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The Miramichi Fire
Author | : Alan MacEachern |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2020-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780228002857 |
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On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand square miles, one-fifth of the colony. The Miramichi Fire was the largest wildfire ever to occur within the British Empire, one of the largest in North American history, and the largest along the eastern seaboard. Yet despite the international attention and relief efforts it generated, and the ruin it left behind, the fire all but disappeared from public memory by the twentieth century. A masterwork in historical imagination, The Miramichi Fire vividly reconstructs nineteenth-century Canada's greatest natural disaster, meditating on how it was lost to history. First and foremost an environmental history, the book examines the fire in the context of the changing relationships between humans and nature in colonial British North America and New England, while also exploring social memory and the question of how history becomes established, warped, and forgotten. Alan MacEachern explains how the imprecise and conflicting early reports of the fire's range, along with the quick rebound of the forests and economy of New Brunswick, led commentators to believe by the early 1900s that the fire's destruction had been greatly exaggerated. As an exercise in digital history, this book takes advantage of the proliferation of online tools and sources in the twenty-first century to posit an entirely new reading of the past. Resurrecting one of Canada's most famous and yet unexamined natural disasters, The Miramichi Fire traverses a wide range of historical and scientific literatures to bring a more complete story into the light.
The Miramichi Fire
Author | : Alan MacEachern |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2020-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780228002840 |
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On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand square miles, one-fifth of the colony. The Miramichi Fire was the largest wildfire ever to occur within the British Empire, one of the largest in North American history, and the largest along the eastern seaboard. Yet despite the international attention and relief efforts it generated, and the ruin it left behind, the fire all but disappeared from public memory by the twentieth century. A masterwork in historical imagination, The Miramichi Fire vividly reconstructs nineteenth-century Canada's greatest natural disaster, meditating on how it was lost to history. First and foremost an environmental history, the book examines the fire in the context of the changing relationships between humans and nature in colonial British North America and New England, while also exploring social memory and the question of how history becomes established, warped, and forgotten. Alan MacEachern explains how the imprecise and conflicting early reports of the fire's range, along with the quick rebound of the forests and economy of New Brunswick, led commentators to believe by the early 1900s that the fire's destruction had been greatly exaggerated. As an exercise in digital history, this book takes advantage of the proliferation of online tools and sources in the twenty-first century to posit an entirely new reading of the past. Resurrecting one of Canada's most famous and yet unexamined natural disasters, The Miramichi Fire traverses a wide range of historical and scientific literatures to bring a more complete story into the light.
The Great Miramichi Fire
Author | : Johnston, Lynn,Milson, Merle,Miramichi Literacy Council,Miramichi Literacy Writers |
Publsiher | : Chatham, N.B. : Miramichi Literary Council |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fires |
ISBN | : 0920709079 |
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The Great Miramichi Fire of 1825 in Story and Song
Author | : Michael Whelan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Fires |
ISBN | : OCLC:18504772 |
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The Great Miramichi Fire 1825 The Polar Heroes and Fourteen Other Poems
Author | : Michael Whelan |
Publsiher | : [Chatham? N.B. : s.n.], 1921 (Chatham, N.B. : Gazette) |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Fires |
ISBN | : OCLC:271434182 |
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Three Million Acres of Flame
Author | : Valerie Sherrard |
Publsiher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2007-11-26 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781770702721 |
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Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens For Skye Haverill and her family, it begins as an ordinary day. But in the annals of Canadian history, October 7, 1825, is the date of one of our greatest national disasters. The Haverill family has been turned upside down in the last year. Following the death of their mother, Skye and her brother, Tavish, have adjusted to live with a single parent. And when they’re asked to make another adjustment – when his father remarries and his new wife becomes pregnant – Skye finds that some changes are too much to handle. But family struggles quickly become irrelevant when the Haverills and their community are caught up in the Miramichi Fire, the largest land fire in North American history. As the family and the town struggle through the fire and the devastating aftermath, all must find a way to rebuild homes and relationships.
Wildfire Loose
Author | : Joyce Butler |
Publsiher | : Down East Books |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781608932702 |
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In October 1947, Maine experienced the worst fire disaster in its history. Wildfire Loose describes how the fires started and spread so quickly through rural villages, down Millionaire’s Row in Bar Harbor, and across southern Maine beach resorts. Originally published in 1979, it remains the definitive account of “The Week Maine Burned.”
Three Million Acres of Flame
Author | : Valerie Sherrard |
Publsiher | : ReadHowYouWant |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2016-12-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1525235087 |
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Skyes family struggles become irrelevant on October 7, 1825, when the community is caught up in the Miramichi Fire, the biggest in North American history.