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Curse of the narrows : [the Halifax explosion, 1917] / Laura Mac Donald.

Title: Curse of the narrows : [the Halifax explosion, 1917] / Laura Mac Donald.
Author: MacDonald, Laura, 1963-
Publication: Toronto : HarperCollins, c2005.

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Description

355 p., [2] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-345) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. Wednesday -- 2. December 6, 1917: winter morning -- 3. Black smoke, white smoke -- 4. A word on explosions -- 5. Minutes later -- 6. Far from the harbour -- 7. Scramble at city hall -- 8. The first responders -- 9. Duggan walks home -- 10. Nightfall -- 11. Friday night and folly mountain -- 12. Saturday: reorganizing the relief -- 13. Duggans reunited, if briefly -- 14. The end of emergency relief -- 15. Cap Ratshesky says good-bye -- 16. Playing Solomon -- 17. Proper burials, private services -- 18. Monday, December 17, 1917 -- 19. Rules of the road versus the law of the land -- 20. The tree at Boston common.

ISBN

0002007878 (bound) :
9780002007870 (bound)

OCLC

59136419

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library