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Article: Canada's phoenix basilica. (St. George's Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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- September 1, 1995
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* A campaign has been extended across Canada this year to raise $2.6 million towards the cost of rebuilding St George's Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a Canadian historic treasure destroyed by fire in June 1994. It is hoped that the rebuilding of the church - which will take four years at a cost of $6 million - will begin at the end of this year.
Built in 1800 and described by Elizabeth Pacey, author of Georgian Halifax, as of `great beauty and individuality', deserving the `highest status in the annals of North American architecture', about a third of the building was destroyed in the fire - the work of boys playing with matches. The interior was reduced to charred ...