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Originally Posted by someone123
The city was also under blackouts in WWII, with people wondering if and when bombings would start.
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It wasn't just Halifax under blackouts during the war. My parents lived in Borden PEI during WW2, and they told me stories about nightly blackouts during the war. Borden was at risk because it was a ferry terminal. The PEI ferries were all painted camouflage grey during the war. One of the ferries was sunk by a U-boat, but it was returning from drydock in Halifax at the time, so no passengers were on board. There was a lot of shipping sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence by U-boat attack, including, ironically the corvette HMCS Charlottetown.
The war was a lot closer to home than a lot of Canadians realize.