Niagara-on-the-Lake Fire Hall Museum

    Black and white photograph of the members of Fire Department in Niagara-on-the-Lake in 1950. Framed for a wall display. BACK : E. SMITH, J. NESBITT, H. DICK, W. RICHARDSON, W. GALLOP, N. HAINES, R. C

    Black and white photographs of the members of Fire Department in Niagara-on-the-Lake in 1959 arranged in four rows; at the bottom of this composition three photographs of NFD fire trucks. Top row, fr

    Handcart with 4 wheels and long storage trunk; made of wood and metal parts. This hand drawn wagon took the wooden ladders and leather hose to the fire scene. First used in 1850.

    Manually drawn fire pump with four wheels. It is made of wood and metal parts, painted red with exception for "1763" and "N.F.D." [Niagara Fire Department]. The wood wheels have wrought iron bands. "

    Hand-drawn hose cart with two big wheels, a hose and nozzles. Wood/metal. The hose reel was pulled to the fire scene by 4 to 6 men, and the hose was unrolled from the fire to the source of water. The

    In 1834, the fire department purchased a new ten-man hand-operated pumper known as the "Man Killer," as well as a horse drawn wagon to carry axes, a horse-drawn ladder wagon, a hand-operated pump wit

    The black leather buckets, each with "N.F.D." [Niagara Fire Department] and numbers "15" and "20" painted in white. The bucket is narrower at the bottom (17 cm diameter ) and wider at the top (24 cm

    Hand-drawn, wooden bucket cart with two wheels and a storage box for carrying buckets. "This cart was used in early 1800 to carry the leather buckets to the fire scene. These buckets were the backbon

    Indian Fire Pump was designed and manufactured by D.B. Smith Company of Utica and is still used today.

    Handheld brass/copper 2 1/2 quart fire extinguisher produced by Stop-Fire, Inc., New Brunswick, N.J. with "Redi-grip" and pistol grip pump handle. Model AC-24, originally filled with Carbontetrachlor

    In 1895, the Bell Telephone of Canada was required to spin off its manufacturing arm to build phones for sale to other companies, as well as other devices such as fire alarm boxes, police street call

    Antique brass/copper fire hose nozzles. Show a sign of use at the top.

    Wooden extension ladders were standard equipment in the early days of firefighting. Modern fire truck extension ladders are usually built of aluminum which were introduced about 50 years ago. Wooden

    The Niagara Fire Department purchased this early apparatus in 1834. This hand pump engine was probably one of the first hand pumpers built by James Smith of New York City. Between 1810 and the 1860s,

    Wooden plaque with names of honorary members of Niagara-on-the-Lake Fire Department (from 1912 to 2003) engraved on metal tags and three-dimensional firefighter's image at the bottom. H.L. ANDERSON 1

    Wooden plaque with names of honorary members of Niagara-on-the-Lake Fire Department (between 2003 and 2011) engraved on metal tags with room left for more names. It has a casted metal image of firefi

Garrett, Doug, Niagara Advance (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada), 27 Jul 1972     Undated photograph but probably taken in early 1900s, before 1911. The Court House is in the background - the second fire hall was located there before moving to a new location on Queen Street in 191

    The colour photographs of the members of Niagara-on-the-Lake Fire Department (District 1) in 2009. Between the rows, in the centre : a photograph of three fire trucks outside of new fire hall on 2 An

    The colour photographs of the members of Niagara-on-the-Lake Fire Department in 1974, framed for a wall display. At the bottom: a photograph of the fire hall on King Street, and four pictures of fire

    "By the 1830's, three Niagara insurance companies had each hired six to eight firefighters. Insured houses had plaques over their front doors, so firefighters would know which company insured which h