St. John's, Canada · 1892Great Fire of St. John'sDowntown and the cathedral gone in one evening, from a pipe. How did it beat every stone wall?On 8 July 1892 a dropped pipe in a stable started a fire that took the cathedral and the Water Street and Duckworth Street businesses.
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Burned and Rebuilt? · Saint John, Canada
Great Fire of Saint John
The open question
A third of the people homeless in a day. How did the city come back in brick so fast?
On the record
On 20 June 1877 fire destroyed more than 1,600 structures, two-fifths of the city, and left about 13,000 people homeless.
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- 1877
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