A16-Sunday News, October 5, 1980

community round-up

Add fire’ to your library list this week

Fire is an intrinsic part of
man's nature. In prehistoric
times fire was man’s best

_friend and his worst enemy.

Down through the ages man
has learned to respect the
enchanting power of fire and
he is still learning how to
cantrol its hideous evil.

The West Vancouver
Library has a_ splendid
sesection of books on several
aspects of fire.

“So You Think You're
Covered” by Stanley
Leinwold is a Consumer's
Guide to Home Insurance.

“Fire Marks” by John
Vince has almost 200

Soe

WEST VAN FIRE TRUCKS parked outside the Memorial Library while firemen
carry out a routine check as part of Fire Prevention Week.

illustrations of fire marks
and plates. It became the
custom during the
eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries for the insurance
companies to mark insured
buildings with a distinctive
“fire-mark’”- or “plate.”

“The Phoenix Forest” by
Torus and Margery Milne
compares the legend of the
phoenix bird, who lived 500
years and was consumed and
reborn by fire, to the
regeneration of a forest on
burned land.

Hugh MacLennan wrote
the gripping novel
“Barometer Rising”, which is

a story woven around the
Halifax explosion of 1917.
“Fire Canoe” by Theodore
Barris recaptures the vivid
excitement of an era when
spark belching steamers —
called fire canoes by the
awestruck Indians who
witnessed their coming —
plied Prairie waterways.
Vincent-H. Gaddies wrote
“Mysterious Fire and
Lights”. He has carefully
researched and documented
hundreds of bizarre events
that have happened; in-
cluding stories of
poltergeists and tales of
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In the children’s depart-
ment is a book called “Fire”
edited by Peter Carver. It is
a collection of Canadian
writing dealing with fire in
both its literal and symbolic
sense. It contains survivor
accounts of the Vancouver
Fire of June 1886, and the St.

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John's Fire of 1817 in
Newfoundland. In a lighter
vein, there is the “Cremation
of Sam McGee” by Robert
Service.

Also for youngsters who
are interested in emergency
care, Kathy Pelta has written
an excellent book called
“What Does a Paramedic

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The week of October 9 is
Fire Prevention Week; a
reminder that survival can
depend on knowing where
the nearest fire exit is, or
where the fire extinguisher
in your home or office is,
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the fire department.

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