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Haunted BC: the Great Vancouver Fire
Mornings with Simi
English - October 29, 2019 19:29 - 6 minutes - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBusiness News News Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Some people may not know this but there was a huge fire that burnt down basically all of Vancouver back in the late 1800s. The fire was so big and burnt so fast, that it destroyed nearly 1,000 buildings in less than an hour. So let’s learn a bit about this incident in BC history and allow ourselves to wonder: do the ghosts of those killed in the Great Vancouver Fire still wander the streets of Gastown today?