My main professions are musician, filmmaker and occasional writer. Over the years, I have taken on projects simply because questions or mysteries present themselves and beg to be solved. Initially, I embarked on this project to keep my mind occupied while looking for work. However, for a short while between January and April of 2009, the research for the presentation of this article became my work as well as a great source of enjoyment.
The study of the Halifax Explosion and its ramifications would take a lifetime. As far as some dedicated historians and researchers are concerned, it already has. The parameters and goals of this particular project are considerably smaller with our research being limited to the analysis of just two photos. Even so, there was a fair amount of research involved.
The whole scenario started because of a photograph of the blast cloud from the Halifax Explosion that I happened to come across on a Wikipedia web page. I thought about the lack of provenance and the misinformation that surrounded this image. Although some well-intentioned people post information on Wikipedia, this website is unreliable for the most part. At the very least, information taken from it must be cross-referenced with a viable resource.
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