British Columbia Had Its Own 'Halifax Harbour Explosion'

An online reminder that Dec. 6, 1917 marked the 103rd anniversary of the infamous Halifax Harbour explosion reminded me of British Columbia’s own maritime blast of historic proportions.

That was the blowing up of the freighter S.S. Greenhill Park in Vancouver Harbour, on Mar. 6, 1945.

Meaning that 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of this marine tragedy that rocked the Vancouver waterfront and claimed the lives of six longshoremen and two seamen. Until the collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge, June 17, 1958, it was Vancouver’s worst disaster.

You can read all about it in next week’s Cowichan Chronicles.

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