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2004.1.2.4.70 · Item · 16 August 1934
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Photograph depicts the supply laden canoes of the Bedaux expedition at Pete Toy's bar, taken during the Bedeaux Canadian Sub-Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1934. This photograph was originally attributed to a location on the Peace River; however, this is likely incorrect. If this photograph does depict Pete Toy's bar, the location of the photograph is actually the Finlay River. Annotated on the back of this print is the code "I-57382" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.

Club and knife
2009.7.1.215 · Item · [ca. 1939]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Wooden club carved in the image of a fish. Handle has a hole through which is strung some sort of twine. Metal knife with tapered blades at either end with a leather strip wound around its flat center grip; one blade longer than the other. Stamped annotation on verso reads: “Department of Mines and Resources, Photographic Section. Oct. 6, 1939”. Numeric annotation on verso: “50-4”

CN Boston Bar
2013.6.36.1.116.04 · Item · Aug. 1995
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Boston Bar CN depot that once was a dismissal point of some importance that had a roundhouse, turntable, etc. The depot was now empty, awaiting a purchase.

CN caboose
2013.6.36.1.102.18 · Item · [3 June 1989]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts train master Al Wingrave in a caboose stationed at the Kamloops Junction. Undergoing speed checks on the Clearwater Subdivision.

CN caboose
2013.6.36.1.102.20 · Item · [3 June 1989]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a caboose that had just reached a terminal relief switch at Blue River. It was eastbound and contained 103 empty grain cars. Taken at the Kamloops Junction.

CN caboose
2013.6.36.1.102.25 · Item · [3 June 1989]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the arrival of an eastbound empty grain train, carrying 103 cars, at the Kamloops Junction in Blue River.