A Day of Halifax Horror.

The article reports on a television miniseries in Canada. So cataclysmic was the Halifax Explosion, the collision of two ships in Halifax harbour that triggered the biggest man-made blast before the atomic bomb, that many people have a story. Those stories were still vivid when screenwriter Keith Ross Leckie pounded out the script for Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion, a four-hour miniseries produced by Salter Street Films and Tapestry Pictures (CBC TV, Oct. 26 and 27). The facts are so compelling: on Dec. 6, 1917, the Mont Blanc, a French-owned freighter loaded to the gunnels with thousands of tons of TNT and benzol, collided in Halifax harbour with the Imo, a Belgian relief ship.