What was the population of Halifax at the time of the Halifax Explosion?
About 60,000. The 1911 census showed 46,619 people and the next census in 1921 showed 58,372 people. The addition of large number of troops and war workers would put the wartime population at about 60,000. This makes the casualties,almost 2000 dead and over 4000 injured, a very significant poportion of the city’s population.
