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Illustration of a large ocean liner in dry dock. The name "Minnesota" is inscribed on the top right side of vessel. Annotation on recto reads: "William T. Donnelly Consulting Engineer 17 Battery Place Tel. Rector 1491 20000 tons pontoon floating dry dock Prince Rupert, BC"

Photograph of a partially sunken sailboat near a harbour. Individuals on debris and in a rowboat are surveying the damage. Annotation on recto reads: "GTP. SS Prince Rupert Sept 28th 1920 McRae." Handwritten annotation on verso reads "CTP "Prince Rupert" Sunk at Prince Rupert BC 1920."

Wide angle view of mountains and small residential buildings. A large dock is visible in the foreground. Annotation on recto reads: "Stewart, BC., from Government Wharf."

Photograph of several vessels within Victoria's outer wharf. Annotation on recto reads: "Empire Series. Outer Wharf, Victoria, BC."

Five unidentified men sit with dog in canoe. One man stands on dock in foreground.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Freighting by canoe on skeena river".

Photograph depicts ship resting almost entirely out of water.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "A slight steering problem? Union SS Catala on reef off Port Simpson".

Hills on opposite shore in background.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Early steamship off mouth of Nass River".

Indian agency boat the “Naskeena” en route to its next destination. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “ ‘Naskeena’ en route”

Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: "Dad [W.E. Collison] on ‘Naskeena’ – Prince Rupert Harboue en route to Nass River”.

Photograph depicts the boat Westminster on the water with houses on the shoreline visible in the background. Annotation on verso of photograph states: "Westminster"

Photograph depicts a sailboat towing two smaller canoes on the water with mountains visible in the background.

Photograph depicts the steamship S.S. Princess Maquinna on the water with the stern of another ship in the foreground and a forested mountain range in the background. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "McRae Bros Prince Rupert C.P.R. S.S. PRINCESS MAQUINNA"

Photograph depicts the steamship Princess Kathleen on the water with tugboats in the foreground and a forested shoreline in the background. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "Princess Kathleen Photo by R.W."

Photo of entire ship building plant, including several vessels in the foreground. Hills are visible in the background. Annotation on recto reads: "Prince Rupert Ship Repair and Ship Building Plant. Prince Rupert BC. Frank E Kirby, William T Donnelly, Engineers. 17 Battery Place. NYC."

Photograph of the Prince Rupert wharf. A small vessel is docked, and a large tree is in the foreground. Annotation on recto reads: "Prince Rupert Wharf & Harbor. Allen Photo."

Photograph of a long bridge spanning two rock faces. A small settlement is visible on the lower right.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Poling supplies up Nass River".

Tugboat appears to be towing a long line of small boats.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Fishing fleet coming home Nass River B.C."

Photograph depicts the "MV Ballena" docked at a wharf. The Ballena was a passenger ferry built in 1892 by the Albion Iron Works Company of Victoria and originally named the Joan. This ship was sold to the Terminal Steam Navigation Company in 1914 and renamed the Ballena. It was later acquired by the Union Steamship Company in 1920 but burned at the Union dock in November of that year.

Boardwalk in foreground, buildings and roads in mid ground, cut banks in background. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Prince George. B.C. 1921 by Moore”. Handwritten annotation in ink on verso reads: “The Netchaco river is between the mountain and the city and the C.N.R. runs along the river bank nearest the city. This picture is taken looking north.”

Front view of several men working on Grand Trunk Pacific train 218 in the winter. Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso of postcard reads: “Prince George, B.C., Dec. 1921 yard & main line.”

Photograph of George Street in Prince George B.C. Cars, people, and signage are visible. Printed annotation on recto reads: “George St. Prince George B.C. 1921 R7 by Moore” There is an “X” in ink over the fire hall. Handwritten annotation in ink on verso reads: “This view is also looking north and where I have put the X is the one and only fire hall and you can see the fire engine in the street. This is the main street.”

Photograph depicts the Squamish dock in late afternoon sunshine.

Photograph depicts a view of a train on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway line approximately 2 miles south of the Pavilion station.

Photograph depicts a couple in a row boat (likely the same couple depicted in image 2020.08.59) near Alta Lake shore docks and buildings. A rail line and a railway water tower are visible in the background. The water tank is a typical PGE 25,000 gallon water tank. The station would be a little over 400 feet south of the tank and is hidden by the stand of trees.

Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern Railway #3 locomotive from the Davenport Locomotive Works. Two railway workers lean against the front of the locomotive for a posed portrait. The individual at left may be Angus McRae, a PGE locomotive engineer.

More information about the locomotive, Pacific Great Eastern #3:
The locomotive was built by Davenport Locomotive Works in Davenport, Iowa in February 1914, serial number 1477, for Patrick Welch, one of the developers (Foley, Welch & Stewart) of the PGE railway. Most of the early equipment, although lettered with the Pacific Great Eastern name, was owned by Patrick Welch. The Provincial Archives in Victoria holds a document showing that Welch sold all the equipment to the newly incorporated Pacific Great Eastern Equipment Company, of which he was also a director, on 14 June 1916 in exchange for 6000 shares in the company. Much, if not all, of the equipment had PGEEC "ownership plates" applied during the 1916-1918 period. It was not until the Provincial Government acquired the railway (and the Equipment Company) in 1918 that the equipment actually became the property of the railway. Pacific Great Eastern #3 was a switching locomotive with an 0-6-0 wheel arrangement and eight-wheel tender built to a standard Davenport design.

Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern Railway locomotive, caboose (C2), and train cars operating as a work train, possibly on the south side of the Sallus Creek cut. A steam shovel may be loading gravel to or from the train cars. Location appears to be around the Lillooet area. The locomotive appears to be #56, a Canadian Locomotive Corporation 2-8-0, which was later lost in an Anderson Lake accident on August 8, 1944.

Photograph depicts a view of a train crossing the Sallus Creek wooden trestle along the Pacific Great Eastern Railway line near Lillooet, Fountain, and Pavilion. The angle of the photograph is looking north towards the Fraser River.

Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern Railway line at Pavilion looking south. An irrigation ditch line is also visible.

Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern Railway tunnel along Anderson Lake. The current railway mileage for the location is 125.6 (historical mileage point would have differed). The location is 3.7 miles north of D'Arcy, near the southern end of Anderson Lake. This photograph was likely taken from vantage point of the summer-only Highline Road.

Photograph depicts an early model Jordan Spreader used in the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. A railway worker is standing on the spreader. The stencil on equipment states "P.G.W.R.R.". The flora suggests that this photograph may have been taken somewhere in the Lillooet/Clinton area.

Photograph depicts "Kelly's Lake" (now known as Kelly Lake) in Clinton, as well as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway line along the lake.

Photograph depicts a view of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway bridge across the Fraser River at Lillooet.

Photograph depicts a view of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway bridge across the Fraser River and the nearby Lillooet surrounding area. The photograph shows Lillooet looking up Town Creek Valley. Chinese gold washing activity is visible nearby the bridge.

Photograph depicts a railway water tower, a small building, and a rail line along a lake shore. This is a close-up of the area depicted in image 2020.08.84. The water tank is a typical PGE 25,000 gallon water tank. The station would be a little over 400 feet south of the tank.

Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern Railway locomotive in deep snow. A person, possibly a woman, stands near the train as snow continues to fall. The location is unknown, but may be Alta Lake or Squamish.

Photograph depicts the Cariboo Road near Clinton, B.C.

Photograph depicts a view of Anderson Lake at D'Arcy looking northeast. The Pacific Great Eastern Railway line is visible, including a small railway trestle.

Photograph depicts Pacific Great Eastern Railway #52 locomotive with railway workers posed on the locomotive for a posed portrait.

More information about the locomotive:
Pacific Great Eastern #52 locomotive was built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1913 and delivered to the PGE in November of that year together with a second identical locomotive, Pacific Great Eastern #51. They were relatively light road locomotives of the Consolidation type (2-8-0 wheel arrangement) and, prior to dieselization of the railway in the late 1940s - early 1950s, were the only Montreal-built locomotives the railway owned. All subsequent steam locomotives built new for the Railway came from the Canadian Locomotive Company in Kingston, Ontario. There were also two earlier second-hand locomotives which the PGE acquired when it took over the Howe Sound & Northern Railway (previously the Howe Sound, Pemberton Valley & Northern Railway) and two additional steam locomotive purchased second-hand from the U.S.

River in foreground, railroad and city in mid ground and hill in background. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Prince George. B.C. 1924”

Group of six men sit and stand on small boat close to shore. Rev. W.E. Collison stands on far right (son of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison).

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Dr. Macdonald Med officer (Kincolith) / Dr. [McQuarrie?] Med officer Victoria / Steven Clayton Native boat owner / Capt. Bary - Insp. of Indian Schools / W.E. Collison Indian agent. / Inspection trip to villages of upper Nass River".

Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern Railway bridge when the railway operated on the east side of the Fraser River.

Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern Railway bridge when the railway operated on the east side of the Fraser River. The new grade being cut on the west side toward the site of the railway bridge is visible.

Photograph depicts Mac McGarvey (right) and Frank Dewing (left) sitting in a boat on the Peace River. Mac McGarvey is steering the boat while Frank Dewing is pumping water from the boat. In the background a low mountain range is visible.

Photograph depicts three men working to move a raft carrying two horses from Hudson's Hope ferry landing.

Photograph depicts Prentiss Gray (left) and Mac McGarvey (right) seated in a boat on the Peace River.

Photograph depicts three men and a child loading packs into a boat along the shoreline of an inlet at Rolla Landing.

Photograph depicts five men loading packed bags into a long boat belonging to Mac McGarvey. The boat is resting near the shore of an inlet at Rolla Landing.

Photograph depicts Mac McGarvey (left) and Frank Dewing (right) getting the boat "Starvation" ready on a rocky shoreline in preparation for travel on the Peace River.

Photograph depicts Mac McGarvey (right) and Frank Dewing (left) seated in a boat on the Peace River. Mac McGarvey is steering the boat while Frank Dewing is pumping water from the boat.