In 1917 Canada, there is a incident happened

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]This is a 1917 Canadian [music] 50 cents coin.

[00:00:04]In that same year, Canada experienced one of the worst human-made [music] disasters in its history, the Halifax Explosion.

[00:00:12]>> [music] >> On December 6th, 1917, the SS Imo collided with the SS Mont-Blanc >> [music] >> in Halifax Harbor.

[00:00:22]The Mont-Blanc was carrying wartime explosives, [music] and after the collision, the ship caught fire.

[00:00:28]>> [music] >> A short time later, it exploded with a force estimated at about 2.9 [music] kilotons of TNT.

[00:00:37]Around 2,000 people were killed, about 9,000 were injured, and much [music] of Halifax was devastated.

[00:00:45]The city was paralyzed by the damage, and winter [music] made the disaster even harder to endure.

[00:00:52]This coin was issued in the same year as that tragedy. [music] Sometimes a coin does not just represent silver or a date.

[00:01:00]It quietly carries the memory [music] of the world around it.