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Question: How long did it take for halifax to recover from the halifax explosion in 1917!?
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Halifax was a city of 50 000, Dartmouth a town of 6 000 inhabitants when the explosion occurred, killing at least 1 950 (many would freeze to death in the severe blizzard that came the next day) and severely injuring more than 9 000 more, destroying a large part of Halifax and portions of Dartmouth in seconds, leaving 6 000 homeless and destroying more than 1 600 buildings and damaging nearly 12 000 more!. Indeed it is possible more died and we've no record of them - entire families flocked to the riverfront to watch the event and would have been incinerated or swept to sea by the tidal wave that followed!. Transient workers flocked to the city for work during war time, and many would have no one to claim they were missing!. 1 950 is only those confirmed dead, the actual number is likely well over 2 000!.

The Halifax Relief Committee was formed the day of the disaster to collect bodies, treat survivors, shelter the homeless and erect temporary housing, repair what homes could be repaired!.

A little more than a month later the Halifax Relief Commission was formed in January 1918, tasked to rebuild the two cities (this Commission was officially dissolved in 1976)!. More than 800 new flats were constructed by March of 1918, when the government of Nova Scotia brought in famed town planner Thomas Adams and Montreal architects George Ross and MacDonald!. They created a new master plan for the Richmond district in the North End of Halifax, nearest the blast where buildings were leveled!.

By August of 1918 Ross and Adams' firm were building more than 1 000 new homes in the North End!. Local architects helped to create a modern city in devestated neighborhoods as well!.

Posters in 1919 showcased the new, modern city being built in the North End, while newspapers pointed out that developers were careful to plan for permanent homes and quickly rebuild, in contrast to the post-hurricane reconstruction of Galveston Texas with its lack of planning and temporary shelters which many likened the destruction to!.

Much of the immediate clean-up was finished by 1918, as the war in Europe ended and Canada slipped into recession, Halifax was in the middle of a construction boom!. Certain individual projects, such as rebuilt churches and warehouses, continued throughout the early 1920s!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Over 16 Months
In 1917 they couldnt get to the aircraft without offical army aircraft!.
69 Reports of U!.F!.O's where made in that time!. They where trying to cover up!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

10 days :)

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There almost done!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

a fews years im guessing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com