Black and white photograph depicts people sitting at desks 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

Photograph depicts Alec Jackson (right) being installed as President of B'nai B'rith Lions Gate Lodge #1716 by installing officers Maurice Lifchus and Jack Sparton.

Photograph depicts Ben Dayson wearing a bathing suit laying on sand with water behind him.

Photograph depicts Ben Dayson sitting on a railing on the porch of a house.

Photograph depicts two men sitting on grass. The man on the left is likely Ben Dayson while the unidentified man on the right is holding a glass bottle. There is a park bench on the left side of the image.

Photograph depicts Ben Dayson and Harry Nemetz in Watrous, Saskatchewan.

Photograph depicts Ben Dayson and an unidentified man posing for the camera.

Photograph depicts Ben Dayson sitting on a lounge chair in what appears to be a garden. There is Yiddish written on the reverse of the image. Within the sentence is the word "Victoria" written in English script. Other copies available; refer to PastPerfect for details.

Photograph depicts Ben Dayson with an unidentified child sitting on his shoulder. They are on a beach with a water and a dock in the background. Written on verso: "Ben Dayson ? in Watrous."

Photograph depicts Ben Dayson on the deck of a ship leaning on the railing, on route to Seattle for honeymoon.