Some in the fire-ravaged city have taken to laying personal blame. But what endures from the Canadian disaster is the ...

That morning, the Norwegian ship Imo was leaving the Halifax harbour carrying much-needed war supplies. The Mont-Blanc, a French vessel was approaching from the opposite direction. A small craft ...

This happened not in 1945 but in 1917—in Halifax, N.S. It was the largest man-made explosion before Hiroshima. The French freighter Mont Blanc, en route from New York to Bordeaux, entered the ...