Liner Athena: Part and War

liner athena: On Sunday, Sept. 3, 1939, Nova Scotians opened the Halifax Herald main edition and could not miss the giant-sized headline Empire At War, according to The Chronicle Herald. It was accompanied by a dramatic cutline that read Liner Athena is torpedoed and sunk. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 & Part 5. After a daily drumbeat of headlines leading up to that day, most people sensed that a wider war was in the offing. On that day, Haligonians knew that Canada was at war, even though Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King maintained, for a full week, that the country was not until Parliament had spoken. A mere twenty years after the Great War, it produced more of a chill than a shock. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.