Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Okanagan Falls, located at mile 10.6 from Penticton. The depot is locked and unused but it used to be the southern terminus of Skaha Lake when the line first opened in 1922. When the route along the edge of Skaha Lake was built, the Okanagan lost its barge and car slips in 1931. There is also a water pump at the right of the depot.
Photograph depicts a courthouse in Richfield, 1 mile above Barkerville. It was the only building left standing of the former mining community.
Photograph depicts a cattle shed located 3 miles east of Pavilion Lake, which is 15 miles northeast of Lillooet. It may have been a settler's cabin at one time.
Photograph depicts the yard at the Hat Creek Ranch. Hat Creek used to be a staging post on the Cariboo Road.
Photograph depicts an abandoned cabin about 100 yards from the Fraser River on Bridge River road, about 2 miles out of Lillooet.
Photograph depicts a house that provided an example of the few surviving homes left on Beach Ave.
Photograph depicts one of the surviving houses on Beach Ave, Vancouver, between Gilford and Chilco.
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.
Photograph depicts a large house that was actually the Sunset Beach Lodge. The western end of the block was being demolished. Image captured the last complete block of houses on Beach Ave.
Photograph taken looking northwest at a corner house and another home to its left. They were 2 of 9 houses in this Beach Block, the last block of houses on Beach Ave.
Photograph depicts the demolished site of Nelson Laundries Ltd. The boiler in the foregorund was having tubes removed by a wrecker. The site was to be occupied by a Ford motor dealer.
Photograph depicts buildings of the former Vancouver-Lansdale ferry. They appeared to now be used by Kingcome Navigation Co. as well as other businesses.
Photograph depicts a former dance hall, now barn in the centre of Keremeos Centre. Only 2 buildings of the original village survived which included the dance hall and a hotel across the street.
Photograph depicts a few houses on Beach Ave., Vancouve. They were examples of about a dozen surviving homes on Beach Ave.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of commercial and industrial buildings in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts one of the remaining old type of houses left on Beach Ave., Vancouver.
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.
Photograph depicts the demolished site of Nelson Laundries Ltd. The boiler in the foregorund was having tubes removed by a wrecker. The site was to be occupied by a Ford motor dealer.
Photograph depicts a house that had been pushed on its side by a bulldozer.
Photograph depicts Vancouver City College, formerly King Edward Secondary School.
Photograph depicts a building that was believed to have had many usess, its last being a fish store.
Photograph depicts the Deroche post office that was well patronised for mail and newspaper distribution.
Photograph depicts a well cared for house that was empty and being stripped along with 3 other house on Barclay to make way for a high rise apartment block. Built circa 1905.
Photograph depicts a house that at the moment was being pushed up on its side by a bulldozer.
Photograph depicts one of the four houses on the corner of Barclay and Nicola. It was being demolished to make way for high rise apartments.
Photograph depicts Stave Falls School, a type of rural school that was falling into disuse. This one was still in use and cared for.
Photograph depicts a house being gutted, prior to demolition.
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 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 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.
Photograph depicts a Ukranian Greek Orthodox church on the outskirts of Mission.
Photograph depicts a deserted cabin on the Indian Reserve above the PGE track at the northwest corner of Seton Lake. It probably had been occupied up until the last 5 years.
Photograph depicts a Ukranian Greek Orthodox church on the outskirts of Mission. A poster on its door stated that it been 50 years the church had been in Canada (1918-1968).
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 St. Ann's Academy, a girls boarding school. In the distance, a graceful spire marks the highest point of the building.
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.
Photograph depicts St. Ann's Academy, a girls boarding school that was close to the centre of Victoria. Captured the front of the main building.
Photograph depicts the West Summerland CPR station in the Okanagan. The station often was used but not permanently manned. It was located at mile 9.5 from Penticton. The view is looking south.
Photograph depicts the CPR line at Arawana, 5 miles northeast of Penticton and at mile 125.7 on the Carmi Subdivision. The photo shows the ruins of the station house and Okanagan Lake in the background. The passing loop in the foreground has been disconnected and partially dismantled. The rear track was used once or twice weekly by the way freight train between Penticton and Midway. The view is looking west.
Photograph depicts an abandoned ranch house, southeast of Rock Creek, north of an abandoned GNR grade, and about a mile north of an international boundary.
Photograph depicts a two story log house located on Fiva Creek, beside east Kettle River.
Photograph depicts the one and only service station that was in Trout Lake City. It had manual pumps as there was no distributed electricity in the village.
Photograph taken in the ghost town of Ferguson. About 8 deserted buildings remained, of which two appeared to be used as summer cabins. This building was the Lardeau Hotel.
Photograph depicts a Canadian Customs House. The border crossing was only open between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. daily.
Photograph depicts one of various old lead and zinc mine buildings. Behind this building, on the foreshore, were a few men working on the reclamation of tailings and waste from the mine that was dumped in Kootenay Lake.
Photograph depicts Pioneer Sash and Door Company Ltd. Davies suggests that it may have been the same as S.C. Smith Ltd., which commenced operating in Vernon in 1883. In the early days, products were verandah posters, balusters, and fancy trim. Most products were sent to the U.S. Most of the fancy trim in early north Okanagan homes came from this plant. In 1972, its main output was cedar panelling for Florida.
Photograph depicts the same person who owned the service station building electric generator house in Trout Lake. He also built an undershot water wheel that was driven by Lardeau Creek.
Photograph depicts the CPR line at Boundary Falls, which is at mile 121 from Nelson on the Boundary Subdivision. The view is looking west and it shows the former flag stop shelter.