The Halifax catastrophe : forty views showing extent of damage in Canada's historic city as the result of terrific explosion on Thursday, December 6th, 1917, which killed 1200 men, women and children, injured 3000 and rendered 6000 homeless, causing property damage of nearly $50,000 / issued by Royal Print & Litho.

Halifax, Canada : Royal Print & Litho : H.H. Marshall Ltd., Publishers' Agents, Sole Distributers, ©1917.

32 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 15 x 23 cm

Fully loaded with wartime explosives, the SS Mont-Blanc exploded off the coast of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada on December 6, 1917. The largest man-made explosion before the Atomic Bomb, the Halifax Catastrophe burned some buildings on shore and killed over 2,000 people.

Explosions Nova Scotia Halifax Pictorial works.
Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917 Pictorial works.
Disasters Nova Scotia Halifax Pictorial works.
Explosions Nouvelle-Écosse Halifax Ouvrages illustrés.
Explosion de Halifax, Halifax, N.-É., 1917 Ouvrages illustrés.
Catastrophes Nouvelle-Écosse Halifax Ouvrages illustrés.
Disasters
Explosions
Halifax (N.S.) Pictorial works.
Nova Scotia Halifax

Viewbooks.
Illustrated works

Roe, Harold T.
Royal Print & Litho.

Views of the Halifax catastrophe, showing effects of explosion, December sixth 1917

Location: Library main y canada 141984
Call No.: FC2346 (ID:85-B26502)
Status: Available