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Photograph depicts stores in Kaslo on Kootenay Lake, 40 miles northeast of Nelson. This town still has 15 miles of dirt road leading to it.

Photograph depicts the Sumas depot of the Northern Pacific Railway in the U.S. The Canadian border is at the grade crossing in the middle distance.

Photograph depicts what is believed to be the only remaining "summer cottage" on Beach Ave. in English Bay.

Photograph depicts the Sun Building at the intersection of Beatty and West Pender St. in Vancouver, B.C. The photo was taken after the Pacific Press Ltd. Vacated the building on December 26, 1965, and the "Sun" neon sign on the tower was removed. The view is looking west from West Pender St.

Photograph depicts block ships sunk to protect booming grounds at Powell River. The ships were former wartime naval vessels.

Photograph depicts one of the surviving houses on Beach Ave, Vancouver, between Gilford and Chilco.

Photograph depicts the only surviving building in the ghost town of Gerard. Its survival was due to the ownership and periodic use of the B.C. Government Fisheries Department.

Photograph depicts a swimming pool at Second Beach in Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. The snow in the foreground is 16 inches deep and there is a gathering snowstorm in the background coming in from the west.

Photograph depicts an old tannery that appeared to be being slowly renovated after years of disuse.

Photograph depicts the Pacific Terminus of the Trans Canada Highway in Tofino, B.C. on Vancouver Island.

Photograph depicts the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Ladysmith, B.C. on Vancouver Island. Building is estimated to be built between 1901-1905.

Photograph depicts the building for the Vancouver Supply Company located at 25 Alexander St. in Vancouver, B.C. It is at the center of the old downtown and may have been a former fire hall.

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 Tofino on Vancouver Island. View taken from wharf with a lifeboat on slip.

Photograph depicts a tool house on a CNR curve in Armstrong. Not in frequent use.

Photograph depicts a disused tool house in Wasa, at the CPR Windermere Subdivision. Davies notes the structure was rarely seen at the time the photograph was taken.

Photograph depicts a tool house in Wasa, at the CPR Windermere Subdivision. Before 1970, the station had siding for 37 cars. Now it had two sidings for a total of 150 cars. Note the old box car with old lettering that was presumably on non-reserve service.

Photograph depicts a tower controlling the C.P.R. grade crossing at Alexander St. in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts a track shed about 1 mile south of Beaverdell or at about mile 43.25 on the CPR line in the Carmi Subdivision. Despite the open doors and ease of access, it was the only hut on the line found to contain track materials and correspondence. It retained 50 memos addressed to the Section Foreman [at Beaverdell?].

Photograph depicts the track transfer transporter at the Canadian National Railway (CN) repair shops at Port Mann.

Photograph depicts the track transfer transporter at the Canadian National Railway (CN) repair shops at Port Mann, showing the east face of the main building.

Photograph depicts the junction station of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway at Parksville on Vancouver Island. The view is looking south.

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 a trappeers cabin on the northend of Trout Lake and Trout Lake City. It was maintained in good condition by present owners who valued its age.

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 depicts a turntable outside a disused roundhouse at the C.P.R. yards in Coquitlam. The turntable is still in use.

Photograph depicts a two bay locomotive shed of the round-house style at Alberni on Vancouver Island.

Photograph depicts two grain elevators at Creston, BC. The Creston CPR yard lies behind the camera. The line is on a downgrade away from the camera, starting its descent to the valley bottom for Kootenay Lake. The grain elevators are a rare sight in BC.

Photograph depicts a Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church on 27th St. and 41st Ave. in Vernon, B.C. in the Okanagan.

Photograph depicts a Ukranian Greek Orthodox church on the outskirts of Mission.

Photograph depicts a Ukranian Greek Orthodox church on the outskirts of Mission. A poster on its door stated that it been 50 years the church had been in Canada (1918-1968).

Photograph depicts the same person who owned the service station building electric generator house in Trout Lake. He also built an undershot water wheel that was driven by Lardeau Creek.

Photograph depicts the post office in Union Bay. It was a "Heritage" building and internally restored. Believed to have been built in 1908.

Photograph depicts the United Church at Spences Bridge in the Fraser Canyon. The church is on the flats on the west side of the river and close to the C.N. depot.

Photograph depicts an unknown building in B.C.

Photograph depicts the unused C.P.R. Shawnigan Lake section house on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway. It is 27.8 miles outside Victoria.

Photograph depicts the Upper Clearwater Hall on a dirt road between Clearwater (70 miles north of Kamloops) and the entrance to Wells Gray Provincial Park. The cracks between the logs recently re-cemented.

Photograph depicts Vancouver City College, formerly King Edward Secondary School.

Photograph depicts the Vancouver Shipyards Ltd. on 555 Denman St. in Vancouver, B.C., looking south from Coal Harbour waters.

Photograph depicts the rear and side view of the abandoned Sumas electrical substation on the B.C. Electric Railway at Vedder Mountain.

Photograph depicts a view of the Fraser River from the Albion Ferry from Haney to Fort Langley. The ferry is approaching the south bank of Fort Langley. Gulls sat on logs floating downstream; too heavy to rise after eating candlefish.

Photograph depicts the north shore of False Creek, looking west after a snowfall. Photo taken from the swing span of Cambie Bridge in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts a view looking northeast towards Coal Harbour from Alberni St. (Chilco-Gilford block) with West Georgia St. in the middle distance.

Photograph depicts the washrooms on the west side of the line, about a quarter mile from the McCulloch CPR depot building. The depot is located at mile 76.6 on the Carmi Subdivision.

Photograph depicts a full but unused water tank at Duncan Station on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island.

Photograph depicts the water tower at B.C. Forest Products Ltd. Mill at Port Hammond, in the Fraser Valley.

Photograph depicts a surviving but disused water tower at Cranbrook. Cranbrook is located at mile 0 on the CPR line of the Nelson Subdivision.

Photograph depicts the water tower at the C.P.R. Savona Depot. The view is looking east towards Kamloops.

Photograph depicts an abandoned water tower on CPR line at Brookmere, 30 miles south of Merritt. The trackage on the right has had the spikes removed but the yard consists of a mixture of completely removed, partially removed, and completely undisturbed track. An elderly couple and 2 elderly bachelors are the only year-round remaining inhabitants.

Photograph depicts a working undershot water wheel on Lardeau Creek River. It was the only water wheel seen in B.C. between 1963 and 1970. It was designed to drive an electricity generating set, but it was not coupelled to the set at the time.