Disasters

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Chapter Two Responding to the risk From: On Borrowed Time View Goose Lane Editions	Details the evolution of seismographic and earthquake preparedness testing, as well as the work that has been done in various municipalities.	Gregor Craigie	16	2021	$1.60 Add
From Denouement (1972-1976) From: Rebuilding Halifax View Formac Publishing	Chapter 7 discusses how the Halifax Relief Commission finally and formally came to an end nearly 6 decades after the Halifax Explosion.	Barry Cahill	13	2020	$1.30 Add
From Epilogue Halifax Disaster Commemoration From: Rebuilding Halifax View Formac Publishing	The epilogue assess the legacy of the Halifax Relief Commission and the role it played in shaping the city throughout the 20th century.	Barry Cahill	6	2020	$0.60 Add
From Epilogue Living with the risk From: On Borrowed Time View Goose Lane Editions	The author discusses his personal journey of getting his family and their home prepared for the next massive earthquake.	Gregor Craigie	8	2021	$0.80 Add
From Epilogue From: Titanic Remembered View Formac Publishing	The impact of the Titanic Sinking is overviewed	Alan Ruffman	2	2013	$0.20 Add
From Eve of Destruction From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes how by 2012 the conditions were set for some kind of rail disaster: too litte regulation and few qualified inspectors. Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Railway was unprepared for …	Bruce Campbell	18	2018	$1.80 Add
From Halifax Relief From Citizen’s Committee to Government Commission (1917-1918) From: Rebuilding Halifax View Formac Publishing	Chapter 1 Discusses the immediate aftermath of the explosion of the Mont Blanc in Halifax harbour. The chapter describes how, within hours of the catastrophe, local government and business …	Barry Cahill	29	2020	$2.90 Add
From Harper and Harrison From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses the deregulating agenda of the Harper majority government. How Government abandoned the precautionary principle in favour of a business friendly approach to regulation. Discussses the …	Bruce Campbell	15	2018	$1.50 Add
From Introduction From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster View James Lorimer and Company	Overview of the town of Lac-Mégantic, its relation to railroads, and the rail disaster of 2013, placed within the context of government deregulation of key industries like transportation and …	Bruce Campbell	6	2018	$0.60 Add
From Introduction From: Rebuilding Halifax View Formac Publishing	The introduction provides a brief overview of the history of the Halifax Relief Commission and it’s activities over the course of its six-decade existence.	Barry Cahill	12	2020	$1.20 Add
From Introduction Christchurch and what it means for North America From: On Borrowed Time View Goose Lane Editions	An examination of the destruction and tragedy of the Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake, as well as its implications for metropolitan cities in North America.	Gregor Craigie	14	2021	$1.40 Add
Lost Feast Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food ECW Press	When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. …	Lenore Newman	308	2019	View
On Borrowed Time North America's Next Big Quake	Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a …		248		View
From Passengers From: Titanic Remembered View Formac Publishing	Looks at identifying the Passengers who were on board and specific passengers are more thoroughly looked at like George Wright, Molly Brown, and many others	Alan Ruffman	10	2013	$1.00 Add
From Pipeline on Wheels From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster View James Lorimer and Company	Identifies how big corporations moved to get fracked North Dakota Bakken oil and bitumen to refineries, regularly ignoring basic safety practices.	Bruce Campbell	9	2018	$0.90 Add
From Plus ça Change From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes the Trudeau government’s record on rail safety and concludes it has not changed the fundamental deregulation approach of the Harper government. Concludes that questions about what …	Bruce Campbell	14	2018	$1.40 Add