Calgary, Canada "The Great Fire of 1886"

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2017-10-12

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Every city has experienced a major disaster, some cities survived and learned from it, some did not. This project is going to find the biggest disaster from individual’s case city and explore how did resolve the problem during the history. Calgary is the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta. Founded in 1875 by European settler, the city now rapidly growing as the center of Canada’s oil industry. 1886, only couple years after the city started, Calgary had its first major fire in town. The big fire on Ninth Avenue, brought big changes to the new-born city and started a sandstone building boom after the fire.

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