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City of Regina Archives
Photograph Collection,
CORA-B-1020 |
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Title: Damage to houses after the June 30 cyclone
Date: 1912
Retrieval Number: CORA-B-1020
Extent: 1 B&W mounted on cardboard; 21.5 cm x 16 cm
Scope and Content Note: Damage to houses after the June 30 cyclone, men walking by and woman sitting in window of a damaged house.
Access Restrictions: None
Photographer: Unknown
Parent fonds/collection: CORA Photograph Collection
Carpenters came from as far away as Winnipeg to fix houses and businesses after the devastating damage of the cyclone of 1912. The city took out a loan from the provincial government to help with the rebuilding. The $500,000 loan took the city 46 years to pay back.
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