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Halifax Explosion
In 1917, the waterfront areas of the City of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada and its neighbouring community of Richmond, along with the waterfront area of the cross-harbour town of Dartmouth were devastated when the French Merchant ship Mont-Blanc, chartered by the French government to carry munitions, collided in a narrow section of the harbour with the Norwegian ship Imo, chartered by the Commission for Relief in Belgium to carry relief supplies.
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