Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms
A fascinating exploration of the most dramatic storms along Canada’s Atlantic coast, from 1745’s Grand Armada Tragedy to the 2017 Ice Storm.
 
Over the centuries, Canada’s Atlantic coast has been battered by hurricanes and winter blizzards, struck by tornadoes, devastated by floods, and even hit by terrifying tsunamis. Now Dan Soucoup, a historian of Canada’s Maritime Provinces, explores the region’s most dramatic storms from the 18th century into the 21st in Atlantic Canada’s Greatest Storms.
 
Soucoup chronicles the North Atlantic’s greatest hurricanes, including the 1775 Independence Hurricane, the Saxby Gale in 1869, and Hurricane Igor in 2010. He also recounts a terrifying series of blizzards in 1905, The Year of the Deep Snow, which left passenger trains stranded for days in the Annapolis Valley; as well as Newfoundland’s 1929 tsunami, which devastated the Burin Peninsula, striking dozens of coastal communities and carrying people and homes out to sea.
 
Features 25 black and white images.
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Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms
A fascinating exploration of the most dramatic storms along Canada’s Atlantic coast, from 1745’s Grand Armada Tragedy to the 2017 Ice Storm.
 
Over the centuries, Canada’s Atlantic coast has been battered by hurricanes and winter blizzards, struck by tornadoes, devastated by floods, and even hit by terrifying tsunamis. Now Dan Soucoup, a historian of Canada’s Maritime Provinces, explores the region’s most dramatic storms from the 18th century into the 21st in Atlantic Canada’s Greatest Storms.
 
Soucoup chronicles the North Atlantic’s greatest hurricanes, including the 1775 Independence Hurricane, the Saxby Gale in 1869, and Hurricane Igor in 2010. He also recounts a terrifying series of blizzards in 1905, The Year of the Deep Snow, which left passenger trains stranded for days in the Annapolis Valley; as well as Newfoundland’s 1929 tsunami, which devastated the Burin Peninsula, striking dozens of coastal communities and carrying people and homes out to sea.
 
Features 25 black and white images.
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Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms

Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms

by Dan Soucoup
Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms

Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms

by Dan Soucoup

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A fascinating exploration of the most dramatic storms along Canada’s Atlantic coast, from 1745’s Grand Armada Tragedy to the 2017 Ice Storm.
 
Over the centuries, Canada’s Atlantic coast has been battered by hurricanes and winter blizzards, struck by tornadoes, devastated by floods, and even hit by terrifying tsunamis. Now Dan Soucoup, a historian of Canada’s Maritime Provinces, explores the region’s most dramatic storms from the 18th century into the 21st in Atlantic Canada’s Greatest Storms.
 
Soucoup chronicles the North Atlantic’s greatest hurricanes, including the 1775 Independence Hurricane, the Saxby Gale in 1869, and Hurricane Igor in 2010. He also recounts a terrifying series of blizzards in 1905, The Year of the Deep Snow, which left passenger trains stranded for days in the Annapolis Valley; as well as Newfoundland’s 1929 tsunami, which devastated the Burin Peninsula, striking dozens of coastal communities and carrying people and homes out to sea.
 
Features 25 black and white images.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771087735
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Publication date: 04/06/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 294
Sales rank: 608,362
File size: 19 MB
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About the Author

Dan Soucoup has worked as a bookseller and publisher for many years. He is the author of numerous historical books about the Maritimes, including Failures and Fiascos, A Short History of Halifax, Railways of New Brunswick, and Know New Brunswick. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter One: 1745 Grand Armada Tragedy
Chapter Two: 1775 Independence Hurricane
Chapter Three: 1851 Yankee Storm
Chapter Four: 1869 Saxby Gale
Chapter Five: 1873 Great August Gale
Chapter Six: 1885 The Tragic Labrador Disaster
Chapter Seven: 1900 Galveston Hurricane Comes to Canada
Chapter Eight: 1905 Year of the Deep Snow
Chapter Nine: 1907–1933 Blizzards & Railway Collisions
Chapter Ten: 1921 & 1959 Avalanche at The Battery
Chapter Eleven: 1924 The Summer Calamity of '24
Chapter Twelve: 1926­–1927 Bluenose Survives the Sable Island Gales
Chapter Thirteen: 1927 Newfoundland's August Nightmare
Chapter Fourteen: 1929 Newfoundland Tsunami
Chapter Fifteen: 1932–1938 Storms and Disasters of the Thirties
Chapter Sixteen: 1959 Escuminac Disaster
Chapter Seventeen: 1973 Harbour Breton Landslide
Chapter Eighteen: 1982 Sinking of the Ocean Ranger
Chapter Nineteen: 1991 The Perfect Storm
Chapter Twenty: 1993 A Gypsum Boat and a Superstorm
Chapter Twenty-one: 2003 Hurricane Juan
Chapter Twenty-two: 2010 Hurricane Igor
Chapter Twenty-three: 2013 The Miss Ally Hits a Nor'easter
Chapter Twenty-four: 2015 Deep Freeze
Chapter Twenty-five: 2016 Cape Breton's Thanksgiving Day Flood
Chapter Twenty-six: 2017 Ice Storm
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