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Queensborough bridge
2013.6.36.1.156.03 · Pièce · [July 1994]
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts railway track previously owned by BCER. It led onto the east end of Lulu Island and then to Annacis Island. Looking from the Naew West River Walk to the Queensborough bridge that was protected by signals and had a high chain link fence to deter pedestrians. It was likely that the rail was only used at night. Originally built by Canadian Northern Railway to reach Steveston, circa 1917.

RCAF Langer
2013.6.36.1.077.03 · Pièce · Aug. 1975
Fait partie de 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.

Replacement rail bridge
2013.6.36.1.091.02 · Pièce · Sept. 1998
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a replacement rail bridge. Forms sat on a temporary pile of dirt, which in turns sat on a road bed of a new highway that had just been cut.

Section bunk house
2013.6.36.1.152.01 · Pièce · Sept. 2000
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CPR section bunk house in Midway. On the left was a living room with two windows, stove, and sink. Bedroom with one window and two beds located on the right.

Section house on Windermere Subdivision
2013.6.36.1.152.05 · Pièce · Sept. 2000
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an abandoned section in Wasa, on the CPR Windermere Subdivision. Built in 1914-20. Very rare at this date. The only known of the same type was in Brookmere (private and lived in).

Section shanty at McCulloch CPR depot
2013.6.36.1.026.10 · Pièce · [22 June 1979]
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a section shanty at the CPR McCulloch depot located at mile 76.6 on the Carmi Subdivision. The rail here is Canada Algoma, 85 lbs. and dated to 1940. The view is looking southeast, with Hydraulic Lake in the background.

2013.6.36.1.002.098 · Pièce · Apr. 1966
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a settler's log cabin, about 1 mile from the main road of Sechelt Peninsula and on the side road leading to Gordon Bay, at a point where a small stream cease to be tidal. Vertical cracks in logs stuffed with rags and horizontal cracks filled with cement.

Sirdar station on Kootenay Lake
2013.6.36.1.007.047 · Pièce · Oct. 1965
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts Sirdar station belonging to the C.P.R. It is at the south end of Kootenay Lake and 11 miles north of Creston. There is a little used turntable behind the depot. The view is looking south.

2013.6.36.1.002.054 · Pièce · Sept. 1965
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the site of a former C.P.R. connection between the mainline into Vancouver and False Creek yards at West Pender St. In Vancouver. The rails are not used but still appear in the street and on the parking lot on the far side. Another parallel set of tracks 30 yards to the east are in daily use.

Snow shed on ex-CPR Coquihalla Line
2013.6.36.1.020.04 · Pièce · 15 Oct. 1972
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the interior of a snow shed at about mile 29.0 using CPR mileages commencing at Brookmere, which is 4 miles east of Brookmere. It is on the ex CPR Coquihalla Line from Hope to Brodie Junction.

St. Ann's Academy, Victoria
2013.6.36.1.073.05 · Pièce · Oct. 1969
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts St. Ann's Academy, a girls boarding school that was close to the centre of Victoria. In the corner of the property, nuns had established the first school in B.C. in 1853.

2013.6.36.1.077.16 · Pièce · 15 Sept. 1970
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a 120 ft. stack of the former B.C. Copper Company in Anaconda, on the outskirts of Greenwood. It was built sometime between 1903 and 1909 and replaced a steel stack built on 1900, immediately below it.

Stave Falls School
2013.6.36.1.076.13 · Pièce · [June 1968]
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts Stave Falls School, a type of rural school that was falling into disuse. This one was still in use and cared for.

Store in Brookmere
2013.6.36.1.076.06 · Pièce · [24 May 1973]
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the only store in the small, derelict village of about 12-15 houses of which only one is occupied.