Rebuilding Halifax

Author : Barry Cahill
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459506411

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Rebuilding Halifax by Barry Cahill Pdf

Using the perspectives of law, politics, public policy and intergovernmental relations, historian Barry Cahill describes the complex activities of an almost-unaccountable agency that took the place of municipal, provincial and federal governments in addressing the needs of the citizens and the city after the Explosion. He provides new insight into the pioneering town planning and construction of the Hydrostone neighbourhood in Halifax. He also explains why this ad-hoc disaster agency continued to operate for nearly sixty years after the catastrophic event that precipitated its establishment. This book offers a new and unique perspective on the recovery efforts which followed a domestic disaster unprecedented in Canadian history.

Author : Barry Cahill
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459506374

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Rebuilding Halifax by Barry Cahill Pdf

Using the perspectives of law, politics, public policy and intergovernmental relations, historian Barry Cahill describes the complex activities of an almost-unaccountable agency that took the place of municipal, provincial and federal governments in addressing the needs of the citizens and the city after the Explosion. He provides new insight into the pioneering town planning and construction of the Hydrostone neighbourhood in Halifax. He also explains why this ad-hoc disaster agency continued to operate for nearly sixty years after the catastrophic event that precipitated its establishment. This book offers a new and unique perspective on the recovery efforts which followed a domestic disaster unprecedented in Canadian history.

Author : Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Publisher : Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Explosions
ISBN : 0888712480

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A Vision of Regeneration : Reconstruction After the Halifax Explosion, 1917-1921 by Public Archives of Nova Scotia Pdf

Author : Janet Kitz
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551098203

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Shattered City by Janet Kitz Pdf

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.

Author : ROBERT PACE,ROBERT SALAH,PETER L. TWOHIG
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781459506350

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The Halifax Public Gardens by ROBERT PACE,ROBERT SALAH,PETER L. TWOHIG Pdf

A fully illustrated account of the creation and maintenance of Canada’s finest Victorian public gardens, and the story of how severe hurricane destruction led to a beautiful and sensitive restoration. The Halifax Public Gardens are the oldest and finest Victorian public gardens outside the United Kingdom. This is the authoritative visual account of their history including the story of how a destructive hurricane led to a complex restoration project drawing on heritage experts from across North America. This book shares how the Gardens came to be, how they were designed, and how they have been maintained over the decades. Authors Robert Pace, Robert Salah and Peter L. Twohig elaborate on Gardens’ notable features, including the bandstand, memorial fountains, stone bridges, water features and varied wildlife. The breadth and complexity of the Gardens’ botanical and architectural beauty is exemplified in more than 150 archival images and contemporary full-colour photography. When the future of the Halifax Public Gardens was in doubt after sustaining significant damage during Hurricane Juan in 2003, authors Robert Pace and Robert Salah spearheaded the community-led conservation effort that followed. The account of how this was accomplished is illustrated with images of the hurricane’s damage and a portfolio of the project’s breathtaking results. This beautiful book documents an important cultural treasure, and explains how public engagement and support have ensured the preservation of this valued public park.

Author : Sally M. Walker
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781466805101

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Blizzard of Glass by Sally M. Walker Pdf

On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating enough, a blizzard hit the next day, dumping more than a foot of snow on the area and paralyzing much-needed relief efforts. Fascinating, edge-of-your-seat storytelling based on original source material conveys this harrowing account of tragedy and recovery. This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.

Author : John U. Bacon
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062666550

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The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The "riveting" (National Post) tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that emerged from the ashes “Enthralling. ... Gripping. ... A captivating and emotionally investing journey.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette After steaming out of New York City on December 1, 1917, laden with a staggering three thousand tons of TNT and other explosives, the munitions ship Mont-Blanc fought its way up the Atlantic coast, through waters prowled by enemy U-boats. As it approached the lively port city of Halifax, Mont-Blanc's deadly cargo erupted with the force of 2.9 kilotons of TNT—the most powerful explosion ever visited on a human population, save for HIroshima and Nagasaki. Mont-Blanc was vaporized in one fifteenth of a second; a shockwave leveled the surrounding city. Next came a thirty-five-foot tsunami. Most astounding of all, however, were the incredible tales of survival and heroism that soon emerged from the rubble. This is the unforgettable story told in John U. Bacon's The Great Halifax Explosion: a ticktock account of fateful decisions that led to doom, the human faces of the blast's 11,000 casualties, and the equally moving individual stories of those who lived and selflessly threw themselves into urgent rescue work that saved thousands. The shocking scale of the disaster stunned the world, dominating global headlines even amid the calamity of the First World War. Hours after the blast, Boston sent trains and ships filled with doctors, medicine, and money. The explosion would revolutionize pediatric medicine; transform U.S.-Canadian relations; and provide physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who studied the Halifax explosion closely when developing the atomic bomb, with history's only real-world case study demonstrating the lethal power of a weapon of mass destruction. Mesmerizing and inspiring, Bacon's deeply-researched narrative brings to life the tragedy, bravery, and surprising afterlife of one of the most dramatic events of modern times.

Author : Marianne Fedunkiw
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical education
ISBN : 0773528970

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Rockefeller Foundation Funding and Medical Education in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax by Marianne Fedunkiw Pdf

This book looks at how a major philanthropic donation transformed medical education in Canada.

