Tufts Cove, Nova Scotia
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Tufts Cove is an urban neighbourhood in the community of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour in the North End of Dartmouth. The neighbourhood boundar
Tufts Cove Generating Station
Mi'kmaq people at Turtle Grove, ca. 1871
Tufts Cove School after Halifax Explosion
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
Tufts Cove, Nova Scotia
…industry put pressure on the Turtle Grove Mi'kmaw community as settlers sought to remove them from the cove. The village was close to ground zero of the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917, and was severely impacted by the blast and tsunami. The Halifax Remembrance Book lists 16 members of the Tufts Cove Community as…
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
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 far side of the harbour.