Two Unrelated Fire Department Pictures

zagg: 9th Aug 2006 - 10:19 GMT

any idea when that first fire deptartment building was built?

EvilGentleman: 9th Aug 2006 - 10:33 GMT

No clue, but I see a cornerstone at the bottom of the tower. I guess next time I pass there, I will have to actually get out of the car and take a look.

Grange: 9th Aug 2006 - 11:02 GMT

it would make a nice night club , or timmies ....

EvilGentleman: 9th Aug 2006 - 17:30 GMT

Ok, as much as I love Timmies, that is ludicrous! That is as much of a sin as Don MacLean allowing Madonna to do a cover version of American Pie!

Night club... mayyyyybe...

zagg: 9th Aug 2006 - 21:57 GMT

I'd love an update if you do find out the date, thanks :)

EvilGentleman: 9th Aug 2006 - 22:16 GMT

Ok, will do. Next time I pass the corner of Victoria Avenue and The Boulevard in Westmount, I will have a look-see.

EvilGentleman: 15th Aug 2006 - 21:49 GMT

Well here on citynoise, I posted this article about a fire, and for other citynoise articles, try www.citynoise.org/search/fire.

Outside of citynoise, try www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fire&btnG=Google+Search&meta= or go to any other search website and type "fire", the click on the "search" button.

EvilGentleman: 18th Aug 2006 - 18:18 GMT

Excerpt from http://www.westmountexaminer.com/article-24092-Council-ends-sixyear-sale-of-Fire-Station-No-2.html (the webpage no longer exists, I retrieved the data from a Google cache)

##The sale of the Fire Station No 2 building at Victoria and The Boulevard for $800,000 was expected to finally be approved by Westmount City Council at its July meeting on Wednesday.
The building was put up for sale six years ago, and tender bids were opened in December 2000, the successful one being by Groupe Axxys. It was one of the last actions by the City of Westmount before the Transition Committee began to control financial transactions as preparation for the forced annexation with Montreal.##

Found this pic at www.haya.qc.ca/fire/stations/westmount-2.html. The station opened in 1912.

As you will notice from comparing the above pic from 2002 with the pic below, taken today, some time between March 2002 and August 2006, somebody stole the brass or copper cornerstone plaque. I would imagine it was stolen at least a year ago, from the looks of the rust on the bolts. Or maybe the city took it off to be preserved in a museum, as the fire station is now a residential home.

EvilGentleman: 18th Aug 2006 - 18:20 GMT

The article excerpt was from July 12, 2006. By the way, why did my italics not work? Is the code messing up?