Annotation:Miramichi Fire (Air) (2)
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MIRAMICHI FIRE. Canadian, Air. The Great Miramichi Fire of October 7, 1825, in the area surrounding the Miramichi River in New Brunswick, Canada, ranks among the most devastating forest fires in North American history. It destroyed six thousand square miles of land in the Miramichi area. A newspaper, the Miramichi Mercury of February 28, 1826, reported that at least 160 people had perished because of the fire, and that 3078 were suffering because of it. Other accounts claim that at least 200 had died. The fire is featured in popular culture, including in folk songs, as well as in Valerie Sherrard’s historical novel, Three Million Acres of Flame. John Jardine's period poem begins:
Some say it was because the people's
Sins did rise to mountain high, Which did ascend up to Jehovah, He would not see and justify.16
