Halifax Riots at the end of the War
Heroes Remember
Well it was very frightening to start with because there had
been a big parade and we had all ended up downtown and my
friends and I had gone to, well I don't know, I think it was a Y
and had a cup of tea, and then when we come out to go back to
barracks, I mean, the whole city was insane. They were smashing
things, and people were sick all over the, it was terrible, it
was frightening. And of course the only way, we had to walk all
the way back to barracks and there were police cars going, you
know, yelling to get back and all that sort of thing. And then
of course when we got back, we were confined to barracks.
Well, the cause in Halifax was a lot of resentment toward
Halifax itself and the fact that after this parade, and
everybody is downtown, there was nowhere to go and nothing to
do. Everything was shut, shut up and so somebody started it by
breaking into a liquor store and it just escalated from that.
But I have to say that the looting was not done by service
people and it was proven that later. Trucks were coming to take
things away, I mean, and where was a sailor going to take a
chesterfield for heaven's sakes.
And so, it was not done by the service people.
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