While it is named the Bashaw Fire Hall, this place has served many purposes over the years than just being a fire station. It was a multi-use civic building where village council meetings were held; the building housed a small library, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used it, served as a courthouse, and had prison cells kept in their original state.
The list goes on, but today, this building is an excellent representation of how small communities throughout Alberta in the early twentieth century functioned and developed to become what they are today.