Bannerman Park's biggest tent city happened 131 years ago in the wake of a stunning fire
The tent encampment underway at Bannerman near downtown St. John's is not the first time temporary shelter has been erected there. As Ainsley Hawthorn writes, many people lived in the park in the wake of the Great Fire of 1892 — and out of that came construction incentives and tenant protections.
Source: cbc.ca
