Montreal marks 50-year anniversary of Blue Bird Café fire
in Montreal history was remembered Thursday with speeches, a minute of silence and the laying of flowers. A ceremony marked the 50th anniversary of the fire at the Wagon Wheel bar above the Blue Bird Café on Union Street that killed 37 people.
Patrons were trapped inside when three men deliberately set the bar ablaze on Sept. 1, 1972, a Friday night of the Labour Day weekend. The individuals doused the entrance with gasoline and started the fire because they had been denied entry by a doorman. All three were caught and sentenced to life in prison on charges of murder and manslaughter but have since been released on parole.
“I hope they wake up every morning remembering what they did,” Heather Allen, whose brother died in the fire, told Global News.The names of all 37 victims are now etched in a memorial wall at Phillips Square, one block from where the fire happened.Don Bedard was in a band performing with other members that night. He remembers the flames ripping through the bar.
“I could smell smoke, and there was blood and glass and soot all over the place within minutes because everybody was just covered,” Flegel said.
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