Blue Bird Fire: 40 Years Later

• Gallery: memorial

  Montreal honoured the victims and families impacted by the Blue Bird Cafe fire.

  Aug 31, 2012
  
• Fact File: the aftermath

  <p> Fact File: the aftermath 6442705966 Besides the 37 people who perished from the fire, more than 50 people were injured. 24-year-old, Gilles Eccles, 23-year-old, James O'Brien and 24-year-old Jean-Marc Boutin were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for setting the deadly fire. A civil lawsuit</p>

  Aug 31, 2012
  
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• Gallery: The victims

  <p> City Hall unveiled a photo exhibit of the 37 victims who were killed in the fire on September 1, 1972 6442705966 </p>

  Aug 31, 2012
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• Plaque unveiled with names of 37 people killed in 1972 Montreal club fire

  Survivors of a fire that killed 37 people in Montreal nearly 40 years ago recalled the event with horror Friday as a granite plaque was unveiled to remember the dead.

  Aug 31, 2012
• 40 years later – Montreal commemorates victims of the Blue Bird fire

  On Friday, the city of Montreal will finally commemorate the deaths of 37 people killed in one of the worst crimes carried out within its boundaries.

  Aug 30, 2012
• Gallery: Blue Bird Café fire in pictures

  <p> On September 1, 1972, a tragic fire in a downtown Montreal nightclub killed 37 people. The fire was the worst in Montreal since 1927, when 77 people died in a fire at the Laurier Palace Theatre. At the request of family of Blue Bird Café victims, nearly forty years later, the City of Montreal will honour those who di</p>

  Aug 8, 2012
• Montreal to honour the victims in the Blue Bird Café fire

  Forty years after the fact, the 37 people who perished in a fire at the Blue Bird Café in Montreal will be remembered with a granite plaque in Phillips Square.

  Aug 8, 2012