Author : Laura M. Mac Donald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802718396

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Curse of the Narrows by Laura M. Mac Donald Pdf

In 1917, the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was crowded with ships leaving for war-torn Europe. On December 6th, two of them-the Mont Blanc and the Imo-collided in the Narrows, a hard-to-navigate stretch of the harbor. Ablaze, and with explosions on her deck filling the sky, the Mont Blanc grounded against the city's docks. As thousands rushed to their windows and into the streets to watch, she exploded with such force that the 3,121 tons of her iron hull vaporized in a cloud that shot up more than 2,000 feet; the explosion was so unusual that Robert Oppenheimer would study its effects to predict the devastation of an atomic bomb. The blast caused a giant wave that swept over parts of the city, followed by a slick, black rain that fell for ten minutes. Much of the city was flattened, and not one in 12,000 buildings within a 16-mile radius left undamaged. More than 1,600 Haligonians were killed and 6,000 injured; and within twenty-four hours, a blizzard had isolated Halifax from the world. Set vividly against the background of World War I, Curse of the Narrows is the first major account of the world's largest pre-atomic explosion, the epic relief mission from Boston, and the riveting trial of the Mont Blanc's captain and pilot. Laura M. Mac Donald is as adept at describing the dynamics of a chain reaction explosion as she is at chronicling unforgettable human dramas of miraculous survival, unfathomable loss, and the medical breakthroughs in pediatrics and eye surgery that followed the disaster . Using primary sources--many of which haven't been read in decades and--with a wonderful feel for narrative history, Mac Donald chronicles one of the most compelling and dramatic events of the 20th century.

Author : T. Joseph Scanlon
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771123730

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Catastrophe by T. Joseph Scanlon Pdf

Catastrophe weaves together compelling stories and potent lessons learned from the calamitous Halifax explosion—the worst non-natural disaster in North America before 9/11. On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered when volatile cargo on the SS Mont-Blanc freighter exploded in the bustling wartime harbour. More than nineteen hundred people were killed and nine thousand injured. Across more than two square kilometres some 1200 homes, factories, schools and churches were obliterated or heavily damaged. Written from a scholarly perspective but in a journalistic style accessible to the general reader, this book explores how the explosion influenced later emergency planning and disaster theory. Rich in firsthand accounts gathered in decades of research in Canada, the US, the UK, France and Norway, the book examines the disaster from all angles. It delivers an inspiring message: the women and men at “ground zero” responded speedily, courageously, and effectively, fighting fires, rescuing the injured, and sheltering the homeless. The book also shows that the generous assistance that later came from central Canada and the US also brought some unhelpful intrusions by outside authorities. Unable to imagine the horror of the initial crisis, they ignored or even vilified a number of the first responders. This book will be of particular interest to disaster researchers and emergency planners along with journalists, and scholars of history, Maritime studies, and Canadian studies.

Author : Gilbert A. Stelter,Alan F.J. Artibise
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1982-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780773584860

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Shaping the Urban Landscape by Gilbert A. Stelter,Alan F.J. Artibise Pdf

This is a collection of essays focusing on the process of city-building in Canada. The authors weigh the relative broad social, economic and technological trends as they attempt to explain the shaping of this urban landscape.

Author : Judith Fingard,Janet Guildford
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442658233

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Mothers of the Municipality by Judith Fingard,Janet Guildford Pdf

Highlighting women's activism in Halifax after the Second World War, Mothers of the Municipality is a tightly focused collection of essays on social policy affecting women. The contributors – feminist scholars in history, social work, and nursing – examine women's experiences and activism, including those of African Nova Scotian 'day's workers,' Sisters of Charity, St. John Ambulance Brigades, 'Voices' for peace, and social welfare bureaucrats. The volume underscores the fact that the 1950s and 60s were not simply years of quiet conservatism, born-again domesticity, and consumption. Indeed, the period was marked by profound and rapid change for women. Despite their almost total exclusion from the formal political arena, which extended into the tumultuous 1970s, women in Halifax were instrumental in creating and reforming programs and services, often amid controversy. Mothers of the Municipality explores women's activism and the provision of services at the community level. If the adage "think globally; act locally" has any application in modern history, it is with the women who fought many of the battles in the larger war for social justice.

Author : Stephen Poole
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887805141

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Halifax: Discovering Its Heritage by Stephen Poole Pdf

Halifax offers 250 years of history to discover: this book introduces the city's rich past with remarkable colour photography. A vibrant waterfront, handsome eighteenth-century public buildings, a unique Citadel fortress overlooking the harbour, an eclectic array of churches and tree-lined Victorian neighbourhoods all contribute to Halifax's appeal. Combining photographs of Halifax today with an informative text, this volume ranges from Point Pleasant Park to the historic sites of sister-city Dartmouth. Halifax: Discovering its Heritage will help you explore this historic city's varied and colourful past--and present.

Author : United States. Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation. Division of Grants
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Federal aid to historic sites
ISBN : MINN:31951T00342883U

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Historic Preservation by United States. Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation. Division of Grants Pdf

Author : Daniel Béland,Pierre-Marc Daigneault
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442609716

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Welfare Reform in Canada by Daniel Béland,Pierre-Marc Daigneault Pdf

Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. These conceptual, international, and historical perspectives inform in-depth case studies of social assistance reform in each province. The key issues of social assistance in Canada, including gender relations, immigrants, Aboriginal peoples, and the impact of activation programs, are addressed, as is the possibility of convergence taking place in provincial welfare policy. This book is the second volume in the Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching, and executive training with campuses at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan.