Aftershock : the Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey / Janet Maybee. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2015. xxii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2346.4 A38 2015 - Open Shelf
On December 6, 1917, harbour pilot Francis Mackey was guiding Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, into Bedford Basin to join a convoy across the Atlantic when it was rammed by Belgian Relief vessel Imo. The resulting massive explosion destroyed Halifax's north end and left at least two thousand people dead, including pilot William Hayes aboard Imo. Who was to blame? Federal government and naval officials found in Pilot Mackey a convenient target for public anger. Charged with manslaughter, he was imprisoned, villainized in the press, and denied his pilot's license even after the charges were dropped. A century later he is still unfairly linked to the tragedy. Through interviews with Mackey's relatives, transcripts, letters, and newly exposed government documents, author Janet Maybee explores the circumstances leading up to the Halifax Explosion, the question of fault, and the impact on the pilot and his family of the unjust, deliberate persecution that followed.
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Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
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Halifax & the Royal Canadian Navy / John Boileau. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2010. x, 214 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC231 B679 2010 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical reference and index.
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St. Margaret's Bay : an historical album : Peggy's cove-- Hubbards / Alfreda Withrow. Halifax : Nimbus, 1997. 138 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 S146 W789 1997 - Open Shelf
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St. Margaret's Bay : a history / Alfreda Withrow. 1st ed. Halifax : Four East Publications, 1985. 113 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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The history of Lawrencetown 1979. 126 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 L424 D317 - Open Shelf
Lawrencetown 225 years of history.
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The great Halifax explosion, Dec. 6, 1917 / written and illustrated by Joan Horwood. St. John's, Nfld. : Avalon Publications, 1976. 43 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm.
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Explosions — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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Halifax 09:06, December 6, 1917 a photo-documentation of the Halifax explosion Halifax : West House Museum, 1977. 1 booklet, 29 sheets, 15 photographs ; in containe
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West House Museum (Halifax, N.S.).
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The Colour-Me-History of Early Halifax / by grade six students, Saint Francis School ; edited by Terrence M. Punch. Halifax : 1979. ix, 40 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 S138 - Open Shelf
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The Halifax explosion : realities and myths / by Alan Ruffman. Revised. Halifax : The Author, 1990. 38 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 R924 - Open Shelf
Typed manuscript, unpublished ring-binder. The working text for three talks given on CBC Radio's Information Morning....
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The Halifax disaster, December 6, 1917 / Ernest Fraser Robinson ; project consultant, Don Revell. St. Catharines, ON. : Vanwell Publishing, 1987. 70 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 R659 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Halifax (N.S.) — History — Explosion, 1917 — Juvenile literature.
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Open gangway : the (real) story of the Halifax navy riot / by Stanley R. Redman. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1981. 167 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 R318 - Open Shelf
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Halifax : cornerstone of Canada / Joan M. Payzant ; picture research by David MacLaren ; partners in progress by John P. Mason. 1st ed. Halifax : Windsor Publications, 1985. 222 pages : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 P347 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
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Miracles and mysteries : the Halifax explosion December 6, 1917 / by Mary Ann Monnon. Windsor : Lancelot Press, 1977. 144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Explosions — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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Halifax, Nova Scotia : the effects of disaster upon urban morphology U.S.A. : The Author, 1980. 101 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 M648 - Open Shelf
Thesis M.S. - Brigham Young University, 1980.
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Halifax (N.S.) — History — Explosion, 1917.
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An investigation of the development of the Common of Halifax, Nova Scotia 1749 to 1979 1980. vi, 101 l.; map; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 M345 C734 - Open Shelf
Recreation — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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Staples, urban growth, and the heartland-hinterland paradigm : Halifax as an Imperial outpost, 1867-1914 Canada : 1977. 39 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 M122 - Open Shelf
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Halifax (N.S.) — History — 1867-1914.
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Survivors : children of the Halifax explosion / Janet F. Kitz. Halifax : Nimbus, 1992. 134 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 K62 S963 - Open Shelf
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Shattered city : the Halifax explosion and the road to recovery / Janet F. Kitz. Halifax : Nimbus, 1989. xx, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Halifax (N.S.) — History — Explosion, 1917.
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Halifax : a literary portrait / edited by John Bell ; with a foreword by Robert MacNeil. Lawrencetown Beach : Pottersfield Press, 1990. viii, 228 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 H173 - Open Shelf
Halifax (N.S.) in literature
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The Halifax explosion : December 6, 1917 / compiled and edited by Graham Metson. Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1978. 173 pages : illustrations, facsims., map, portraits ; 29 cm.
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Including the complete text of The Halifax disaster by Archibald MacMechan.
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MacMechan, Archibald, 1862-1933. The Halifax disaster.
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Halifax's north end : an anthropologist looks at the city / Paul A. Erickson. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1986. 128 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 E68 - Open Shelf
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Birch Cove : fact and fancy / written & illus. by students of grade viii, Grosvenor-Wentworth-Park School. Birch Cove- : The School, 1980. 77 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 B617 - Open Shelf
Grosvenor-Wentworth-Park School (N.S.)
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Halifax (N.S. : County) — History.
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History of Halifax city / by T.B. Akins. Illustrated with maps and engravings. Introd. by D.A. Redmond. Belleville, ON. : Mika Publishing, 1973. 320 pages, [11] l. of plates: illustrations, fold. map; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 A315 - Open Shelf
Reprint of edition published Halifax, Nova Scotia Historical Society, 1895. Corrigenda: pages [318]-320. Includes index.
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Heart throbs of the Halifax horror / by Stanley K. Smith. Halifax : G.E. Weir, 1918. 120 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H17 Ex96 S66 - Open Shelf
60 illustrations from actual photographs, map of city showing devastated area, and list of dead.
Halifax (N.S.) — History — Explosion, 1917.
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A romance of the Halifax disaster / by Lt.-Col. F. McKelvey Bell. Halifax : Royal Print & Litho, 1918. [76] pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Halifax (N.S.) — History — Explosion, 1917
Disasters
Explosions — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — Fiction
Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917 — Fiction
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