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Replica of "SS Beaver"
2013.6.36.1.067.07 · Item · Aug. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a replica of the "SS Beaver" built by the RCN in Esquimalt and moored in Vancouver, open to the public. Its pump handle that operated the capston, was reconstructed from a drawing done in 1870.

Replica of "SS Beaver"
2013.6.36.1.067.09 · Item · [23 May 1971]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a replica of the "SS Beaver" entering the Inner Harbour of Victoria. Firing gun salute are forward on the paddle wheels and are making artificial smoke. Bow of the HMCS St. Croix is found in the foreground.

Replica of "SS Beaver"
2013.6.36.1.067.05 · Item · [23 May 1971]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a replica of the "SS Beaver" entering the Inner Harbour of Victoria. It was open to the pubic over the May Long weekend of 1971.

Replacement rail bridge
2013.6.36.1.091.02 · Item · Sept. 1998
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a replacement rail bridge. Forms sat on a temporary pile of dirt, which in turns sat on a road bed of a new highway that had just been cut.

Repairing the "J.C. Bruce"
2004.1.2.1.194 · Item · 24 May 1922
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Caption: Repairing the "J.C. Bruce" after striking a rock off Ragged Islands near Lund - May 24, 1922. Item is a photograph of two men working on the hull of a boat propped up on a rocky shore.

2013.6.36.1.085.07 · Item · 1971
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts renovated windsor kicthen chairs. The adult chair on the right was made in Owen Sound prior to 1923. Child's chair on the left was likely pre-1940. It came from Sunday school room of a church in Vancouver. Owned and renovated by David Davies.

2013.6.36.1.115.04 · Item · Aug. 1998
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts relocated and relaid trackage that served a sawmill located at Lakeshore and Bay Street, at the north end of downtown Kelowna.The rail approach was then via Weddell. Two spurs on the left took chip cars while the two spurs on the right were for box cars filled with finished products.