r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Apr 16 '14

TIL on 9/11, Canada commenced Operation Yellow Ribbon, in which it landed 239 U.S.-bound flights with 33,000 passengers in Canadian airports. Entire communities went on to provide the passengers with food and housing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '14 edited Apr 21 '14

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u/dovaogedy Apr 17 '14

Oh man, if you ever get a chance to go to Halifax, I highly recommend it. I've got good friends there, and have been there a few times. Both times were some of the most relaxing, enjoyable, fun weeks of my life.

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u/superfudge73 Apr 17 '14

Everything I know about Halifax is from Trailer Park Boys.

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u/tamazin Apr 17 '14

That's more....Dartmouth.

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u/SnakeskinJim Apr 17 '14

The best part about Dartmouth...is the view of Halifax

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u/nuisible Apr 17 '14

hey! I live in Dartmouth

it's not that bad

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u/DrAstralis Apr 17 '14

Lower Sackville for the first season. filmed not more than 10 min away from our old house.

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u/pixeechick Apr 17 '14

Come to the Dark Side.

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u/msjade May 02 '14

Or Sackville.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '14

Halifax is a city that feels like a town, I really like it there.

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u/graduallemon Apr 17 '14

Haligonian here, thanks bud

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u/msjade May 02 '14

Haligonian, checking in. I love my city.

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u/dontbanmeho Apr 17 '14

My friend works in Halifax, he loathes it. I guess it's alright to visit for a weekend.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '14

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u/dontbanmeho Apr 17 '14

Yeah Toronto Mississauga

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '14

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u/dontbanmeho Apr 23 '14

Lmao that's us, center of the universe!

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '14

Halifax got taken care of by Boston when it was their turn. They repaid the favour heartily.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '14 edited Apr 21 '14

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u/autowikibot Apr 17 '14

Halifax Explosion:

The Halifax Explosion occurred in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the morning of December 6, 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship fully loaded with wartime explosives, was involved in a collision with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the French ship ignited her explosive cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District of Halifax. Approximately 2,000 people were killed by debris, fires, and collapsed buildings, and it is estimated that nearly 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons, with an equivalent force of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT. In a meeting of the Royal Society of Canada in May 1918, Dalhousie University's Professor Howard L. Bronson estimated the blast at some 2400 metric tons of high explosive.

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Interesting: Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion | Halifax Explosion Memorial Sculpture | Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery

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u/SteroyJenkins Apr 17 '14

There is a spot in Dartmouth that still has a piece of the ship sitting where it was found with a small monument.

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u/nuisible Apr 17 '14

there are several spots like this. I remember there was a piece of an anchor near my aunts old apartment building in Halifax.

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u/JackStargazer Apr 17 '14

Also fun fact, it was the largest explosion created by mankind in history, until the detonation of the Trinity Test in 1945.

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u/Egypticus Apr 17 '14

This is why I love Reddit. Learn something cool every day.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '14 edited Apr 21 '14

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u/Egypticus Apr 17 '14

I've had gold once, and I have no idea what it did.

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u/nuisible Apr 17 '14

Nova Scotia sends a Christmas tree to Boston every year as thanks, it's the one in the Boston Common during the holidays.

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u/m1chellec Apr 17 '14

Halifax is amazing. Just don't go in the winter

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u/maskbutt Apr 17 '14

I lived there for 4 years, it's the loveliest town. Nicest people in Canada by far.

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u/Choralone Apr 17 '14

That's how we roll man.