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 HMCS Discovery Naval Reserve headquarters in located on Deadman's Island, Vancouver.
Photograph depicts HMCS Discovery Naval Reserve headquarters in located on Deadman's Island, Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the Department of National Defence Armoury headquarters of the British Columbia regiment.
Photograph depicts Mount Pleasant Elementary School in Vancouver. Date over doorway was 1892.
Photograph depicts a pier, possibly of the CPR in Nanaimo.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of churches in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a bell tower of a Roman Catholic church in the Saanich Peninsula.
Photograph depicts a church on River Road, Whonnock, Maple Ridge.
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 courthouse in Richfield, 1 mile above Barkerville. It was the only building left standing of the former mining community.
Photograph depicts one of the churches on Denman Island.
Photograph depicts St. John the Divine church, built in 1914 at Hubert which is now a ghost town. Moved to this location in the open country in 1928.
Photograph depicts Kach Indian church.
Photograph depicts a church that was built of shaped logs on the territory of the Tsal'alh Nation on the road leading to Seton Lake. Church was derelict, but still held pews, plastic flowers and small shrines.
Photograph depicts "Butterchurch" that was built in 1870 under the direction of Father Rondeault of the Oblate Order for missionary work among the Comiakan Natives, a tribe of about 100. It was abandoned by about 1880 because of its location. It was recently restored as a historical shrine.
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 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.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of hotels in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a completely rebuilt saloon that was done so based on historical sketches and photos.
Photograph depicts Royal Oak Apartments on Kingsway in Burnaby.
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 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 Windsor Hotel, the only survivor of about 5 hotels that were in the area.
Photograph taken at Carmi, an old village between Rock Creek and Kelowna. Visible is an old hotel that was up for sale.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of stores and service buildings in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts "Salt Spring Island Trading Company Ltd." store.
Photograph depicts the completely rebuilt drug store in Barkerville based on historical sketches and photos.
Photo depict Movat's store where you could buy food, dry goods, and hardware among other things. Located beside the original pier on Salt Spring Island, now little used for general and commercial traffic.
Photograph depicts a building that was believed to have had many usess, its last being a fish store.
Photograph depicts Golly's Grocery that was closed and slightly vandalised.
Photograph depicts the only store in the small, derelict village of about 12-15 houses of which only one is occupied.
Photograph taken in Coalmont, a ghost village that was livening up. Visible is the Meat Market store, the only surviving building on the frintage of this block, adjacent to the hotel.
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 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 the Westholme post office.
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 the Deroche post office that was well patronised for mail and newspaper distribution.
Photograph depicts a Canadian Customs House. The border crossing was only open between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. daily.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of commercial and industrial buildings in British Columbia.
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 an old tannery that appeared to be being slowly renovated after years of disuse.
Photograph depicts an RCAF Langer that was erected in 1942 as part of a flying boat base to counter possible Japanese sea and activities. It was used subsequently as whaling station premises.
Photograph depicts a Public Weigh Scale that was operated in Vancouver, on Main Street, opposite the CN Depot.
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 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.