In the narrows of Halifax Harbor, a series of small seamanship errors cascaded into the largest man-made explosion the world had ever seen. This is the story of two ships, a burning deck of benzene ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The French ship's insistence on staying away from shore may have seemed strange to anyone watching the encounter, but to those on board, it was ...

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.

People killed in the Halifax Explosion were honoured in ceremonies across the city on Saturday, 108 years after the destructive blast. On the morning of Dec. 6, 1917, the Mont-Blanc, a French ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Halifax Explosion killed 1,963 people and highlighted the dangers of large ships in narrow waterways. Like many shipwrecks and crashes, the ...