Photograph depicts the steam tug "Master" in English Bay, Vancouver during the maritime festival.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Master" in English Bay, Vancouver during the maritime festival.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Master" with the steam up at Kingcome Navigation Dock in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Master" with steam up at Kingcome Navigation Dock in Vancouver. The C.N.R. wharf/terminal is at left.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Master" tied up to N.H.B. elevator #4 on the southeast side of Vancouver Harbour.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Master" on a Sunday outing near the C.P.R. rail pier at the entrance to Coal Harbour, Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Prestige" in Vancouver Harbour. It is disused and passively preserved.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Prestige" at Vancouver Ocean Terminal on the south side of Vancouver Harbour. The disused Indian Arm ferry is alongside.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Seaswell" on the Pitts River, between a railway and road bridge. It was formerly owned by Vancouver Tug and used for towing log booms in open sea. It was last used by them in 1960/1961. The towing gear was recently removed but the steam reciprocating engines are still intact.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Seaswell" on the Pitts River, close to a road bridge. It has not been in used since about 1960/1961.
Photograph depicts a CPR steam tug called the "Naramata." It was built in 1913, retired to standby in 1967, and then sold in 1970.
Photograph depicts a CPR tug called the "Naramata." It was built in 1913 and sold out of service in 1970.
Photograph depicts a former sternwheeler building and repair slipway as well as a steam tug called the "Naramata." Steamer passengers ceased at the location in 1935 and rail service to the "Landing" in 1940.
Photograph depicts a CPR steam tug called the "Naramata." It was a standby tug that was last used in 1967.
Photograph depicts a slipway in the foreground that displays one of five cradles and ways for hauling steamwheelers sideways out of water. The steam tug called the "Naramata" is visible in the background.
Photograph depicts a CPR steam tug called the "Naramata." It was built in 1913 by Western Dry Dock Company, Port Arthur.
Photograph depicts a CPR tug called the "Naramata." It was used as a standby as it was last steamed in 1967.
Photograph depicts a steam tug called "R.F.M". It was believed to not be in steaming condition.
Photograph depicts a steam tug called "R.F.M". It was believed to not be in steaming condition.
Photograph depicts steam tugs "Master" and "Prestige" at N.H.B. #4 Elevator in Vancouver Harbour. The "Prestige" has not been fired or looked after for at least 2- 3 years and had been moved to this position the previous day after being tied up elsewhere in the harbour in one position for over 12 months.
File consists of a scrapbook created by David Davies based on his May 31st, 1986 visit to the EXPO 86 SteamEXPO event, which ran from May 23 to June 1, 1986. Includes clippings from the guide to the exhibit, photographs taken by Davies, and clippings from periodicals.
Postcard depicts a "massive 4-4-0 wood burning locomotive ready to enter the turn table from the round house. These CPR locomotives were in common use from 1886 until 1915, running from the Kootenays through the Fraser Canyon."
File consists of a publication by Barrie Sanford entitled "Steel Rails and Iron Men: A Pictorial History of the Kettle Valley Railway".
Photograph depicts the stern view of the C.N.R. S.S. Canora, tied to the tidal loading platform at Tilbury Dock, Fraser River, Delta.
Photograph depicts the stern wheel details of the replica of the S.S. Moyie, taken at Coal Habour, Vancouver, two days after launching.
File consists of a 1973 publication by Edward Lloyd Affleck entitled "Sternwheelers, Sandbars and Switchbacks: A Chronicle of Steam Transportation in the British Columbia Waterways of the Columbia River System, 1865 to 1965". This is a "revised and enlarged edition, containing a chapter on 'two generations of steamboating on British Columbia's inland lakes' as told to Edward L. Affleck by Otto L. Estabrooks".
File consists of research material regarding stock cars, including double-deck stock cars, the end of stock car service, and depictions of stock car types. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.
Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge in the Selkirk Mountains of B.C.
Photograph depicts a stone house on 17th St. and Esquimalt St. in West Vancouver, B.C.
Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge.
Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge.
Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge.
Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge.
Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge in the Canadian Rockies.
Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge in the Selkirk Mountains of B.C.
Photograph taken at the CN Kamloops Junction on a storage line.
Photograph depicts the only store in the small, derelict village of about 12-15 houses of which only one is occupied.
Photograph depicts a store 50 yards south of the B.C. Electric Railway on the west side of the Vedder crossing road in Sardis, Chilliwack, B.C.
Photograph depicts machinery stored in Summerland beside KVR track. Property of the KVR Historical Society.
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 stoves taken from railway equipment at the C.N. Port Mann repair shops. Left and middle stove are of the same design.
Photograph depicts a street car body that formerly belonged to Vancouver, but was found by Davies in Penticton.
Photograph depicts former street car tracks in New Westminster.
Series consists of plans, articles, and clippings regarding structures built by railways (with the exception of bridges and stations) in British Columbia. Includes information about engine houses, roundhouses, turntables, water delivery structures, fuelling facilities, freight houses, ice storage shed, tunnels, and other railway structures.
File consists of material regarding the industrial railway of the lead-zinc mine known variously as the Sullivan Mine/Cominco Mine/Kimberley Mine in Kimberley, British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.
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 a train spotted at the Summerland depot.
Map depicts the cities of Summerland, Penticton, and Naramata. Annotated by Davies to emphasize the rail lines in the area.
Map depicts the cities of Summerland, Penticton, and Naramata. Annotated by Davies to emphasize the rail lines in the area.