Photograph depicts Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. The view is looking southwest from the mall towards the gym and sports arena.
Photograph depicts Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. The view is looking east towards the nearly completed water tower from the west inner face of the Academic Quadrangle.
Photograph depicts the view looking north from Diamond Head Lodge in Garibaldi Park, about 20 miles northeast of Squamish. Believed to be "Bookworm range" at 7910 ft.
Photograph depicts the general view of the waterfront buildings between Burrard and Thurlow St., in Vancouver Harbour looking northwest from Burrard St. The Immigration Building is on the left and the "Princess of Vancouver" (C.P.R.) is in the middle distance.
Photograph depicts the Britannia Copper Mine in Howe Sound. The view is looking southeast.
Photograph depicts a fence at Nicola village, 7 miles northeast of Merritt.
Photograph depicts a view of downtown Vancouver taken from the east end of False Creek at the foot of Terminal Ave. The view is looking northwest. In the middle distance on the left is the pier of a railway bridge taking the Great Northern Railway line into the city. It was demolished in about 1915-1920 when a new Great Northern station was constructed.
Photograph depicts Lund Harbour, looking north, 12 miles north of Powell River. It is the most northerly point on the mainland accessible by car, on this part of the coast. Lund is 92 car miles north of the ferry terminal at Langdale.
Photograph depicts the north bank of False Creek in Vancouver, B.C. The photograph was taken from the Cambie Bridge, with a view looking west.
Photograph depicts the Albion Ferry on the Fraser River, as it approaches a ferry slip at Fort Langley.
Photograph depicts a log boom probably in the Lower Mainland or on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts dumping logs at Gold River on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts a baby seal at C.N. log drop at Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts a lumber mill probably in the Lower Mainland.
Photograph depicts pole climbing in logger sports probably at Squamish, B.C.
Photograph depicts pole climbing in logger sports probably at Squamish, B.C.
Photograph depicts logger sports at Squamish, B.C.
Photograph depicts a logging museum in Ladysmith on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts a steam donkey beside a mill pond of a shingle mill at Sappho or Tyee, on the Olympic Peninsula. It is steam fed from the main plant boiler.
Photograph depicts a beehive burner at Brownsville Sawmills Ltd. On Olson St. in south Westminster, Surrey. It is on the banks of the Fraser River just below the Patullo Bridge.
Photograph depicts a small sawmill on the Old Yale Rd., near the intersection of Robson Rd. in South Westminster, Surrey.
Photograph depicts a log on an old trailer bed.
Photograph depicts a general view of the Horne Bros. shingle mill on #305 West Esplanade Rd. in North Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a steam crane in the yard of the Lions Gate Lumber Co. on the foot of Lloyd St. in the North Vancouver. It has been freshly painted with a yellow exterior, white interior, and black boiler.
Photograph depicts a lumber yard on the north side of Porpoise Bay in Sechelt on the Sechelt Peninsula. The tank in the photograph is about 8 to 10 feet in diameter.
Photograph depicts logging on a side road on the Sechelt Peninsula about 2 miles southeast of Halfmoon Bay.
Photograph depicts a mineral ore (lead or zinc?) mines near the ghost town of Sandon, on the road between Kaslo and New Denver.
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.
Photograph depicts an early internal combustion tractor at Greenwood, BC
Photograph depicts a 10 ton Wallis & Stevens Ltd. #7985 steam roller. It was built at Basingstoke, England from about 1925 to 1927. It is located at 6110 Curtis St. in Burnaby, BC
Photograph depicts a grader at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum
Photograph depicts Belmont Park Fort on the west side of Esquimalt Harbour. It was built by the British Royal Engineers in 1895 to protect the naval base. Photo shows the lower fort with 2 gun emplacements.
Photograph depicts the entrance to the magazine feeding gun emplacement in the lower fort of Belmont Park Fort in Esquimalt Harbour.
Photograph depicts one of the 2 gun emplacements in the lower fort of Belmont Park Fort protecting Esquimalt Harbour.
Photograph depicts the one and only gun emplacement in the upper fort of Belmont Park Fort protecting Esquimalt Harbour.
Photograph depicts one of the few surviving hand operated gas pumps, halfway between Campbell River and Kelsey Bay, BCWithin three months this gas station will have electricity.
Photograph depicts former tram tracks, looking north from the intersection at Campbell Ave and east Georgia St. in Vancouver, BC
File consists of indexes to the Canadian Railroad Historical Association's periodical, "Canadian Rail". Includes indexes for 1962 issues, 1973 issues, and a complete index to issues #1 to #455 (1937-1996).
File consists of original copies of B.C. Rail Guides, published by the Canadian Railroad Historical Association Pacific Branch. Includes B.C. Rail Guide No. 6 "A Selected Bibliography on Railways in British Columbia: Part I" by Ron Meyer; B.C. Rail Guide No. 7 (Part II of the same); and an unnumbered B.C. Rail Guide "List of Railway Archival Material Held by Pacific Coast Branch, Canadian Railroad Historical Association" by A.J. Rimmington.
File consists of various glossaries and definitions of railway terms excerpted from books and periodicals.
File consists of railway related statistics for British Columbia, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions from books and clippings from periodicals. Includes statistics for PGE, BC Rail, Vancouver Island logging railroads, CNR, short lines, and others. Also includes research by Davies on the chronology of BC railway history, railway statistics of BC, and rail distances in BC. Some of this research was produced in his B.C. Rail Guide No. 5, "Statistics for the B.C. Railway Historian", which is also included.
File consists of a pamphlet published by the City of Vancouver Archives commemorating the arrival of the first trans-Canada train from Montreal to Vancouver.