Fire engines and equipment

Old Fire Engine

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-772
Item
1941

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Old style fire engine

AM54-S4-: FD P31
Item
1944

Part of Major Matthews collection

P.C.P.C. - A.R.P. Prince Rupert

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2184
Item
Oct. 27, 1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Provincial Civilian Protection Committee activities

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

P.C.P.C. - Steveston pumping unit [demonstration]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2024
Item
1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Provincial Civilian Protection Committee activities

P.C.P.C. - Steveston pumping unit [demonstration]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2028
Item
1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Provincial Civilian Protection Committee activities

P.C.P.C. - Steveston pumping unit [demonstration]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2023
Item
1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Provincial Civilian Protection Committee activities

P.C.P.C. - Steveston pumping unit [demonstration]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2021
Item
1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Provincial Civilian Protection Committee activities

P.C.P.C. - Steveston pumping unit [demonstration]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2022
Item
1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Provincial Civilian Protection Committee activities

P.C.P.C. - Steveston pumping unit [demonstration]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2025
Item
1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Provincial Civilian Protection Committee activities

P.C.P.C. - Steveston pumping unit [demonstration]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2026
Item
1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Provincial Civilian Protection Committee activities

P.C.P.C. - Steveston pumping unit [demonstration]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2027
Item
1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Provincial Civilian Protection Committee activities

P.C.P.C. - Steveston pumping unit [demonstration]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2029
Item
1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Provincial Civilian Protection Committee activities

[Point Grey firefighters aboard 1914 American LaFrance C.S.T. in front of firehall]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-382
Item
[1914]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Point Grey firefighters and men in civilian dress assembled with fire trucks in front of fire headquarters]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-384
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Point Grey firefighters assembled with fire trucks in front of fire headquarters]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-386
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Point Grey firefighters assembled with fire trucks in front of fire headquarters]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-383
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Police officer directing traffic at Pender and Main Street with a fire engine in attendance in background]

VPD-S214-: CVA 480-274
Item
[ca. 1967]

Part of Vancouver Police Department fonds

[Police officer directing traffic at Pender and Main Street with a fire engine in attendance in background]

VPD-S214-: CVA 480-273
Item
[ca. 1967]

Part of Vancouver Police Department fonds

[Portland Fire Department Jazz Band with Captain Alex Holden aboard 1927 La France Aerial in front of Firehall No. 2, Seymour Street. Played at the New Orpheum Theatre, Nov. 14-17, 1927.]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-075
Item
Nov. 1927

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Portrait of 1956 American LaFrance with 1250 Pump, Shop 69]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-168
Item
1956

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Portrait of Fire Chief Thompson, Mayor Malkin, and civic dignitaries

AM1376-: CVA 76-12
Item
1930

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph portrait of Fire Chief C. W. Thompson and assembled civic dignitaries, including Mayor W. H. Malkin, posing on a 1929 Bickle "Canadian" Pump truck.

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.

Red fire engine

AM1576-S6-12-F18-: 2011-010.2447-: 2011-010.2447.21
Part
June 13, 1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Red fire engine

AM1576-S6-12-F18-: 2011-010.2447-: 2011-010.2447.22
Part
June 13, 1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Sawmill fire and Jake Loeppky family

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is an amateur film documenting family life and a sawmill fire in Vancouver. The film consists of home movie footage filmed by Jake Loeppky, including footage of Queen Elizabeth Park, the Stanley Park Zoo, children playing at the family home in Burnaby, children swimming, and the family entertaining at home. The film also includes footage of a logging camp, a large dam, bears, and people waterskiing. Of particular note is several minutes of footage of the five-alarm fire that destroyed the B.C. Forest Products plant and lumber storage facility at 999 West 6th Avenue on July 3, 1960.

[Seagrave Chemical truck and uniformed men in front of No. 5 Firehall]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-033
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing (L-R): [unidentified], Ed Nash, A. McDiarmid, Hector Mckenzie, and Murdoch Morrison.

Self [James Crookall] and fire truck

AM640-S1-F5-: CVA 260-2214
Item
1918

Part of James Crookall fonds

[Spectators watching fire at Cottrell Warehouse on Water Street]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-375
Item
Oct. 30, 1910

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Spectators watching fire at Cottrell Warehouse on Water Street]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-374
Item
Oct. 30, 1910

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing firefighters climbing a ladder to the burning building and a large mass of smoke surrounding the warehouse.

[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

[Steam propelled "Amoskeag" fire engine on way to fire]

AM54-S4-: FD P56
Item
[ca. 1907]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph of a fire engine in New Jersey.

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 Dark Town Fire Brigade

AM54-S4-: FD P2
Item
[ca. 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Hastings Sawmill Volunteer Firemen Perfomance Troupe on the old Hastings Road. The first fire engine on Burrard Inlet is partially shown at the end of the troupe.

The dark Town Fire Brigade

AM1376-: CVA 1376-697
Item
[ca. 1888]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the Hastings Sawmill Volunteer Firemen Performance Troupe on the old Hastings Road. The first fire engine on Burrard Inlet is partially shown at the end of the troupe.

[The first motor fire truck and firemen in front of Fire Hall at 26 East 26 Avenue]

AM54-S4-: FD P47
Item
Aug. 1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph includes and head and shoulders portrait of George T. Blackman

[The "Mainliner", a fire truck and portable first aid station at airshow]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-723
Item
1937

Part of James Crookall fonds

Photograph shows a car towing a Vancouver General Hospital trailer and the terminal building in the background

[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 North West Mounted Police barracks (formerly Langara School for Boys) afire]

AM54-S4-: Pol P1
Item
[ca. 1924]

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

Tillicum and firefighters standing next to fire engine

AM1576-S6-12-F18-: 2011-010.2450-: 2011-010.2450.31
Part
June 13, 1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

[Two members of South Vancouver Fire Department with Studebaker C.S.T. by roadside]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-070
Item
[ca. 1927]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Two members of the Fire Department next to fire engine

AM1576-S6-12-F18-: 2011-010.2447-: 2011-010.2447.36
Part
June 13, 1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Urban Safari Films Inc. - "Urban Safari" - part 2 of 2 - PAL version

AM1553-6-S2-: MI-495
Item
Oct.20, 1995

Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds

Item is part two of two, Digital PAL Master, includes textless BG; theatrical feature film released May 1996 at Cannes Film Festival. Includes the film's conclusion and end credits.

Vancouver Fire Department - The new aerial auto truck [Seagrave aerial auto-truck at Firehall No. 2]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-012
Item
1909

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

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