Almost a year and a half after pieces of the Mont-Blanc were discovered during dredging in Halifax harbour, plans are taking shape for what to do with some of the wreckage from the famed ship involved ...

The Halifax explosion was the most devastating disaster on Canadian soil. It was the largest manmade explosion the world had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Dec. 6, 1917, as coverage of the ship explosion in the Harbor of Halifax, Novia Scotia, ...

Each year, the people of Halifax, Nova Scotia, gift the city of Boston its official Christmas tree as thanks for help rendered more than 100 years ago. The story goes like this: It was Dec. 6, 1917, ...

When the French ship SS Mont-Blanc crashed into the Norwegian SS Imo, those who knew about the French vessel’s cargo anticipated that the disaster would soon get much worse. All of the workers around ...

Halifax is brimming with history, but if you’ve only got one day, here’s what you should be checking out. Halifax has layers of history that might surprise the average tourist. The city is layered in ...

AT 430. NOTHING THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN, TELEGRAPHED, OR SAID CAN EXPRESS TO YOU THE HORROR OF THE DISASTER OF THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 6TH. WE’RE FROM HALIFAX. A LETTER WRITTEN MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO.

Le 6 décembre 1917, le cargo français Mont-Blanc, chargé de 2 900 tonnes d'explosifs, entre en collision avec le navire ...