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Halifax Explosion

General

• CBC Interactive site
• Maritime Museum page
• Historica minute
• Collections Canada
• Halifax Public Library bibliography

• 1917-12-06 Explosion at Halifax kills 400 - Warsaw Daily Times
• 1917-12-07 Halifax Devastated; Over 2000 killed - Ottawa Citizen
• 1917-12-07 Ruins cover dead of Halifax blowup - Spokane Daily Chronicle
• 1917-12-08 WAR MADE HALIFAX BUSY PORT OF CALL; View of Halifax Harbor, Where Explosion Occurred - New York Times
• 1917-12-08 Injured dying in snowbound relief trains - Calgary Daily Herald
• 1917-12-10 PREVENTED SECOND HALIFAX EXPLOSION - New York Times
• 1917-12-10 Courageous men prevent new tragedy - Calgary Daily Herald
• 1917-12-15 Appalling state of affairs there - Calgary Daily Herald (notes injuries, relief fund)
• 1919-05-23 Blame divided between ships for explosion - Deseret News (stub article)
• 1977-12-07 They will never forget, Ottawa Citizen
• 2007-12-06 Halifax Explosion survivors fade into history - Hamilton Spectator
• 2011-11-18 Beginning to look a lot like the holidays -- Christmas tree arrives at Boston Common - Boston Globe (Xmas tree donation)

Existing article

• Halifax in wartime - Keep and expand
• Collision and fire - keep and merge with explosion
• Explosion and aftermath - split; Explosion above, aftermath/rescue efforts below
  • Comparitave power of explosion - remove, adds nothing (perhaps keep table as sidebar)
  • Rumoured second explosion - merge with explosion
  • Blizzard - merge into aftermath
• Fixing Blame - rename into "inquiry" or some such and expand
• Human loss and destruction - move above blame, possibly merge with aftermath
• Communities affected - merge into above
• Heroism and rescue efforts - merge into above (prune the hell out of the firemen subsection)
• Survival stories - Basis for Legacy section
• Medical relief - merge into aftermath/rescue efforts
• Reconstruction - keep and expand
• Commemoration - Merge into new Legacy section
• Popular culture - delete section, merge anything useful into Legacy
• Christmas - Legacy

Future layout

• Wartime Halifax
• Disaster (find better title)
  • Collision and fire
  • Explosion
  • Rescue efforts
• Loss and destruction
• Inquiry (and blame)
• Reconstruction
• Legacy
  • Christmas tree

For re-introduction

The lack of coordinated pediatric care in such a disaster was noted by a surgeon from Boston named William Ladd who had arrived to help. His insights from the explosion are generally credited with inspiring him to pioneer the specialty of pediatric surgery in North America.

The Hockey Sweater

• 1981 on the animated short
• 2011 TSO performance (notes allegory)
• Multitude of info
• CBC Digital Archives
• Another CBC story
• Canadian Encyclopedia

• Carrier's 1991 Order of Canada likely related

The passion Carrier and his frends had for the game of hockey, particularly for the Montreal Canadiens, is the dominant theme of the story. In introducing the film for his video anthology Leonard Maltin's Animation Favorites from the National Film Board of Canada, American critic Leonard Maltin noted that hockey is "an obsession, a country-wide preoccupation that dominates many lives", particularly those of children. He argued that The Sweater is one of the National Film Board's best animated works that combined humour with cultural significance.

Lionel Conacher

• 1925-09-17: Conacher out with Argonauts
• 1928-09-08: Dywer regains control (named captain of Amerks)
• 1929-04-30: "Conny" to tackle pro. boxing game
• 1936-01-31: Says boxing is toughest (KOed by Jack Dempsey)
• 1937-10-29: Morenz benefit Tuesday
• 1940-01-03: Lionel Conacher improves Ontario boxing conditions
• 1942-07-11: Lionel Conacher named Air Force Sports Head (Chair of OAC, chair of RCAF sports)
• 1942-09-14: Lionel Conacher visits Calgary (RCAF hockey fact finding)
• 1943-05-20: Lionel Conacher quits Air Force
• 1950-12-30: Lionel Conacher easily wins half century athlete award
• 1954-05-27: Lionel Conacher passes
• 1954-05-27: Conacher's death shocks Canadians (notes 1927 vote as top football player in history)

