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  1. The Great Vancouver Fire destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on June 13, 1886. It started as two land-clearing fires to the west of the city. The first fire was farther away from the city and was clearing land for the roundhouse of the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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    June 13 1886 is etched in Canadian history as the date of the Great Vancouver Fire, which razed the newly incorporated city to the ground in under 45 minutes and left as many as 28 residents dead and only three of an estimated 1,000 buildings unharmed.
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    The Great Vancouver Fire destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on June 13, 1886. It started as two land-clearing fires to the west of the city. The first fire was farther away from the city and was clearing land for the roundhouse of the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
    Firefighters mop up hot spots after a major fire in the 2000-block of West 41st Avenue in Vancouver on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. Photo by Arlen Redekop / PNG Fire crews worked overnight to get the blaze under control. On Monday, firefighters were still at the scene, mopping up hot spots.
    Vancouver firefighters are in now the midst of their “mop up,” he added. There’s still about eight inches of water on every floor and a few hot spots in the west-side building. Those displaced could be out of their homes for months, said Morin, who described the buildings as “uninhabitable for quite some time.”
    The second fire was clearing land to extend the city to the west. The Great Fire occurred shortly after the township of Granville had been incorporated into the City of Vancouver in April 1886.
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    The Great Vancouver Fire destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on June 13, 1886. It started as two land-clearing fires to the west of the city. The first fire was farther away from the city and was clearing land for the roundhouse of the terminus of the … See more

    European settlement in the Vancouver area began in 1862 after Captain George Henry Richard's 1859 discovery of coal in the Burrard Inlet. The settlement of Granville (later Vancouver) was formed in the mid-1860s … See more

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    After the fire passed, the newly elected Mayor of Vancouver, Malcolm MacLean, sent telegrams to the Canadian Prime Minister and the … See more

    • Smith L. Vancouver is Ashes. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press; 2014.
    • McDonald R. Making Vancouver. Vancouver: UBC Press; 1996.
    • Matthews J. The Burning of Vancouver. Vancouver Historical Journal. 1960;3:2-70. See more

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    Prior to the fire, Vancouver had experienced three weeks of abnormal heat for late spring. Sunday, June 13, was particularly hot with an… See more

    The men working on the clearing fires and volunteers from the town attempted to put out both fires with buckets, wet blankets and shovels. For … See more

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