Montreal Fire Claims 39 Victims

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keywords: tragedies, montreal canada, hospice sainte cunegonde, major fire, mother superior sister rita gervais

Synopsis: Tragedy in Montreal as a fire believed to have been accidentally started by a workman's blowtorch destroys the Hospice Sainte Cunegonde that contained a nursing home and an orphanage for the areas poor with 36 perishing in the fire including Sister Rita Gervais the Superior of the Hospice (2006-72f.txt)...(read more)

Date: 1951
Duration: 00:01:14
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: Canada

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Montreal Fire Claims 39 Victims

One of the most tragic fires in recent years razes the Hospice of Sainte-Cunegonde, housing aged and infirm and children. Despite heroic efforts of nuns, among them the Mother Superior, thirty-nine are trapped and die in flames believed to have been started by a worker’s blowtorch.