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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 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 a baby seal at C.N. log drop at Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island.

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 the Tsable coal pit on Vancouver Island as the first coal of the afternoon shift being hauled up.

Photograph depicts coal miners near Buckley Bay. The afternoon shift (3 p.m.) is going down the Tsable drift mine, which is the only working coal pit on Vancouver Island in 1964 and has a total of 70 employees. It is run by the Comox Colliery Co. and has a daily production of 200-300 tons.

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.

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.

Photograph depicts the Cominco Ltd. In Kimberley, near Cranbrook. There is a 3' gauge overhead electric railway serving the underground workings of Sullivan mine. The view shows the C.P.R. access in the valley and the old mine portal, still used for in-going materials and supplies, at the right center of the photo.

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

Photograph depicts a C.P.R. wrecking train unit at Vancouver station.

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.

Photograph depicts a derelict copper smelter at Princeton, BC. The ore comes from Copper Mountain.

Photograph depicts a derelict gold mine at Hedley, BC.

Photograph depicts a donkey engine at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum

Photograph depicts an early type of spool donkey circa 1890-1900, on display at Promised Land Park on the Olympia Peninsula in Washington state.

Photograph depicts an early type of steam donkey mounted on a flatcar and attached to a Shay Tank. It is displayed on the roadside at Promised Land Park, probably near Forks, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.

Photograph depicts a floating log saw cutter moored in the north arm of the Fraser River on the Lulu Island side near the #8 road.

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

Plan depicts Granville Island industrial sites in False Creek, Vancouver. Shows revised trackage from 1955 annotated in colour by Davies.

Photograph depicts the Hedley Gold Mine, 26 miles east of Princeton. Crusher workings.

Photograph depicts loading coal at Buckley Bay. Coal is from Tsable Mine belonging to the Comox Colliery Co. The view is looking north.

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

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

Photograph depicts a log dump on seashore about 5 miles north of Powell River and opposite Hardwood Island. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts a log on an old trailer bed.

Photograph depicts logger sports at Squamish, B.C.

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 pole climbing in logger sports probably at Squamish, B.C.

Photograph depicts a logging bridge over Lois River between Saltery Bay and Lang bay, south of Powell River.

Photograph depicts a logging museum in Ladysmith on Vancouver Island.

Photograph depicts logging on a side road on the Sechelt Peninsula about 2 miles southeast of Halfmoon Bay.

Photograph depicts dumping logs at Gold River on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Photograph depicts a mill on the north stream of the north arm of the Fraser River, looking east from the Fraser St. bridge.

Photograph depicts a lumber mill probably in the Lower Mainland.

Photograph depicts a lumber mill probably in the Lower Mainland.

Photograph depicts a lumber mill probably in the Lower Mainland.

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.

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

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 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 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.

Photograph depicts a mine ore car exhibited on the site of the Granby Mine at the ghost town of Phoenix, near Grand Forks.

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 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 once used booming boat made of log sections at a log dump on seashore about 5 miles north of Powell River, and opposite Harwood Island. Stern at left with prop guard.

Photograph depicts an old pelton wheel at a former quarry at Granite Falls on the northeast head of the Indian Arm.

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.