Download or read book A Vision of Regeneration Reconstruction After the Halifax Explosion 1917 1921 written by Public Archives of Nova Scotia and published by Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia. This book was released on 1992 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Harbor No Evil Design written by David Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an introduction and annotations by David A. Sutherland, this volume features key documents from the Papers of the Halifax Relief Commission (HRC), which was established in the wake of the 1917 Halifax Explosion. The HRC was a quasi-governmental authority endowed with sweeping authority to implement a long-term program of reconstruction and rehabilitation to improve the qualify of life for the people of Halifax and neighbouring Dartmouth. This volume focuses on the operations of the HRC's Rehabilitation Department through the formative period of 1918-1919, when pioneer social workers from major cities in both Canada and the United States were recruited to set up an administrative structure that could provide disaster victims with assistance. Decision-making about who was most deserving and what form relief should take became matters of controversy. A key feature of the case-file transcriptions that make up the bulk of this volume is the extent to which they give voice to the common people of Halifax as they struggled to rebuild. By bringing to light the documents left by the HRC, this volume will deepen the understanding of Haligonians whose lives were transformed by the unprecedented explosion."--
Download or read book Shattered City written by Janet Kitz and published by Nimbus+ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronicle of the 1917 Halifax Explosion presents a vivid account of the historic tragedy and the relief and rebuilding efforts that followed. On December 6th, 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows that lead into Halifax Harbor. The Mont-Blanc was carrying a shipment of explosives from New York, ultimately bound for Bordeaux, France. A fire onboard ignited the cargo, causing a blast that obliterated everything within a half-mile radius. The Richmond district of Halifax was destroyed. A tsunami created by the blast washed the Imo ashore and wiped out a Mi’kmaq community. Shattered City is the most comprehensive book on the Halifax Explosion, detailing the event, the aftermath, and the restoration. It encompasses dozens of previously unpublished stories, photographs, and documents, along with some thought-provoking coverage of the inquiry into the disaster.
Download or read book City of Order written by Michael Boudreau and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interwar Halifax was a city in flux, a place where citizens debated adopting new ideas and technologies but agreed on one thing -- modernity was corrupting public morality and unleashing untold social problems on their fair city. To create a bulwark against further social dislocation, citizens, policy makers, and officials modernized the city’s machinery of order -- courts, prisons, and the police force -- and placed greater emphasis on crime control. These tough-on-crime measures, Boudreau argues, did not resolve problems but rather singled out ethnic minorities, working-class men, and female and juvenile offenders as problem figures in the eternal quest for order.
Download or read book Report of the Board of Trustees of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia written by Public Archives of Nova Scotia and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Trustees for the Year written by Public Archives of Nova Scotia and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miracles and Mysteries written by Mary Ann Morrison Monnon and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Ann Monnon is a Nova Scotia writer and researcher. She lives in Dartmouth.
Download or read book Report of the Halifax Relief Expedition written by Massachusetts. Halifax Relief Expedition and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1918 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Massachusetts. Halifax Relief Expedition. Report Of The Halifax Relief Expedition December 6 To 15, 1917. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Massachusetts. Halifax Relief Expedition. Report Of The Halifax Relief Expedition December 6 To 15, 1917, . Boston, Wright And Peter Printing Company, State Printers, 1918. Subject: Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
Download or read book Miracles and Mysteries written by Mary Ann Monnon and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enriched by Catastrophe written by Michelle Hébert Boyd and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: December 6, 1917, dawned clear and full of promise for Halifax, Nova Scotia. As Canada's main enbarkation point for the trenches of World War I, the old harbour city was alive with activity and was enjoying the prosperity that comes with war-time commerce and a healthy injection of military spending. Shaking off decades of decline, the people of Halifax were feeling optimistic about their city's future. This was about to change. Shortly after nine o'clock that morning, two ships - one carrying 2,653,115 kilograms of munitions - collided in the harbour, causing the world's largest human-caused explosion prior to Hiroshima. Halifax's North End was almost completely destroyed. When social workers arrived to assist in the massive relief effort they had to practise their skills within the context of Halifax's prevailing class structures, where, traditionally, well-off volunteers passed judgment on their poorer neighbours and took great care not to improve the conditions of people beyond their station in society. This book reflects on the lessons the profession of social work took from its efforts to rebuild the lives of Haligonians and on the lessons still to be learned from that experience. Book jacket.
Download or read book Shattered City written by Janet F. Kitz and published by Halifax, NS : Nimbus. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Halifax Explosion took place on December 6, 1917 when a French munitions ship and a Belgian relief vessel collided in the harbour. The munitions vessel drifted into the North End and exploded, killing more than sixteen hundred people instantly, wounding more than nine thousand others, and damaging or destroying approximately twelve thousand buildings. The complete devastation covered an area of 325 acres, and hardly a window in the city was left intact. This book, the most comprehensive ever written on the explosion, details the terrific devastation, the aftermath and the restoration. It encompasses dozens of previously unpublished stories, photographs, and documents, along with some thought-provoking coverage of the inquiry into the disaster. A best selling book from its first printing in 1989, this new updated edition includes a comprehensive index, and is sure to be a must-have for readers.
Download or read book Scapegoat written by Joel Zemel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Too Many to Mourn written by James G. Mahar and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At nine o'clock on the morning of December 6, 1917, the close-knit family of James Jackson and Elizabeth (Halloran) Jackson-five sons, four daughters, their spouses, forty-eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren were happily engaged in their everday lives in Richmond, Halifax's North End. The women had sent their children off to school; their husbands had gone off to work at Richmond's dockyard, railyard or sugar refinery. Another day of activity and promise had begun. Within five minutes, forty-six members of the Jackson family were dead, and nineteen were badly injured. Within five minutes their homes, schools, and places of work were completely demolished. Within five minutes the hopes and dreams of a family and community were destroyed forever. Too Many To Mourn tells the tragic story of the Halifax Explosion through the lives and deaths of the Jackson family. It is a meticulous reconstruction of the personal events of their lives in the face of this disaster, and an affecting account of a community's endeavours to abide an unfathomable loss. Now this winner of the Dartmouth Book Award in 1999 has been updated with a new cover.
Download or read book December 1917 written by Janet F. Kitz and published by . This book was released on 2015-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: December 1917 is a photographic guide to the Halifax Explosion by noted local historians Janet Kitz and Joan Payzant. The authors profile locations in both Halifax and Dartmouth that were affected by the explosion, looking at the role of the explosion in the transformation of the two cities. Stories and anecdotes reveal the ways in which the explosion touched the lives of citizens, and original research brings to light new aspects of the explosion. The book is richly illustrated with more than 100 historic and contemporary photographs.
Download or read book Views of the Halifax Disaster written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pamphlet shows numerous photographs of the city of Halifax after the explosion which took place on the morning of December sixth, 1917 and claimed the lives of over 1,000 people. The work shows the devastation of the buildings and landscape after the explosion.
Download or read book Blizzard of Glass written by Sally M. Walker and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the story from World War I in which two towns were leveled and almost two thousand people killed following the collision of two warships in Halifax Harbour and a blizzard that dumped over a foot of snow in the area.
Download or read book Survivors written by Janet Kitzid and published by Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus. This book was released on 1992 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
