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Saltcoats Volunteer Fire Department: (information taken from Saltcoats History Book – Roots and Branches)

In 1894, at the first recorded ratepayer’s meeting one of the main concerns was the setting up of a bylaw concerning fire restrictions with permission given to the overseer, Mr. Thomas MacNutt, to enforce the bylaw.

A decision was made in Jan. of 1897 to purchase 200 feet of rope and two ladders: one 14 feet and one 20 feet.

Devastating fires in Saltcoats:

1905 - April 13, Parrot Lumber Yard and surrounding businesses (on High St.)

1909- T.W. Willey’s Drug Store burnt

1916, July 22, Saltcoats Mill burnt

1919 – winter- the Queen’s Hotel on High Street burnt

1926 - Dec.14, Saltcoats School – a beautiful brick two-story school burnt.

1964 – Wyatt Hardware Store on High Street burnt

1966 -Explosion of the Co-Op Oil Tanker

1985- UGG Elevator burnt