Photograph depicts steam locomotive 5141 on the tracks. Crew members appear to be filling the water tank.
Photograph depicts steam locomotive # 163
Photograph depicts a steam grab working on the new dock to the west of Centennial Pier, on the site of a former Hastings mill in Vancouver, B.C. The view is looking north and the foreground depicts tidal water.
Photograph depicts a steam donkey beside a mill pond of a shingle mill at Sappho or Tyee, on the Olympic Peninsula. It is steam fed from the main plant boiler.
Photograph depicts a steam donkey located in the Crown Zellerbach Museum at Ladysmith on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts a steam crane, lettered "Osborn Bay Wharf Ltd." Davies suggests that it may have been on the Victoria-Pacific tourist line on the outskirts of Victoria.
Photograph depicts a steam crane in the yard of the Lions Gate Lumber Co. at the foot of Lloyd St. in North Vancouver. The crane was made by the Brown Hoisting Machinery Co. in Cleveland, Ohio and is undated. It has a 20 ton capacity, is well maintained, and freshly painted.
Photograph depicts a steam crane in the yard of the Lions Gate Lumber Co. at the foot of Lloyd St. in North Vancouver. It is used to load scows from stacks shown to left and right of track. Thick baulks of timber on edges of pier are part of a safety device. Crane has transverse underframe which just clears these baulks normally. Under a heavy load and extended jib the underframe rests on the baulks.
Photograph depicts a steam crane in the yard of the Lions Gate Lumber Co. on the foot of Lloyd St. in the North Vancouver. It has been freshly painted with a yellow exterior, white interior, and black boiler.
Photograph depicts a steam crane in a lumber yard on the north side of Porpoise Bay in Sechelt on the Sechelt Peninsula. The steam crane has been converted to diesel and was made by the Brown Hoisting Co. from Cleveland, Ohio. It lifts 21 tons at a 12ft radius and 5 tons at 35ft radius, and is in daily use. The 200 yards of rail track form a "Y" with the bottom piece onto the wharf.
Photograph depicts a recently used steam crane, but driven by compressed air, at a former quarry at Granite Falls on the northeast end of the Indian Arm. The timbers on of the cabin were thick to withstand the blasting rock falls.
Photograph depicts a steam crane at the Allied Shipbuilders Ltd. on 145 West First Ave in Vancouver, BC
Photograph depicts a steam box for bending ships' timbers. It is located at River Road in north Surrey, opposite Annacis Island.
Group of people relaxing by lakeshore, Cariboo - Chilcotin region of British Columbia
Photograph depicts Stave Falls School, a type of rural school that was falling into disuse. This one was still in use and cared for.
Item consists of a map of British Columbia showing Status of Sustained-Yield Forestry Programme as at December 31, 1969 with colour coded areas indicating Public Sustained Yield Units, Special Scale Areas, Tree Farm Licences, and Major Parks.
Item is a map of British Columbia's Status of Sustained-Yield Forestry Programme as at 31 December 1962. The map has been annotated to show forest area surveyed by Celgar Ltd. as base for new kraft mill.
Colour-coded B.C. provincial map depicting sustained-yield units and tree-farm licenses. The area and company names of sustained-yield units (red) and tree-farm licences (green) are explicated in a table.
Statue measures 2.7 metres tall. Town buildings in background.
Image is one of six photographs found with negatives in envelope reading: “‘Campaigning 1979,’ 6 colour negatives enclosed and 2- 4x5 prints (pictured with Bunne Hoffman - editor of Chetwynd Echo (now deceased)), Village of Chetwynd 1949 ?” See also items 2009.6.1.349 - 2009.6.1.354.
Photograph depicts Statue of headless soldier in London, Ontario, shown to Fawcett by poet Stan Dragland.
Statue of Marie de l'Incarnation, 1639-1672
Photograph depicts a figure with two heads standing above stone reading "Here lies the last but not the least because He is the last of all his line the [?] Tribe ABEL WARD SOLOMON WARD". Bushes, building, and hill visible in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Port Simpson BC".
File consists of statistics on crime and population in the northwest for an article entitled "Army of Occupation".
File consists of statistics correspondence and reports regarding enrollment, donations & grant monies from 1996-1998, as well as a Planning for Growth Report for 1997.
