Today is the 88th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, a great tragedy which leveled part of this great port city of Nova Scotia, Canada in 1917.
In 2002 we took a bus tour of the Canadian Maritime Provinces with some friends. Among the places we visited was the city of Halifax. Its Maritime Museum contains some of the most moving photographic images of that disaster, along with others relating to the sinking of the
The photo above is of the grave of one of the young victims from the "Titanic". Many other victims of that catastrophe were also laid to rest in the Halifax cemetery.
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