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Small coal drift mine
2013.6.36.1.005.01 · Item · Aug. 1964
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

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.

Small coal drift mine
2013.6.36.1.005.02 · Item · Aug. 1964
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

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.

Coking ovens at Union Bay
2013.6.36.1.005.08 · Item · Aug. 1964
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the coking ovens at Union Bay on Vancouver Island. They belong to the Canadian Collieries Ltd. and the date last used is unknown.

Coaling wharf at Union Bay
2013.6.36.1.005.09 · Item · Aug. 1964
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the coaling wharf at Union Bay on Vancouver Island. It is the property of the Canadian Colliery Resources Ltd. It was last used on August 15, 1960. Thereafter, all equipment and railways were dismantled but the water tank is still standing.

Mine near Moyie, BC
2013.6.36.1.005.10 · Item · Oct. 1965
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a mine 200 yards south of Moyie village, which is 20 miles south of Cranbrook. It produced silver, zinc, and lead from 1900-1910 and had a smelter a quarter mile away. The shaft was 900 ft. deep, with levels going under Moyie Lake. The head gear dates from 1925-1935 and has electric winding.

Moyie Lake, BC
2013.6.36.1.005.11 · Item · Oct. 1965
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts Moyie Lake, 15 miles south of Cranbrook, and Moyie Station. The tailings are from a lead and zinc mine directly to the right of the photograph on the hillside. The view is looking north.

Mine car at Moyie Mine
2013.6.36.1.005.12 · Item · Oct. 1965
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

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.

Steam crane at former quarry at Granite Falls
2013.6.36.1.005.25 · Item · [May 1965]
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

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.

Abandoned coal mine east of Fernie, BC
2013.6.36.1.005.33 · Item · Oct. 1965
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

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.

Mine buildings of mine at Coal Creek
2013.6.36.1.005.36 · Item · Oct. 1965
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

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.

David Davies Railway Collection
2013.6 · Coleção · [before 2020]

The David Davies Railway Collection encompasses all facets of railway history specifically in the province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory. The collection consists of research material accumulated over the course of more than fifty years, and includes monographs, periodicals, articles, clippings, railway timetables, photographs, maps and plans, and excerpts. Material covers public, tourist, and private (industrial) railways, including: CPR, KVR, E&N; CNR, CNoR, GTPR; and PGER, BCR. The collection excludes material regarding streetcar systems and rapid transit, but includes long distance electric interurbans.