Season: 3 Episode: 45

Every year, Nova Scotia sends the City of Boston a Christmas tree to thank them for the help they provided after the Halifax Explosion.

In 1917, Halifax suffered a catastrophic event that nearly destroyed it when two ships collided in the harbour starting off a chain of events that would created the largest explosion before the atomic bomb.

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SOURCES

The Winnipeg Tribune, 10 Dec 1917

Vernon News, 03 Jan 1918

The Ottawa Citizen 06 Dec 2017

The Survivors: The Children of the Halifax Explosion, Janet Kitz, Nimbus Publishing, 1992.

CBS News

CNIB

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