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8 WEEKS ON THE CANADIAN BESTSELLERS LIST
CANADIAN DISASTERS FROM THE 1700s To Today How harsh are the consequences of our human failings, our fatal needs to economize, our inability to recognize the inevitable? A mild miscalculation in the strength of steel and suddenly 86 men are crushed beneath the twisted remains of the Quebec bridge; a comical miscommunication between two vessels in Halifax Harbour and 2,000 die, 9,000 are maimed and 25,000 are left homeless within minutes; a handful of erroneous assumptions and 77 hungry Newfoundland sealers freeze to death on an ice floe within walking distance of their ship. The elements continue to conspire as around us swirls the turbulence of unimaginable fate: in the Alberta Rockies in 1903 half a mountainside descended on the community of Frank; in 1912 it took a cyclone only six minutes to rip out the centre of Regina; and in 1971 in St. Jean de Vianney, Quebec, a crater appeared in the rain-soaked earth swallowing 40 houses in the mud. Disaster Canada travels across the country from our rough beginnings to the present exploring the history of our most fascinating and devastating catastrophes. Stories and photographs expose the core of the human animal--our will to survive, our heroism, selflessness and extraordinary capacity to face the worst. Beneath the shocking headlines emerges the richer story of Canada's sometimes painful growth, and the subtler and long-lasting effects of tragedy that continue to enlighten and imbue us with hope. 9"x8" 288 pages ISBN 1894073-13-4 $24.95
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Halifax before the explosion -National Archives of Canada
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When two ships collided in Halifax Harbour Dec. 1917 the explosives on board created an explosion so intense a great portion of the city was leveled -National Archives of Canada
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The passenger ship, Atlantic, struck Meagher's Rock near Prospect, N.S. in March, 1873. Of the 960 on board, 560 died. Men were witnessed abandoning their families. Not one woman, and only one child survived.
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A severe drought coincided with the economic Depression of the thirties. Seven years without rainfall had caused much of the rich topsoil to been blown across the Prairies.-National Archives of Canada
St. John, New Brunswick in flames, 1877 -Metro Toronto Reference Library