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Best known for a single surviving work, this Halifax printing company is remembered today for turning a citywide tragedy into a stark visual record. Its book captures the aftermath of the 1917 Halifax Explosion in words and photographs that still feel immediate.
Royal Print & Litho Limited was a Halifax, Nova Scotia, printing and lithography company rather than an individual author. It is credited with publishing The Halifax Catastrophe, a 1917 pictorial account of the Halifax Explosion, and Project Gutenberg currently lists that title as the company’s only work under this author entry.
That book presents forty views of the destruction caused by the December 6, 1917 explosion in Halifax. Archival records also show the company itself was affected by the disaster, with a later photograph noting that its building suffered shattered windows but returned to business soon afterward.
Because surviving public information is limited, not much else can be confirmed about the company’s broader history from the sources reviewed here. What does stand out is its role in preserving one of the clearest contemporary printed records of a devastating moment in Canadian history.