File consists tables, reports and other sources containing demographic information on female engineers in Canada; conference proceedings from the 9th Kingston Conference of the Canadian Science Technology Historical Association in Kingston, Ontario for Ainley's presentation, "Traditional Knowledge, Gender and the 'Spread of Western Science,' - a Reappraisal of Basalla's model"; correspondence relating to "Critical Turning Points"; and a list of the contents of Ainley's "Critical Turning Points" project files.
Series consists of material regarding railway stations in British Columbia. Includes information about station furnishing, architectural history, flagstops, and railway station gardens. Also contains details about specific stations and types of stations built by each railway in British Columbia, including stations built by the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Canadian National Railway, the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, and the Great Northern Railway.
File contains two handwritten cross section ledgers, handwritten notes of location and boundaries, and original ledgers with measurements of permanent sample plots.
File contains original ledgers with measurements of permanent sample plots.
File consists of an "Opening Statement of David R. MacDonald to the Taxation and Debt Management Subcomittee and International Trade Subcommittee".
Zimmerman, AdamFile consists of a March 7, 1995 speech entitled "Statement by Brian Tobin, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, in Response to the Report of the Fraser River Sockeye Public Review Board".
File contains correspondence to Brian Fawcett from State University of New York. Includes a letter to Brian Fawcett from Professor Edgar Dryden, Director of Graduate Admissions, awarding Brian with a Teaching Fellowship in the department of English. Letter dated April 23, 1969.
Northern British Columbia
Alpine Club of Canada's 1967 Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition, Kluane National Park, Yukon
Ski race on a frozen lake
Image depicts the start of the Raven trail, with the view angled towards Raven Peak in the distance.
Image depicts the start of Joffre Creek Road, most likely somewhere in the Joffre Lakes Provincial Park.
Image depicts a group of people preparing to portage their canoe equipment in Bowron Lake Provincial Park.
Image depicts a long line of people cross country skiing along the Birchleg route on Tabor Mountain in Prince George, B.C.
Habit of <i>Ornithogalum</i>
File consists of:
- Letter from Star Fuoco to Bridget Moran re: book reading (Dec. 27, 1995)
- Paper "One thing I've learned in this program" written by college student re: their program (Feb. 27, 1994)
- Letter from Star Fuoco to Bridget Moran and Mary John re: book reading and speaking engagements (Jan. 20, 1996)
- Fax from Star Fuoco re: letters sent to Bridget Moran and Mary John from Star's class (Jan. 29, 1998)
- Letter from Star Fuoco to Bridget Moran and Mary John re: their book tour of Vancouver Island (Feb. 5, 1997)
- Letter from Star Fuoco to Bridget Moran re: personal update (Oct. 30, 1997)
- Letter and pamphlets from Star Fuoco, on behalf of the Periodical Writer's Association of Canada, Victoria Chapter to Bridget Moran re: membership. (1997)
- Letter from Star Fuoco to Bridget Moran re: recent visit and book purchase (Feb. 5 1995)
- Letter from A.W.T.P. participants from Hiiye'yu Lelum (House of Friendship) Society thanking Bridget Moran for her visit (Jan. 27, 1995)
- Letter of thanks from YMCA of Metropolitan Toronto
- Letter from Rosemary Kavanagh, on behalf of CNIB Library for the Blind re: invitation to 9th Annual TORGI Award Presentation (Sept. 16, 1993)
- Letter from Lynn Synottee on behalf of College of New Caledonia (Sept. 14, 1993)
- Letter from Star Fuoco to Bridget Moran and Mary John and a copy of Anthology published by students in the Aboriginal Employment Training Program 97/98.
Image depicts a large vessel docked in Prince Rupert, B.C. The name on its side is "Star Capella." The slide itself is labelled "superport."
File consists of a poetry chapbook by George Stanley entitled "Gentle Northern Summer", "San Francisco's Gone", and "Vancouver, Book One, 3-7". Also includes a poem entitled "Joy is the Mother of All Virtue".
Long building in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “with Pierre T + Rob B at P. George, winter 78”.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Northern BC Winter Games ’77 Prince George”.
Image depicts the historic Lightening Inn in Stanley, B.C.
Image depicts an old, rotting grave marker in the Stanley Cemetery.
Image depicts the Stanley Cemetery.
Image depicts the town of Stanley, B.C.