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Join Alan MacEachern for a lecture on the subject of his latest book, The Miramichi Fire: A History. The lecture is part of the University of Maine Canadian-America Center Spring 2021 CanAm lecture series.
Alan MacEachern is professor of history at the University of Western Ontario and has written widely on Canadian environmental history.
On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand square miles, one-fifth of the colony. The Miramichi Fire was the largest wildfire ever to occur within the British Empire, one of the largest in North American history, and the largest along the eastern seaboard. Yet despite the international attention and relief efforts it generated, and the ruin it left behind, the fire all but disappeared from public memory by the twentieth century. A masterwork in historical imagination, The Miramichi Fire vividly reconstructs nineteenth-century Canada's greatest natural disaster, meditating on how it was lost to history.