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The fire brigade tries out a new pumper, as
captured by a nervous photographer. Despite the technology,
Lloydminster, like most of the urban centres of the day, experienced
periodic devastating fires. 
Photo Courtesy of Marjorie Brooks Below,
the pride of Lloydminster when its brick and marble rose above the sea of
clapborad structures; was destroyed in the Great Fire of August 19, 1929. Lloydminsterites
would rebuild a new post office on the same site, which survives as the
Heritage Building.
Photo courtesy of the Doug Aston Collection |
