These are the stories of settlers, fur traders, rangers, lookout observers, and pilots – people on the watch for fire, people threatened by fire, and people who battled furiously to save themselves from fire.

The stories are frightening, funny, heroic, and hum-drum by turns. Check them out for yourself.

Early Explorers & Settlers

• Old Time Conflagration
• Fire and the Fur Trade
• Pioneers Battle Prairie Fire
• The Blazing Northland
• The Great Fire of 1922
• Hero of Englehart

Detection on the Ground

• Mountie on Patrol
• TomThomson – Fire Ranger & Landscape Painter
• Cree Canoe Ranger
• My First Season of Fire Ranging
• Lone Track Ranger
• Enforcing the Law
• Model T Patrol

Detection Moves to Higher Ground

• Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire
• Forest Fire Fighting-Nova Scotia
• A Towerman’s Lament
• Woman on the Watch for Fires
• Moose on the Loose
• The Tower Men
• Jack Learns the Hard Way

Detection Soars

• Guardians in the Sky
• Flying Boat Patrols Canadian Forest
• Making Contact
• Private Pilot Scores a First
• Bailing Out
• Quick Witted Pilot
• Fire Patrol - Bearskin Air

The Public Eye

• Mum on Fire Alert
• Canoe Trippers