What we know about the victims of the Old Montreal fire

All seven victims of a fire in an Old Montreal building have now been identified. 

Their backgrounds vary: two friends who grew up together in Pakistan, an 18-year-old spending an evening with friends, a renowned photographer.

Many were staying at rented rooms in the building; one of them had lived there for more than 30 years. 

All spent their final moments inside the building off of Place D’Youville, where, in the early morning hours of March 16, a fire broke out under circumstances that Montreal police are still investigating. 

Friends and family members came to the area in the days and weeks after the blaze, some of