Garrard Road Fire Department, c.1956
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- Black and white negative showing the members of the Garrard Road Fire Department in front of the fire hall. The truck at left was built on a General Motors chassis by the volunteer firefighters in 1956. The truck at right is a 1924 Reo from the old Whitby Township Fire Department at Brooklin.
Left to right: Lloyd Butler, Ken Brown, George Allan, Jim Watson, Ross Blair, Len Carrington, Bob Johnston, Don Ellison, Harold Bryan, Dick Schad, Harry Knox, Monty Solway, Stephen Bragg, Harold Parsons. - Notes
- Between 1955-1956, a group of volunteers built a fire hall at the southeast corner of Garrard and Forrest Roads. In 1965, it was replaced by a new station at the northeast corner of Thickson and Manning Roads and the original building was demolished in 1966.
- Date of Original
- c.1956
- Dimensions
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Width: 13 cm
Height: 10 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 08-005-023
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.899734031004 Longitude: -78.9078718119812
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- Donor
- Jim Watson
- Copyright Statement
- This item is protected by the Canadian Copyright Act and is intended for one-time use only. Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). It is your responsibility for obtaining these permissions.
- Copyright Date
- 1956
- Recommended Citation
- Garrard Road Fire Department, c.1956, unknown photographer, Whitby Archives, 08-005-023.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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