachers at a school in Summerside, P.E.I., went back in time this week to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion. Summerside Intermediate was transformed into Halifax ...

When anyone goes on a North Atlantic cruise that stops in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the main excursion is a bus tour that informs visitors of a devastating event most of us know nothing about. Picturesque ...

On December 6, 1917, a massive explosion boomed across Halifax Harbor, a key Nova Scotia port and a major center for naval ships in North America during World War I. A French cargo ship carrying high ...

Jack L. Rozdilsky is a Professor at York University who receives funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research as a co-investigator on a project supported under operating grant Canadian 2019 ...