Fire engines and equipment

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

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

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.

[Alderman Brian Calder aboard 1926 LaFrance fire engine in P.N.E. parade]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-330
Item
[1973]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Vancouver Fire Department 1905

COV-S280-: CVA 354-465
Item
1905

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a composite photograph showing firefighters, fire chiefs, horse-drawn fire apparatus, exterior and interior views of fire stations including an alarm switch board, firemen responding to call and sliding down a pole and horses lined up to pull hose wagons.

O'Brien Adv. : slums, pot holes, bad roads, Granville Bridge entrance

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-16406
Item
Oct. 9, 1947

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

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.

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

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

[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.

[1912 American-La France Hose Chemical wagon and firefighters in front of Point Grey Firehall No. 1]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-034
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

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.

1909 Seagrave Aerial, Type AC-90 (air cooled) (first aerial built by the Seagrave Co., Columbus, Ohio) in service Vancouver Fire Department Sep.18, 1909 to Nov. 19, 1958

COV-S280-: CVA 354-464
Item
1935

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing group of firefighters aboard the V.F.D. No. 1 engine including Ed Henry (fourth from left) and others unidentified.

No. 2 Hall, Seymour Street [group portrait of Vancouver Fire Department staff]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-459
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing eight different American La-France vehicles including (L-R): 1913 type 14 hosewagon - shop no. 55 (No. 1), 1912 type 10 hosewagon, shop no. 53 (No. 6), 1912 type 10 hosewagon, shop no. 54 (No. 7), 1912 type 10 hosewagon shop no. 52 (No. 8), 1920 type 45 pump, shop no. 62 (No. 1), 1914 type 15 pump, shop no. 58 (No. 2), 1918 type 45 pump, shop no. 60 (No. 4), and a 1913 type 14 city service truck, shop no. 56 (No. 9).

No. 2 Hall Vancouver Fire Department [information sheet with photo]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-458
Item
May 1, 1919

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing vehicles (L-R): assistant chief's car, a 1912 olds chemical truck, a 1914 American-LaFrance pump, a Seagrave hosewagon, and a 1914 Webb aerial truck.

No. 1 Hall Vancouver Fire Department [list of firemen with photo]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-457
Item
May 1, 1919

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing (L-R): George Dean, J. McDonald (McFeckle), James Laing, Allan Whipple, Wm. Eaton, Thomas Anderson, Wilson Faulkner, Neal Layfield, J. Fitzpatrick, Arthur Wilkins (died May 19/46 house fire 2267 E 24th), William Barnett (died McMaster Bldg collapse), Dan McLeod, James E. Shaw, and J. Gillis. Two fire trucks have also been identified as the 1908 Amoskeag s/p pump (first truck on the left) and a 1909 seagrave aerial truck (second truck on the left).

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

[Firefighters and civic officials on Georgia Viaduct with new fire fighting equipment]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-438
Item
1928

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing officials and fire department staff in the foreground and a view of downtown buildings in the background including Hotel Balmoral and the Regent Hotel.

[Group portrait of Firefighters and apparatus in front of Firehall #1]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-437
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Group portrait of firefighters and apparatus, No. 6 Hall]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-435
Item
1933

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing (L-R) Harry Moth, George Taylor, Harry Hamilton, Joe McInnis, Keith Coughlin, Norm Trasolini, Jack Potts, Bill Shaw, Jimmy Whiteman, Bert McLaren, Alex Gillies, Pete Thorne, George Clarke, Jack Scott.

[Composite of firemen's portraits, photographs of apparatus and team pictures]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-433
Item
1931

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing portraits of Vancouver Fire Department fire fighters, sports teams, band, exterior views of fire halls, fire engine and ladder equipment, the Carlisle fireboat in action, as well as portraits of the Rescue Squad wearing their gear such as oxygen machines and masks.

[Firefighters posing beside fire engine at No. 1 Firehall]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-431
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Group portrait of Point Grey Fire Department staff and Councillor Atherton]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-430
Item
1928

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing (L-R): On apparatus - J. Blair, H. Aserlun (left car), R. Stanton, R. McDonald (right car); seated - top row: C. McClure, W. Upfold, R. McDonald, Red Creelman, E. Hassard, A. Murchison, G. Barden, R. McDonald, T. Seggie; 2nd row - D. Hovey, G. Hawthorn, C. Maddison, Wm. Henry, A. Kennedy, J. Liddell, E. Smele, R. Woodcock, C. Morin, Elmer Sly; 3rd row - W. Bradshaw, Floyd Sherman-Anderson, M. Lee, J. Mowat, T. Messenger, N. MacKinnon, P. Timmins, T. Baillie, W. Agnew; 4th row - T. King, J. Rowland, J. Hutchinson, R. Johnson, Lorne Kendrick, A. Robertson, W. Carfrae, Jack Kirk, Bob Carney ; 5th row - Capt. McLennan, Capt. H. Young, Capt. Sid Wooters, Capt. H. Foulkes, Chief F. Raymer, Councillor Atherton, Dep. Chf. E. Seaford, Capt. Murdo MacKenzie, Capt. E. Vaughan, Capt. C. Buchannan, Fmn. Ken Bayers

[Composite of firemen, department apparatus, fire halls and other scenes]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-428
Item
[Apr. 1910]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a composite photograph showing portraits of Vancouver Fire Department staff, horse-drawn fire apparatus and ladders, scenes of drill training, firemen on route to a fire, exterior and interior views of fire halls, including a fire alarm switch board, firemen sleeping in beds, and firemen playing billiards.

[Funeral procession of firefighter Don McCavour on Burrard Street, near Georgia]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-423
Item
Mar. 1966

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Firefighters aboard Vancouver Fire Department La France aerial at Firehall No. 1]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-422
Item
[ca. 1962]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of 1960 La France with 100 foot aerial ladder at Firehall No. 1, Bob Templeton, driver]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-421
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Firefighters servicing 1922 Packard Pump at Firehall No. 22, former Point Grey apparatus]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-393
Item
[ca. 1935]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Firefighters atop aerial ladder in No. 2 Firehall truck on Seymour Street]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-387
Item
[ca. 1916]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing five firefighters perched on a ladder next to a two-storey building and pool hall.

[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

[Composite of Point Grey Fire Department staff, equipment and activities photographs]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-385
Item
1915

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a composite photograph showing ladder drills, pump and ladder test, pump in action, ladder and hose drill, city service car, combination chemical hose car, alarm room, chief's office, chief's car, triple chemical hose & pump car, ladder drill and pump test, [playing] tennis, answering a call, [playing] hand ball, No. 2 hall as well as portraits of fire fighters.