189 Colburne Street (now Peel Street), Montreal, April 25, 1944
On April 25, 1944, a Royal Air Force Liberator B Mark VI en route to Britain via Gander, Newfoundland crashed into the Griffintown neighborhood in downtown Montreal, Quebec minutes after taking off from Dorval Airport. The five-member crew and ten civilians on the ground were killed, and a large fire destroyed at least 10 homes.[1]
^"Le pire accident d'avion jamais survenu à Montréal", La Presse, 25 April 1944
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