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One Man's Passion: Hans Hoffmann's Engines.
Location: Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada

 
One Man's Passion - Chapter 1 - Hoffmann Family History
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The Hoffmann and Son shop sign that graced Harris Road for so many years.
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The Hoffmann family home, built in 1942, still stands today on Harris Road in Pitt Meadows.
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Exterior front view of the Hoffmann and Son machine shop.
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Laddie Hoffmann outside the Hoffmann and Son shop at 12277 Harris Road in Pitt Meadows, B.C.
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One Man's Passion - Chapter 2 - Hans Hoffmann at Work
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View of the Fairfield garage building soon after  becoming the Hoffmann and Son machine shop.
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View of Harris Road with the Hoffmann shop on left with the Imperial sign.
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This is the cheque printing machine used by Frieda when she did cheques for the shop.
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Frieda's ledger, where she carefully marked and recorded all of the shop's information.
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This is the first fire truck in Pitt Meadows, built by Hans Hoffmann in 1942.
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The first fire truck on display in the Pitt Meadows Day Parade.
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'Pitt Polder Special' ditcher being loaded for the first time onto a truck.
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Hans Hoffmann's Pitt Polder Special ditching machine.
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Flood of 1948. Sand bags running from the bottom right. Water and the C.P.R. bridge on the right.
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Flood of 1948. Image shows sand bags and 5 telephone poles running along water line.
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Flooded buildings near Kennedy Road as a result of the 1948 flood.
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Hans with a grinder.
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