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Fresh Oyster
1996.2.11.2.10 · File · [between 1980 and 2006]
Part of Brian Fawcett fonds

File consists of an issue of the zine, "Fresh Oyster".

Freight trains
2013.6.16.3 · File · 2002-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding freight trains, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on CNR freight and mixed train service, freight tonnage, freight scheduling, and train numbers.

Freight loads in transit
2013.6.29.03 · File · 2006-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding rail freight in transit. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about unusual freight loads, open loads, shipments of smaller locomotives on flatcars, unsecured loads, and LCL (Less-Than-Carload) freight.

2013.6.29.04 · File · 2008-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight loading and discharging devices. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about coal unloaders, rotary dumping, lumber loading, ore loading, loading and unloading of grain, and team tracks.

Freight houses
2013.6.05.4 · File · 2008-2012
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding freight houses, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals (mainly model railroading magazines). Includes the following pieces compiled by Davies: "CPR Freight Facilities, Downtown Vancouver"; "Weighing Freight"; and "Freight, Express, and Baggage".

Freight cars in general
2013.6.11.2.01 · File · 2008-2012
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding freight cars in general, including statistics, general reviews, and their evolution and historical development. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Also includes "Locomotive, Trolley, and Rail Car Builders: An All-Time Directory" by Ian Arnold (Railway History Quarterly, 1965); a CN Rail freight car roster from 1972; "CN's Freight Car Fleet & Numbering System--1919-1996" by Ian Cranstone (CN Lines, 1996); and excerpts from a 1979 CP Rail Equipment Data Book with data sheets from stock cars, flat cars, ore cars, and woodchip cars.

Freight car components
2013.6.11.2.03 · File · 2002-2012
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding freight car components, including couplers, trucks, brakes, doors, grab irons, wheel sets, and axles. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

Freight by location
2013.6.29.02 · File · 2005-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding rail freight based on location. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Rail Customers of CNR in BC in 1977 who had Spur/Siding Access" compiled by Davies; "PGE/BCR Freight Customers, 1957-1994" compiled by Davies; "Shippers on the Marpole Industrial Lead"; "CPR Freight Customers" compiled by Davies; "List of Sawmills/Plywood Plants in BC since 1960s" compiled by Davies; and a October 1, 1950 Canadian Freight Association Western Lines Pamphlet No. 15 "Outlining Regulations Governing Traffic Handled Under Weight Agreements and List of Weight Agreements in Effect".

2013.6.29.11 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the pulp and paper industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about pulp mill traffic, the Mackenzie pulp mill, the Elk Falls pulp mill, and rail-water connections. Also includes a map of pulp and paper mills in British Columbia at 1975 and a map that demonstrates chip flow to pulp mills circa 1980.

2013.6.29.12 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for granular chemical industries, such as potash, sulfur, and fertilizers. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about potash mines, fertilizers made at the Warfield Fertilizer Plant in Trail, Canpotex, sulfur production, and potash production.

2013.6.29.17 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the petroleum and liquid chemicals industries. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about chemical tank car traffic in caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), bitumen (asphalt), ethylene glycol, sulphuric acid, petroleum, chlorine, ammonia, and other liquids.

2013.6.29.09 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the ore smelting industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about the Granby smelter at Anyox and Grand Forks, the Trail and Kimberley zinc and lead smelter mines, the Rio Tinto Alcan aluminum smelter at Kitimat, and the Greenwood copper smelter.

2013.6.29.08 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the ore extraction and concentration industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Historical Guide Map and Story of the City of Rossland, British Columbia" by the Rossland Historical Museum Association; "Hedley Gold Mine, B.C." notes compiled by Davies; "Sullivan Mine, Kimberley, 1910-1990" notes compiled by Davies; "[Gold] and Silver Mines: The Intricacies (and Mysteries) of Mining Unraveled" by Hemphill; and "Mining in British Columbia: 1830-1930" by BC Provincial Museum.

2013.6.29.20 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding miscellaneous freight transport. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about freight from abattoirs and meat packing plants, scrap metal yards, feed mills, and other businesses.

2013.6.29.10 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the lumber and plywood industries. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about sawmills in British Columbia, lumber reload centres, companies that transport lumber by rail, Mountain Pine Lumber box cars, sawmill closures, the Council of Forest Industries of BC, and Fraser Mills in Coquitlam. Also includes a "List of Sawmills/Plywood Plants in BC since 1960s" compiled by Davies.

