Vancouver fire 1886

"Like nearly all others who had started business in the new city, however, we perceive that the fire, whatever may be its effect upon individuals, is to the city as a whole not a very serious matter, in fact it can scarcely impede the progress of Vancouver at all. It also encouraged the creation of the city’s first police force.

Some were over a thousand years old and stood over 100 metres tall (300 feet). The branches would then be sawed off and dumped into piles of 'slash', like the one you can see in the foreground of the photo above. The population jumped from about 900 in 1885 to several thousand.

1886 1895 Born in Yorkshire, England, Jack's adventures included captaining ships around the world, prospecting for gold in two gold rushes, winning a vast fortune and losing it in San Francisco's red light district, and opening the Globe Saloon pub in New Westminster. Though their city had been destroyed, the boundless optimism of Vancouverites remained undimmed.

"Photographs of the City of Vancouver before and after the fire can be had at our tent on Cordova street. The first European settlement in modern Vancouver was the Hastings sawmill, founded in 1867 on the site of today's container port. The new city's future was looking very bright (no pun intended).

It offers a striking clue about how a fire so easily could get out of control: Like a city under siege, Vancouver was surrounded by a thick cordon of extremely flammable dead brush. They would learn a hard lesson that day and forever after Vancouver would take firefighting with grave seriousness. 1887

It was erected on the smouldering ashes of the old Tremont Hotel, which you can actually see in the previous photo of Maple Tree Square. The Hastings Mill, whose plentiful timber stocks had survived the fire, handed out lumber for free to any Vancouverite looking to rebuild.

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A photo looking down Water Street in the weeks before the fire.

On the 13 th of June 1886, Vancouver was destroyed by the Great Vancouver fire.

The Squamish people living in villages on Stanley Park and False Creek watched in horror as the great pall of smoke spread across Burrard Inlet. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.Despite its status today as one of Canada’s biggest and most important cities, the city of Vancouver very nearly had a shockingly short lifespan.

After the flames had died down however, he was created an invaluable photographic record of this historic event.

"Land of Destiny." A few months, or even a few weeks, will restore the city to as good a basis as it was on before the fire. The work crew's leader dispatched the young George Cary into town to get help, and fast. The roof next door is on fire! © Copyright 2013-2018 On This Spot Enterprises Inc., all rights reserved. Everything in this photo was burned, including the maple tree.

It is now in the collection … P. 26.4. The damage had been nothing short of catastrophic.

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The fire spurred fundraising for a fire all and fire-fighting equipment. "1.

Xx3 and immigrants from around the world opened all manner of new businesses, including 16 real estate offices.xx4 Vancouver was officially incorporated as a city on April 6, 1886 (though many people kept to calling it Gastown). Great Vancouver Fire. Gassy Jack's eventful life meant he had no shortage of material to captivate his audience. The temperate rainforest climate caused the stands of Douglas fir, cedar, hemlock, and spruce to grow to mind-boggling dimensions, astonishing European immigrants who had never seen anything like it. "Probably never since the days of Pompeii and Herculaneum was a town WIPED OUT OF EXISTENCE so completely and suddenly as was Vancouver on Sunday… This fascinating photo shows Vancouver in early 1886, just before the Great Fire.

"Our city is ashes," it read. BC Studies. Davis, Chuck. The Great Vancouver Fire was a conflagration that destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 13, 1886. Fire Hall No. Water Street filled with terrified men and women, grabbing what possessions they could bundle up while ushering crying children towards the east, away from the flames.

McCartney and Bros Chemists and Druggists on the southwest corner of Water and Abbott. He saw the flames begin to consume the first homes on the edge of town and was appalled. Some made harrowing escapes as flames licked at their heels.

That city's inhabitants, learning of the fire via telegraph, immediately set about filling wagons of relief supplies, including food, clothing, and tents for shelter, and dispatched them to the burning city.

Hamilton managed to rush inside and save the maps.

Vancouver's volunteer fire department had only been established 16 days before the fire, and one of the volunteers, Hugh Campbell, had been lounging in the Sunnyside Hotel when the shouts and smoke drew him outside.xx9 The blast of heat hit him like a punch in the stomach, and he gaped at the towering wall of flames that was heading his ways. 1886

[Photo: Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services] Vancouver Fire and Rescue: Early Days.