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.
Photograph depicts a CPR wharf building at Okanagan Landing, Okanagan Lake. It was presumably used as a covered slipway and as a store. It was was now boarded up and the rail track between Vernon and Okanagan Landing was removed in 1940.
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 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 the Tofino Airport. It was a former wartime RCAF base built in 1942 for anti-Japanese air patrols. It was now a D.O.T controlled airport.
Photograph depicts buildings of the former Vancouver-Lansdale ferry. They appeared to now be used by Kingcome Navigation Co. as well as other businesses.
Photograph depicts an unknown building in B.C.
Photograph depicts West Coast Electric Ltd., an electric manufacturers and shop.
Photograph depicts a mill and beehive burner.
Photograph depicts a 120 ft. stack of the former B.C. Copper Company in Anaconda, on the outskirts of Greenwood. It was built sometime between 1903 and 1909 and replaced a steel stack built on 1900, immediately below it.
Photograph depicts all that remained of Lumberton Spruce Mills Ltd, circa 1912-1939.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of log dwellings in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Glenwalker Ranch. Visible are details of the log construction of a barn that was built between 1890 and 1910.
Photograph depicts a disused cabin that was perhaps abandoned in the late 1950's.
Photograph taken at Okangan Lake, on Alexis Beach. O'Keefe Ranch is located at the head of the lake. Visible is an old house that was used as a hay barn.
Photograph depicts a log cabin that was inhabited by an older aboriginal man who is visible in the window. The cabin was perhaps 100 years old.
Photograph depicts a new log house that was under construction.
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 a school room or church on the road between Louis Creek and Adams Lake.
Photograph depicts an original trappers cabin on Staubert Lake.
Photograph depicts a disused rural school in the village of Cormi.
Photograph depicts a deserted cabin on the Indian Reserve above the PGE track at the northwest corner of Seton Lake. It probably had been occupied up until the last 5 years.