Question Non-Canadian Crappers (halifax explosion)

[Dangery Scubba]

I remember reading about it a couple years ago. Forgot most of the specifics, though.

[W?Y]

I feel kind of bad that I'm the Crapper who lives in Halifax, and my other fellow Canadians know more about the explosion than me.

[erisi236]

I know about it mostly because I lived in Boston for a long time and I heard about it every X-Mas season due to the tree and all.

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Jan 10, 2010 0:35:15 GMT -5 Throwback said:

Jan 10, 2010 0:30:53 GMT -5 @supersweetbotch said:

I'm Canadian and I forgot it existed until I clicked on this thread. Ok I didn't know it was that bad because I remember being taught about it when I was seven years old and once more when I saw a TV commercial about it when I was 8.

was it this commercial?

Might be but doubt it. It does look familiar but I just remembered bunch of old stock footage, interviews, and a narrator with dramatic music describing what happened. But I do remember seeing a reenactment commercial before. It might been extended one?

[Grendel]

Jan 10, 2010 0:16:03 GMT -5 Throwback said:

Jan 10, 2010 0:05:24 GMT -5 Apricots And A Pear Tree said:

Nope,never heard of it.

You should look it up. Very interesting story. It even has a really good movie made about it.

All my family that were in the explosion luckily lived. My great grandmother was hit in the head by a glass door and knocked into a coma for 60 days. While she was in the coma she gave birth and even nursed the baby. That baby is still alive today. My great aunt just turned 92 a few days ago.

there's a picture of my great grandmother that now hangs at the Atlantic museum in a section they have for the explosion.

Jan 10, 2010 0:15:13 GMT -5 i.Sarita.com said:

Sorry pal...buy hey, I LOVED Due South!

funny. us Canadians hated it. ;D

Sorry to hear that, as I too liked Due South.

But yeah, I heard of the explosion.

[Throwback]

Jan 10, 2010 12:46:26 GMT -5 W?Y said:

I feel kind of bad that I'm the Crapper who lives in Halifax, and my other fellow Canadians know more about the explosion than me.

WHAT? I'm in Halifax too. Just looking at the Town clock reminds me of the explosion.

I advise you to go to the spring garden library and check out the movie "shattered City: The Halifax Explosion" It's a very good movie that centers around one specific family. It's not a documentary.

here's the scene of the explosion


Here's a short trailer

[SAJ Forth]

My memory ius kind of hazy, but I have heard of this event.

Now where in Canada is the town of Winnepegyouidiot