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Portal Lake
2012.13.1.85.36 · Item · Aug. 1979
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts Portal Lake, located near the Yellowhead Pass on the British Columbia-Alberta border, west of Jasper, A.B.

2002.7.1.82 · Item · Sept. 1921
Part of H.G.T. (Harry) Perry fonds

Handwritten annotations on recto: (L-R) "Jim Beattie, unidentified, Tom Menard, Harry Perry, Bill McFaren"; along top of photo:"Portaging from Rocky Mountain portage to Hudson's Hope". Five men stand next to, or within, a boat being portaged on a wagon deck.

2013.6.36.1.081.09 · Item · [July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a portable traction engine on the premises of Cook Lumber Company Ltd., a disused sawmill that closed in 1965 and was located beside the CPR Railway. The engine was built by Case Threshing Company, Racine, Wisconnsin. It was used until November 1965 to provide hot water to prevent the nearby log pond from freezing in the winter.

2013.6.36.1.081.10 · Item · [July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a portable traction engine on the premises of Cook Lumber Company Ltd., a disused sawmill that closed in 1965 and was located beside the CPR Railway. The engine was built by Case Threshing Company, Racine, Wisconnsin. It was used until November 1965 to provide hot water to prevent the nearby log pond from freezing in the winter.

Portable traction engine
2013.6.36.1.081.01 · Item · [July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a portable traction engine at Hat Creek Ranch. The engine was built by Sawyer and Massey Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Ontario. Presumably went into service late 1910. It had not been in use for some time.

Portable steam engine
2013.6.36.1.081.08 · Item · [July 1973]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph shows a portable engine at Gang Ranch on the Fraser River. The engine was made by Robert Bell Engine and Thresher Company, Seaforth, Ontario.

2013.6.36.1.087.09 · Item · [July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at Caesar's Landing at a derelict landing, 1 mile south of Nahun on the west side of Okanagan Lake. Visible is a heavy portable 2 cylinder traction engine marked "Model K, 25 Horse engine No. 16320." Appears to have driven a small saw. Height of the saplings suggest that it had not been use for 5 to 15 years.

2013.6.36.1.087.10 · Item · [July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at Caesar's Landing at a derelict landing, 1 mile south of Nahun on the west side of Okanagan Lake. Visible is a heavy portable 2 cylinder traction engine marked "Model K, 25 Horse engine No. 16320." Patented August 1906. Appears to have driven a small saw. Height of the saplings suggest that it had not been use for 5 to 15 years.

2013.6.36.1.087.11 · Item · [July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at Caesar's Landing at a derelict landing, 1 mile south of Nahun on the west side of Okanagan Lake. Visible is a heavy portable 2 cylinder traction engine marked "Model K, 25 Horse engine No. 16320." Patented August 1906. Appears to have driven a small saw. Height of the saplings suggest that it had not been use for 5 to 15 years.

Port Nelson Cannery
2009.10.3.19 · Item · [between 1923 and 1926]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a cannery built on piers on the edge of the ocean, treed hillsides in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Port Nelson cannery a BC Coast wreck".

2009.21.8 · Item · [ca. 1932]
Part of Thomas Crosby Mission Ship Photograph Collection

Five men and four women pose for a group photo on boardwalk stairwell at Port Essington Hospital. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "The staff at the summer Hospital at Port Essington to accommodate the native fishermen & families also other people on the Skeena. Centre row: Miss Clark, myself & Miss Hall. Front row: our cook Salamoe & helper on the boat. Top L. : Summer doctor Dr. Ashley Armstrong, caretaker Mr. Brown, laundry man".

Port Essington
2009.10.2.051 · Item · [between 1923 and 1925]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts several homes and building constructed on and near the water, treed hills and snowy mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Part of the bergh of Port Essington".

2007.1.30.2.012 · Item · [30 June 1966]
Part of Aleza Lake Research Forest fonds

No caption provided with photograph negative. Appears similar to 2007.1.30.2.011, which has the following caption: "Poor quality Spruce left after diameter cutting. Note insect killed trees and leaning tree. Sparse stocking. Very poor increment. Devils Club site. Silty clay. No post logging regeneration. Continous understory of alder and willow. West Branch, F.E.S. Aleza Lake."

Pool Hall
2012.13.1.37.36 · Item · [1980?]
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts an old pool hall, crowded with unknown individuals, somewhere in Wells, B.C.

Poling a canoe
2009.7.1.165 · Item · [ca. 1910]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Three Indigenous men stand in a canoe poling their craft along a shoreline while one man sits and steers. An unidentified village is visible along the opposite shore.