[NEWS] Five links on the Halifax Explosion and its aftermath (#hfex1917)

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• CBC shares colourized photographs of the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion.


• Meagan Campbell writes about how traces of the Halifax Explosion can be found in the very trees of that city, over at MacLean's.


• Patrick Cain maps out the homes of as many of the dead of the Halifax Explosion in Halifax as he can. (Some streets, even neighbourhoods, were completely erased.) His interactive map is over at Global News.


• At CBC, Sherri Borden Colley reports on the neglect and discrimination suffered by many African-Canadian victims of the Halifax Explosion.


• Lindsay Jones reports about the Mi'kmaq community of Tufts Cove, it and its inhabitants almost completely overlooked after the explosion, over at The Globe and Mail.