Great Fires of Toronto

You may have heard of the Great Fire of Toronto, but did you know it happened more than once? Let's visit some locations involved in the fires and talk about what happened.
00:00 Introduction
00:17 Start of First Great Fire
01:04 St. James Cathedral
01:33 St. Lawrence Hall
02:33 Start of the Second Great Fire
03:02 Fire Spreads to Front Street
03:47 Limiting The Spread
04:52 Aftermath of the Fire
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[@gregsalsman]

Great videos, lots of history. All the birds coming off St Lawrence Hall was hilarious btw. Great work on this vid!

[@calabrees7]

thank you for the educational videos!

[@DaydreamingTrack]

Great video truly enjoy them keep up good work.

[@natashaw401]

U r a great historian

[@JohnNorton86]

i recently discovered your videos. being a born and raised Torontonian i thought i knew all there was to know about this place... you have proved me wrong more than once haha. good work keep it up please!

[@CharCanuck14]

I always have a few "WOWS!" when watching your videos Steve. I appreciate all the work you put into them and look forward to the next one. Greetings from a former Torontonian

[@cxstanley]

Thanks!

[@notsmoothsteve]

You're welcome, and thank you for your support!

[@heresometime]

Neat

[@ratsbath]

Great vid. Croft Street (a laneway) in Harbord Village is named after that explosives expert who perished in 1904 -- all the colourful garage murals makes for a nice stroll.

[@mloik1]

Great video Steve! Very unsmooth.

[@Platinumdose420]

i couldnt find any of the links I'm probably just looking in all the unusual places

[@notsmoothsteve]

They appear in the top right corner (at least on the Web - might be different in apps) and they're also in the video's description, which KZbin has recently made more cumbersome to find. Grr. You may have to click a couple of "more" links or something like that to see the whole description, and then you should find the links there.

[@voiceofreason7856]

Approx. 5:30 you made the comment (paraphrasing here ) how 'many of the buildings were made of wood and that's why the fire spread so well'. Didn't they recently just pass a new construction law that would allow the building of buildings up to 18 stories tall made out of WOOD ?!!! How insane is that ?!!! We may see another such fire in Toronto, in the future, as devastating as these two were if 'old buildings' ( of steel and concrete ) are replaced with wooden buildings, instead ! :(

[@lukeamato423]

You should talk about the circus coming to town