Volume 23 - Section XII - ElectricCanadian.com

1875188418871889164017131721176517681825183418381841184518461849185018521854185718661870Mass of snow falls from Cape Diamond on 1893Ghamplain Street, Quebec ; 8 lives lost(Feb. 3). 1894Humber railway collision, near Toronto ;31 lives lost (Jan. 2).Hamilton powder mills blown up ; 4 lives 1899lost (Oct. 10).Tidal flood, Quebec and lower St 1907Lawrence (Nov. 5). 1908Explosion in coal - mine at Nanaimo ;150 lives lost (May 3).Land-slide from Citadel Rock, Quebec ; 191045 persons killed (Sept. 19).WRECKSGhapel of Notre-Dame de la Recouvranceloss of parish registers (June 15).Intendant s palace, Quebec, destroyed(Jan. 5).Montreal ; nearly half of city (June 19).Montreal ;one-fourth of city (May 18).Three Rivers ; large loss of property.Montreal; one-fourth of city (Apr. 11).Great Miramichi fire ; 500 lives lost (beganOct. 6).Chateau St Louis, Quebec (Jan. 23).Steamer John Butt.St John, N.B. ; public offices (Nov. 15).St Roch suburbs, Quebec ; 1630 houses(May 28).St John suburbs, Quebec ; 1300 houses(June 28).St John s, NF. ; 2000 houses (June 9).St Louis Theatre, Quebec ; 70 lives lost(June 12).Houses of Parliament, Montreal (Apr. 25).Griffintown, Montreal (June 15).St Lawrence suburbs, Montreal (Aug. 23).East End, Montreal ;1100 houses (July 8).House of Parliament, Quebec (Feb. 1).Steamer Montreal, fifteen miles above Quebec,253 lives lost (June 26).St Roch and St Sauveur suburbs, Quebec ;2129 houses (Oct. 14).Saguenay (May).St Roch suburbs, Quebec ; 422 houses(May 24).DISASTERS 363FIRES187618771880188118831886189018971898190019011908191019111916Earthquake heavy shocks felt at;Montreal (Nov. 27).Land-slide at St Alban, on River SteAnne ;4 lives lost ;immense damageto property (Apr. 27).Explosion of fire damp at Caledonia Mines,N.S. ; 30 deaths (June 16).Collapse of Quebec bridge (Aug. 29).Notre-Dame de la Salette, on Riviere duLievre, partially destroyed by landslides ; 37 lives lost (Apr. 26).Explosion in powder works at Hull ;10 lives lost (May 8).1711 Part of Sir Hovenden Walker s fleet, on 1861 Hungarian, off Cape Sable ; 205 lives lostcoast of Labrador ;over a thousand lives(June 4).lost (Sept. 1).Canadian, in Strait of Belle Isle ;35 lives1725 Le Chameau, near Louisbourg (Aug. 27).lost (June 4).1759 Tilbury, off St Esprit, Cape Breton ;200 livesNorth Briton, on Perroquet Island (Nov. 5).lost (Sept. 25). 18631761 ISAuguste, coast of Cape Breton Anglo-Saxon, off Cape Race ; 237 lives lost;114 lives(Apr. 27).lost (Nov. 15). 1870 City of Boston, sailed from Halifax and never1775 Great Storm, Newfoundland ; hundreds ofheard offishing boats and 300 ; 191 souls on board (Jan. 28).lives lost. 1873 Atlantic, twenty-two miles west of Halifax ;1797 La Tribune, off Halifax (Nov. 16).546 lives lost (Apr. 1).1831 Lady Sherbrooke, near Cape Ray ; 273 livesLord s Day Gale, Gulf of St Lawrencelost (Aug. 19).(Aug. 24).1847 Great Imrricane off Newfoundland ; mm- 1881 Victoria, near London ; 181 lives lostdreds of lives lost (Sept. 11).(May 24).1854 Arctic, off Cape Breton ; 562 lives lost. 1912 Titanic, in mid-Atlantic ; 1503 lives lost1857 Canadian, at The Pillars, below Quebec(Apr. 15).(May 31). 1914 Empress of Ireland, near Father Point ;1859 Indian, off Marie Joseph ; 27 lives lost900 lives lost (May 29).(ov. 21).Montcalm suburbs, Quebec ;411 houses(May 30).St Jean, P.Q. (July 18).St Hyacinthe ;500 houses (Sept. 3).St John, N.B. ;1612 houses (June 20).Legislative Building, Fredericton (Feb. 25).Hull, P.Q. ;400 houses (Apr. 21).St John suburbs, Quebec ; 642 houses(June 8).Parliament Building, Quebec (Apr. 19).Vancouver ;4 houses left standing ;50 liveslost (June 13).St Jean de Dieu Asylum for the Insane,Longue-Pointe (May 6).Part of Western Departmental Building,Ottawa (Feb. 11).New Westminster (Sept. 11).Hull and Ottawa ; 7 lives lost ; $10,000,000loss sustained (Apr. 26).Montreal ; loss to insurance companies over$2,200,000 (Jan. 28).Trois-Rivieres ; 300 buildings ; $1,500,000(June 22).Kootenay Valley, B.C. ; town of Fernie andother neighbouring places destroyed ;70 lives lost; $5,000,000 property destroyed (Aug. 2).Campbelltown, N.B. ; only four houses left(July 11).Disastrous forest fire in Porcupine miningdistrict (July 11).Parliament Buildings, Ottawa (Feb. 3).