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Halifax Explosion 1917 Online Resources

"A Vision of Regeneration"

Remembrance Book

Moving Images

Personal Narratives

Halifax Relief Commission

Also view the CBC Halifax Explosion site

'A Vision of Regeneration'
The dynamic story of how Halifax was rebuilt in the years immediately following the disaster is re-created through 150 heritage photographs, maps, architectural plans and documents, plus useful background information. An ideal source for school projects – and a powerful visual memory of a city destroyed and rebuilt.

Halifax Explosion Remembrance Book – A List of Those Who Died
NSARM is pleased to host the online version of a project recently completed by the Halifax Foundation. The 'Halifax Explosion Remembrance Book' is the first really definitive listing for those killed in the disaster of 6 December 1917. The online version features a searchable database with detailed information for 1952 casualties – more than 300 of whom are newly-confirmed and identified victims.

Moving Images
View six minutes of black-and-white moving images attributed to professional cameraman W.G. MacLaughlan. The film is an early news documentary from the silent-screen era, documenting in eerie silence and jerky movements the waste and devastation of a city destroyed, and the efforts that went into rebuilding it.

Personal Narratives
Five first-hand survivor accounts of the Explosion, ranging from a letter written on 10 December 1917 by a Halifax housewife, to the reminiscences of an elderly woman in 1985, looking back to the events of 6 December when she was six years old and at Chebucto School.

Halifax Relief Commission
The most important archival resource for studying the Halifax Explosion is the nearly 60 meters of records accumulated by the Halifax Relief Commission, 1917-1978. View a brief description of this material to plan for in-depth research.

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