Commercial 80 Occupants of every house, office, store, etc., shall provide and keep one canvas bucket or zinc bucket (2 gallons or more) with owner's name painted thereon which bucket shall be hung in passage or hall...Everyone to have ladders sufficient to enable water to be carried to every part of the house in the event of fire...All homes and buildings to be inspected by fire wardens once every six months.46 This was the first step taken toward municipal government. By the time of the Imperial fire in 1909, the Village had, at least, one hand-operated fire engine. Courtesy Pictures of the Past by i-eardv The Allan L. McDonald ( Gus Allan ) Building Allan L. McDonald was a dealer in dry goods, boots and shoes, hardware, fishing supplies, furniture and groceries. He bought and sold fish and solicited orders for hay, oats and potatoes. He was agent for packets running weekly to Port Hood, Canso and Pictou. The Parish Hall is now on this site. Allan L. McDonald , well known merchant of the McDonald & McDonald Company (dissolved 1888) built a large store on the Connolly site. It included a vault that had gone through the fire intact. Across the street, the Knight Estate, under the direction of Fred Morrow (married to Ann Knight ) rebuilt also on the burnt site. The new building included Customs Office, Archie Currie 's Store and a room for public meetings upstairs.47 Mrs. Ida Isaacson , with Hyman Jacobson as clerk, was doing business in this building with a side entrance on the street ever after called .48