Photograph depicts a fuel storage shed in Harrison Mills.
Harrison Mills, BC
6 Archival description results for Harrison Mills, BC
Photograph depicts a CPR swing bridge in Harrison Mills. Looking east, towards Kilby Store. Swing section in the foreground. It was rarely used.
Photograph depicts a CPR swing bridge in Harrison Mills. Taken on the downstream side of Harrison River.
Photograph depicts a CPR swing bridge in Harrison Mills. Looking west, on the upstream side of the Harrison River.
Photograph depicts a swing bridge in Harrison Mills. It was rarely used, but all its controls were modern and maintained.
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.