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Photograph depicts the "SS Princess Marguerite" arriving with sightseers from Seattle in the Inner Harbour of Victoria.

Photograph depicts "Princess Patricia" undergoing a minor refitting before winter cruising in warmer climates.

Photograph depicts containers being hoisted onto "Japan Line" by means of a steam derrick (owned by Mckenzie Barge and Derrick Co. Ltd.) tied alongside scow holding containers. Davies notes that this was an unusual sight.

Photograph depicts a small tug being completely renovated on a floating scow.

Photograph depicts a Coastgaurd ship, "Narwhal," at the Department of Transport wharf in Seal Cove.

Photograph depicts the "Princess Marguerite."

Photograph depicts a small coaster.

Photograph depicts a Japanese cadet sailing ship called "Kaiuo Maru" at Centennial Pier, Vancouver. Its visit was part of 1966 Vancouver Sea Festival and the ship was open to the public for inspection. Note the radar apparatus on the foremast.

Photograph depicts the annual Bath-Tub Race that took place in Nanaimo. Visible are rescue and patrol boats that were about to set out.

Photograph depicts a gaff rigged schooner. Its sails were apparently set to dry them. No one was aboard and the vessel was securely moored. Davies notes that it was an unusual sailing rig for the area.

Photograph depicts a Japanese sailing ship, "Kaiuo Maru" at Centennial Pier, Vancouver. Captures the stern view at sunset.

Photograph depicts Birch Island Bridge over the North Thompson River.

Photograph depicts the bridge over the Nicomen Slough (which was a turgid smal arm of the Fraser River at this point) at Dewdney. It was fairly recently built.

Photograph depicts a bridge over Kettle River.

Photograph depicts a private logging road bridge over Kettle River at Fiva Creek, Westbridge B.C. The bridge had recently repaired with new timbers.

Photograph taken north of Gold River, at the Tahsis Ltd. Tree Farm, on a logging road that led to Port McNiel. Crossing the Muchalat River. The bridge was disused and blocked off.

Photograph depicts a car crossing the Lillooet Suspension Bridge (also known as the Lillooet Old Bridge) over the Fraser River.

Photograph depicts Birch Island Bridge over the North Thompson River.

Photograph depicts a BCER rail bridge at the entrance to False Creek, Vancouver.

Photograph depicts the Federal Railway Bridge in New Westminster. It had been knocked down by a runaway scow. The new span was to be built and installed by April 22, 1976.

Photograph depicts the CPR main line crossing Pitt River. Taken from a timber pier that protected the swing span when it was in an open position.

Photograph depicts a PGE crossing over the Fraser River, north of Lillooet. Visible on the far bank was an old grade that led to a former bridge about a mile downstream.

Photograph depicts a bridge over the Similkameen River. The branch was still in use with very little traffic. One padlocked door on each side of the bridge allows examination of trusses.

Photograph depicts a bridge for road vehicles. Also visible is a single track of the CPR that went from Esquimalt to Nanaimo. Both were opened to allow a large tug to proceed seawards.

Photograph depicts a rail bridge crossing the Fraser River. Until 1956, this was the western extremity of the Kettle Valley line, linking up with the CPR main lien to Vancouver. Track now led to derelict looking CPR yards in Hope.

Photograph depicts the Soda Creek reaction ferry.

Photograph depicts the Soda Creek reaction ferry. A ferry was sited between Soda Creek and Marguerite. The reaction ferry in Soda Creek itself had been abandoned for some time.

Photograph depicts the only surviving building in the ghost town of Gerard. Its survival was due to the ownership and periodic use of the B.C. Government Fisheries Department.

Photograph depicts one of the remaining old type of houses left on Beach Ave., Vancouver.

Photograph depicts a house on the east side of Ontario Street, Vancouver.

Photograph depicts the Kaslo City Hall, built in 1898. The first floor contained a library while the second floor held a coutroom with original furnishings in mild disarray.

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 Windsor School, an elementary school in south Burnaby.

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 Mount Pleasant Elementary School in Vancouver. Date over doorway was 1892.

Photograph depicts a courthouse in Richfield, 1 mile above Barkerville. It was the only building left standing of the former mining community.

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 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 Windsor Hotel, the only survivor of about 5 hotels that were in the area.

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 the Westholme post office.

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 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 West Coast Electric Ltd., an electric manufacturers and shop.

Photograph depicts a cabin near Williams Lake. Its interior contained two old treadle sewing machines and a chesterfield. Davies had the impression it had not been inhabited for at least a decade.

Photograph depicts a log cabin in the KlinaKlina Valley.

Photograph depicts an original trappers cabin on Staubert Lake.

Photograph depicts a trappeers cabin on the northend of Trout Lake and Trout Lake City. It was maintained in good condition by present owners who valued its age.

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.