Editing Robert Borden (section)

====Halifax Explosion====
{{Main|Halifax Explosion}}

Eleven days before Canadians went to the polls in the 1917 election, Canada experienced the largest domestic disaster in its history: the [[Halifax Explosion]] that killed nearly 1,800 people. The tragedy occurring in his own hometown, Borden pledged that the government would be "co-operating in every way to reconstruct the Port of Halifax: this was of utmost importance to the Empire".<ref>{{cite book |last=Armstrong |first=John Griffith |date=2002 |title=The Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy |publisher=UBC Press |isbn=978-0-7748-0891-0 |page=99}}</ref> Borden helped set up the Halifax Relief Commission that spent $30 million on medical care, repairing infrastructure, and establishing pensions for injured survivors.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bundale |first1=Brett |title=The silence after the blast: How the Halifax Explosion was nearly forgotten |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/the-silence-after-the-blast-how-the-halifax-explosion-was-nearly-forgotten-1.3703045 |website=CTV News |access-date=18 February 2022 |date=1 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cahill |first1=Barry |title=The Halifax Relief Commission (1918-1976): Its History, Historiography, and Place in Halifax Disaster Scholarship |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/28834/1882521643 |journal=Acadiensis |date=September 2018 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=93–110 |doi=10.1353/aca.2018.0020 |s2cid=150251731 |access-date=18 February 2022}}</ref>
[[File:Canada's Prime Minister Robert Borden surveys the ruins of the Explosion (24793586598).jpg|150px|thumb|right|Borden surveying the ruins of the [[Halifax Explosion]]]]