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Photograph depicts a former C.P.R. connection between the False Creek yards and the south side of Vancouver harbour on West Pender St. in Vancouver, B.C. This spur used daily to get cars into the B.C. Electric Rail yard at the Georgia Viaduct from the C.P.R. False Creek yards.

Photograph depicts Mainland St. in Vancouver, B.C. , looking northeast with Helmken St. intersecting.

Photograph depicts the Kaslo city hall built in 1898.

Photograph depicts St. Margaret's Anglican Church on Bradner Rd., 3 miles northeast of Aldergrove in the Fraser Valley.

Photograph depicts a fire hall for fire float VFD "J.H. Carlisle" at False Creek. It is on the north shore and in line with Willow St., Vancouver.

Photograph depicts the house opposite an 1876 church in Nicola village, 7 miles northeast of Merritt. It may be the manse.

Photograph depicts a church built in 1876 in Nicola, 7 miles northeast of Merritt. It was originally a Presbyterian church and is one of the oldest in the interior, though it is now infrequently used.

Photograph depicts a derelict building on the old Main St in Slocan City, northwest of Nelson.

Photograph depicts the derelict Langham Hotel at Kaslo, B.C. on Kootenay Lake.

Photograph depicts a church on Wood St. in Greenwood, which is between Oliver and Grand Forks. The church may have been Roman Catholic.

Photograph depicts stores in Kaslo on Kootenay Lake, 40 miles northeast of Nelson. This town still has 15 miles of dirt road leading to it.

Photograph depicts a cattle shelter/ barn at the head of Nicola Lake, 20 miles east of Merritt, near the Douglas Lake road turnoff.

Photograph depicts the city hall in Rossland, B.C. built in 1990, during its heyday.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. pier A.1. (now 12A) at Vancouver, B.C., slightly right of the foot of Thurlow St. It was built in 1890 and it is still in use. The view shows its east face.

Photograph depicts the seaward end of C.P.R. pier A1 (now 12A), showing its rotted condition. The pier was built in 1890 and is still in use except at this outer face. C.P.R. pier B1 is in the background.

Photograph depicts the church of His Presence in Halfmoon Bay, Sechelt. It was built in 1962 by Cannon Greene, a former seafaring minister of the Columbia Coast Missions and the subject of a C.B.C. T.V. production in early April 1966.

Photograph depicts St. Hilda's Anglican Church in Sechelt on the Sechelt Peninsula. Tall tree on left just coming into flower is a dogwood.

Photograph depicts one of the few surviving old style garages in west end Vancouver on Barclay St.

Photograph depicts a house on Nicola St. at the southwest corner of the intersection of Nicola and Robson St., in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts a fisherman's house, lived in and owned by a First Nations man (?), on the south bank of the south arm of the Fraser River. It is about 5 miles southeast of New Westminster at approximately 9000 block of River Road.

Photograph depicts the junction of Robson and Cordero St. in west end Vancouver, B.C. The photo is looking northwest on the newly demolished block, except for some houses at far end. View is looking down Robson St., with Cordero St. intersecting the photo.

Photograph depicts the United Church at Spences Bridge in the Fraser Canyon. The church is on the flats on the west side of the river and close to the C.N. depot.

Photograph depicts a log barn at Lookout Lodge beside Shuswap Lake, between Sorrento and Squilex.

Photograph depicts a track shed about 1 mile south of Beaverdell or at about mile 43.25 on the CPR line in the Carmi Subdivision. Despite the open doors and ease of access, it was the only hut on the line found to contain track materials and correspondence. It retained 50 memos addressed to the Section Foreman [at Beaverdell?].

Photograph depicts the Westbridge CPR depot on the Kettle Valley Line. It is located about 11 miles north of Rock Creek and at about mile 123.3 east of Penticton. The depot house is disused and the sidings contained no cars, so there appears to be no local traffic.

Photograph depicts the a grain elevator at Wynndel, located at mile 73.8 on the CPR line on the Nelson Subdivision. It is between Creston at mile 67.2 and Kootenay Landing at mile 83.1. Grain elevators are rare in BC and this one belongs to the United Grain Growers. The view is looking east.

Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Proctor, located at mile 117.5 from Cranbrook on the Nelson Subdivision. David Davies notes: "The view is looking east and shows the spur at right leading to a barge slip on Kootenay Lake. The majority of the spur rails here are dated 1908-1910." An updated description provided by a subject expert suggests that this view is actually looking west.

Photograph depicts an abandoned house in a semi-host town viallage that dated back to 1895-1900. It was coverd with hop flowers which was typical for most of the deserted homes in the area. Village had 20 buildings standings of which 12 were occupied.

Photograph depicts a house being gutted, prior to demolition.

Photograph depicts the Moha "ghost" vilage, 20 miles west of Lillooet, at the fork of Bridge and Yalako Rivers. It used to be a gold mining village. About 8 houses/cabins were left standing, but none were occupied. Displayed is one that had 2 ft. thick walss to waist height, as shown.

Photograph depicts one of four houses that were being gutted and demolished to make way for a concrete high rise apartment block. Built circa 1905.

Photograph depicts a frame house in Vancouver. A high rise apartment on Barclay Street was being built and was just appearing in the background.

Photograph depicts a few houses on Beach Ave., Vancouve. They were examples of about a dozen surviving homes on Beach Ave.

Photograph depicts a former fire hall that was now preserved.

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 British Navy cottages (styled after cottages in the U.K.) in Esquimalt. Built when Dockyard was operated by the Imperial Navy.

Photograph depicts a pier, possibly of the CPR in Nanaimo.

Photograph depicts a bell tower of a Roman Catholic church in the Saanich Peninsula.

Photograph depicts Royal Oak Apartments on Kingsway in Burnaby.

Photograph depicts Hat Creek Staging Hotel, 7 miles north of Cache Creek. The hotel buildig were now part of a farm and contained stores, a cookehouse, and a dormitory.

Photograph depicts a general store owned by Acton Kilby that was still operated by him at age 81. His family had moved from New Westminster in 1902 to run the store. The CPR depot originally connected direcly to the second floor of the building. Harrison Mills lay at the junction of the Harrison and Fraser Rivers and was an important site during steamboat days. Now it was a backwater of 3 dwellings beside the railway.

Photograph depicts a mine building at the copper mine in Britannia Beach. The mine was still in use and well maintained.

Photograph depicts the Transformer Sub-Station of West Kootenay Power and Light Company, which is the only private power distribution company left in B.C. at the time. In was built in 1905 and was in operation by 1906. There were identical buildings made in Grand Forks and Phoenix, but they were demolished at the latter place.

Photograph depicts the rear view of Ridgewood Studio, Ltd., furnishers and furniture renovators. The wood shed was used for repair and repolishing of furniture.

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.

Photograph depicts all that remained of Lumberton Spruce Mills Ltd, circa 1912-1939.

Photograph depicts Glenwalker Ranch. Visible are details of the log construction of a barn that was built between 1890 and 1910.

Photograph taken at Okangan Lake, on Alexis Beach. O'Keefe Ranch is located at the head of the lake. Visible is an old house that was used as a hay barn.

Photograph depicts a school room or church on the road between Louis Creek and Adams Lake.

Photograph depicts a working undershot water wheel on Lardeau Creek River. It was the only water wheel seen in B.C. between 1963 and 1970. It was designed to drive an electricity generating set, but it was not coupelled to the set at the time.