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   The Great Toronto Fire - April 19, 1904. The exact cause of the fire was never determined but it levelled nearly 20 acres of land and over 5,000 jobs were lost, at least temporarily. "The weather in Toronto on the evening of 19 April, 1904, was cold and blustery.

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     On April 12,1904, one week before the fire, Toronto Fire...

   • A Collection of Images From The Great Toronto Fire

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     21 Wellington St. W., Toronto, May 7, 1904 Burke & Horwood...

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Great_Fire_of_Toronto_(1904)Great Fire of Toronto (1904) - Wikipedia

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   The Great Fire of Toronto of 1904 destroyed a large section of Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 19, 1904. It was the second such fire for the city in its history.

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     THE GREAT FIRE OF 1904: Old World Toronto, HD photographs / aftermath / rare images + Casa Loma!

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4. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca › en › articleGreat Fire of Toronto (1904) | The Canadian Encyclopedia

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   Apr 21, 2020 · The disaster is known as the Great Fire of Toronto or the Second Great Fire of Toronto (the first major fire occurred in 1849). It exposed the city’s need for safer building codes and a high-pressure water system.

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   This documentary delves into the history of the Great Toronto Fire of 1904, a catastrophic event that reshaped Toronto's landscape. Using a mix of archival footage, photographs, and...

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   Jul 28, 2014 · The Great Toronto Fire was a devastating blaze that destroyed 122 buildings and put 5,000 people out of work. The fire started in a clothing warehouse on Wellington Street and quickly spread...

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   Feb 20, 2022 · The first footage of Toronto ever taken. The Great Fire of April 19th, 1904.credit: Library & Archives of Canada.

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   What was the Great Fire of Toronto?

   • The Great Fire of Toronto of 1904 destroyed a large section of Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 19, 1904. It was the second such fire for the city in its history. Fire insurance map depicting the area damaged by the fire.

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   What time was the Toronto Fire of 1904?

   • Now let us turn to Toronto historian and Toronto Sun columnist Mike Filey who noted in his April 19, 2015 article entitled “The Great Fire of 1904” that the fire occurred at exactly 8:06 p.m. on April 19, 1904 at the Currie Building because the time and location information appeared on the punch tape in the Toronto Fire Department’s Alarm Office.

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   Who wrote Toronto Fire of 1904?

   • G.W. Shorter, author of Toronto Fire of 1904 (published in 1964 by the Division of Building Research, National Research Council, Canada), succinctly set the stage of what had happened some sixty years before he wrote the following words: “The weather in Toronto on the evening of 19 April, 1904, was cold and blustery.

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   When did the Great Fire of 1904 start?

   • Toronto ’s Great Fire of 1904 started some time before 8:00 p.m. on 19 April in the city’s downtown. At the time, Toronto’s core was an industrial area with several manufacturing buildings. When firefighters reached the fire near Wellington and Bay Streets, they had trouble dousing the flames.

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   Apr 20, 2018 · The Great Fire of 1904 clearly demonstrated Toronto’s inadequate firefighting infrastructure to deal with such a large-scale fire.