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Champion Hose Team of B.C.

Item is a photograph portrait of the firefighters of the 1887 B.C. champion hose team. The individuals in the photograph are (left to right): Back row: J. Moran, W. Hamilton, R. Rutherford, D. Biggar. Middle row: Hugh Campbell, J. Taylor, J. McDonald, J. McKenzie, W. H. Saunders. Front: Captain J. A. Mateer.

Firemen's Baseball Team - Senior Amateur League Champions

Item is a photograph showing a group portrait of the team along with a boy and baby, with the crowd in the stands behind them. L-R, back row - A. Miller, W. Bailey, P. Duff, L. Thompson, L. Foley, J. Watters (manager), N. Goodall, N. Craig. Front row - L. Holden, P. Marks, Ald. [Alderman] P.C. Gibbens, Dep. Chief Thompson, D. Corbett (Sec.), C, Stevenson, D. May ; mascots - Jimmy Watters Jr., Jerry Mullaly

Follow Me

Item is a film showing a boy [Arnold Stride] talking to Fire Chief R.R. Jacks and witnessing two rescue drills.

Funeral cortege of three firemen killed on duty

Item is a photograph of a funeral procession for Cpt. E. William Barnett, firefighter Reg Hill, and Lt. James Hunt, the three firefighters killed during the McMaster Building fire. The procession is on W Georgia Street outside Christ Church Cathedral. The coffins of the three firefighters, draped with the union jack, have been placed on top of a covered ladder truck and are flanked by bearers on top of the truck and along the sides. A crowd of mourners can be seen on the sidewalk outside the cathedral.

Funeral cortege of three firemen killed on duty, loading the coffins

Item is a photograph of a funeral procession for Cpt. E. William Barnett, firefighter Reg Hill, and Lt. James Hunt, the three firefighters killed during the McMaster Building fire. The procession is on W Georgia Street outside Christ Church Cathedral. The coffins of the three firefighters, draped with the union jack, are in the process of being ceremonially placed on top of a covered ladder truck and are flanked by bearers on top of the truck and along the sides. Crowds of mourners fill the sidewalks, officials stand by the sides, and a marching band can be seen playing.

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

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

[Group portrait of Vancouver Fire Department senior staff]

Item is a photograph showing: Bottom row - Alan Murray, Charles Thompson, Lorne Foley, Clarence Oxley, Percy Trerise. 2nd row - Bill Plumsteel, Walter Fox, Harvey Bowering (Joe), Alec Betto, Archie MacDiarmid, Roary MacDonald, Jimmy Murray, Ernie Vaughan, Frank Taylor, Bob Kennedy, Dan Grant. 3rd row - Tiny Jewett, [?] McLellan, Alec Petrie, Lock Livingston, Hughie McCartney, Billy Milne, Ald Worthington, Jack McWilliams, Pete Cole, Jimmy Lang, Alec Wilson, Bill Huston, Jim Crutchley, Ed Errat, Jack DeGraves, Pete Thorne. Back row - Claud Freeman, Sid Ruff, Clarke McClure, Charlie Elenor, Ernie Hall, Archie King, Harry Young, Jack McLeod, Hector Wright, Angus Lougheed, Frank Amy.

[Group portraits of fire chiefs in civilian dress]

Item is a photograph showing (L-R): Seated - Chief E.L. Erratt, Chief J. H. De Graves, Chief C.W. Thompson, Chief A. McDiarmid, Chief A.R. Murray. Back row - Chiefs Malcolm MacDonald, Wm. [William] Plumsteel, Angus Lougheed, Walter Fox, and Harvey Bowering.

Opening No. 4 Hall P.G.F.D.

Item is a photograph showing Chief F. Raymur and Deputy Chief E. Seaford on dais at opening of Point Grey Firehall No. 4 at 70th Avenue and Hudson Street.

Vancouver Fire Department - First Aid Team

Item is a photograph portrait of the Vancouver Fire Department's first aid team, winners of Daily Province and City Shields, 1931. The identified individuals are (standing, left to right): Capt. J. Anderson (Instructor), L. Leavy, T. Anderson (Capt.), Chief Thompson, and (seated, left to right) J. Ettinger, W. Bailey (Patient), W. Barrett.

Vancouver Fire Department 1905

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.