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Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "1. Railway Construction Camp, half a mile east of Fort Fraser." featuring nine unidentified men working on railway construction. Camp tents visible in background. Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation.

Photograph depicts railway crossing in front of tent buildings. Dirt road in foreground, forest trees in background. Photograph speculated to have been taken in a construction camp at Prince George.

Photograph depicts a railway employee and man shaking hands at a railroad station.

Photograph depicts 2 railroad workers. Annotation on verso of photograph reads, "Carl Wagner (top) leaning on car loader - early 1900's; Mountain Park Alberta".

Photograph depicts building with the sign "RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY INC." in right foreground, and what appears to be a ferry floating offshore. Bridge, river, and opposite shore in background.

Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "3. Railway Grading at Fort Fraser." Photograph depicts steam train engine on a railway track behind several cargo cars filled with dirt and rock. Tents and wooden buildings under construction visible in background. Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation.

Photograph depicts the famous 'loops' that used to gain and lose height from Princeton Valley.

Photograph depicts the curves of the famous 'loops' that used to gain and lose height from Princeton Valley.

Slightly oblique front view of railway cars on a track. Buildings and hills can be seen in the background. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Railway Station and Park Area, McBride, B.C."

Photograph depicts what is possibly a Canadian National Railway steam shovel digging alongside railway tracks with onlooking railway workers.

Typed on verso of ticket: "CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS WESTERN REGION" "EMPLOYES TRIP PASS - FIRST CLASS" "SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS ON BACK" "PASS (1) Miss V. B. Taylor, ACCOUNT Stenographer -- C.N.R. TO Vancouver, B.C. FROM Prince Rupert, B.C. via Jasper, Alta." "DATE ISSUED} June 14th/27. EXPIRES END OF} July. 1927" "ADDRESS Prince Rupert. REQD BY V.B.T." "HONORED ON TRAIN NO. [6]". Verso has been signed by the conductor (illegible) and dated "Jun 18".

Typed on recto of ticket: "PASS ONE WAY ONLY TW IN ACCORDANCE WITH ACCOMPANYING PASS, BUT IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION" "VOID IF DETACHED" "143518". Stamped annotation on recto: "[ISSUED BY] W. H. TOBEY". Handwritten annotation on recto: "OFF SNOWSHOED NO 5 JULY 13 [WM?]". Ticket has been punched with four different shapes.

Image depicts a set of railway tracks and a long building located somewhere in the Peace River Region.

Image depicts railway tracks on the right side of the image, and several old houses alongside it. The location is uncertain.

Image depicts a group of individuals who appear to be searching through the rocks near a railway track. It is possibly part of an educational trip.

Photograph depicts snow bank between construction camp and railway tracks. Power lines and forest trees in background.

Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern Railway #3 locomotive from the Davenport Locomotive Works. Two railway workers lean against the front of the locomotive for a posed portrait. The individual at left may be Angus McRae, a PGE locomotive engineer.

More information about the locomotive, Pacific Great Eastern #3:
The locomotive was built by Davenport Locomotive Works in Davenport, Iowa in February 1914, serial number 1477, for Patrick Welch, one of the developers (Foley, Welch & Stewart) of the PGE railway. Most of the early equipment, although lettered with the Pacific Great Eastern name, was owned by Patrick Welch. The Provincial Archives in Victoria holds a document showing that Welch sold all the equipment to the newly incorporated Pacific Great Eastern Equipment Company, of which he was also a director, on 14 June 1916 in exchange for 6000 shares in the company. Much, if not all, of the equipment had PGEEC "ownership plates" applied during the 1916-1918 period. It was not until the Provincial Government acquired the railway (and the Equipment Company) in 1918 that the equipment actually became the property of the railway. Pacific Great Eastern #3 was a switching locomotive with an 0-6-0 wheel arrangement and eight-wheel tender built to a standard Davenport design.

Photograph depicts Pacific Great Eastern Railway #52 locomotive with railway workers posed on the locomotive for a posed portrait.

More information about the locomotive:
Pacific Great Eastern #52 locomotive was built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1913 and delivered to the PGE in November of that year together with a second identical locomotive, Pacific Great Eastern #51. They were relatively light road locomotives of the Consolidation type (2-8-0 wheel arrangement) and, prior to dieselization of the railway in the late 1940s - early 1950s, were the only Montreal-built locomotives the railway owned. All subsequent steam locomotives built new for the Railway came from the Canadian Locomotive Company in Kingston, Ontario. There were also two earlier second-hand locomotives which the PGE acquired when it took over the Howe Sound & Northern Railway (previously the Howe Sound, Pemberton Valley & Northern Railway) and two additional steam locomotive purchased second-hand from the U.S.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston and his son Dr. Hubert Williston in May 1967 canoeing down the Parsnip / Peace system before the W.A.C. Bennett Dam flooded the area.

Item is a photograph of Ray Williston in flight gear.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston speaking at a rally in Mount Robson Park to encourage government support for the Jasper - Prince George highway on June 2, 1957.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston standing beside a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer on the deck of a train.

Photograph depicts a RCMP motor patrol launch, #53 found at Granges Harbour, Salt Spring Island, Gulf Islands.

Photograph depicts RCN "Restigouche," a destroyer escort that was fitted to eliminate submarines. It towed a 7 ton sonar pod and had 8 torpedoes that were launched by rockets. It was first initiated in 1954. Canada, at the time, had 4 ships of this class.

Photograph depicts the R.C.N. tribal class destroyer entering the Esquimalt Harbour, looking seawards.

Photograph depicts a reaction ferry at Blackpool, near Clearwater on the north Thompson River, about 60 miles north of Kamloops. The car is being loaded on the east bank.

Photograph depicts a reaction ferry at Blackpool, near Clearwater on the north Thompson River, about 65 miles north of Kamloops. At least 3 such ferries exist north of Kamloops. In freshet the trip takes 1 minute, in low water 15-20 minutes. The other two ferries are equipped with outboard motors in 1964. The ferry broke loose in flood water in approximately 1960.

Photograph depicts a reaction ferry over the Fraser River, located just north of Lytton. The east bank leads to the Lytton-Lillooet road, while the west bank is a dead-end road 20 miles long along the river shelf.

Photograph depicts a reconstructed wagon at a Surrey gas station.

This original film footage clip depicts the recovery of the April 1, 1954 Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) train wreck at Seton Portage.

Photograph depicts an all steel refrigerated car in the CPR yard in Penticton.

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.

Photograph depicts the first train to move over the remade track after a derailment in Savona.