Laurie Swim's Halifax Explosion Memorial Quilt: What’s My View?

Tuesday 20 January 2015

What’s My View? - Laurie Swim

Laurie was featured on the SAQA Blog, talking about the Halifax Explosion project. Check the link out and follow it to a short video on Laurie's project.

SAQA - Atlantic Canada: What’s My View? - Laurie Swim, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

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About the Halifax Explosion

The Halifax Explosion of 1917 was a significant, and tragic, moment in Canadian History.

A catastrophic event, resulting from the collision of a French munitions ship and a Belgian Relief vessel, the blast brought the nearby ships and the neighborhoods in the immediate vicinity of the Halifax harbour to rubble, took the lives of more than 1900 people, and left some 600 people blind or suffering serious eye injuries from air born and shattered glass. Families were torn apart, many children were left orphaned, and Halifax as a port and city was dramatically altered.

Laurie Swim’s Halifax Explosion Commemorative Project will be an honoring of the lives lost, the lives instantly and dramatically changed, and the heroic efforts made to assist, to restore hope, and to acknowledge a legacy of survival that continues to this day. It will also be an acknowledgement of the great role played by CNIB, established in 1918, in large part to assist victims of the blast.

Laurie Swim’s Commemorative Project will bring the experience of the Halifax Explosion to a new generation of Canadians. Stories continue to exist, passed down the generations, of lives touched by the explosion, of survival, of kindnesses, and ultimately, of hope.

Laurie Swim's Halifax Explosion Memorial Quilt

Tuesday 20 January 2015

What’s My View? - Laurie Swim

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