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Hotel in Keremeos
2013.6.36.1.075.03 · Item · [July 1967]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an old hotel in the center of Keremeos. It once had been a thriving staging post. The village now only contained 2 building which included this hotel and a dance hall that had been converted to a barn.

2013.6.36.1.074.11 · Item · Aug. 1969
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an Indian Roman Catholic church at the mouth of Anderson Lake. No services were held anymore. It was externally restored in 1968 by the white people of the village, while the Natives did the interior. Unfortunatley, there was no work done on the interior as of the date the photograph was captured.

2013.6.36.1.074.09 · Item · Sept. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts "Butterchurch" that was built in 1870 under the direction of Father Rondeault of the Oblate Order for missionary work among the Comiakan Natives, a tribe of about 100. It was abandoned by about 1880 because of its location. It was recently restored as a historical shrine.

2013.6.36.1.074.08 · Item · [July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a church that was built of shaped logs on the territory of the Tsal'alh Nation on the road leading to Seton Lake. Church was derelict, but still held pews, plastic flowers and small shrines.

St. Ann's Academy, Victoria
2013.6.36.1.073.05 · Item · Oct. 1969
Part of 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.

Kaslo City Hall
2013.6.36.1.073.03 · Item · 12 Sept. 1970
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Kaslo City Hall, built in 1898. The first floor contained a library while the second floor held a coutroom with original furnishings in mild disarray.

2013.6.36.1.072.19 · Item · 28 Oct, 1967
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a house that had a "sold" notice on it and was partly demolished. Up to the date the photograph was captured, this block on Beach Ave. was the sole remaining one to have only houses on it, as opposed to a mixture of houses and apartment blocks, or blocks only.