Stanton, John, The GREEN HILL PARK disaster, The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord (St. John's, NL ), Jan 1991 Early in 1945 explosions and fire ravaged the S.S. Green Hill Park in Vancouver harbour, killing two seamen and six longshoremen instantly.1 Ironically, this ship of death had been named after a peaceful picnic ground at Alma, a village in central Nova Scotia. As a result of the disaster, the…