Historical information

Four photos of Operation Firewood which provided help to widows by supplying and stacking firewood for the winter. Date unknown but was probably early 1990s as the service ended in 1995.
00462.1 A truck parked outside a residence with a human chain unloading firewood.
00462.2 Close up of the human chain of workers
00462.3 Legatee Bill Strachan at the door of truck with a poster saying "Operation Firewood / All vehicles and labour donated to Legacy"
00462.4 Helpers stacking firewood in a residential yard.

Significance

A record of Legacy helping widows with supplying and stacking firewood. When open fires were the main source of heating a load of firewood, and help moving it, would have been very important to the widows

Physical description

Colour photo x 4 of Legatees delivering firewood.

Inscriptions & markings

00462.1 Has "8. Operation Firewood" on reverse in black pen