Remembering the 100th anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood....From Hamilton, Ontario. "Up at the top of Strathearne Avenue, a place no one goes unless they have to, there's a company called Contanda." "Those 54 carbon-steel tanks hold specialty chemicals, fertilizer, petroleum products, base oils, biodiesel, wax, vegetable oil and molasses. It's that last one that interests us today." "Graeme Clark runs the Hamilton operation. I brought up this anniversary with Clark. He is a genial man but not especially keen to have his company associated with that grim event. So, let's say it right now — it was a long time ago, and everything is different today. You do not need to fear the seven tanks of molasses on Hamilton's shores."
To mark the 100th anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood this month, Pimentel’s brewery has filled the retail cooler with cans of the Great Molasses Disaster, a Boston-brewed imperial stout made with 200 pounds of blackstrap molasses. The beer will see limited Boston-area distribution, as well.
“No prominent people were killed in the molasses flood, and the survivors did not go on to become famous; they were mostly immigrants and city workers who returned to their workday lives, recovered from injuries, and provided for their families,” ‘There was no escape from the wave’: These are the 21 victims of the Great Boston Molasses Flood