page_title: W.J. Kent
section_title: Witness to the Great Fire of 1892
hierarchical_section_title: W.J. Kent / Witness to the Great Fire of 1892
caption_attribution_description: View of the Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist which was burned in the fire of 1892. St. John's, Newfoundland.
context_page_description: William Joseph Kent was a business and political leader in Bathurst, New Brunswick in Canada. Kent's business enterprises were significant in the economic development of the region, and Kent was a founding alderman in Bathurst's first town council for sixteen years before serving as mayor of Bathurst for two terms.
context_section_description: Kent was visiting St. John's, Newfoundland when he bore witness to the Great Fire of 1892.  He authored a book about the event titled, A Directory Containing Names and Present Addresses of Professional Men, Merchants and Shopkeepers, Burnt out by the General Conflagration of July 8th, 1892; A Full Account of the Great Fire, the Customs' Tariff and Other Matter of General Information.  Published in 1892, Kent's book came to be recognized as the definitive account of the disaster.
caption: St. John's after the fire
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