Nuke, You learn every day - I always took BG as Scottish - as he were the lead singer of Scottish band Runrig - that toured Denmark every sommer for years on festivals.
Searching i saw on Wiki he lives in Halifax - and then I stumbled on an extreme story I never head of before:
The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time.
At least 1,782 people were killed, largely in Halifax and Dartmouth, by the blast, debris, fires, or collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured
Hard to imagine the exende of this tragedy for a small community