What the records say
- When
- 1734
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 45.50° N, 73.59° W
- Description
- fire that started on Saint-Paul Street located in what is now the historic district of Old Montreal
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Incendie de Montréal en 1734
L'incendie de Montréal en 1734 a mené au plus important procès sous le régime français du Canada. Marie-Josèphe-Angélique, une esclave noire de la Nouvelle-France, était soupçonnée de l'avoir perpétré, sans preuve, le 10 avril 1734 vers 19 heures.
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2 sources record it
- Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “incendie de la ville de Montréal, Québec”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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