LH2815 Bassett Block Fire, view of Simcoe Street side
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black-and-white photograph of damage sustained during a fire at King and Simcoe Streets in Oshawa on 2 March 1944. In foreground is Bassett Jewellers, Vogue Beauty Salon, T. Hornsby Photography. In background on left is the north side of King street East, and Jury and Lovell Drug Store can be seen at 8 King Street East.
- 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
- 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
- LH2815
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.90012 Longitude: -78.84957
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- 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 000430
- Terms of Use
- please credit Oshawa Public Libraries, Local History Collection
- Contact
- Oshawa Public LibrariesEmail:nadams@oshawalibrary.on.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:
Nicole Adams, Local History and Genealogy Librarian
65 Bagot Street
Oshawa, ON L1H 1N2
905-579-6111 EXT 5253
