Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Sixty Symbols regular Dr Meghan Gray on an infamous event that occurred in her home town - the Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917.
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Maritime Museum of the Atlantic: maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/what-see-do/halifax-explosion/explosion-faq
Nova Scotia archives stuff: novascotia.ca/news/smr/2009-12-04-archives.asp
CBC: newsinteractives.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion

While not a typical video for us, Dr Gray is a Sixty Symbols stalwart and really wanted to share the story of this explosion which is an event of great interest to her home town of Halifax --- and an event with a pretty significant science component.

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