File consists of research material regarding ice storage sheds and ice harvesting, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following pieces compiled by Davies: "Schematic Drawing of Ice Houses in B.C."; "Ice Houses"; and "Miscellaneous Examples of Icing Facilities in B.C.". Also includes the articles "Ice Harvesting--A Forgotten Industry" by Mohowski, "Ice and the railroad: Pt. III--Railroad Ice Houses" by Lambert, and "Operation of Car Icing Stations" by Inghram.
Photograph depicts a hydraulic sluicing monitor that was not a piece on display in the exhibit, but was a piece of abandoned equipment found below Barkerville town. It was made by Empire Foundry, Marysville, California.
Photograph depicts an embankment across the inlet of Hydraulic Lake on the CPR line. This a the south end of the McCulloch depot and you can see the buildings in the distance. It is located at mile 76.5 on the Carmi Subdivision, about 27 miles northeast of Penticton.
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.
Photograph depicts "H.R. Macmillan," a private yacht.
Photograph depicts a few houses on Beach Ave., Vancouve. They were examples of about a dozen surviving homes on Beach Ave.
Photograph taken looking northwest at a corner house and another home to its left. They were 2 of 9 houses in this Beach Block, the last block of houses on Beach Ave.
Photograph depicts a house that provided an example of the few surviving homes left on Beach Ave.
Photograph depicts a house that had just been repainted on the north side of Pender Street.
Photograph depicts a house on the east side of Ontario Street, Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a well cared for house that was empty and being stripped along with 3 other house on Barclay to make way for a high rise apartment block. Built circa 1905.
Photograph depicts a house on Nicola St. at the southwest corner of the intersection of Nicola and Robson St., in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts one of the few remaining inhabioted and well kept houses that still survived in the very heart of downtown Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a house that was probably built in 1890-1900. It had just been demolished.
Photograph depicts a house on the southern edge of Chinatown.
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.
Photograph depicts a house that had been pushed on its side by a bulldozer.
Photograph depicts a house that at the moment was being pushed up on its side by a bulldozer.
Photograph depicts one of the four houses on the corner of Barclay and Nicola. It was being demolished to make way for high rise apartments.
Photograph depicts a house being gutted, prior to demolition.
Photograph depicts one of four houses that were being gutted and demolished to make way for a concrete high rise apartment block. Built circa 1905.
Photograph depicts a house on 10th Ave., Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the house opposite an 1876 church in Nicola village, 7 miles northeast of Merritt. It may be the manse.
Photograph depicts the Moha "ghost" vilage, 20 miles west of Lillooet, at the fork of Bridge and Yalako Rivers. It used to be a gold mining village. About 8 houses/cabins were left standing, but none were occupied. Displayed is one that had 2 ft. thick walss to waist height, as shown.
Photograph depicts a house on Ladner Trunk Rd. in Delta, B.C. It is in the northeast corner of an intersection with the road leading to the Canadian Army Signal Station.
Photograph depicts an Independent Order of Foresters 1895 house.
Photograph depicts a house fire on 1000 Beach Block and Thurlow St. on December 18, 1964. A wrecking gang accidently set fire to the house and it took one hour to get the fire under control.
Photograph depicts a house fire possibly on 1000 Beach Block and Thurlow St. , caused by a wrecking gang.
Photograph depicts a house fire in West End of Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a house fire possibly on 1000 Beach Block and Thurlow St. , caused by a wrecking gang.
Photograph depicts a house fire possibly on 1000 Beach Block and Thurlow St. , caused by a wrecking gang.
Photograph depicts the ongoing wrecking of house #1053 on Beach Ave.
Photograph depicts house at #1053 Beach Ave. in Vancouver, B.C. Dan Davies was a resident at one time.
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 taken at Carmi, an old village between Rock Creek and Kelowna. Visible is an old hotel that was up for sale.
Photograph depicts the Hospital Cottage on Main St. in Sechelt, B.C. which also appears to have been home to the Magistrates and Small Debts Court at one point. A large central hospital for the whole of the Sechelt Peninsula was opened in 1965 at Sechelt.
Photograph depicts a horse drawn wagon in a garden at New Denver, Slocan Lake.
Photograph depicts a horse drawn wagon in Barkerville.
Photograph depicts a horse drawn steam fire engine on display at Grand Forks.
Photograph depicts a horse drawn mowing machines on an Indian Reserve. The machine in the foreground was named "Champion" made by B.F. Avery and Company. The other one was named "McCormack Deering."
Photograph depicts a horse drawn hay rack in a field on the north slopes of Vedder Mountain, near Yarrow.
Photograph depicts a horse drawn wagon at Kingbaker Creek on the southeast end of Mara Lake, south of Sicamous on highway 97A.
File consists of research material regarding hoppers, including open hoppers, coal cars, pneumatic discharge covered hoppers, covered hoppers, and cylindrical covered hoppers (grain hoppers). Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.
Photograph depicts the 1000 Beach Ave. block with dogwood rose tree in bloom at the left of the photo.
Photograph depicts homes on 1000 Beach Ave., looking northeast.
Photograph depicts the homes on 1000 Beach Ave. in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts homes on 1000 Beach Ave., looking northeast.
Photograph depicts homes on 1000 Beach Ave., looking northeast. House #1053 on the left has been demolished at this point and then set on fire one night by kids.
Photograph depicts homes on 1000 Beach Ave. in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts home at #1053 Beach Ave., which is now fully demolished.