City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . HON. SENATOR DAVID MILLS, Q. of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada. THE LATE ELIJAH LEONARD. Senator. ONTAEIO, CANADA. 133 can, but lower than n lawn sprinkler. It wasworked for a few minutes in the second con-flagration, when the spread of the flames ner of Dundas and Ridout streets, and in agreat deal less time than it has taken to com-pile these facts, some three hundred buildings. caused it to be abandoned, and it shared inthe general destruction. The fire originatedin the Robinson Hall, on the south
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . HON. SENATOR DAVID MILLS, Q. of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada. THE LATE ELIJAH LEONARD. Senator. ONTAEIO, CANADA. 133 can, but lower than n lawn sprinkler. It wasworked for a few minutes in the second con-flagration, when the spread of the flames ner of Dundas and Ridout streets, and in agreat deal less time than it has taken to com-pile these facts, some three hundred buildings. caused it to be abandoned, and it shared inthe general destruction. The fire originatedin the Robinson Hall, on the south-east cor- of various styles of architec-ture, but all of wood, wereturned to ashes. The burntdistrict extended from Dundasstreet south to the river,Ridout and Talbot streets beingthe western and eastern bound-aries, respectively. Within thisarea but one house was leftstanding, the Balkwill House,kept by Mr. John Balkwill,the President of the stood on the site of thepresent City Hotel. Whilethis fire in its full extentwas probably never fore-seen, it is curious to readof the precautions prior toit to prevent any fire. Twoyears previous, Alex. Law-rie, a carriagemaker, hadbeen fined 9s. 9d. for start-ing a fire on Talbot streetto set a wagon tire, and in the same yearJohn Gray, he having received a box of luci-fer matches, was ordered by the village board 13-t CITY OF LONDON, to remove it to a distant outhouse, as it wasconsidered dangerous to allow the bo
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