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Original Road House - Mile 150
Original Road House - Mile 150
2012.13.1.50.011 · Item · 1974
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a number of buildings at an uncertain location; the slide labels the older building in the image as potentially being the "original road house."
Original location of CNR and CPR yards
Original location of CNR and CPR yards
2013.6.36.1.115.02 · Item · Aug. 1998
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken looking west towards a lake. Davies notes that the reason for this visible particular configuration is that the CNR and the CPR yards used to be west of Ellis. At the time the photograph was taken, such land was needed for better development, e.g. hotels, high rise residences, sports area, etc.
Ore wagon
Ore wagon
2013.6.36.1.080.06 · Item · [July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an ore wagon with a drop bottom device. It was drawn by horses or a steam tractor.
Orchard Irrigation
Orchard Irrigation
2012.13.1.82.27 · Item · 1981
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts water flowing through an irrigation channel in an orchard, somewhere in or near Seton Portage, B.C.
Opening of Grace United Church in Port Simpson
Opening of Grace United Church in Port Simpson
2009.21.39 · Item · 20 February 1938
Part of Thomas Crosby Mission Ship Photograph Collection

Clergy standing at the entryway to the newly reconstructed church as the choir walks towards them in two lines. The attendant congregation watches. The original Grace Methodist Church had been dedicated in the late 1800s and had its name changed to Grace United Church with Church Union in 1925; it was destroyed by fire, however, in 1931. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Opening of new church 1938."
Opening of Grace United Church in Port Simpson
Opening of Grace United Church in Port Simpson
2009.21.38 · Item · 20 February 1938
Part of Thomas Crosby Mission Ship Photograph Collection

Clergy standing at the entryway to Grace United Church speaking to a crowd gathered to witness the opening of this newly reconstructed church. The original Grace Methodist Church had been dedicated in the late 1800s and had its name changed to Grace United Church with Church Union in 1925; it was destroyed by fire, however, in 1931. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Opening of new church 1938. The left hand row of people with the white collars were the P.S. Choir. The right hand row was the band & Chair from Metlakatla, Alaska."
Opening of Crestwood Forest Industries pulp mill
Opening of Crestwood Forest Industries pulp mill
2000.13.1.41 · Item · 1967
Part of Ray Williston fonds

Item is a photograph of officials attending the June opening of the Crestwood Forest Industries pulp mill in Cranbrook, until that time the only pulp mill built without benefit of a Pulp Harvesting Area (PHA) license to assure timber supply. Mr. Williston is on the left.