The Halifax Explosion
100 years agone tomorrow, on the morn of half dozen Dec 1917, a French cargo send carrying high explosives crashed into a Norwegian send inward Halifax Harbour inward Canada. The resulting massive explosion killed 2,000 people inward Halifax, injured at to the lowest degree 9000 to a greater extent than as well as destroyed every edifice inside a 1.6 mile radius (over 12,000 inward total).
CBC Canada has created an incredible 360 grade video which recreates the collision of the ii ships as well as the explosion which led to the loss of thousands of Canadian lives. The video shows an animated 3d model of Halifax Harbour, the town on the shore as well as the SS Mont-Blanc as well as SS Imo. As the video replays the collision y'all tin pan the photographic television set camera closed to as well as explore the consummate scene inward 360 degrees.
As good equally this 360 grade recreation of the explosion CBC Canada has mapped the harm the explosion caused to the town of Halifax. A City Destroyed: 100 Years After the Halifax Explosion includes a map showing the buildings burned, collapsed as well as wrecked. In Part Two of this spider web documentary y'all tin likewise explore an interactive 3d model of Halifax. This model includes the damaged as well as destroyed buildings. It likewise includes a let on of map markers which y'all tin choose to read nearly some of the victims as well as survivors of the Halifax explosion.
You tin larn to a greater extent than nearly the individuals killed inward the Halifax Explosion inward Global News' interactive map of Halifax. The interactive map inward The Halifax Explosion killed nearly 2,000 people. Here is where most of them lived shows many of the houses inward Halifax where people lost their lives.
The numbered markers demonstrate the let on of victims inward each house. If y'all choose a marking on the map y'all tin stance the names of the people who died inward that home. You tin fifty-fifty click those names to read the details nearly the private which were entered inward the Halifax Explosion Death Registration Book.
Global News has likewise created a Children's Map, which maps the homes where 437 victims who were 12 or nether died. Again y'all tin click on the names of the victims to read the details entered into the Death Registration Book.
