The History of FireFighting, Early Bytown to modern Ottawa

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).