City of Vancouver Archives

[View of water hoses pouring from Canadian Pacific Station to put out fire at Pier D]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-114
Item
July 27, 1938

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of man on handcar crossing over fire hoses laid across tracks at Capilano Shingle Company fire]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-120
Item
Apr. 16, 1943

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of firefighters with a hose battling blaze at Dominion Construction Company millwork plant at 150 West 1st Avenue]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-155
Item
Aug. 11, 1955

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of firefighters and damage at waterfront fire at Benson's Shipyard]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-407
Item
May 30, 1957

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing a ruptured fire hose.

[View of firefighter using a water hose and the damage to the Canadian Pacific Railway Pier D]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-115
Item
July 27, 1938

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of fire engines parked in Firehall No. 1]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-259
Item
[ca. 1962]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of fire at G.H. Cottrell Warehouse, 139 Water Street]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-018
Item
Oct. 30, 1910

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing fire fighters climbing a ladder at building with hoses and engines below and spectators watching from below and from across the street at a rooming house.

[View of fire at G.H. Cottrell Warehouse, 139 Water Street]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-019
Item
Oct. 30, 1910

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing the warehouse ablaze and firemen on a ladder. A crowd of spectators is visible in the foreground.

[View of evacuation drill at Department of Veterans' Affairs Shaughnessy Hospital]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-238
Item
1961

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing a hospital patient transported by stretcher out a window with firefighters and a fire truck waiting below; three cameramen are filming the activity.

[View of evacuation drill at Department of Veterans' Affairs Shaughnessy Hospital]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-239
Item
1961

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing the a ladder extended from a fire truck to the exterior of the hospital building.

[View of evacuation drill at Department of Veterans' Affairs Shaughnessy Hospital]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-237
Item
1961

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing firefighters placing a hospital patient in a stretcher.

[View of damage and firefighters battling blaze at Dominion Construction Company millwork plant at 150 West 1st Avenue]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-153
Item
Aug. 11, 1955

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of damage and firefighters battling blaze at Dominion Construction Company millwork plant at 150 West 1st Avenue]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-152
Item
Aug. 11, 1955

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of damage and firefighters battling blaze at Dominion Construction Company millwork plant at 150 West 1st Avenue]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-154
Item
Aug. 11, 1955

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of Canadian Pacific Railway Pier D on fire and two fireboats working on the water while crowds watch]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-106
Item
July 27, 1938

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of Canadian Pacific Railway Pier D on fire and two fireboats working on the water while crowds watch]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-108
Item
July 27, 1938

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of Canadian Pacific Railway Pier D on fire and two fireboats working on the water]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-105
Item
July 27, 1938

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of Canadian Pacific Railway Pier D on fire]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-104
Item
July 27, 1938

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of apparatus used by Vancouver Fire Department in its "Chemistry of Fire" demonstration]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-228
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of activity on dock concerning the Canadian Pacific Railway Pier D on fire]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-110
Item
July 27, 1938

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View from railyard showing the Canadian Pacific Railway Pier D on fire]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-113
Item
July 27, 1938

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fireboat No. 2 fighting waterfront blaze]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-445
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fireboat No. 2 fighting waterfront blaze]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-446
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fireboat No. 2 fighting waterfront blaze]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-447
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department vehicles parked in front of Fire Hall No. 3, 12th Avenue and Quebec Street, showing Fire Prevention Week sign]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-170
Item
[ca. 1956]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department staff using portable fire extinguisher]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-227
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department staff trying on fire jackets]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-222
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department staff trying on fire jackets]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-223
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department staff showing firefighting apparatus to boy scouts]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-288
Item
[ca. 1965]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department staff member explaining tools to interviewer and boy scouts]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-252
Item
1962

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department staff member demonstrating hoisting of ladder]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-224
Item
[ca. 1964]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department staff member demonstrating combustion elements]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-229
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department staff demonstrating H-H inhalator to civilians]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-230
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department staff aboard horse-drawn Canadian Steamers, near No. 7 Firehall, 5th Avenue at Yew Street]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-007
Item
[ca. 1908]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing uniformed fire fighters riding in horse-drawn fire wagons; Parnell McCarville (right center) came on duty July 29, 1907, others unidentified.

[Vancouver Fire Department Rescue and Safety staff on stage demonstrating resuscitation]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-231
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department Rescue and Safety squad giving demonstration]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-350
Item
[ca. 1950]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department Rescue and Safety squad administering oxygen to patient at home]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-356
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department recruits hoisting ladder]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-225
Item
[ca. 1964]

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.