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Toronto : fire alarm telegraph signal boxes &c &c.

Date1902

Names

Charles Roddy, Corporation Printe (printer)

Toronto (Ont.). Fire Department (author)

Format

Ephemera

Subject

Fire departments

Communication systems

Medium

Undefined

DimensionsFolded to 11.5 x 8.2 cm.

Language

CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana

Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)

Call Number / Accession Number1902-FIRE-BOOK-VS

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8/1/1975

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False, But fun alarm, It was only a demonstration, but hundreds of kids saw the North York Fire Department in action at its training facilities on Old(...)

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Fire Chief retires, Yorkville District Fire Chief Douglas Begley retired yesterday, just short of his 65th birthday, after 42 years with Toronto Fire Department, 10 of them at Yorkville

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