It was caused when the SS Mont-Blanc, a French ship carrying ammunition, and the Imo, a Norwegian steamship carrying Belgian relief supplies, collided in Halifax harbour. The Mont-Blanc was torn ...

At 9:04 a.m., the Mont Blanc blows up with devastating force, its 2,600 tons of explosives levelling swaths of Halifax and Dartmouth, raining down shards of white-hot iron, blowing off roofs and ...

The Mont Blanc caught fire and drifted into Pier ... "There's so much stuff that has been thrown overboard in Halifax harbour, there are not enough ships to carry it away," he said.

There are similarities between the 2020 Beirut port explosion and the 1917 Halifax Harbour Explosion that can make sense of what ... The Mont-Blanc burned for 20 minutes prior to its ...

WATCH: Halifax explosion time capsule to connect ... Navy’s chief examining officer in charge of the harbour. Given the Mont Blanc’s explosive cargo, it was said that the burden rested ...

Workers at the Halifax Shipyard have apparently found remains of the SS Mont-Blanc. Marilyn Davidson Elliott's father was blinded in the explosion. Watch her interview with Amy Smith.

The Halifax Explosion of 1917 in Halifax Harbour, killed over 2,000 people. On the bright, freezing morning of Dec. 6, 1917, a French captain steered his ship, the SS Mont Blanc, up the channel ...

On the morning of Dec. 6, 1917, a navigation accident occurred where two vessels collided in the narrows of the Halifax Harbour. While most of the Mont Blanc was vaporized in the blast ...

Mont-Blanc's captain, the Halifax pilot who guided the ship that morning and the official in charge of vessel traffic in the harbour were rounded up and charged with manslaughter.

A Halifax scuba diver has found something that could shed a little new light on one aspect of a dark chapter in Nova Scotian history. Bob Chaulk has explored Halifax harbour from the Bedford Basin to ...

Workers at the Halifax Shipyard have apparently found remains of the SS Mont-Blanc. Marilyn Davidson Elliott's father was blinded in the explosion. Watch her interview with Amy Smith. Lawmaker in ...

This is the city that almost disappeared off the map. It's hard for me to imagine as I sail across Halifax Harbour, savoring the sight of the city's handsome skyline with its attractive blend of ...