Series - Firewards and fire protection company records

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Firewards and fire protection company records

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    • 1789 - 1917 (Creation)

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    69 cm of textual records (20 volumes)

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    Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records of firewards and fire protection companies in Halifax. Includes minutes of meetings of firewards (fire wardens), 1804-1853; minute-books and other records of the Union [Fire] Engine Company, 1789-1807, 1826-1861; and the Union Fire Protection Company, 1861-1917; records of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, 1802-1821; and records of the Axe Fire Company, 1813-1861.

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    Fire protection company records presented by the Union Fire Protection Company in 1919.

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        RG 1 volumes 502-520.

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        Volume 502 - Halifax Firewards, 1804-1835 - microfilm 15501
        Volume 503 - Halifax Firewards, 1835-1853 - microfilm 15501
        Volume 503½ - Union Fire Protection Company, 1789-1807 - microfilm 15501
        Volume 504 - Union Fire Engine Company, 1826-1835 - microfilm 15502
        Volume 505 - Union Fire Engine Company, 1835-1846 - microfilm 15502, 15503
        Volume 506 - Union Fire Engine Company, 1847-1861 - microfilm 15503
        Volume 507 - Hand in Hand Fire Company, 1802-1821 - microfilm 15503
        Volume 508 - Axe Fire Company, 1813-1838 - microfilm 15504
        Volume 509 - Axe Fire Company, 1839-1852 - microfilm 15505, 15506
        Volume 510 - Axe Fire Company, 1839-1861 - microfilm 15506
        Volume 511 - Axe Fire Company, 1854-1861 - microfilm 15506
        Volume 512 - Union Fire Protection Company, 1862-1876 - microfilm 15507
        Volume 513 - Union Fire Protection Company, 1876-1883 - microfilm 15507
        Volume 514 - Union Fire Protection Company, 1883-1893 - microfilm 15508
        Volume 515 - Union Fire Protection Company, 1861-1873 - microfilm 15508
        Volume 516 - Union Fire Protection Company, 1879-1890 - microfilm 15508
        Volume 517 - Union Fire Protection Company, 1908-1914 - microfilm 15509
        Volume 518 - UFP Company scrapbook, 1858-1873 - microfilm 15510
        Volume 519 - UFP Company scrapbook, 1879-1906 - microfilm 15510
        Volume 520 - UFP Company scrapbook, 1906-1917 - microfilm 15510

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        Collected by Harry Piers.

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