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2000.23.2.23 · File · 1970-1988
Part of Audrey Smedley L'Heureux fonds

File consists of collected research materials for Audrey Smedley-L'Heureux's book draft for "From Trail to Rail", as well as reproductions of articles and maps. Materials include chapters of "Trail to Rail, Surveys and Gold 1862-1904 Fort George, Fort St. James, Fort Fraser", reproductions of journal articles, photographs, and correspondence. Highlights include:

  • Photograph reproduction, "A Hudson's Bay Steamer Engaged in The Skeena River Traffic at Hazelton", [192-?]
  • Photograph reproduction, "Fort George, Fraser River", [192-?]
  • Photograph reproduction, "Approaching the Main Range of The Rocky Mountains", [191-?]
  • Photograph reproduction, "In the Swamp Near Jasper Lake", [191-?]
  • Photograph reproduction, "Quaint Cantilever Bridge of Timber, built by the Indians across the gorge of the Bulkley River near Hazelton", [191-?]
  • Photograph reproduction, "A Shack Among the Trees on the Skeena River", [191-?]
  • Photograph reproduction, "The Most Majestic of Canadian Mountains", [191-?]
  • Photograph reproduction, "Telkwa", [191-?]
  • Photograph reproduction, "A Settler's Cabin Near Tsinkut Lake, in the Nechaco [Nechako] Valley", [189?]
  • Photograph reproduction, "How One Has To Travel Up the Fraser River", [191-?]
  • Photograph reproduction, "The Eternal Quest", [191-?]
  • Photograph reproduction, "Mr. J. W. Millan's Ranch At Stoney Creek", [191-?]
"From Trail to Rail"
2012.13.4.36 · File · 1989
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

File consists of reproductions and typescript documents relating to the "From Trail to Rail" book written by Audrey L'Heureux and promotion of the book at the Alexander Mackenzie Trail Association annual meeting in 1989.

2001.8.2.1.07 · File · 1976-1981
Part of Geoffrey R. Weller fonds

File consists of an articled titled "From 'Pressure Group Politics' to 'Medical-Industrial Complex': The Development of Approaches to the Politics of Health" by Weller printed in the "Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law" Vol.1, No. 4, Winter 1977 and related correspondence.. This file was originally numbered to correspond with article number 5 listed in Weller's CV.

2001.8.2.1.08 · File · 1980
Part of Geoffrey R. Weller fonds

File consists of a chapter titled "From 'Pressure Group Politics' to 'Medical-Industrial Complex': The Development of Approaches to the Politics of Health" by Geoffrey Weller printed in the book "Perspectives on Canadian Health and Social Services Policy: History and Emerging Trends" edited C.A. Meilicke and J.L. Storch (1980) along with "Commentary on the Readings" from the same book. This file was originally numbered to correspond with article number 5a listed in Weller's CV.

2001.8.2.2.004 · File · 1976
Part of Geoffrey R. Weller fonds

File consists of a paper titled "From 'Pressure Group Politics to the 'Medical-Industrial Complex'" presented by Weller at the 1976 Southwestern Political Science Association conference and a form from the conference. This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 4 listed in Weller's CV.

2012.13.4.29 · File · 2001-2006
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the local history project done by June Chamberland and her book "From Broadaxe to Clay Chinking: Stories about the Pioneers in and around the Prince George area" winning the Jeanne Clarke history award. The book includes a chapter "Introduction to Early Agricultural Settlement in the Prince George Area" by Kent Sedgwick. Includes a CD titled "June photos" containing photographs depicting interviewees of the project (2003).

2013.6.30.1.2 · File · 1970-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding freshwater rail ferries in British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "B.C. Lake and River Service" by J. Fitzsimmons; "Canadian National Railways British Columbia Transfer Barge Services, Part II of II) by Frank Clapp; "Rosebery Barge Slip - C.P. Rail, Kaslo Sub-div., Aug. 1983: Recollections and Historical Data" by Davies; "'Finished with Engines' Signals end of Okanagan Lake Service" by Eric Sismey; "The Iris G, et al.: Much of Canadian Pacific's History has been written upon the water, perhaps most poignantly by this tug, its train-on-a-barge, and their ancestors" by Steve Patterson; "Moving Fresh Fruit by Steam Tugboat: The Introduction of Railway Transfer Barges in the Okanagan" by Ian Pooley; "The Shipwrecked Hogger!" by John A. Rushton; "Riding a Wilderness Branch Line [Nakusp-Slocan] that Includes a 2 1/2-hour Lake Cruise in a Car Barge" by Ashmead et al.; "The Lady of the Lake" by Streight; a 1949 CPR "Inventory of Floating Equipment of the B.C. Lake and River Service"; "Canadian Pacific's S.S. Minto" by Bill Kee; and a draft of "C.P.R. Comes Ashore at Okanagan Lake" by Davies.

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