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Fire at Rootman Apartments
- Date Range
- July 7th 1960
- Collection
- BVM visual record collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Photo of the Rootman Apartments fire on July 7th 1960. Four families who lived on the top floor lost their homes and nearly all their possessions (the ground floor was vacant). There were no deaths, but two hospitalizations.
- Collection
- BVM visual record collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Fonds No.
- C2
- Item No.
- P2230
- Accession No.
- 1991.225.7
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: b&w; 12 x 8 cm
- Scan Resolution
- 96 dpi
- Date Range
- July 7th 1960
- History / Biographical
- The Rootman Apartments, located on the north side of Main Street between First and Second Avenues, occupied the upper floor of the former Smithers Confectionery/Med-O-Land building from January 1958 until their destruction by fire on July 7th 1960. The Confectionery (owned by George Heffernan and later Cliff Delange) occupied this site from June 1935 until a fire on September 19th 1954; the building was then reopened as the Med-O-Land (or Meadowland) Inn, which closed in May 1956. Following the 1960 fire, the site lay vacant until 1964, when Smithers Electric constructed a building there.
- Scope and Content
- Photo of the Rootman Apartments fire on July 7th 1960. Four families who lived on the top floor lost their homes and nearly all their possessions (the ground floor was vacant). There were no deaths, but two hospitalizations.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Notes
- See Interior News, photos on July 21st 1960 and Sept. 23rd 1970.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Less detail
