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Photograph depicts a former C.N.R. station at Youbou on Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island. The track is still used to serve the plywood lumber mill at Youbou.

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 C.P.R. terminal in Vancouver. A C.P.R. switcher is collecting cars from the "Princess of Vancouver" at about 7 p.m.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station at Golden, B.C. The view is looking east.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station at Merritt, halfway between Spences Bridge and Brockmere Junction. The line is in active use.

Photograph depicts the Cameron Lake station on the Alberni branch of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island. It is no longer used but has been converted to a lodge. The view is looking west.

Photograph depicts the Dunsmuir crossing on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island. It is 15 miles north of Parksville.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. depot at Goldstream on Vancouver Island. The view is looking towards Victoria.

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

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. engineering shops at Revelstoke. The view is looking north, with the line from Arrowhead behind the camera.

Photograph depicts the abandoned Sumas substation at Vedder Mountain.

Photograph depicts a locomotive shed at Chilliwack. Note the electric conductor wire guard at the point where the doors meet at their tops.

Photograph depicts a derelict substation on the B.C. Electric Railway at Coghlan, 9 rail miles east of Langley. Though marked "Langley", the building is sited as stated.

Photograph depicts the Canadian National Railway (CN) repair shops at Port Mann. The caboose is receiving a spray paint job.

Photograph depicts the Canadian National Railway (CN) Chilliwack depot, looking north.

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

Photograph depicts the Canadian National Railway (CN) station at Hope, B.C.

Photograph depicts the Canadian National Railway (CN) station at Clearwater, on the mainline between Kamloops and Tete Juane Cache Junction, about 75 miles north of Kamloops. The main trade is lumber. The view is looking south.

Photograph depicts small buildings sited on the north side of the tracks and just west of the Mission City CPR depot. They are all in use and well cared for.

Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Chase, which is no longer in use.

Photograph depicts the CPR line at Notch Hill in the Shuswap. At one time this was a busy place, as helper engines were stationed here to push heavy trains over the hill. This spur is on the north side of the depot and has rails from 1902. The view is looking west, depicting the mainline to the left and just in view.

Photograph depicts the CPR Mission Bridge on the Huntingdon branch. The photo was taken from the open swing span looking downstream, with a tug and derrick (Fraser River Pile Driving Co.) fast disappearing downstream. The new road bridge in the background is about to be opened in late June 1973.

Photograph depicts the CPR Mission Bride on the Huntingdon branch. The photo was taken from the open swing, and shows a tug and derrick passing swiftly downstream in the north channel of the opening. The span opens about every 2 or 3 days for river traffic.

Photograph depicts the CPR Mission Bridge on the Huntingdon branch. The span opened to allow downstream passage of a tug and derrick, which passed at about 6 to 8 knots because of the freshet. Tow started at federal wharf at Mission City. The span opens for river traffic every 2 or 3 days. The view is looking east and upstream.

Photograph depicts the CPR Mission Bridge on the Huntingdon branch. The swing span is in an open position and the view is looking west and downstream. A new road bridge to be opened within the month is in the background. The bridge cabin holds a gas engine that turns the span in about 60 seconds.

Photograph depicts a derelict locomotive shed at Union Bay on Vancouver Island. It is a Canadian Colliery Resources Ltd. shed, last used 15 Aug. 1960. Operations finished that day and disposal of all the equipment followed.

Photograph depicts a disused Canadian National Railway (CN) passenger depot at Kelowna. The offices still used for parcels, ticket sales, etc. There is still good freight traffic.

Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway former station at Cascade, just north of the Canada-U.S. border and 15 miles east of Grand Forks. The line connects Kettle Falls and Grand Forks, but the station is now disused but in good repair. The view is looking south towards Washington State.

Photograph depicts an existing girder bridge, in use since 1962. A new concrete bridge was being built on the left.

Photograph depicts an old girder bridge.

Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. The new part of the Trans-Canada Highway beneath it had yet to be paved.

Photograph depicts an abandoned ranch house, southeast of Rock Creek, north of an abandoned GNR grade, and about a mile north of an international boundary.

Photograph depicts a house that had been pushed on its side by a bulldozer.

Photograph depicts a house that provided an example of the few surviving homes left on Beach Ave.

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

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 was probably built in 1890-1900. It had just been demolished.

Photograph depicts a house on the southern edge of Chinatown.

Photograph depicts a two story log house located on Fiva Creek, beside east Kettle River.

Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway station on Main Street, Vancouver being demolished.

Photograph depicts the Wrinch Memorial Hospital. It held 54 beds and was founded by Dr. Winch for the benefit of the local First Nations population.

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

Photograph depicts a church on River Road, Whonnock, Maple Ridge.

Photograph depicts an Indian Roman Catholic church at the mouth of Anderson Lake. No services were held anymore. It was externally restored in 1968 by the white people of the village, while the Natives did the interior. Unfortunatley, there was no work done on the interior as of the date the photograph was captured.

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

Photograph depicts the completely rebuilt drug store in Barkerville based on historical sketches and photos.

Photograph depicts a building that was believed to have had many usess, its last being a fish store.

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.