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Originally Posted by landshark
easy to see why...
from the link: "Ultimately, fourteen buildings were destroyed or razed in attempts to control the blaze. Losses were estimated at $103,200, however no one was killed or injured."
must have been a slow news decade...
also easy to see why it's called "the Calgary Fire of 1886" at wiki and not the GREAT Calgary Fire of 1886
something like 65,000 died when the Union forces sacked atlanta...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Campaign#Aftermath
just sayin'... |
I don't think anyone is expecting people the world over to have heard of the Calgary fire, but:
Population of Calgary, 1884:506
Calgary was a small place at that time, this was a major fire for the city in that context and as such gave at least a historical backing to keeping the name (as well as the Turner valley connection)