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Photograph depicts Sarah walking amongst people on sidewalk lined with cars and tall buildings. Power lines cross midground. Photograph believed to have been taken by street photographer. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Sarah Glassey."

Photograph depicts an unidentified First Nations man standing to right of wolf pelts that hang from eaves of house in Atlin, B.C. Stewart and Glassey stand on left, Glassey wearing a suit and tie. Typed annotation on recto of photograph: "Wolf pelts from Teslin, B.C.", handwritten: "Ron Stewart is policeman." See also items 2009.5.2.67 & 2009.5.2.68.

Photograph depicts a group of unidentified buildings in what appears to be an industrial area on opposite shore. River or lake in foreground, tree-covered hills in background.

Photograph depicts canoe floating in water, rocky shore in foreground, opposite shore visible on horizon.

Photograph depicts crane visible behind large metal structures, building materials in foreground.

Photograph depicts two large metal structures on flatbed trailer. Trees visible in background.

Photograph depicts boat hull resting on trailer flatbed pulled by truck. Trees and hills in background.

Photograph depicts lumber and brush piles, forest in background. Crane semi-visible on left, small boat semi-visible on right.

Photograph depicts three men panning in stream, sluiceway behind them. Rocky banks in foreground, forest in background.

Photograph depicts man standing in front of large streams of water spraying from pipe into mining area, hills in background.

Photograph depicts sluice trunk in mining area, men on tall structure in background.

Man driving a two horse cart in front of beehive burner, cart is full of bark presumably sawed off the logs.

Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Mill Burner".

Six men visible on hillside and wood plank roadway, working together to roll cut logs down the hill and load them onto the truck.

Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso read: “logs up to 32 feet in length.”

Fully loaded logging truck driving along a switchback, wood plank logging road.

Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Truck Logging / Giscome BC.”

Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.

Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Sumit Lake." Trees can be seen on shore jutting into the lake on left, as well as on opposite shore in distant background. Unidentified objects can be seen in distance, possibly buildings on far shore.

Photograph depicts unidentified man standing on boom of dragline crane, apparently without safety gear. Unidentified building and equipment can be seen in background against forest.

Photograph depicts a numerous variety of buildings in snowy clearing of forest. A car is parked in foreground on road leading into the camp. Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Sumit Lake Camp". It is speculated that this may be the Campbell Construction Co. road camp.

Map depicts the routes of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, showing stations, railway connection, and the PGE Microwave Communication System.

Photograph depicts a general view, looking north, of Westview Harbour with the Powell River paper plant smoking in the background.

Photograph depicts the newsprint plant of MacMillan, Bloedell, and Powell River Ltd. In Powell River, B.C. The view is looking northwards and shows that the plant is working on Easter Day/

Photograph depicts a log boom probably in the Lower Mainland or on Vancouver Island.

Photograph depicts a view of a steam donkey probably at Sayward near Kelsey Bay on North Vancouver Island.

Photograph depicts an early spool donkey at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum

Photograph depicts a scow with chips landing on the north shore of Vancouver harbour. There are Saskatchewan wheat elevators in the background.

Photograph depicts a general view of a Horne Bros. Ltd. shingle mill on #305 West Esplanade Rd. in North Vancouver.

Photograph depicts a view of the booming ground of the Horne Bros. Shingle Co. Ltd. On #305 West Esplanade Rd. in North Vancouver.

Photograph depicts an oxen powered log carrier with wheels that are approximately 10 feet in diameter. It is at Pioneer Park and Museum near Totem Lake, 3 miles north of Yahk and 30 miles east of Creston.

Photograph depicts a small coal drift mine which worked perhaps 6 months prior to the picture being taken. Timber lands # 8, Cranberry, about 17 miles south of Nanaimo.

Photograph depicts a mine car at Moyie mine, at Moyie, 20 miles south of Cranbrook. The mine produced silver, zinc, and lead, and worked principally from 1900-1910. It is now disused.

Photograph depicts a recently used steam crane, but driven by compressed air, at a former quarry at Granite Falls on the northeast end of the Indian Arm. The timbers on of the cabin were thick to withstand the blasting rock falls.

Photograph depicts an abandoned coal mine in Coal Creek, 5 miles east of Fernie, BCThe entrance to the mine is unusual and is 2/3rds up the mountainside. The mine was closed in 1959. Flat ground in foreground is littered with at least 100 mine tubs of approximately 3'0' gauge.

Photograph depicts the mine buildings of the mine at Coal Creek that closed in 1959. The newer buildings date to circa 1930. Much of the standard gauge trackage of Morrissey, Fernie, and Michel railway (subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway) in mine area remains. The track between Coal Creek and Fernie has not been lifted.

Photograph depicts a C.P.R. lumber train at Cowichan Lake to go to Crofton Mill on Vancouver Island.