Halifax Disaster Deepens War Era Losses
A massive Halifax explosion and ensuing fires devastates much of the old city after a collision at sea. The blast levelled a two square mile zone, destroying docks, Parliament buildings, banks, churches, schools, hospitals, and factories, with numerous casualties reported.
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Halifax
North Street
Africville
Bedford Basin
Richmond
Citadel Hill
Government Dockyard
Wellington Barracks
Admiralty House
Military Hospital
City Hall
Ordnance Department
Telegraph and Cable
Halifax the Picture City of Nova Scotia
Halifax famed for Point Pleasant park and the Public Gardens features of a garrison town with many historic buildings. The harbor city hosts St Pauls Church St Marys Cathedral and notable edifices while census figures show strong Catholic and Protestant communities and Halifax as a major Atlantic gateway with a deep harbor and burgeoning wharfage projects.
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Halifax
Point Pleasant Park
William Young
Young Avenue
Canada
London
Nova Scotia
St. Paul’s Church
Dalhousie College
Provincial Museum
Academy of Music
Odd Fellows’ Temple
Prince George
Queen’s
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
North America
Boston
Cornwallis
Earl of Halifax
St. Peter’s
St. Matthew’s Presbyterian Church
St. Mary’s Catholic Cathedral
Cape Breton
Mistletoe legends stretch from Druids to Christmas charm
Ida M. Bruce traces mistletoe’s long lore from Druid rites to Norse Yule fires and English legends. The piece covers how mistletoe shaped kissing customs, Thor and Baldur myths, and Nordic and European beliefs in healing, protection, and luck across centuries.
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Britain
Scandinavia
Bethlehem
Chelm
Nanna
Loki
Baldur
Valhalla
Thor
Wodin
Halifax Explosion Catalog of Major Explosions
A historical list surveys several large blasts in the early 20th century. It notes incidents in New York Baltimore New Jersey London and Pennsylvania with casualties injuries and property damage totals for each event.
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New York
Baltimore
Black Tom Island
New Jersey
Canadian Car and Foundry Company
Kingsland
N. J
London
Eddystone Ammunition Corporation
Eddystone
Halifax's early origins and historic harbor name ties
The text traces Halifax from its Indigenous Chebucto roots to a French supply base in 1745, then growth under Lord Cornwallis in 1749 with 2,576 English soldiers, and the naming after the Earl of Halifax, noting the town’s orderly layout. A barber quip closes the fragment.
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Cornwallis
Edward Cornwallis
Britain
City
Louisburg
Howe
Halifax
Boston
New York
Washington
Chesapeake
Earl of
Alaska Man Equips Car With Runners In Snow
An Alaska resident outfits a car for heavy snow by adding runners to the front wheels and heavy chains on the rear wheels. He encloses the engine in a special body and uses the vehicle year round, including summer.
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Alaska
New Candy Making Tongs and Novel Inventions
A summary of diverse inventions and experiments includes spring controlled tongs for sugar, forested areas in the Philippines, color in dairy fat not indicating richness, Norwegian scientific expeditions in Asia, hybrid tobacco breakthroughs, air inflated light balloons for decor, ground wireless signaling up to 40 miles, a French life preserver capsule, and a Chicago patent for candy shaped like edible artificial flowers.
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Philippine Islands
California
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Academ
Coche’ Hall
Dartmouth
Rockingham
Europe
Frank Mackie
Mont Blanc
Ioma
United States Atlantic
France
Toma
Queens
St. Mary’s
Royal Bank of Canada
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Bank of Nova Scotia
Bank of British North America
Bank of Montreal
Presbyterian Theological College
Government Technical College
Provincial
Government House
Dominion Building
New Customs House
America
Liverpool
Ida M. Bruce
Utica Globe
Earth
Jupiter
Apollo
Diana
Latonia
Olympus
Pliny
Holstein
Lacaune
Scotland
Germany
Sweden
Chebucto
Bay
Duke d’Anville
New England
Odds and Ends
Central
Asia
Philippines
Connecticut
Chicago
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