What we know about the fire that destroyed Ward’s Island Association Clubhouse

This cell phone video captured by a witness shows the massive Blaze that completely gutted the wards Island Association Clubhouse Sunday heavy machinery was brought in today to assist firefighters as they comb through the rubble of what is now just an empty cavity the investigators are sifting through debris to look for

Any artifacts or anything that can assist them in ascertaining both origin and cause locals have been coming by to see the damage for themselves many in disbelief I’m still shocked and I’m sure for a lot of the older Islanders that have a lot of history sometimes Generations back or their business I it

It’s just devastating like it’s they’re going to be grieving for a while I think the clubhouse was originally constructed in the 1930s destroyed with it were the pictures paintings and Island artifacts that had been gathered throughout the decades but it is such an incredible loss of a cherished community space a

Historic uh site that holds so much history about the community on the island but Islanders tell us the spirit of what this building meant lives on we can rebuild Peter Freeman is one of the co-owners of the Island Cafe which was a longtime tenant of the clubhouse he says

There has been a ground swell of support since the fire I just appreciate the the love and support you know it like there’s always this it’s in a in an awful situation there’s all this upwelling and that’s that’s kind of heartening in this in these times it’s

It’s going to take some time to rebuild the clubhouse but the owners of the Island Cafe say that they are already in talks with the city about having a temporary solution in place this summer in fact Freeman says the mayor is already floating some ideas Olivia immedately said well let’s just put some

Containers on the site and you know there’s the cafe and and it’s going to take some real time to think about what to do with this site in terms of re rebuilding but the cafe we could we could have some containers and we could have have uh a tent fire Crews expect to

Wrap up their on scene investigation sometime tomorrow they say it will likely take weeks maybe even months before they are able to determine the cause of this fire Greg Ross CBC News Toronto

A large fire destroyed Ward’s Island Association Clubhouse on Sunday morning. The nearly 100-year-old building was a popular meeting spot, and home to the Island Cafe. As CBC’s Greg Ross reports, fire investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire.

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