Before sunrise on a cold December morning, Halifax hummed with the hidden tension of a city at war. Ships moved through narrow waters, families walked icy streets, and danger drifted just beneath the surface—a danger so vast, it was invisible. Halifax in nineteen seventeen was not just a city by the sea; it was a city built for the sea, and it owed its life to the harbor. But that same harbor, crowded with coal, freight, and soldiers, held risks that no one fully owned.
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