Canada Eh?

[jgroutley]

Mr. Stronach

It seems that your memory is fading fast. The list includes only one Montreal Seagrave tiller repowered with a GMC tractor, when we should all clearly remember that there were two of them. One was 445 and subsequently became 435, while the pictured vehicle was 415 - having previously been assigned to Station 9. In the original configuration one of them was at Station 1 and I believe that the other was at Station 23 at some point in time.


Lest we forget!

You are absolutely right.  How could I have missed it when it was 10 minutes from my house and I photographed it at many fires in the 1970's?  Here is a picture of it, a 1949 Bickle Seagrave 100 ft., as the reserve ladder in 1978.  It had a diesel engine installed in the tractor some time ago and is now owned by the Montreal Auxiliary Firemen. Here is the revised list of 18.

• Trois Rivieres, QC – 1937 Bickle Seagrave 100’
  
  
• Victoria, BC – 1938 Bickle Seagrave 85’
  
  
• Winnipeg, MB - 1939 Lafrance 500 series 100’
  
  
• Halifax, NS – 1940 Bickle Seagrave 100’
  
  
• Westmount, QC – 1943 Lafrance 500 series 100’. This truck tipped over at a fire in 1961 and was replaced with two, 1963 Thibault-Merryweather 100’ trucks
  
  
• Montreal, QC – 1944 Bickle Seagrave 85’ (new GMC tractor 1955?)
  
  
• Quebec City, QC – 1944 Bickle Seagrave 85’ (new 1973 IH tractor)
  
  
• Quebec City, QC – 1949 Bickle Seagrave 85’
  
  
• Quebec City, QC – 1949 Bickle Seagrave 85’
  
  
• Lachine, QC – 1949 Bickle Seagrave 100’
  
  
• Windsor, ON – 1949 Pirsch 100’ Senior Model 41
  
  
• Verdun, QC – 1956 (?) Thibault-IH 75’.  Thibault steel aerial replaced
  
  1932 Verdun ALF Type 331 front-drive aerial -- the only one ever built. Thibault converted the frame to a trailer and inserted the International KB tractor under it.
  
  
• Halifax, NS – 1966 King Seagrave 100’
  
  
• Vancouver, BC – 1966 Hub-Gro
  
  ve-IH 100’
  
  
• Quebec City, QC – 1973 Thibault-IH 100’
  
  
• Quebec City, QC – 1976 Thibault-KW 100’
  
  
• Quebec City, QC – 2011 Pierce 100’
  
  
• Quebec City, QC – 2013 Pierce 100’