{"id":4029,"date":"2017-03-17T17:11:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2017-04-21T21:08:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T01:08:16","slug":"conference-une-tragedie-oubliee-lincendie-de-1973-avenue-du-parc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/conference-une-tragedie-oubliee-lincendie-de-1973-avenue-du-parc\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk: A Forgotten Tragedy \u2013 the arson fire of 1973 on Park Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_3532\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3532\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3532 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/1891-villa-Mainwaring-600x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/1891-villa-Mainwaring-600x488.jpg 600w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/1891-villa-Mainwaring-768x624.jpg 768w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/1891-villa-Mainwaring-1024x832.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/1891-villa-Mainwaring.jpg 1387w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Mainwaring&#8217;s Residence, Park Avenue, 1891 (BAnQ, P488 (detail))<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>During the night of 8 April 1973, a huge fire gutted a run-down rooming house on Park Avenue causing the death of eight people. The inquiry revealed that the tragedy was far from accidental: the building had been allowed to turn into a firetrap and the actual owners were hiding behind straw owners. The house that was destroyed was also the grandest remnant of the distant time\u00a0when Park Avenue nourished illusions of grandeur.<\/p>\n<p>Yves Desjardins, the author of the forthcoming <em>Histoire du Mile End<\/em>, will recount the sordid details of this tragedy, a reminder of a period\u00a0when Mile End was one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Montreal \u2013 but also a time when its revitalization was about to begin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 26 March<\/strong>\u00a02017, <strong>2 pm<\/strong>\u00a0to 4 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mordecai-Richler Mile End Library<\/strong><br \/>\n5434 avenue du Parc, Montr\u00e9al\u00a0(just south of Saint-Viateur \u2013 80 bus)<br \/>\nin the upstairs meeting room<\/p>\n<p>Free admission<\/p>\n<p><strong>Languages:\u00a0Talk in French<\/strong>,\u00a0discussion in French and English<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of 8 April 1973, a huge fire gutted a run-down rooming house on Park Avenue causing the death of eight people. The inquiry revealed that the tragedy was far from accidental: the building had been allowed to turn into a firetrap and the actual owners were hiding behind straw owners. The house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}