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MacCallum Grant
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MacCallum Grant was a Canadian businessman and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
Mac Callum Grant
Mac Callum Grant
Halifax Explosion
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On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc and the Norwegian vessel SS Imo collided in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Laden with high explosives, Mont-Blanc c
MacCallum Grant
…Consul of Germany in Halifax. From 1916 to 1925, he served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. He was Lieutenant Governor (Canada) at the time of the Halifax Explosion. During the 1919 visit to Nova Scotia by Edward VIII as Prince of Wales, Grant hosted the royal party at Government House (Nova Scotia). He married…
The pyrocumulus cloud produced by the explosion
The pyrocumulus cloud produced by the explosion
Looking north from a grain elevator towards Acadia Sugar Refinery, c. 1900, showing the area later devastated by the 1917 explosion
Looking north from a grain elevator towards Acadia Sugar Refinery, c. 1900, showing the area later devastated by the 1917 explosion
Blast cloud of the explosion
Blast cloud of the explosion
A view across the devastation of Halifax two days after the explosion, looking toward the Dartmouth side of the harbour: Imo is visible aground on the
A view across the devastation of Halifax two days after the explosion, looking toward the Dartmouth side of the harbour: Imo is visible aground on the far side of the harbour.