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Key dates related to Algo Centre Mall collapse in Elliot Lake, Ont.

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Rescue workers remove their hard hats as firefighters carry a second body out of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., on June 27, 2012. When Commissioner Paul Belanger reports this week on the deadly collapse of a mall in northern Ontario, he and his team will have spent months sorting through numerous claims, counterclaims and finger-pointing as to who was to blame for the tragedy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

ELLIOT LAKE, Ont. – A chronology of events related to the 2012 collapse of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont.

– 1976: Algoma Central Properties asks architect James Keywan to design new mall.

– 1979: Construction starts on $12-million Algo Centre Mall with John Kadlec as structural engineer.

– 1980: First tenants occupy completed mall. Leaking soon occurs.

– June 1999: Mall sold to Elliot Lake Retirement Living.

– August 2005: Bob Nazarian, under name Eastwood Mall Inc., buys the mall for $6.2 million.

– December 2009: Fireproofing applied to steel beam with weld that ultimately failed, but rust not reported.

– March 2012: Mall management pleads guilty to two fire-code infractions. Fined $5,000.

– April 2012: Inspection report by engineer Bob Wood sounds no structural alarm.

– June 23, 2012: Rooftop garage caves in, killing Lucie Aylwin, 37, Doloris Perizzolo, 74, and injuring several other people.

– June 24, 2012: Heavy Urban Search and Rescue Team arrives from Toronto.

– June 25, 2012: Searchers call off rescue effort hours after detecting signs of life in rubble. It resumed after then-Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty phoned search team commander Bill Neadles.

– June 27, 2012: Bodies of the two victims are recovered.

– July 20, 2012: Province announces inquiry into the tragedy under Commissioner Paul Belanger.

– March 4, 2013: Public inquiry begins hearings.

– Oct. 10, 2013: Former premier Dalton McGuinty is final witness.

– Oct. 15, 2014: Commissioner Paul Belanger releases final report.

SOURCE:The Canadian Press/Elliot Lake Inquiry

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