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"Master" tug
2013.6.36.1.064.01 · Item · [between 1964 and 1983]
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a "Master" tug after it underwent restoration in False Creek, Vancouver. It was under steam, and entering English Bay.

Mainland St. in Vancouver
2013.6.36.1.015.34 · Item · 22 Oct. 1974
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the 1500 block of Mainland St. in Vancouver. The boxcar in the view is CN #521160. The switch at Helmcken St. is still in position but not usable because it has been partially black topped and had the rods removed.

Lynn Terminals wharf in Vancouver
2013.6.36.1.014.42 · Item · Apr. 1966
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Lynn Terminals wharf in Vancouver Harbour. The view is looking east with the Second Narrows bridge in the background. The photo also shows a steam dredger at work.

2013.6.36.1.010.64 · Item · [June 1965]
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts locomotive #25 at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It was first used in building the C.N.R. in B.C. and/or western Alberta. The gauge is 3' and it is believed it was built to this gauge. The drive is Elmer Blackstaff, the chief mechanic at the museum.

Large house, Beach Ave., Vancouver
2013.6.36.1.072.17 · Item · 28 Oct, 1967
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a large house that was actually the Sunset Beach Lodge. The western end of the block was being demolished. Image captured the last complete block of houses on Beach Ave.

Lake Steamer, "Proctor"
2013.6.36.1.067.08 · Item · Aug. 1966
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a replica of the "SS Beaver" built by the RCN in Esquimalt and moored in Vancouver, open to the public. The original ship left Gravesend on August 29, 1935 and reached Fort Vancouver (Oregon) on April 10. 1936.

Junction of Robson and Cordero St.
2013.6.36.1.002.106 · Item · Apr. 1966
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the junction of Robson and Cordero St. in west end Vancouver, B.C. The photo is looking northwest on the newly demolished block, except for some houses at far end. View is looking down Robson St., with Cordero St. intersecting the photo.

2013.6.36.1.068.16 · Item · [June 1966]
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

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.

"Japan Line"
2013.6.36.1.068.21 · Item · 23 Nov. 1968
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a steam floating derrick (owned by Mckenzie Barge and Derrick Co. Ltd.) loading contariners from a scow into the hold of "Japan Line." Use of the crane on the non-deck side of a ship was unusual and the use a steam crane was quite exceptional, Davies notes.

"Japan Line"
2013.6.36.1.068.05 · Item · 23 Nov. 1968
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

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.

Island Tug, Fraser River
2013.6.36.1.064.07 · Item · Apr. 1971
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts "Island Tug #125," on the north arm of the Fraser River. Travelling downstrean from Patulla Bridge, New Westminster, and the CNR Lulu Island rail bridge.

2013.6.36.1.010.66 · Item · Apr. 1966
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 diesel shunter locomotive #21, owned and on the premises of Vancouver Wharves Ltd. in North Vancouver. It is having a new transmission installed and receives an annual paint job in sky blue. It has a Gardiner (Manchester) engine. Comes the plate "Samuel Williams & Sons Ltd." (of Dagenham, Essex, U.K.), which is the parent company of the V.W. Ltd.

House on Beach Ave., Vancouver
2013.6.36.1.072.19 · Item · 28 Oct, 1967
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a house that had a "sold" notice on it and was partly demolished. Up to the date the photograph was captured, this block on Beach Ave. was the sole remaining one to have only houses on it, as opposed to a mixture of houses and apartment blocks, or blocks only.