Fire engines and equipment

1912 American-LaFrance Hose Chemical wagon and Seagrave AC-80 Hose wagon inside No. 4 Firehall, 1075 West 10th Avenue

COV-S280-: CVA 354-032
Item
ca. 1912

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[A fire truck after an accident]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-167
Item
[192-?]

Part of James Crookall fonds

A.R.P. fire drill

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2392
Item
Apr. 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Group portrait showing a team and their equipment

A.R.P. fire drill

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2393
Item
Apr. 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Group portrait showing a team and their equipment

A.R.P. fire drill

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2394
Item
Apr. 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Group portrait showing a team and their equipment

A.R.P. fire drill

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2391
Item
Apr. 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Group portrait showing a team and their equipment

A.R.P. fire drill display - Kitsilano

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1428
Item
1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

A.R.P. landing barge with fire fighting equipment

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1331
Item
1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Stamps on back of print read: "This Photograph passed for publication by Canadian Censor." and "Publishers Note! This photograph must carry credit lines 'Steffens-Colmer Photo' ".

A.R.P. landing barge with fire fighting equipment

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1332
Item
1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

A.R.P. landing barge with fire fighting equipment

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1334
Item
1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

A.R.P. landing barge with fire fighting equipment

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1333
Item
1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

A.R.P. launching fireboat

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2920
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

A.R.P. launching fireboat

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2919
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Note on negative envelope "Prov. Civil Protection / 650 Burrard / Launching Fireboat '

A.R.P. launching fireboat

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2921
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

A.R.P. pumping contest

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2308
Item
Mar. 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Group portrait showing a team and their equipment

A.R.P. pumping contest

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2306
Item
Mar. 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Group portrait showing a team and their equipment

A.R.P. pumping contest

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2309
Item
Mar. 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Group portrait showing a team and their equipment

A.R.P. pumping contest

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2307
Item
Mar. 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Group portrait showing a team and their equipment

A.R.P. pumping contest

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2310
Item
Mar. 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Group portrait showing a team and their equipment

Average speed, one mile in 5 minutes [Firefighters]

AM1576-S6-12-F12-: 2011-010.1873
Item
1915 (reproduced ca. 1984)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Courtenay Fire Truck

AM1535-: CVA 99-4183
Item
May 23, 1932

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Delivery photo of 1914 Seagrave C.S.T.

COV-S280-: CVA 354-381
Item
1914

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph of an advertisement for a type of fire engine sent to the Vancouver Fire Department from Emmett P. Browning, Minneapolis.

Fire engines and spectators at three alarm fire at Park Hotel

COV-S280-: CVA 354-134
Item
Jan. 3, 1951

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph of firefighters attending a fire at the Park Hotel, 177 West Pender Street. Writing on the back of the item indicates the fire was attended at 1:05 pm and struck out at 5:24 pm, "39 overcome with smoke and 18 were hospitalized."

Firefighters and equipment assembled in front of Point Grey Firehall, 12th Avenue and Trimble Street, later Firehall No. 19

COV-S280-: CVA 354-062
Item
1925

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph with the following names written on the back: Everett Hygh, Charlie Morin, Ed Fralic, Lou Mulligan?, Murdo McKenzie, Frank King, Ed Marstan, and Ed Smile.

Firefighters and equipment in action at G.H. Cottrell Warehouse, 139 Water Street

COV-S280-: CVA 354-20
Item
Oct. 30, 1910

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Firefighting equipment at scene of Imperial Oil Company fire, Smithe Street

COV-S280-: CVA 354-050
Item
ca. 1918

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Ford [fire engine] truck [for] Coquitlam Fire Dep[artmen]t

AM1535-: CVA 99 - 3340
Item
1921

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Georgia Street looking west showing a fire engine and the old and new Hudson Bay Stores decorated with bunting and flags]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-1047
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Photograph shows the Johnson-Howe Block

[Georgia Street looking west showing a fire engine and the old and new Hudson Bay Stores decorated with bunting and flags]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-1112.4
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of James Crookall fonds

[Hastings Street and fire engines shrouded in smoke from fire at movie theatre]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-1428
Item
[ca. 1933]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Modern fire fighting equipment, No.1 Station on Gore Avenue

AM1576-S6-12-F12-: 2011-010.1872
Item
1915 (reproduced ca. 1984)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

No. 6 Fire Hall [at 1500 Nelson Street]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3730
Item
1929

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Old style fire engine

AM54-S4-: FD P31
Item
1944

Part of Major Matthews collection

P.C.P.C. - A.R.P. School at U.B.C. [during] incident practice

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2154
Item
July 29, 1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Provincial Civilian Protection Committee activities

Pump and hoses

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4454
Item
July 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Rail journey through the Rocky Mountains, Victoria, and dog show

AM1614-: 2011-002.7
Item
[1928?]

Part of Samuel S. Magoffin fonds

Item is an amateur film opening with footage of downtown Vancouver showing several Vancouver Fire Department trucks and engines and a lot filled with lumber, then cutting to footage taken from the back of a moving train, showing snow covered scenery, followed by Sam and Margaret Magoffin standing on a porch with several other people and a dog, Margaret and a man standing in front of a car, and additional footage taken from a moving train showing a sign for Yoho, mountain scenery and the Cathedral train station. The film also contains footage taken in downtown Victoria, B.C. showing the legislative building, Inner Harbour and CPR Steamship Terminal building, followed by dogs, likely the Magoffin’s golden retrievers, and several minutes footage of a dog show.

[S.S.] Greenhill Park explosion

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3584
Item
Mar. 6, 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows men on a Cates Shipyard tugboat assisting with firefighting at C.P.R. Pier B-C

[S.S.] Greenhill Park explosion

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3583
Item
Mar. 6, 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows C.P.R. Pier B-C

Testing fire barges for navy use

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3063
Item
1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Testing fire barges for navy use

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3066
Item
1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows B.C. Equipment Company in the background

Testing fire barges for navy use

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3065
Item
1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows the Burrard Bridge in the background

Testing fire barges for navy use

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3064
Item
1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[The No. 2 chemical fire wagon in the Labour Day parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1156.7
Item
1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Vancouver Fire Department floats in the Dominion Day Parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-580
Item
July 1, 1925

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph was taken from the apartment of Mrs. Wilson on the north side of the 100 Block of East Hastings Street and shows part of the White Lunch, Baxter and Sons Furniture, the entrance to the Howard Hotel, The Modern Company and other businesses on the south side

Vancouver Fire Department fighting a building fire - Firefighter up a ladder

AM1535-: CVA 99-6156
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Fire Department fighting a building fire - Firefighter up a ladder

AM1535-: CVA 99-6157
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Fire Department inhalator man Len Erlendson removes person from First Narrows Bridge ladder onto aerial ladder

COV-S280-: CVA 354-312
Item
Jul. 10, 1968

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Vancouver Fire Department No. 18

COV-S280-: CVA 354-454
Item
1933

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Panoramic group portrait in front of Fire Hall No. 18 showing a fire truck in the background

[View of new fire engines parked in front of Firehall No. 1, West Georgia at Hamilton]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-260
Item
1962

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing (L-R): Larry Holden (A/Chief), Chief Bird, and Elmer Sly (Dept. Chief) standing in front of engines and the Canada Post building is the background.

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