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 Halifax Explosion killed 1,963 people and highlighted the dangers of large ships in narrow waterways. Like many shipwrecks and crashes, the ...

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 ...

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 ...