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Fighting the Flames! Or Twenty-Seven Years in the Montreal Fire Brigade: A Record of Prominent Fires, Thrilling Adventures, and Hair-Breadth Escapes, Together with Practical Suggestions for Improvement
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Fighting the Flames! Or Twenty-Seven Years in the Montreal Fire Brigade: A Record of Prominent Fires, Thrilling Adventures, and Hair-Breadth Escapes, Together with Practical Suggestions for Improvement
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| Abstract |
Written by a former Captain in the Salvage Corps, the author describes in detail some twelve serious fires in nineteenth century Montreal. McRobie argued for municipal reform in the areas of compensation for injured firemen and for the widows and children of firemen killed in the performance of duty. McRobie joined the fire department in 1853 as a torch-boy in the Queen Engine Company No. 5, located on Wellington Street in Griffintown.
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Montreal
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Witness Printing House
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1881
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en
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McRobie, William Orme. Fighting the Flames! Or Twenty-Seven Years in the Montreal Fire Brigade: A Record of Prominent Fires, Thrilling Adventures, and Hair-Breadth Escapes, Together with Practical Suggestions for Improvement. Montreal: Witness Printing House, 1881. http://ebooks.library.ualberta.ca/local/cihm_09495.
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