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The Historical Society of Ottawa – The History of Firefighting: Early Bytown to Modern Ottawa
September 11, 2024 @ 7:00 pm
Guest Speaker Peter McBride, President, Bytown Fire Brigade Historical Society
Presented in partnership with the Bytown Fire Brigade, an Ottawa-based non-profit historical society founded in 1983 with the mission of collecting, preserving, restoring and displaying artifacts and apparatus that tell the history of firefighting in Ottawa and across Canada.
Chief McBride, our guest speaker, is a 32-year veteran of the Ottawa Fire Service, a Canadian Registered Safety Professional and passionate advocate of “F.I.R.E. Literacy” (F.I.R.E. = Firefighting, Instruction, Research & Engineering).
This presentation will take place on Zoom. All are welcome to attend.