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File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Nelson Machinery yard in Savona, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a VIA Rail train that travelled from Prince Rupert to Jasper.

Photographs within this file pertain to modes of transportation and transportation routes (including construction, surveying and traveling).

File contains 20 slides date stamped between July and August 1976 and annotated “TRAILER SERVICE SUMMER 1976", depicting the construction and renovation of a mobile home, excavations, and structures believed to be wells or water boxes. File also contains 9 additional slides with no annotations, depicting mobile home and houses in winter. These 9 images are associated with materials dated Nov. – Dec. 1976 and it is likely that these photographs were taken in the winter of 1975-1976.

This photograph album consists of photographs of remote police barracks at Mile 47 and Mile 29; early settlements and/or mercantile stores at Tete Jaune Cache, McBride, Sand Creek, Fort George and South Fort George; Grand Trunk Pacific Railway forestry and railway camps; scows and paddlewheel conveyors on the Fraser River; automobiles; community leisure activities; as well as, images of the Bourchier family. The following South Fort George establishments are identifiable within these photographs: Empress Hotel, Ah Yee General Merchant, German Bakery, Northern Hotel, South Fort George Drug Store & Post Office, St. Michael’s Church, Prince George Hotel, Ford Monarch dealership, Astoria Hotel, and King George V Elementary School. Identified geographic locations featured in these photographs include: Tete Jaune, Upper Fraser, Mile 47, Mile 29, Fraser River, Mt. Robson, McBride, Sand Creek, Glacier Mountain, Moose River, Giscome Portage, Pott Falls, Red Deer River, Grand Canyon, Summit Lake, Canoe Pass, Connaught Hill, Nechako Bridge, and Island Cache.

File contains images of mine operations and construction, as well as a variety of other subjects.

• Elements of the underground mine are depicted, including miners working, the marked rock face, yellow ducting and ventilation fan, the portal, mesh rockbolted onto adit walls, shotcrete being applied, and stacked mining construction materials.
• Mining equipment depicted in this file includes underground ore haulage truck, Wabco ore haulage truck, jackleg drill, stoper drill, scoop tram, jumbo drill, conveyor, pickup trucks, unidentified mixing or grinding machine, a cable wagon and half constructed ore haulage truck in the shop, and a continuous miner (also known as alpine miner or roadheader).
• A set of images show a dozer and a lowbed truck transporting a temporary building down the pit mine access road.
• Several images depict drill core fragments, asbestos ore, and geological features of the mine.
• Mining related process are depicted, including a young man sluicing and panning, a mine building under construction, and an unidentified steel frame structure with a hydraulic device suspended on a rail.
• A set of images shows a railway or highway construction project, including stockpile of construction materials, rail cars, caboose, locomotive, front end loader, dump truck, concrete mixing trucks, semi-trucks, and a rail car with large steel drums which are speculated to be specialized for tunnel construction.
• Further images show what is speculated to be tunnel construction.
• A set of images at a high ceiling underground mine which is not Cassiar depicts a man in a suite by a underground ore haulage truck, and other mining vehicles including a crane.
• A set of images depict an ungulate herd, possibly bighorn sheep, on a mountain side.
• The file includes several images which depict personal life, presumably from a family vacation, and access to these images may be restricted. These images depict man with children on a fishing trip, adults and children around a pool, a woman on a motorcycle, and a house and kitchen. Several groups of images are contained in envelopes annotated with dates and “K. Minty”.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a speeder meet from Vernon to Lumby and Kelowna, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a speeder meet between Armstrong and Campbell Creek Junction in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of snow plows and flangers in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the construction of the Sky Train in Surrey, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of ships in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of ships in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of ships in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of tugs, fishboats, and scows in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of ships that operated on Okanagan Lake in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of various ocean passenger vessels in British Columbia

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of naval vessels and government vessels in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of historical vessels in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of ships in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of ferries in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of motorized vehicles in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of horse drawn vehicles in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of miscellaneous subjects pertaining to railways in British Columbia and Washington.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of railways in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the preservation for the BC Rail locomotive #2860 "Royal Hudson" in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of miscellaneous railway preservation activities in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the railway preservation of the "Dunrobin" locomotive in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the railway preservation for the B.C. Provincial Museum's "Museum Train".

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of rail barges and ferry slips in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of public railways, mainly belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Railway Museum in Prince George, British Columbia.

File contains postcards portraying life in Prince Rupert, B.C. Images depict harbour scenes, street scenes (Third Avenue, Sixth Street, Central Street, and Mainstreet), airplanes, large ships, fisheries, city aerials, parades, military, a dog sled mail team, and a frozen fishing boat.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of rail activities in Port Alberni, British Columbia.

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Penny station. Also includes photographs depicting the Penny train station (1980?).

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Pacific Wilderness Railway tourist train in Victoria, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway Seton Portage Wreck in British Columbia.

File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the original Pacific Great Eastern Railway line. Also includes photographs depicting various dirt roads (2001-2010).

File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the Pacific Great Eastern Railway line. Includes: "Remembering" special edition of the Coupler Marking the 75th anniversary of BC Rail and the PGE Railway (Jan. 1987). Also includes a photograph depicting the Ahbau railway bridge (2005).

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in Seton Portage, British Columbia

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Pacific Great Eastern (later BC Rail) main line of British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Okanagan Valley Railway in British Columbia.

File contains photographs depicting four different tours that took place at the mine, plant, and towns owned by Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. Tours include Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's visit to Clinton Creek in 1968 and Member of Parliament Iona Campagnolo's visit to Cassiar in 1978. Photographs also depict a party of ambassadors touring Cassiar in 1970, and the dedication of a building in the Cassiar plant in the late 1970s.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Northwood Pump Mill Railway in Prince George, British Columbia.

Photographs within this file document stern wheelers operating in Northern BC from ca. 1901 - 1915.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a model tank speeder in Kamloops, British Columbia.

Photographs within this file document Canadian military service, training activities, military institutions, bases and site; individuals and organizations (eg. veterans, military personnel, militia, cadets), military vehicles and ships, equipment, weapons, uniforms, artifacts and legislation as it pertains to Northern British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of manual maintenance of way vehicles in British Columbia.

Photographs depict different construction projects at separate locations in Cassiar. Photographs were originally housed in envelopes with the following annotations: "POLICE STATION. July 15, 1977."; "Aggregates and Concrete (PERMASTEEL)"; "Fibre Storage and Handling"; "Powerhouse Expansion"; "Sewage Collection Plant."; "Sewage Treatment Plant"; "Single Person Accommodations - Site Work."; "Outside Work - Camp Nos. 1,2,3." Photos generally feature the work sites, supplies, vehicles, machinery, and work in progress at each location.

Additional photographs integrated into file include maintenance project on lining of tubes, lining of aspiration hood, and lining of willow fiberizer. Also five photographs of maintenance in the townsite to fix in ground piping.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of track trollies in British Columbia.