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Photograph depicts sheds and repair center of the C.P.R. at Victoria, near Lime Bay. The rail-liner just came in from the daily run to Courtenay.

Photograph depicts a church or school on the south side of Craigflower Rd. in Victoria B.C. It is near or on the Songhees Reserve.

Photograph depicts the CPR "Princess Marguerite" in Victoria Harbour.

Photograph depicts the CPR "Princess Marguerite" in Victoria Harbour.

Photograph depicts the CPR "Princess Marguerite" in Victoria Harbour.

Photograph depicts a CNR bascule bridge across the upper waters of Victoria Harbour. The rest of the trackage had been removed, except for the bridge itself.

Photograph depicts what was believed to be a former repair coach/car shop. It held a Budd car in storage. Vegetation in the foreground shows passage of a vehicle in the last 2-3 months.

Photograph depicts bascule bridges in the inner harbour of Victoria. Property of EN. In the process of being repaired and painted.

Photograph depicts the end details of the Ohio Central day coach.

Photograph depicts a Pacific Wilderness Railway caboose after its first season's work that went from June to September. Davies noted the "reproting abbreviation" had been changed from OHCR to PAW. A company decal was also applied.

Photograph depicts an Ohio Central Railway coach that was brought to Victoria in 2000 for use in the tourist Pacific Wilderness Railway that commenced business in June 2000. This particular car had never been refurbished, suggesting it had a problem from the start. When rail service ceased in July 2001 and cars were taken back to Ohio Central, this one was refused movement over public railways and remained in the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria. Had 22 windows per side.

Photograph depicts a Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Railway Co. privately owned caboose at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria.

Photograph depicts the newly created heritage railway, the Pacific Wilderness Railway, at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria. Visible is a newly painted locomotive that had recently started service in late June of the year the photograph was taken.

Photograph taken at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria. Visible is a Pacific Wilderness Railway coach and a Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Heritage Society caboose.

Photograph depicts a newly created heritage railway, the Pacific Wilderness Railway, in Victoria. The car had been a 1920s coach before restoration.

Photograph depicts a Pacific Wilderness Railway car. Built in the 1920s. Found at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria. Lettered "Heritage Coach."

Photograph taken at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria. Visible is a Pacific Wilderness Railway car that had been refurbished and painted in May 2000.

Photograph depicts a CRHA, Vancouver Island Division, lettered caboose at the EN yards in Victoria.

Photograph depicts the "SS Patricia" leaving for Seattle. Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway trackage is visible in the foreground. Three water tank cars used for fire fighting are on the left of the picture.

Photograph depicts a totem pole in its final stages of being carved.

Photograph depicts two cars with their front ends welded back-to-back.

Photograph depicts St. Ann's Academy, a girls boarding school. In the distance, a graceful spire marks the highest point of the building.

Photograph depicts St. Ann's Academy, a girls boarding school that was close to the centre of Victoria. Captured the front of the main building.

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.

Photograph depicts a bridge for road vehicles. Also visible is a single track of the CPR that went from Esquimalt to Nanaimo.

Photograph depicts a bridge for road vehicles. Also visible is a single track of the CPR that went from Esquimalt to Nanaimo. Both were opened to allow a large tug to proceed seawards.

Photo depocts a road bridge in the Inner Harbour of Victoria.

Photograph depicts "SS Sir James Douglas," a Coastguard supply vessel, built in 1956. Astem from her is "Camsell," a full ice breaker, built in 1959. Out-of-service is CNR "SS Canora" is found in the background.

Photograph depicts "Princess Marguerite," one of the two CPR cruise ships left on the Pacific Coast.

Photograph depicts "Princess Patricia" undergoing a minor refitting before winter cruising in warmer climates.

Photograph depicts the "SS Princess Marguerite" arriving with sightseers from Seattle in the Inner Harbour of Victoria.

Photograph depicts the close up of harpoon guns of a sunken whaler in the Upper Harbour of Victoria.

Photograph depicts a replica of the "SS Beaver" entering the Inner Harbour of Victoria.

Photograph depicts a sunken whaler with a harpoon gun. A destroyer or, possibly, a corvette was being broken up in the middle background.

Photograph depicts a replica of the "SS Beaver" entering the Inner Harbour of Victoria. Firing gun salute are forward on the paddle wheels and are making artificial smoke. Bow of the HMCS St. Croix is found in the foreground.

Photograph depicts a replica of the "SS Beaver" entering the Inner Harbour of Victoria. It was open to the pubic over the May Long weekend of 1971.

Photograph depicts "SS Princess Marguerite." Passengers and cars were being loaded to return to Seattle.

Photograph depicts "Princess Marguerite" at the CPR wharf in the Inner Harbour of Victoria.

Photograph depicts "W.J Stewart," of Ottawa, that is located on the mid-left with two masts, and "Vector," found on the mid-right with one mast. Both were believed to be hydrographic vessels, painted in white and cream which were not Coastguard colours. Taken on the Upper Harbour of Victoria, at the Coastguard wharf.

Photograph depicts the HMCS St. Croix that was built by Marine Industries Ltd. Of the Restigouche class and was one of the 22 Canadian destroyer escorts.

Photograph depicts a destroyer escort of the "Restigouche" class. Armament included two 3'' guns faced forward, and two sets each of 3 barelled depth charge motors.

Photograph depicts a Canadian Coastguard vessel called "Camsell" at the Canadian Coastgaurd wharf in Upper Harbour, Victoria.

Photograph depicts temporary yards, on the western outskirts of Victoria, being part of the leased CNR's Victoria- Duncan line. On the left is Hillcrest Lumber #10, Climax, that was built in 1928. It was sold to Terry Ferguson in April, 1969 and then moved to Victoria in September, 1970. On the right is a CPR Montreal Surburban commuter car that was built in 1932, and behind that is a 1913 steam crane/

Photograph depicts temporary yards that were sited at View Royal, northwest of downtown Victoria. They use two and a half miles of the CNR's Victoria-Sooke-Duncan line. Visible is a Baldwin that was built in 1929. Its last revenue owner was Comox Logging and Railway Co. It was then purchased by the West Coast Railway Association from Crown Zellebach in 1964. At the time the picture was taken, it had been purchased by the Victoria Pacific Railway that commenced work on this line on June 24, 1972.

Photograph depicts a Hillcrest Lumber Co. steam crane that was acquired by Terry Fergusan and was moved from Mesachie Lake, Cowichan. It was put to use on the tourist attraction railway, the "Victoria-Pacific," that was created in 1971.

Photograph depicts a car that used to be on the "Victoria-Pacific Railway" tourist steam train, owned by Terry Ferguson. It was built in 1890 as a sleeping car by Barry and Smythe (USA). Originally named "Sherbrooke," it worked on the Montreal-Halifax run. It was rebuilt in 1910 as a private car and then became superintendent's car #16 in Lethbridge and was sold by the CPR to WCRA in 1963.

Photograph depicts a steam crane, lettered "Osborn Bay Wharf Ltd." Davies suggests that it may have been on the Victoria-Pacific tourist line on the outskirts of Victoria.

Photograph depicts a laid up CNR raikl car ferry called the "Canora." It had been tied to the CN pier in Vancouver for the winter of 1967/68, but its berth was needed for cruise steamers.

Photograph depicts a track located beyond a road covered in dense bushes. The rail in the foreground is dated 1918 and 1912. Image captured on Jacklin road, estimated to be on mile 9.2 in the former Cowichan Subdivision.