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Photo: 5.01.001 Ruins of the Church of England Cathedral from The Geography Collection · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
Burned and Rebuilt? · St. John's, Canada
Great Fire of St. John's
The open question
Downtown and the cathedral gone in one evening, from a pipe. How did it beat every stone wall?
On the record
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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