Vancouver (B.C.)--Fire Department

Fire at Pierre Paris and B.C. Box Co.

AM1535-: CVA 99-1722
Item
Aug. 1928

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Fire at Pierre Paris and B.C. Box Co.

AM1535-: CVA 99-1714
Item
Aug. 1928

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Fire at Pierre Paris and B.C. Box Co.

AM1535-: CVA 99-1715
Item
Aug. 1928

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Fire at Pierre Paris and B.C. Box Co.

AM1535-: CVA 99-1717
Item
Aug. 1928

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Fire at Pierre Paris and B.C. Box Co.

AM1535-: CVA 99-1720
Item
Aug. 1928

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Fire at Pierre Paris and B.C. Box Co.

AM1535-: CVA 99-1716
Item
Aug. 1928

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Fire at Pierre Paris and B.C. Box Co.

AM1535-: CVA 99-1718
Item
Aug. 1928

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Fire at Pierre Paris and B.C. Box Co.

AM1535-: CVA 99-1721
Item
Aug. 1928

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Fire Brigade in Labour Day parade on Oppenheimer St. approaching Columbia St.]

AM54-S4-1-M-3-: M-3-7.4
Item
[between 1898 and 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Fire Chief and driver

AM1535-: CVA 99-80
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Fire Chief C.W. Thompson]

AM54-S4-: Port P1474.1
Item
Oct. 10, 1930

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Fire Chief C.W. Thompson]

AM54-S4-: Port P1474.2
Item
Oct. 10, 1930

Part of Major Matthews collection

Studio portrait

[Fire Chief J.H. Carlisle in Chief's Studebaker]

AM54-S4-: FD P38
Item
[192-] ; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Fire Chief John Howe Carlisle]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2471
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Fire Department reunion]

AM1477-1-S5-: CVA 1477-147
Item
Jan. 6 1946

Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds

Group portrait. Individual identified is L.D. Taylor, middle row second from left.

[Fire Department reunion]

AM1477-1-S5-: CVA 1477-148
Item
Jan. 6 1946

Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds

Group portrait showing L.D. Taylor standing alongside three men on the back of a fire engine.

[Fire engine at Vancouver Firehall No. 1]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3467
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Fire engine being filled with water on Granville Street and Dunsmuir Street]

AM54-S4-: FD P6
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows "Billy Hamilton", "Steamer No. 2" and the Rand Brothers Real Estate building (formerly the Anderson Block)

[Fire engine loaded with caskets in funeral procession on Granville Street for four firemen killed on duty]

AM54-S4-: FD P18.3
Item
May 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph show Gordon Drysdale Ltd.

[Fire engine responding to forest fire at 2nd Ave. W. and Blenheim Street]

AM1584-: CVA 7-43
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

First appearance of a fire engine in Kitsilano. Photograph shows a wooden sidewalk.

[Fire engines and fire fighters in front of Fire Hall No. 1]

AM1535-: CVA 99-5305
Item
1 May 1919

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph shows engines from various stations.

[Fire engines responding to bush fire at Blenheim and 2nd Ave. W]

AM1584-: CVA 7-41
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

[Fire fighters with Seagrave Aerial Ladder in front of No. 2 Firehall on Seymour Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 556
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Fire Hall No. 1 hand ball team]

AM54-S4-: FD P20
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Ed Michell, J. McMoran, W. Jordan and Jack "Belfast" Courtney

[Fire hose demonstration, apartment building fire, Hudson Plating Co. fire, Danish bakery fire, and rail shipping station fire]

COV-S667-: MI-180
Item
[between 1967 and 1972]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is an organizational record film documenting a fire hose demonstration with Mayor Tom Campbell attending and the Vancouver Fire Department fighting four Vancouver fires. The fire hose demonstration takes place in front of Mine Mill Marine Machinery near the Cambie swingspan bridge. Also shows Johnston Terminals, a tug boat, the new Granville Street Bridge, the Fire Chief being interviewed, and men in scuba suits kicking boards that have fire hoses spouting water. Film also shows apartment building fire, fire at Hudson Plating Co. Ltd. at W 5th and Alberta St., fire at a Danish bakery at W 4th and Stephens, and a fire at a rail shipping and loading station on the docks, which shows Fireboat No. 2 in action.

[Fire Investigators Tom Urquhart and George Birnie posing with "Arson" filing cabinet]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-132
Item
[ca. 1950]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing investigators. Inscription on verso states "[Urquhart and Birnie] working on one of their numerous (150 a month) investigations. They must determine cause of every city fire, whether accidental or incendiary".

Fire on Main Street

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2128
Item
July 20, 1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a fire engine

Fire Prevention Week Display

COV-S667-: MI-178
Item
1971-1972

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a organizational record film documenting fire safety procedures and a fire safety display for Fire Prevention Week. Shows firefighters doing fire inspections, including one of the Shaughnessy Hospital, and examining fire extinguishers. Also shows the fire safety display with fire apparatus and hazards in the home, as well as an interview with the Fire Chief.