William Harford, a British Royal Navy gunner with ties to Jamestown, is pictured in his sailor’s uniform with an unknown woman, believed to be his wife at a young age. Harford was present during the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Wrecked homes on Campbell Road in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in December 1917.

Crowd searching the ruins after the Halifax explosion, on Dec. 11, 1917 On Wednesday night, Dec. 5, 1917, with Canadians entering their fourth year of the Great War, schoolkids across Halifax went to ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: December 6th, 1917, 98 years ago today ... the day an immense explosion wiped out much of the port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Mont Blanc, a ...

If you were walking around Halifax, Nova Scotia, on this day back in 1917, you’d have been among the lucky ones. The survivors. A massive explosion on the waterfront had rocked the city on December 6, ...

When anyone goes on a North Atlantic cruise that stops in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the main excursion is a bus tour that informs visitors of a devastating event most of us know nothing about. Picturesque ...

As the scope of the Aug. 4 explosion at the port of Beirut becomes clear, the tolls of the loss of life, injuries, homelessness and property damage are staggering. In the immediate chaos of large ...

On the bright, freezing morning of Dec. 6, 1917, a French captain steered his ship, the SS Mont Blanc, up the channel leading to the piers of Halifax, Canada’s major Atlantic port. Just after 8:30, as ...

Highrises coated in glass crowd the skyline of modern-day Halifax, a much different scene than 100 years ago when timber frames and simple masonry made up the cityscape near the city's waterfront. On ...