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The Great Fire of 1849

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted April, 2007

Attached to the front of this building at 160 King Street East, east of Jarvis Street, is this 2004 Bruce Bell History Project plaque which gives us this information:

Coordinates: 43.650664 -79.371371

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On Saturday April 7, 1849, the citizens of Toronto awoke to a blaze that quickly consumed the centre of town. The fire started about one in the morning in a stable that once stood here. In the aftermath of the Great Fire with its flames seen as far away as St. Catharines, new fire codes were first adopted which are still in use today.
A new city was born atop the ashes of the old, spurred on by the construction of the present day St. James' Cathedral and St. Lawrence Hall.

More Bruce Bell History Project plaques
132 Front Street East
The Colborne Street Theatre
First Theatrical Performance
Keating Coffee House
Rebellion of 1837
Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews
The War of 1812 & the Siege of York
West Market Street
York's First Jail

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