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  2. No. 8 Hose Station - Wikipedia

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    The hall was built in 1878 as part of the transformation of the Toronto Fire Department that saw it move from a volunteer to a professional organization. The station was home to horse drawn hose car. The clock tower, that quickly became a symbol of the neighbourhood, was added in 1899. From the top of the tower a lookout would watch for fires.

  3. List of fires in Canada - Wikipedia

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    largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. Timmins Fire 9 Timmins Ontario: May–Nov 2012: 0: 39,540 hectares (97,700 acres) [21] Starting North of Gogama, Timmins 9 was the largest fire the area had seen in nearly a 100 years since the 1911 Great Porcupine Fire. L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire: L'Isle-Verte Quebec: Dec 2014: 32 [22]

  4. Great Fire of Toronto (1904) - Wikipedia

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    Where the Toronto Fire started. The fire claimed one victim, John Croft, who was an explosive expert clearing the ruins from the fire. [7] It caused CA$10,387,000 ($373 million in 2023 dollars [8]) in damage [9] and put five thousand people out of work; at the time the city had 200,000 inhabitants. As a result of the fire, more stringent safety ...

  5. 2024 Canadian wildfires - Wikipedia

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    The 2024 wildfires in Canada began as an extension of the record-setting 2023 wildfires.The country experienced an unusually long fire season in 2023 that lasted into the autumn; these fires smouldered through the winter and about 150 re-ignited as early as February 2024.

  6. List of clock towers - Wikipedia

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    Press Building, Exhibition Place, Toronto; former Toronto Fire Department Fire Hall Number 3, Toronto - tower now on top of new commercial building at 484 Yonge Street; Toronto Fire Station 312, former Toronto FD Hall #10; former North York Fire Hall # 1 hose drying tower - now located at Princess Park behind Empress Walk; Etobicoke Civic ...

  7. The Arthur Pequegnat Clock Company - Wikipedia

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    Today, their clocks are highly collectible in Canada and command twice the price of similarly styled clocks by well-known American counterparts. One of the aspects that interests collectors is the high number of variants. Collectors can hunt for time-only, time and strike, or either of these with calendar.

  8. Great Fire of Toronto (1849) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Fire of Toronto of 1849, April 7, 1849, also known as the Cathedral Fire, was the first major fire in the history of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Much of the Market Block, the business core of the city, was wiped out, including the predecessor of the current St. James Cathedral .

  9. List of historic Toronto fire stations - Wikipedia

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    Toronto Fire Department Headquarters and Alarm Office at 152 Adelaide Street West are visible at the bottom right of this photograph taken in 1959. Toronto Fire Department Headquarters (1909) and Alarm Office at 152 Adelaide Street West (1910) were Beaux-Arts structures and demolished in the 1970s.