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Pulp Mill at Swanson Bay
2009.10.2.071 · Item · [between 1923 and 1925]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a large cluster of building with a wide smoke stack in the centre. Water in the foreground, dense forest and mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Mill at Swanson Bay".

2013.6.36.1.069.02 · Item · Aug. 1975
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at Tahsis Ltd. Tree Farm, crossing the Muchalt River on a public logging road that went from Gold River to Woss Lake. The road took the heaviest trafiic which included logging trucks and semi trailers bound for the end of the island as it was the only route by land.

Private saloon coach #58A
2013.6.36.1.010.14 · Item · Apr. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a four-wheeled private saloon coach #58A, built in 1909 at Lochgorm Works (of Highland Railway) in Inverness, Scotland. It is the property of the provincial government of B.C. and located in the dock area of New Westminster. The wheels have solid wooden pieces between axels and tires.

Private saloon coach #58A
2013.6.36.1.010.16 · Item · Apr. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the end view of the four-wheeled private saloon coach #58A, built in Inverness in 1909 and formerly the property of the Duke of Sutherland. It is owned by the B.C. provincial government and is standing at the New Westminster docks.

Private rail/road bridge
2013.6.36.1.153.04 · Item · [June 1996]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a private rail/road bridge built to serve Northwood Pulp and Timber, Ltd. Crossing Fraser River. Looking west, towards the mill. On private Northwood trackage.

Pritchard CPR station
2013.6.36.1.016.07 · Item · [July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Pritchard CPR depot, 24 rail miles east of Kamloops, in the Shuswap Subdivision at mile 104.3. The depot house on the south side is empty, and the depot itself was used by track crews fro their equipment. In June 1968 the buildings and the spur had gone.

Pritchard CPR station
2013.6.36.1.016.01 · Item · 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Pritchard CPR station. The line on the right is siding/spur. At this station, twin tracks become single going east. The view is looking east.

2000.13.1.25 · Item · 1958
Part of Ray Williston fonds

Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret on July 17, 1958 at an event staged in the Prince George railway yards. Alex Moffat dressed as a prospector demonstrates panning for previously salted gold nuggets, which were later given to the Princess.

Princess Margaret on a train
2000.13.1.115.3 · Item · 1958.
Part of Ray Williston fonds

Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret on the back deck of the Royal train's caboose just prior to her departure from Prince George during her 1958 visit to British Columbia.

Originally mounted on a poster with photographs 115, 115.2, 115.3.