商品簡介
Captain Francis Mackey was found guilty of manslaughter after the ship he was piloting, the explosives-ladenMont Blanc, collided with Belgian Relief shipImo, resulting in the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Exonerated four years later, Mackey still bears the brunt of the blame. Janet Maybee reexamines events leading up to the explosion and their effect on the life of an innocent man.
作者簡介
Janet Maybee holds English degrees from UNB and Dalhousie. As research associate at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, her archival studies in Halifax and Ottawa focused on the 1917 Halifax Explosion, particularly the fate of harbor pilot Francis Mackey and his family. Janet lives in that part of Halifax called Richmond before the tragic blast.
