Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917

LCSH: Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917; "The Halifax Explosion 6 Dec. 1917 page (at 9:05 on the 6th December 1917, a munition ship exploded in Halifax harbour, (Nova Scotia, Canada). This explosion was so vast that it killed over 2,000 people and completely flattened two square kilometres of northern Halifax; the largest man-made explosion until the dropping of the bomb at Hiroshima in 1945)"