6:30 pm, Small Craft Gallery
(Free admission, everyone welcome)
The Great Saint John Fire of 1877 was arguably the worst 19th century urban fire in North America. The presentation uses many images created in the 1800s to bring this lost story alive and capture why the Great Fire was such an important and terrifying event in the history of the Maritimes.
Author Mark Allan Greene grew up in Saint John. A writer, playwright and practicing lawyer, he retains a fascination with the history of his home town and its dramatic destruction and rebuilding. He has searched through hundreds of archival images from the 1800s and early 1900s to find images that portray the city before, during and after the 1877 Great Fire. He has also researched the impact of the fire to find many fascinating accounts of the event and its aftermath. Mark Allan Greene now lives in Edmonton.
