House of misfortune, Basin street home of tragedy

Good ol' Basin street where big dreams go to get crushed. It's a typical Griffintown street: once inhabited by working class Irish, then turned into warehouses and now at the centre of massive condo development. The street sits parallel the Lachine Canal in the Western Griff just south of downtown Montreal.
   One house in particular attracted its share of bad luck. The house, long demolished, was east of Seigneurs, and was home to a recently-arrived Welsh immigrant Thomas Williams who in 1889 murdered his wife Mary Orchard, 28, with a razor and then killed himself, leaving five kids, the youngest being a mere four months. Eight years later at the very same home smallpox hit and the home was fumigated. No word on whether the inhabitants survived.