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  • Includes: buildings; monuments and statues; bridges and trestles; building management; construction.
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          Old mine buildings
          2013.6.36.1.077.01 · Item · 13 Sept. 1970
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts one of various old lead and zinc mine buildings. Behind this building, on the foreshore, were a few men working on the reclamation of tailings and waste from the mine that was dumped in Kootenay Lake.

          RCAF Langer
          2013.6.36.1.077.03 · Item · Aug. 1975
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts an RCAF Langer that was erected in 1942 as part of a flying boat base to counter possible Japanese sea and activities. It was used subsequently as whaling station premises.

          2013.6.36.1.077.05 · Item · 2 Sept. 1970
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts Pioneer Sash and Door Company Ltd. Davies suggests that it may have been the same as S.C. Smith Ltd., which commenced operating in Vernon in 1883. In the early days, products were verandah posters, balusters, and fancy trim. Most products were sent to the U.S. Most of the fancy trim in early north Okanagan homes came from this plant. In 1972, its main output was cedar panelling for Florida.

          2013.6.36.1.077.06 · Item · 16 Sept. 1970
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Transformer Sub-Station of West Kootenay Power and Light Company, which is the only private power distribution company left in B.C. at the time. In was built in 1905 and was in operation by 1906. There were identical buildings made in Grand Forks and Phoenix, but they were demolished at the latter place.

          CPR wharf building
          2013.6.36.1.077.08 · Item · [22 July 1968]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a CPR wharf building at Okanagan Landing, Okanagan Lake. It was presumably used as a covered slipway and as a store. It was was now boarded up and the rail track between Vernon and Okanagan Landing was removed in 1940.

          Tofino Airport
          2013.6.36.1.077.11 · Item · [20 June 1972]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Tofino Airport. It was a former wartime RCAF base built in 1942 for anti-Japanese air patrols. It was now a D.O.T controlled airport.

          Glenwalker Ranch
          2013.6.36.1.078.01 · Item · [13 May 1979]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts Glenwalker Ranch. Visible are details of the log construction of a barn that was built between 1890 and 1910.

          O'Keefe Ranch
          2013.6.36.1.078.03 · Item · [July 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken at Okangan Lake, on Alexis Beach. O'Keefe Ranch is located at the head of the lake. Visible is an old house that was used as a hay barn.

          Cabin near Williams Lake
          2013.6.36.1.078.06 · Item · [July 1973]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a cabin near Williams Lake. Its interior contained two old treadle sewing machines and a chesterfield. Davies had the impression it had not been inhabited for at least a decade.

          2013.6.36.1.079.05 · Item · [9 Sept. 1970]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a working undershot water wheel on Lardeau Creek River. It was the only water wheel seen in B.C. between 1963 and 1970. It was designed to drive an electricity generating set, but it was not coupelled to the set at the time.

          Undershot water wheel
          2013.6.36.1.079.11 · Item · 5 Sept. 1970
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the same person who owned the service station building electric generator house in Trout Lake. He also built an undershot water wheel that was driven by Lardeau Creek.