From the archives: Fire had Anglicans on the move once more

This story was first published on Dec. 30, 2001, in the Montreal Gazette.
About midnight the city was startled by the cry of ”fire.” This, we believe, was first raised by a man of the Union Fire Company, who was returning home by way of Little St. James Street, when he observed the fire breaking out at one of the windows of the Cathedral.
The Gazette, Thursday, Dec. 11, 1856
It was one of the most spectacular fires that Montreal, a city too well known for them, had seen. In a matter