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CPR wharf building
2013.6.36.1.077.08 · Stuk · [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.

2013.6.36.1.072.19 · Stuk · 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.

Hotel in Keremeos
2013.6.36.1.075.03 · Stuk · [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.

2013.6.36.1.002.086 · Stuk · Mar. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts Pier B of C.P.R., just west of the C.P.R. railway station. This is the only pier accessible to ocean going passenger liners and is used by P&O vessels. Facilities generally in adequate for the 1960s.

2013.6.36.1.002.087 · Stuk · Feb. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a former fire hall now used as a boy's club on 12th Ave and St. Catherine's St., in Vancouver, B.C. It is one and a quarter miles southeast of C.N.R. station.

House in Delta, B.C.
2013.6.36.1.002.096 · Stuk · Mar. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a house on Ladner Trunk Rd. in Delta, B.C. It is in the northeast corner of an intersection with the road leading to the Canadian Army Signal Station.

2013.6.36.1.002.098 · Stuk · Apr. 1966
Part of 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.

Brick works at Haney, B.C.
2013.6.36.1.002.109 · Stuk · [May 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the brick works at Haney, B.C., within 100 yards of the Fraser River. Current production appeared to be bricks, tiles, and flowerpots. There is a disused railway spur in the works

Wharf at Lang Bay, B.C.
2013.6.36.1.002.122 · Stuk · Apr. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a wharf at Lang Bay, 14 miles southeast of Powell River. In fair repair, now used only by an oil company to pump in oil to a storage depot behind the camera.

2013.6.36.1.003.094 · Stuk · Apr. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Hospital Cottage on Main St. in Sechelt, B.C. which also appears to have been home to the Magistrates and Small Debts Court at one point. A large central hospital for the whole of the Sechelt Peninsula was opened in 1965 at Sechelt.