Mechanic Hall

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Mechanic Hall Theatre was located on the corner of Crombie and Essex Street. It was built in 1839

and destroyed by fire on Feb. 4, 1905.

The fire started from the moving picture projector and spread rapidly. There was over eleven hundred people

in the theatre and they all escaped safely.