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Six members of this family died in early-morning blaze in North York
Six members of this family died in early-morning blaze in North York

Six members of this family died in early-morning blaze in North York

Date11/22/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Six members of this family died in early-morning blaze in North York. Picture was taken in November; 1972; when Paul McCann (left) a stockbroker; was running for Metro Separate School Board. His wife; Barbara (right); 44; trying frantically to save their 11 children; died with 5 of them in Bayview-Finch Aves. area house fire. Dead are Melanie; 15; Patricia; 17; Margaret; 11; Elizabeth; 9 Danny; 8. Saved were: Sean (then a baby is not in picture); 6; Paul; 21; Michael 19; Anne; 14; Mary; 12; Jim; 18.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000566F
Blaze tragedy. Top, victim of early morning fire on Caroline St. being taken by fire and ambulance personnel. Firemen (left) try to revive a victim br(...)
Blaze tragedy. Top, victim of early morning fire on Caroline St. being taken by fire and ambulance personnel. Firemen (left) try to revive a victim br(...)
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Where there's smoke . . . A two-alarm blaze at the Broadview House hotel early this morning brought firefighters on the run. No one was injured in the(...)
Where there's smoke . . . A two-alarm blaze at the Broadview House hotel early this morning brought firefighters on the run. No one was injured in the(...)
9/30/1981
Messy job: Firefighters clean up debris yesterday following early-morning three-alarm blaze in Woolworth's store
Messy job: Firefighters clean up debris yesterday following early-morning three-alarm blaze in Woolworth's store
2/4/1978
Screens are difficult to remove in the North York townhouse project where six persons died in a fire yesterday, as Herbert Green, a neighbor, shows. M(...)
Screens are difficult to remove in the North York townhouse project where six persons died in a fire yesterday, as Herbert Green, a neighbor, shows. M(...)
5/14/1974
Firemen scramble on roof of burning North York shopping plaza early this morning
Firemen scramble on roof of burning North York shopping plaza early this morning
11/19/1976
Dazed and soot-marked, four of six surviving McCann children leave North York General Hospital this morning, still clad in pyjamas they were wearing w(...)
Dazed and soot-marked, four of six surviving McCann children leave North York General Hospital this morning, still clad in pyjamas they were wearing w(...)
5/3/1978
More than 100 firefighters were battling a massive blaze this morning that was raging out of control in University of Toronto's Sandford Fleming build(...)
More than 100 firefighters were battling a massive blaze this morning that was raging out of control in University of Toronto's Sandford Fleming build(...)
2/10/1977
Gutted. Fifteen fire engines and their crews fought a morning blaze yesterday that left the 80-year-old Lansdowne Tavern in Toronto's west end a write(...)
Gutted. Fifteen fire engines and their crews fought a morning blaze yesterday that left the 80-year-old Lansdowne Tavern in Toronto's west end a write(...)
1/3/1980
Firm wiped out. It took firemen and 13 rigs about two hours to bring this blaze under control early today, but not before flames burned out D and M Bu(...)
Firm wiped out. It took firemen and 13 rigs about two hours to bring this blaze under control early today, but not before flames burned out D and M Bu(...)
4/23/1979
Death blaze. One man killed and another seriously injured in a fire early today at an abandoned house on Broadview Ave. Firefighters had to use chains(...)
Death blaze. One man killed and another seriously injured in a fire early today at an abandoned house on Broadview Ave. Firefighters had to use chains(...)
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Burned-out nave of the Yonge Street United Church is probed by firemen in the wake of a three-alarm blaze early today that gutted the main part of the(...)
Burned-out nave of the Yonge Street United Church is probed by firemen in the wake of a three-alarm blaze early today that gutted the main part of the(...)
5/19/1971
Salvaging furniture as a $750,000 blaze sweeps through Six Points Plaza in Etobicoke, men carry chairs across the parking lot while firemen pour strea(...)
Salvaging furniture as a $750,000 blaze sweeps through Six Points Plaza in Etobicoke, men carry chairs across the parking lot while firemen pour strea(...)
4/1/1971