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

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

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

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