The lighting of the Christmas Tree on Boston Common is one of the city’s biggest holiday traditions. The trees are an annual gift from Nova Scotia, a thank you for the help Boston provided after a ...

The Halifax Explosion of 1917” by American writer Sally M. Walker has been published in Persian. Cheshmeh is the publisher of the book translated b ...

In 1917, a routine harbor collision set off an explosion more powerful than anything the world had seen before nuclear weapons. This breaks down how navigation mistakes, dangerous cargo, and a few ...

Since the 1940s, nuclear weapons have obviously claimed the title for largest manmade explosions. Splitting an atom and harnessing the power of the sun tends to help in ensuring that an explosion is ...

Almost a year and a half after pieces of the Mont-Blanc were discovered during dredging in Halifax harbour, plans are taking shape for what to do with some of the wreckage from the famed ship involved ...

In December 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbor, triggering the biggest non-nuclear explosion ever caused by human beings. One vessel was a French cargo ship, packed to the gills with ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. People killed in the Halifax Explosion were honoured in ceremonies across the city on Saturday, 108 ...

On the morning of December 6, 1917, the citizens of Halifax, Nova Scotia, witnessed the largest and most destructive man-made explosion the world had seen to that day. The S.S. Imo, a Norwegian vessel ...