This artifact is a Citizen of the Year Award presented to Hans Hoffmann in 1998.<\/p>\r\n
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Hans was born in Manitoba in 1912. He attended the Trapp Technical School in New Westminster. The Hoffmann family arrived in Pitt Meadows in 1934. They purchased the Fairfield building and ran a garage, forge and gas station. In 1936 they constructed the building that occupies the site today and made it into a machine shop. Soon after they stopped selling gas and by the late 1940 Hans Hoffmann ventured into the ditching and drainage business. He was considered by many to be a mechanical genius. He designed and constructed much of the machinery in the shop, including his three highly innovative ditching machines. Hans was also the first Fire Chief of Pitt Meadows and built the first fire truck. With the help of his sister, Elfriede Hoffmann, who ran the office and did the accounting, the Hoffmanns provided a valuable service to the farming community of Pitt Meadows, often repairing machinery at extremely low prices. He finally retired in 1979 and continued with his hobby of fixing and restoring old engines. In 1998 Hans was presented with the Citizen of the Year award. In 1999, Hans and Freida Hoffmann donated the property, building, machinery, and Hans' collection of restored engines to the Pitt Meadows Museum Society. Click here<\/a> for an online exhibit featuring Hans Hoffmann and his machine shop.<\/p>","SEO_LINK":"citizen-of-the-year-1998","VIDEO_LINK":"","SOUNDCLOUD_LINK":"","IMG1":"1718922977_main_citizen-of-the-year-1998_1.jpg","IMG2":"","IMG3":"","IMG4":"","IMG5":"","IMG6":"","IMG7":"","IMG1_THUMB":"1718922977_thumb_citizen-of-the-year-1998_1.jpg","IMG2_THUMB":"","IMG3_THUMB":"","IMG4_THUMB":"","IMG5_THUMB":"","IMG6_THUMB":"","IMG7_THUMB":""}X This artifact is a Citizen of the Year Award presented to Hans Hoffmann in 1998. Hans was born in Manitoba in 1912. He attended the Trapp Technical School in New Westminster. The Hoffmann family arrived in Pitt Meadows in 1934. They purchased the Fairfield building and ran a garage, forge and gas station. In 1936 they constructed the building that occupies the site today and made it into a machine shop. Soon after they stopped selling gas and by the late 1940 Hans Hoffmann ventured into the ditching and drainage business. He was considered by many to be a mechanical genius. He designed and constructed much of the machinery in the shop, including his three highly innovative ditching machines. Hans was also the first Fire Chief of Pitt Meadows and built the first fire truck. With the help of his sister, Elfriede Hoffmann, who ran the office and did the accounting, the Hoffmanns provided a valuable service to the farming community of Pitt Meadows, often repairing machinery at extremely low prices. He finally retired in 1979 and continued with his hobby of fixing and restoring old engines. In 1998 Hans was presented with the Citizen of the Year award. In 1999, Hans and Freida Hoffmann donated the property, building, machinery, and Hans' collection of restored engines to the Pitt Meadows Museum Society. Click here for an online exhibit featuring Hans Hoffmann and his machine shop.Citizen of the Year 1998
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Latitude: 49.2254942841934
Longitude: -122.69005952198
Direct Link: https://www.pittmeadowsmuseum.com/locations/citizen-of-the-year-1998