• 1955-04-02: Athletic Hall of Fame slated for Toronto
• 1955-05-03: Will honor memory of Big Train (Lacrosse trophy)
• 1960-04-05: Als sign top prospect in Lionel Conacher Jr.
• 1961-12-28: Conacher yarns recalled by Ranger meet in tavern
• 1962-10-24: Brian Conacher football star
• 1965-10-07: Conacher pays heed to uncle's advice (Son Brian signs NHL contract)

Timeline

• 1900: Born in Toronto
• 1916?: Ontario wrestling champion
• 1920: Won Memorial Cup with Toronto Canoe Club
• 1921: Won Grey Cup with Toronto Argonauts
• 1921: Won Canadian light-heavyweight boxing championship
• 1922: Won Ontario amateur lacrosse championship
• 1922: Point shaving scandal with Aura Lee? -verify-
• 1924: USAHA Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets champion
• 1925: USAHA Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets champion
• 1926: Won IL championship with Toronto Maple Leafs
• 1927: Voted greatest football player in Canada's history
• 1928: Named captain of NY Americans
• 1929: Named manager of NY Americans
• 1931: Played baseball with Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League?
• 1931: Played lacrosse with the Montreal Maroons of the Intl Indoor Pro Lacrosse League
• 1933: Played professional football with Blackwell Chefs
• 1934: Played professional football with Wrigley Aromints
• 1934: Won Stanley Cup with Chicago Black Hawks
• 1935: Won Stanley Cup with Montreal Maroons
• 1937: Retired as a hockey player
• 1937: Played in Howie Morenz Memorial Game
• 1937: Won seat in Ontario provincial election
• 1949: Won seat in Canadian federal election
• 1954: Died suddenly after softball game

Accolades

• 1950: Canada's athlete of the half century
• 1950: Canadian football player of the half century
• 1955: Inducted into Canadian Sports Hall of Fame (inaugural?)
• 1964: Inducted into Canadian Football Hall of Fame
• 1965: Inducted into Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame
• 1994: Inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame
• ----: Lionel Conacher Award given by CP to athlete of the year

People

• Children: Constance, Diane, Lionel Jr., David, Brian. (Brignall, 139)

Links

• HHOF bio
• CSHOF bio
• CFHOF bio
• Histori.ca bio

Misc articles

• Calgary contemplates joining PCHL, Montreal Gazette, 1931
• Formation of the CHL, Calgary Herald, 1973
• Calgary Cowboys 1976-77, Calgary Herald, 1976. (They never played)
• Regina Pats drop out of WCJHL, Calgary Herald, 1968

Leduc No. 1

• 1947, November 29 - discovery (Financial Post)
• 1952, June 17 - Oil passes farming as biggest industry (Ottawa Citizen)
• 1957, February 16 - 10 year anniversary (Calgary Herald)
• 1957, February 16 - Pre-Leduc estimates of 72 million barrels upped to 3 billion barrels within 10 years (Calgary Herald)
• 1967, April 27 - Boom brought Americans in; Calgary had highest ratio of millionaires in Canada, and more cars per capita than any city in the world; riggers in Edmonton, money in Calgary (Sarasota Journal)
• 1987, February 7 - 40 year anniversary (Ottawa Citizen)

Misc

• Leduc was a farming village of 890 at time of discovery [1]
• Leduc No. 1 produced until 1974. 317,000 barrels of oil, 323 million cubic feet of natural gas total. Leduc up to 12,000 residents by 1982. Farmers weren't thrilled with oil men [2]
• Imperial Oil had spent 30 years and $23 million trying to find oil in Alberta, drilling 133 dry holes. In 1946, the Turner Valley field produced nearly all of Canada's oil, but less than enough for Alberta's needs alone. By 1954, Alberta produced 77 million of Canada's total of 81 million. Canada produced 44% of its oil needs internally in 1954, compared to 10% in 1946. Alberta government earned less than $1 million a year in oil royalties in 1946, but earned $318 million total between 1947 and 1954. Exploration and production in Saskatchewan soared. Alberta's debt slashed significantly. Greater Edmonton's population nearly doubled between 1946 and 1954. [3]
• Calgary became financial centre of the boom; discovery shifted the foundation of Canada's economy. $1.2 billion in investments by 1952, half American. Estimates of as much as 50 billion barrels of oil, including Tar Sands, estimates to have as much known oil as the rest of the world combined (1952). Pipelines under construction. [4]