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Probe of fatal fire. One of the worst fires in Toronto's history gutted the Avonmore hotel at Jarvis and Gerrard Sts. early today, taking the lives of(...)
Probe of fatal fire. One of the worst fires in Toronto's history gutted the Avonmore hotel at Jarvis and Gerrard Sts. early today, taking the lives of(...)

Probe of fatal fire. One of the worst fires in Toronto's history gutted the Avonmore hotel at Jarvis and Gerrard Sts. early today, taking the lives of(...)

Date3/1/1940
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Original Toronto Star caption: Probe of fatal fire. One of the worst fires in Toronto's history gutted the Avonmore hotel at Jarvis and Gerrard Sts. early today; taking the lives of three persons; sending others to hospital with severe burns and other injuries; and causing $40;000 damage. Three of the eight persons still in hospital are in serious condition. [Incomplete]
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object NumberTSPA_0113448F
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      The worst forest fires in province for five years, raging in and about Algonquin park, claimed the lives of three men yesterday, who crashed while flying supplies to firefighters
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      8/29/1953
      Raging blaze, Toronto firefighters on aerial ladders battle a spectacular fire that gutted a three-storey vacant house near the corner of Jarvis and D(...)
      Raging blaze, Toronto firefighters on aerial ladders battle a spectacular fire that gutted a three-storey vacant house near the corner of Jarvis and D(...)
      Lennon, Frank
      3/25/1983
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      Fire scene: Police and fire marshal's investigators probe the fire gutted home of Peter Demeter after the house was hit Tuesday by the third blaze in eight days
      Calleja, Frank
      8/24/1983
      Image shows three firefighters working on scene while fire is destroying houses.
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      6/14/1980
      Evacuated From Building: Women evacuated from a Mississauga apartment building wait for word that they can return to the high-rise after an apartment was gutted by an explosion and fire early today
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      Faught, Ken
      8/26/1992
      $400,000 boat gutted in fire. The Stephanie III, a 15.5-metre (51-foot) cabin cruiser gutted in a fire at Queen's Quay early yesterday, is towed to th(...)
      $400,000 boat gutted in fire. The Stephanie III, a 15.5-metre (51-foot) cabin cruiser gutted in a fire at Queen's Quay early yesterday, is towed to th(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      5/23/1987
      Muffin the cat revived. Fire gutted a third-floor apartment on Dundas St. W. near Keele St. today and also drove out nearby apartment dwellers. No one(...)
      Muffin the cat revived. Fire gutted a third-floor apartment on Dundas St. W. near Keele St. today and also drove out nearby apartment dwellers. No one(...)
      McConnell, Colin
      1/31/1984
      Revealed? Reader's memories of early Toronto offer an intriguing theory about origin of hidden tunnels, discovered when workers were digging out gasoline tanks at King and Jarvis Sts
      Revealed? Reader's memories of early Toronto offer an intriguing theory about origin of hidden tunnels, discovered when workers were digging out gasoline tanks at King and Jarvis Sts
      Goode, Jeff
      5/10/1982
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      Rooming house fire injures 4. An emergency crew helps one of four people injured yesterday in a fire on Homewood Ave. In the Jarvis St.-Bloor St. E. a(...)
      Power, Peter
      1/28/1992
      Resident gasps for air as smoke billows out of window below in the fatal fire at Plaza II hotel and apartment complex today
      Resident gasps for air as smoke billows out of window below in the fatal fire at Plaza II hotel and apartment complex today
      Bull, Ron
      8/19/1982
      Four months after the fire which took the lives of his wife and six children, David Lumsden, 27, walked out of Toronto Western Hospital today
      Four months after the fire which took the lives of his wife and six children, David Lumsden, 27, walked out of Toronto Western Hospital today
      Darrell, Dick
      7/5/1968
      Hotel burns. Children playing with matches are blamed for a $100,000 fire which gutted the top floor of the Duke of Connaught Hotel, on Queen St. W., (...)
      Hotel burns. Children playing with matches are blamed for a $100,000 fire which gutted the top floor of the Duke of Connaught Hotel, on Queen St. W., (...)
      Lennon, Frank
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