Halifax Explosion
General
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
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.[1]
The Hockey Sweater
- 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.[2]