Aircraft - Helicopters.
Plane in foreground, forest trees visible in background.
Plane visible in distance, dark clouds in background.
Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "Ordinary 'Nose-Hanger'." Photograph depicts airplane hangar with large circles in a darker fabric to accommodate the nose and engines of plane. Large truck and stacks of unidentified packages in foreground on right. Unidentified vehicle to left of hangar. It is believed that photograph was taken at Whitehorse, YT.
Royal Canadian Air Force
Photograph depicts Jack Baker's plane resting on a snow-covered Weissner Lake in Rocky Mountain Trench.
Annotation on recto: "Aero. Signal 1930". Photo depicts three men and three pack dogs seated at the top of a signal marker.
Photograph depicts an air-sea rescue launch that may been used during World War II. It was located just beside Highway 16, about 5 miles from the centre of Prince Rupert.
Photograph depicts men in uniform standing on and around a stage coach with the sign "BREWSTER TRANSFER COMPANY." One man sits inside the coach pulled by four horses. Large building with extended porch and balcony in background. Mountains barely visible in distance. It is believed that one of the men in this photograph may be Mr. A. K. Bourchier.
Photograph depicts a man and woman, elderly couple, and young girl standing on porch of large house. It is believed that A.K. Bourchier stands on far right, next to his niece Jean. House also featured in items 2009.5.3.127.
Item is a photograph of A.H. Phipps and Skookum Davidson standing beside a horse and a surveying station at the top of a mountain.
Photograph depicts a portrait of Al B. Anderson, president of the National Sporting Goods Association.
Image depicts an old convenience store, with a sign on it labelled "Al Crosina." It is located at the 153 Mile House.
Image depicts the interior of an old convenience store; there are several unknown individuals present. It is located at the 153 Mile House.
Image depicts the interior of an old convenience store; numerous unknown individuals are present. It is located at the 153 Mile House.
Item is a photograph of A.H. Phipps driving his convertible car.
Item is a photograph of A.H. Phipps standing on a rocky mountain slope.
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps kneeling on the ground and holding up the head of a dead black bear.
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps looking through the surveying equipment.
Caption: "It must have been a Sunday!"
Caption: "Paradise for man & beast. Timber-line"
Caption: "A river station"
Caption: "Another River station"
Caption: "Excelsior or Pilgrim with his load"
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps with a back pack on his back, standing with two pack dogs in the snow.
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps, Jack Anderson and Jack Adams beside a surveying station overlooking the Ingenika River.
Item is an audio recording of Al Purdy.
Item is an audio recording of Al Purdy: Canadian Poets on Tape.
Item is an audio recording of Al Purdy reading at CNC.
Photograph depicts Alan Safarik and Brian Fawcett at Fort San Saskatchewan.
Image depicts the ferry to Alaska in the port of Prince Rupert, B.C.
Image depicts a small section of the Alaska Highway somewhere near Whitehorse, Y.T. The slide also appears to be labelled "army washing" for unknown reasons.
B.C.-Yukon-Alaska Highway Commission – Map showing Highway Routes to Accompany Preliminary Report on Proposed Highway to Alaska
? January 1940
? Legend includes: 1) Existing Main Highways, 2) Roads in Northern Area, 3) Routes Under Construction.
Item is a printed seasonal greeting card. Includes a printed image of an Alaskan Highway view from Dawson Creek and an outline map of the Alaska Highway. Printed card inscription states "Major and Mrs. C.C. Clitheroe Rae Pauline and David Charles Send Greeting and Best Wishes for Christmas 1944 and the New Year 1945".
Photograph depicts a ship named "Alaska Prince" at the Northland Pier in Vancouver Harbour.
Photograph depicts a passenger steamship on open water, mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "S.S. Alameda".
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway tourist caboose that had its interior modified.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway locomotive running around its train at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Port Alberni. Track on the right led to the former Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway roundhouse and maintenance facilities that were now used by Alberni Pacific to house its locomotives.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway locomotive backing onto its train of passenger cars (3 opened, 2 closed, all CN transfer cabooses, now remodelled).
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific railway train that was just coming into a run-around loop at the end of a sawmill spur. Trackage built 2000/01.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway locomotive built in 1929 by Baldwin. After at least four years of restoration, it commenced running in 2001. It was spotted outside of a locomotive shed in Port Alberni.
Photograph depicts CPR locomotive #8427. Property of tourist "Alberni Pacific Railway." Built for the CPR by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1954.
Photograph depicts a locomotive shed and maintenance facility of Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway at the branch terminal in Port Alberni. It was now used by the tourist "Alberni Pacifica Railway." CPR locomotive #8427 found in foreground.
Photograph depicts a tank locomotive of the Alberni Pacific Railway backing onto its train atr the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Port Alberni. On the rear left were the premises of a paper mill owne dby Pacifica Papers, virtually the only used of rail services in the city. It had a sufficient volume in order to warrant having its own switcher (daily freight to Nanaimo of 40 cars). Davies notes his disbelief in late 2001 when it was stated that all freight traffic on Vancouver Island would cease on Mar. 5, 2002.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway locomotive. It was built in 1929 by Baldwin.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway locomotive. The railway ran from Port Alberni to the McLean steam sawmill on Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway trackage as well as a newly built spur to the mill, which opened in 1927 and closed in 1956.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway saddle tank locomotive. It was built in 1929 by Baldwin and acquired by Alberni Pacififc Lumber Ltd. in 1941. Then it was leased out in 1951, acquired by Crown Forest Products, Ladysmith in 1973, and sold to the BC government in 1977.
Photograph depicts a tourist train Port Alberni. Its rebuilt water tank had not been used because of WCB harness regulations. Had to fill up from a stand-pipe and hose.