Talk:Great Toronto Fire

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[edit] Cause of the fire

"The exact cause of the fire is still not known": what does "still" mean here? It seems to imply that it's likely to be discovered in the future.

[edit] Failure to learn lesson from Baltimore fire?

It's kind of trivial, but the Baltimore fire, just 2 months before the Toronto fire, had fairly similar characteristics in terms of location and magnitude. It would only take a couple days at most by 1904 to pass the news about the Baltimore fire back then, so it's a bit surprising that a second fire of similar scale occured just 2 months later, even though Toronto was smaller than Baltimore back then.