Vancouver Centennial Plaque #80 – From Buckets to Aerial Trucks

Address:           1001 Nicola Street

Status:             Missing, but another heritage plaque is there

“FROM BUCKETS TO AERIAL TRUCKS

The Fire Department has grown up with Vancouver. Buckets and axes have given way to street alarm boxes (1890s); horse-drawn fire wagons to motor-driven engines housed in halls like this (1907). The force has grown from a few volunteers to a complement of some 800 quartered in 20 file halls.”

Credit: Vancouver Centennial Commission, Historic Plaque Program – list and documentation plaques 50-100 (June 18, 1986). Courtesy of Vancouver Archives

Photo credit: Vancouver Archives (AM336-S3-2- CVA 677-457)