The Telegraph Key That Vince Coleman Used to Stop a Train Is in the Canadian Museum of History
At 8:43 AM on 6 December 1917, Halifax telegraph dispatcher [Vince Coleman](/articles/halifax-explosion-1917) stayed at his post to warn an inbound passenger train that the burning munitions ship in the harbour was about to explode. The explosion killed him about a minute later. The brass-and-wood telegraph key he typed his last message on now lives in a glass case in Gatineau, Quebec.
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