LH2814 Bassett Block Fire, view of King Street side
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black-and-white photograph of damages sustained during a fire at King and Simcoe Streets in Oshawa on 2 March 1944.
- Notes
- The Bassett Block fire (King and Simcoe Streets) occured on 2 March 1944. It took firefighters about 7 hours to contain the blaze, and there was approximately $125,000 in damages. Four families were left homeless after the fire (Oshawa Times, 12 Jan 1961).
- Inscriptions
- "Reverse": Bassett Block Fire
- Date of Original
- March 1944
- Date Of Event
- 2 March 1944
- Dimensions
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Width: 11.5 cm
Height: 7 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- LH2814
- Language of Item
- English
- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Copyright Date
- 1944
- Recommended Citation
- Photo courtesy of the Oshawa Public Libraries
- Location of Original
- PHOTO GPC B-007 000429
- Terms of Use
- please credit Oshawa Public Libraries, Local History Collection
- Contact
- Oshawa Public LibrariesEmail:nadams@oshawalibrary.on.ca
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Nicole Adams, Local History and Genealogy Librarian
65 Bagot Street
Oshawa, ON L1H 1N2
905-579-6111 EXT 5253
