A Night of Terror: The SS Noronic Fire

When the SS Noronic docked at Pier 9 in Toronto Harbour on Sept. 16, 1949, no one expected by the next day that 118 people would be dead and the ship would be a charred husk.

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• Moore Museum: mooremuseum.ca/a-violently-vanished-landmark-a…

• Ontario Heritage Trust: heritagetrust.on.ca/plaques/noronic-disaster

• Toronto Star: thestar.com/news/gta/once-upon-a-city-the-day-…

• TVO: tvo.org/article/the-sky-was-a-mass-of-flames-7…

• Canadian Encyclopedia: thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/toronto-…

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