Dramatic Photographs of Fighting Fires in Winter in Manitoba in the 1910s and 1920s

It has been a chilly few days here in the depths of north-central Saskatchewan, so I got curious about historical fires. After a quick image search on Peel’s Prairie Provinces (my favourite archive of western Canadiana, hosted by the University of Alberta libraries), I fell down a rabbit hole of postcards of dramatic photographs of the aftermath of fighting fires in the wintertime in the 1910s and 1920s. I don’t use the word “dramatic” lightly, either.

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC001288.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC001292.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC001300.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC001304.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC001313.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC001316.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC001317.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC001321.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC006082.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC011498.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC011500.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC011504.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC011513.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC013453.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC011555.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC011566.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC013448.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC013452.html

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC001299.html