west corner of the United Church, in front of Harry MacWilliam 's house, on the Massey - Harris property, on Pearl MacPherson 's lot, behind the original fire hall on , and at the west end of Amalgamated Dairies. When preparing to fight a fire, the firemen set up a pumper beside the reservoir nearest the burning building and ran water hose from it to the fire. If water level was getting low, they set up another pumper beside the next nearest reservoir and pumped from one cistern to the other. Considerable human effort was required to complete this project. Picks, shovels and manpower were the only means available to do the job. Some of the cisterns had a capacity of ten thousand gallons and all had to be kept full at all times. Most have since been filled in. In 1939, a small building was constructed on the railway yard to house the truck and pumpers. Fire Truck With the help of A.R.P . funds the program continued after the war. The first truck was replaced by a later model (c. 1946). In 1960 an additional truck was purchased and plans were made for a mod¬ ern fire hall - a Centennial project. This new building constructed by George Meggison and Lome Luxton on has the dis¬ tinction of being started one Centennial year (1964), construction continuing through a second Centennial year (1967), and being offi¬ cially opened by Hon . Robert Campbell during a third Centennial 227