Profiles over forty disasters that have hit the region in the past 250 years.
The threat of disaster has been a fact of life for many Atlantic Canadians, whose livelihoods often depended on the unpredictable seas and the volatile mines. But even with constant improvements in technology, disasters in the region have become no less a part of life, as 1992's Westray mine collapse and 1998's Swissair crash demonstrate.
A History of Disaster explores the most significant Atlantic Canadian disasters over the past 250 years, many well-remembered and none ever forgotten. Forty-three of the region's deadliest disasters are profiled, while photos and illustrations capture the heartbreak, and often the bravery, that accompanied these unexpected events. Organized chronologically, some of the disasters described here are among the world's most infamous-the sinking of the Titanic and the Halifax Explosion among them.
The threat of disaster has been a fact of life for many Atlantic Canadians, whose livelihoods often depended on the unpredictable seas and the volatile mines. But even with constant improvements in technology, disasters in the region have become no less a part of life, as 1992's Westray mine collapse and 1998's Swissair crash demonstrate.
A History of Disaster explores the most significant Atlantic Canadian disasters over the past 250 years, many well-remembered and none ever forgotten. Forty-three of the region's deadliest disasters are profiled, while photos and illustrations capture the heartbreak, and often the bravery, that accompanied these unexpected events. Organized chronologically, some of the disasters described here are among the world's most infamous-the sinking of the Titanic and the Halifax Explosion among them.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199) and index
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- History of disaster : the worst storms, accidents, and conflagrations in Atlantic Canada
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements 8
- Introduction 8
- Violet Duke William 8
- Atlantic 8
- Greenland 8
- Titanic 8
- Newfoundland 8
- Southern Cross 8
- Empress of Ireland Storstad 9
- Florizel 9
- Viking 9
- Caribou 9
- Truxtun Pollux 9
- Flora Alberta 9
- Valleyfield 9
- Ocean Ranger 9
- Gold Bond Conveyor 10
- Flare 10
- Selected Bibliography 10
- Image Sources 10
- Index 10
- ACKnoWleDgements 12
- 1758 21
- 1825 25
- ProsPerit y 25
- DrougHt 26
- WArnings 26
- 1846 33
- 1850 35
- 1851 38
- 1869 41
- DAmAge 45
- 1873 47
- 1873 53
- 1877 57
- 1891 61
- 1892 66
- 1892 69
- 1898 75
- 1912 88
- 1914 93
- 1914 97
- 1914 100
- AftermAtH 105
- 1917 106
- 1917 111
- 1918 117
- 1926-1927 121
- August 1926 121
- August 1927 121
- 1929 124
- 1931 129
- 1936 133
- 1942 137
- 1942 142
- 1942 147
- 1943 153
- 1944 154
- 1946 158
- 1956 165
- 1958 171
- Closure 175
- 1959 176
- 1967 182
- 1967 184
- 1977 186
- 1982 189
- 1985 195
- 1992 198
- ACCusAtions 200
- 1993 200
- 1998 202
- 1998 206
- 2003 209
- These are the Maritimes 216
- A Winters Tale The Wreck of the Florizel 216
- Evening Telegram 216
- Shattered City The Halifax Explosion 216
- Redcoat Sailor The Story of Sir Howard Douglas 216
- A Night to Remember 216
- Amherst 216
- Evening Press 216
- Till We Meet Again The Sinking of the Empress of 216
- Ireland 216
