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Title: Halifax Explosion Report
Description: HIGH QUALITY history notes - received a 7+ on the International Baccalaureate scale. Sources provided in MLA style with detailed sections ranging from the cause, effect, and implications of the Halifax Explosion.
Description: HIGH QUALITY history notes - received a 7+ on the International Baccalaureate scale. Sources provided in MLA style with detailed sections ranging from the cause, effect, and implications of the Halifax Explosion.
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Halifax Explosion Assignment
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Halifax Harbour and the First World War
In December 1917, Canada was at war
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By 1917, Canada had already suffered tens of thousands of casualties; these
included soldiers from Halifax and Dartmouth
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Figure 1
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The Reasons for the Explosion
The Halifax Explosion occurred when a Belgian relief vessel and a French munitions
carrier collided in Halifax Harbour during World War 1
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The Halifax Explosion in the Blink of an Eye
, accessed September 29, 2015,
http://www
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org/intro3
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"The Nova Scotia, Halifax Explosion in Dec 6th 1917 Canada at War Forums
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canadaatwar
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php?t=2679
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The munitions ship drifted towards the pier and after twenty
minutes blew sky high
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Thousands were killed and injured and much of Halifax was destroyed
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Figure 2
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The Imo was departing the harbour on the
morning of December 6, 1917
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The Mont Blanc was entering the harbour bound for Bedford Basin when it
encountered the Imo in the Narrows sailing toward it
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The Mont Blanc had a cargo of high explosives, topped off by barrels of inflammable
benzol loaded on the decks, would have been unimaginable in modern times
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About News, accessed September 29,
2015, http://canadaonline
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com/cs/canadaww1/p/halifaxexpl
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Janet Kitz, "Halifax Explosion Infosheet
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novascotia
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Lois Kernaghan, "Halifax Explosion
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Accessed September 29, 2015
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thecanadianencyclopedia
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caught fire and burned for twenty minutes, giving its crew time to leave the ship and take refuge
on the Dartmouth shore
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A tsunami was created after water
filled the space where the harbor bottom was briefly exposed due to the amount of water that had
been vaporized
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The city was
devastated, and parts of it were turned into a wasteland as a builtup area of 500 acres on the
nearby shore was wiped off the map
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The heat and pressure pushed a fireball of hot gases, and debris consisting of soot,
unburned coal, carbon from explosives, and shrapnel high into the sky above the harbour
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The explosion sent a white cloud billowing 20,000 feet above the city
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The blast obliterated most of
Richmond: homes, apartments and business, even the towering sugar refinery
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Oral History Forum
, accessed October 4, 2015,
http://www
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ca/index
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Michel Colet, "The Devastating Impact of the Halifax Explosion
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International Centre for Chemical Safety
and Security
, accessed September 29, 2015, http://www
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eu/media/timelineforchemicalincidents/
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side, Tuft's Cove took the brunt of the blast
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They were sailors looking on from the decks of their ships, railworkers, longshoremen
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They were labourers
looking on from factory windows or doorways; shopkeepers, and firemen
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On Thursday, December 6, 1917, two square miles of a major Canadian city lay in
rubble, and most of the undamaged area had no water or heat
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Figure 3
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"The CBC Halifax Explosion Site
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cbc
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html
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The Halifax Explosion
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2007, http://www
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"An Introduction to the Halifax Explosion
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hsl
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edu/halifax/
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"
The Halifax Explosion
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2007, http://www
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At the disaster site, the supply system for the war had taken a body blow, and the heart of
a major business and industrial area was rubble
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The Rescue and Relief
With astounding speed, relief efforts were set in motion
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The Canadian government gave $18 million, the British
government almost $5 million, but most Haligonians remember the generosity of the state of
Massachusetts, which donated $750,000 in money and goods and gave unstintingly in volunteer
assistance through the MassachusettsHalifax Relief Committee
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Figure 4
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"The Destruction
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cbc
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html
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Halifax Explosion
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" aking Medicare: The History of Health Care in Canada, 19142007
M
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accessed September 29, 2015, http://www
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The Dominion Government appointed the Halifax Relief Commission to head pensions,
claims for loss and damage, along with rehousing and the rehabilitation of victims
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Three thousand houses were
repaired in the first seven weeks after the Explosion, as well as temporary apartments which
were constructed at the rate of one every hour
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Military and naval personnel worked with civilians in the relief effort; nearby cities like
Truro took in the homeless
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In the aftermath of the explosion, Halifax residents buried their dead, cared for
the wounded, and began to rebuild their city
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All across Canada and the United States, communities began to fill trains with emergency
supplies and skilled professionals to send to Halifax
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Railway telegraphs were a principal communication network because
Alan Ruffman and Wendy Findley, "The Relief Efforts
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halifaxexplosion
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Canada and the First World War
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warmuseum
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trains were the primary transportation and communication system throughout Canada and the
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United States
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"Relief from Outside following the Halifax Explosion
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hsl
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edu/halifax/reliefoutside/
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"The Devastating Impact of the Halifax Explosion
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Accessed September
29, 2015
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com/anthropologyandhistory/thedevastatingimpactofthehalifaxexplos
ion
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"
The Halifax Explosion
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http://www
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ca/halifaxexplosion/he3_shock/he3_shock_destruction
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"Halifax at War
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Accessed September 29, 2015
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hsl
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edu/halifax/
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"Halifax Explosion
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Accessed September 29, 2015
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historymuseum
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shtml
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"
International Centre for Chemical Safety
and Security
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http://www
...
eu/media/timelineforchemicalincidents/
"An Introduction to the Halifax Explosion
...
Accessed September 29, 2015
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hsl
...
edu/halifax/
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"Halifax Explosion
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Accessed September 29,
2015
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thecanadianencyclopedia
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Kitz, Janet
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Oral History Forum
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http://www
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ca/index
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—
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" aritime Museum of the Atlantic
M
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http://maritimemuseum
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ca/whatseedo/halifaxexplosion/halifaxexplosionin
fosheet
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September 29, 2015
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about
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Canada at
War
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"Relief from Outside following the Halifax Explosion
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Accessed September 29, 2015
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"The CBC Halifax Explosion Site
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Last modified August 31, 2007
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Last modified August 31, 2007
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"Halifax Explosion
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Last modified August 31, 2007
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"The Relief Efforts
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Last modified August 31, 2007
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halifaxexplosion
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"
The Halifax
Explosion
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http://www
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ca/firstworldwar/history/lifeathomeduringthewar/wartimetr
agedies/thehalifaxexplosion/
Title: Halifax Explosion Report
Description: HIGH QUALITY history notes - received a 7+ on the International Baccalaureate scale. Sources provided in MLA style with detailed sections ranging from the cause, effect, and implications of the Halifax Explosion.
Description: HIGH QUALITY history notes - received a 7+ on the International Baccalaureate scale. Sources provided in MLA style with detailed sections ranging from the cause, effect, and implications of the Halifax Explosion.