DURING WORLD WAR I the town of Trenton, Ontario, became the site of the Largest explosives factory in Canada. Although the British Chemical Company plant was Located on the outskirts of town behind some small hills, residents nonetheless were apprehensive about the close proximity of millions of pounds of T.N.T., gunpowder, and toxic chemicals. Anxiety was heightened in 1917 when a French munitions ship, carrying T.N.T. manufactured at Trenton, exploded in Halifax Harbour, levelling a large section of the east coast city.

It was only a matter of time, many feared , before disaster visited Trenton too.  They were right.  Nobody in town would forget Thanksgiving weekend, 1918.

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