Title: Brian Hadland collection

This record describes the Brian Hadland collection.

Creator: ["Chandler and Cowgill", "Frank DeGruchy", "Prince Rupert Fire Museum"]

Date: [ca 191- to 2002]

Physical Description: ["2 photographs: col.", "94 photographs: b&w", "2 photographs: copy b&w"]

History/Biography: Brian Hadland was born in Prince Rupert and worked as a firefighter at the Prince Rupert Fire Department from 1976 until he retired in 2006. While at the Fire Department he was instrumental in starting up the Fire Museum adjacent to the Fire Hall.

Scope & Content: Collection includes photographs of people in and around Prince Rupert, totem poles at Massett and Yan on the Queen Charlotte Islands and Port Simpson. People depicted include Sydney and Erna Hamblin, Winnie Black (nee Hall), Kay Smith, Stan Seville, Maurice Bridges, Bill Wilson-Murray, a police search party with a boat, George Johnstone, Nora Johnstone, Freida Linzey, Phil Linzey, Peter Black, Hester Black, Jack Judge, John "Jack" L. MacIntosh, his wife Margaret (Duthie) and their son John "Jack" Alexander Duthie, Police Chief Vickers standing on Fulton Street with the Scandinavian Rooms in the background, Bill Murray, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Anne and Mrs. Shelford when the royal family visited for the opening of the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital. The series also includes two photographs depicting a fire truck parked outside of King's Confectionery and the Helgerson Block in the 700 block of Third Avenue West, with the Alder Block in the background on Sixth Street. There is also a photograph of the restored REO Fire Engine out front of the Prince Rupert Fire Museum, and two of the fire department staff, ca. 1950s, posing with Mayor George Hills, and a photograph of the snag scow Essington II. Included is a VHS video filmed by Ron Marchand showing the CN dock fire in 1972 and the Baptist Church demolition.

Note: Title based on donor of the photographs.

Name Access:
Hadland, Brian
Prince Rupert Fire Museum
Prince Rupert Fire & Rescue
King's Confectionary and Cafe
Helgerson Block
Sixth Street
Alder Block
Hamblin, Sydney
Hamblin, Erna
Black, Winnie (nee Hall)
Smith, Kay
Seville, Stan
Bridges, Maurice Bill
Wilson-Murray, William H.
Johnstone, George
Johnstone, Nora
Linzey, Freida
Linzey, Phil
Black, Peter
Black, Hester
Judge, Jack
MacIntosh, John \"Jack\" Livingstone
MacIntosh, Margaret (Duthie) and
MacIntosh, John \"Jack\" Alexander Duthie
Police Chief Vickers
Murray, Bill
Queen Elizabeth II
Princess Anne
Mrs. Shelford
Scandanavian Rooms
Fulton Street
Symes, Frank
Becker, Earl
Ewart, Jock
Locke, Chief
Stanton,
MacLean, Johnny
Cameron, Bert
Llewellyn, Don
Hill, Buster
Franks, Jack
Iveson, Slim
Howser, Slim
Parks, Bob
Chandler and Cowgill
Hills, Mayor George
Snagscow - Essington II

Subject Access:
Fire Trucks
Fire Departments
Mayors
Museums
Confectionaries
Totem Poles
Police
People
Hotels
Cow Bay
Fires

Geographic Access:
Prince Rupert, B.C.

Accession Number: P2002-001-001, 003; P2005-098-10259 to 10365; 2005-027;2010.006.001; 2013-011

Record ID: 1787


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