- CA JMABC A.1999.021-2-3845-L.23923
- Item
- [ca. 1953]
Part of Fred Schiffer Photography fonds
Black and white photograph of an office, possibly of Argentina's Kalmar company.
Part of Fred Schiffer Photography fonds
Black and white photograph of an office, possibly of Argentina's Kalmar company.
Part of Fred Schiffer Photography fonds
Black and white photograph of an office, possibly of Argentina's Kalmar company.
Part of Fred Schiffer Photography fonds
Black and white photograph of an office, possibly of Argentina's Kalmar company.
Part of Fred Schiffer Photography fonds
Black and white photograph of Ataka Co. Ltd.
Part of Fred Schiffer Photography fonds
Black and white photograph of Ataka Co. Ltd.
BC Forest Products - Hammond - Victoria & North Vancouver - dumping of new log barge
Part of Fred Schiffer Photography fonds
Black and white photograph of the BC Forest Products new log barge being dumped between North Vancouver and Victoria. Boat is named "Forest Prince".
BC Forest Products - Hammond - Victoria & North Vancouver - dumping of new log barge
Part of Fred Schiffer Photography fonds
Black and white photograph of the BC Forest Products new log barge being dumped between North Vancouver and Victoria.
BC Forest Products - Hammond - Victoria & North Vancouver - dumping of new log barge
Part of Fred Schiffer Photography fonds
Black and white photograph of the BC Forest Products new log barge being dumped between North Vancouver and Victoria. Tug boat is named "Commodore Straits".
BC Forest Products - New Westminster Paper Co
Part of Fred Schiffer Photography fonds
Colour photograph of the interior of the New Westminster Paper Company Mill, done for BC Forest Products.
BC Forest Products - rehabilitation
Part of Fred Schiffer Photography fonds
Black and white photograph depicts men sitting around a table at a BC Forest Products sawmill office.
On July 3, 1960 Vancouver firefighters battled the most destructive blaze since the city burned to the ground in 1886. The five-alarm fire occurred when fire destroyed the B.C. Forest Products plant and lumber storage facility on the south shore of False Creek at 999 West 6th Ave. The fire covered an area equal in size to four city blocks and took many hours to put out, causing $3.5 million in damage. A force of 350 men - more than half the city's firefighting force - was deployed, preventing the fire from causing even more damage. Whipped by winds of up to 60 kilometres per hour, the fire sent 10 firefighters and three civilians to hospital, while 45 others were treated at the scene. It destroyed warehouses, dry kilns, a planing mill, the head office of B.C. Forest Products, and 200 million board feet of lumber.
Link to a video of the fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOm-GwccA