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Originally Posted by Kinguni
Thanks for the story. I remember those landmarks, just not with the experiences you had (a bit younger). Fort Garry Courts burning and then seeing them covered in ice after. We crosses the CNR mainline bridge over the Red, ducking down to a pier to avoid trains we knew were coming. Never a fear of downtown, walking or busing.
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The Fort Garry Court is certainly one. It looked so beautiful in a way and yet it was so awful to think of ten people dying in there. There had been the Hazlemere Apartments on Ellice that burned a year or two before with 8 or 9 people killed. But after that smoke detectors were invented and smoking became less common and fires of that magnitude have been a rarity ever since.