1817 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history A newspaper editor is so distressed by a major #fire in St. John's that "the powerful emotions which agitate our minds" leave him unable to describe the calamity to readers https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18171111&printsec=frontpage Pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page) See also: Coverage of the fire https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18171125&printsec=frontpage (pg. 2 of 4) #disaster #StJohn's See also: Fire Disasters in Canada - City Fires https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/fire-disasters