Freight by industry: Grain
2013.6.29.14 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the grain industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about grain elevators in British Columbia, grain haulage statistics, grain hopper cars, the Crow Rate, and grain transport reform. Also includes the following articles: "Going with the Grain" by Stagl; "Canada's Century" by Bohi and Kozma; and "Grain Loading" by Kinkaid.

2013.6.29.16 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for fruit and vegetable producers, breweries, and distilleries. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: When the Titans Met: Railway Rivalry in the Okanagan and Kelowna's Rise as a Fruit-Shipping Centre" by Ian Pooley; "Moving Fresh Fruit by Steam Tugboat: The Introduction of Railway Transfer Barges in the Okanagan" by Ian Pooley; "The Role the Railways Played in Shipping out Fruit and Produce from the Okanagan" compiled by Davies; "Notes on Greater Vancouver Breweries and Distilleries Served by Rail (or not)" by Ian Smith; "Okanagan and Southern Interior Tree Fruit Blossom & Harvest Schedule"; and "Fruit and Vegetables exported from Kamloops by Rail from Spurs, period 1915-1959" by Davies.

Freight by industry: Fish
2013.6.29.15 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the fishing industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about fish traffic from CNR in Prince Rupert, canneries and the role of railways in product distribution, fish canneries near Prince Rupert, the Gulf of George Cannery, and canneries in Steveston.

2013.6.29.19 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding container ports, intermodal centres, and other shipping ports. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about Roberts Bank Port, the Port of Prince Rupert, piggyback service, Vancouver's Deltaport, planning a container port, containerized transport, Ogden Point Docks in Victoria, Prince Rupert's Ridley Island Port, and the Port of Vancouver.

2013.6.29.07 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the coke fuel industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about coke ovens at Union Bay, Fernie, and Michel.

2013.6.29.06 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the coal mining industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Once Accursed the Crowsnest Blooms" by G. Patrick Green; "Coal Mines of Vancouver Island" compiled by Davies; "How Strong is Coal?" by Andy Cummings; "Coal Mines in the East Kootenays of B.C." compiled by Davies; "Coal From the Crowsnest: How Canadian Pacific moves British Columbia Bituminous" by John Garden; "Cumberland: Coal-dust Memories Stir a Sleepy Village" by McGill and Strong; "Quintette Mine: The Heart of North East Coal"; and "Where's That Coal Train Going?" by Tom Murray.

2013.6.29.13 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the cement, brick, glass, gypsum, and limestone industries. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about Lafarge Cement, limestone quarrying in British Columbia, the cement industry at Kamloops, Clayburn Brickworks near Abbotsford, the limestone quarry and kiln at Pavilion, gravel processing, the Tilbury Cement Company, the gypsum mine in Falkland, and railway ballast quarries.

2013.6.29.18 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the automobile industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Outgoing Automobile Rail Traffic in BC" by Davies and "Railroads and the Automobile Age" by Jim Hediger.

"FreeLance"
2000.6.04.3.069 · File · 1976
Part of Barry McKinnon fonds

File consists of issues of the literary periodical entitled "FreeLance", including volume 8 numbers 1 and 2.

"Free Trade: The Real Story"
2014.6.2.03 · File · 1988
Part of Rustad & Dezell Family fonds

File consists of the book "Free Trade: The Real Story" edited by John Crispo gifted to James Rustad by Gordon Ritchie, author of the article "The Negotiating Process" within "Tree Trade" along with accompanying correspondence.

2003.8.5.2.4.18 · File · 1988
Part of Adam Zimmerman fonds

File consists of publications distributed by External Affairs Canada regarding the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. Includes: "Preliminary Transcript - Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Elements of the Agreement", "Elements of a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Synopsis", "Highlights of Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act", "Summary: Benefits of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement", "Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Overview", "The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Issues", "The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: The Regions", "The World Our Market", and "Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement Glossary".

Zimmerman, Adam
2003.8.5.2.4.19 · File · 1984
Part of Adam Zimmerman fonds

File consists of a list of members of the steering committee for the 1984 Canada-Germany Businessmen's Conference (including Adam Zimmerman), "Canada's Export Development Plan for Federal Republic of Germany", "Canadian Trade Policy for the 1980s: A Discussion Paper" by External Affairs Canada, and "A Review of Canadian Trade Policy: A Background Document to Canadian Trade Policy for the 1980s" by External Affairs Canada.

Zimmerman, Adam