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Tofino Airport
2013.6.36.1.077.11 · Item · [20 June 1972]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Tofino Airport. It was a former wartime RCAF base built in 1942 for anti-Japanese air patrols. It was now a D.O.T controlled airport.

Tombstone - Chinese?
2012.13.1.66.19 · Item · June 1987
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a tombstone, with the name and inscription written in what appears to be Chinese. It is most likely located somewhere in or near Kamloops, B.C.

2013.6.36.1.152.02 · Item · Sept. 2000
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a tool house in Wasa, at the CPR Windermere Subdivision. Before 1970, the station had siding for 37 cars. Now it had two sidings for a total of 150 cars. Note the old box car with old lettering that was presumably on non-reserve service.

Totem Poles
2012.13.1.78.59 · Item · 1982
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts several individuals examining totem poles which are possibly undergoing a restoration process somewhere on Haida Gwaii.

2009.7.1.092 · Item · [ca. 1876 - ca. 1900]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of a line of houses. Blanketed canoes sit on beach in right foreground; forest in background.

Handwritten annotations on verso read: “skidegate village Queen Charlotte Islands as it appeared forty years ago"; "Rev W.E. Collison Prince Rupert"; "Hughes"; "1".

2006.20.12.25 · Item · [ca. 1940]
Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "Tower & Adm. Bldg, Ft. Nelson." Photograph depicts long white building with tower raised in middle, ladders and scaffolding in front. Trucks and groups of men in foreground, some on building itself. Power poles in foreground and background.

Royal Canadian Air Force
Townsite & Plantsite, 1958
2000.1.1.3.13.02 · Item · 1958
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts the Cassiar townsite in foreground. Mill, dry rock storage building, and tailings pile can be seen in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "1958 [1961 crossed through]."

2000.1.1.3.13.03 · Item · [before 1970]
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts the Cassiar plantsite in foreground, including the mill, dry rock storage building, tailings pile, and many other buildings. Townsite in midground, mountains in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Cassiar."

2000.1.1.3.13.01 · Item · 1958
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts the Cassiar valley. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "1958 [1961 crossed through]", on recto: "Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Limited. Cassiar B.C. Townsite in foreground mill and ore storage in left middle ground," "Toronto set". It is believed that this photograph was made into a post card.

Track shed along CPR line
2013.6.36.1.027.01 · Item · [23 June 1979]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a track shed about 1 mile south of Beaverdell or at about mile 43.25 on the CPR line in the Carmi Subdivision. Despite the open doors and ease of access, it was the only hut on the line found to contain track materials and correspondence. It retained 50 memos addressed to the Section Foreman [at Beaverdell?].

Trail of 98
2012.13.1.100.20 · Item · 1999
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a patch of snow-covered ground with a sign that reads "Trail of 98," somewhere along the White Pass railway.