Think Like a Historian: Introduction to the Halifax Explosion

“Huddled Groups – Survivors Take Comfort in Arms of Loved Ones”, sketch by Arthur Lismer in The Drama of a City: The Story of Stricken Halifax by Stanley K. Smith, 1918 (courtesy Baldwin Collection/Toronto Reference Library). Emergency relief hospital in the Y.M.C.A., Barrington Street, Halifax, W.G. MacLaughlan, photographer, 1917 or 1918 (courtesy Nova Scotia Archives, Lola Henry Collection/1979-237 no. 8.).