The tent encampment underway at Bannerman near downtown St. John's is not the first time temporary shelter has been erected there. As Ainsley Hawthorn writes, many people lived in the park in the wake of the Great Fire of 1892 and out of that came construction incentives and tenant protections.
When the structure first appeared in a roundabout, some residents were left wondering: what is that? A meme creator, the mayor of Paradise and the head of Memorial University's archives shine a light on the Octagon Castle and the eccentric Charles Danielle.
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