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Undershot water wheel
2013.6.36.1.079.11 · Pièce · 5 Sept. 1970
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the same person who owned the service station building electric generator house in Trout Lake. He also built an undershot water wheel that was driven by Lardeau Creek.

Water wheel on Lordeau Creek River
2013.6.36.1.079.05 · Pièce · [9 Sept. 1970]
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a working undershot water wheel on Lardeau Creek River. It was the only water wheel seen in B.C. between 1963 and 1970. It was designed to drive an electricity generating set, but it was not coupelled to the set at the time.

Cabin near Williams Lake
2013.6.36.1.078.06 · Pièce · [July 1973]
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a cabin near Williams Lake. Its interior contained two old treadle sewing machines and a chesterfield. Davies had the impression it had not been inhabited for at least a decade.

O'Keefe Ranch
2013.6.36.1.078.03 · Pièce · [July 1966]
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at Okangan Lake, on Alexis Beach. O'Keefe Ranch is located at the head of the lake. Visible is an old house that was used as a hay barn.

Glenwalker Ranch
2013.6.36.1.078.01 · Pièce · [13 May 1979]
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts Glenwalker Ranch. Visible are details of the log construction of a barn that was built between 1890 and 1910.

2013.6.36.1.077.16 · Pièce · 15 Sept. 1970
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a 120 ft. stack of the former B.C. Copper Company in Anaconda, on the outskirts of Greenwood. It was built sometime between 1903 and 1909 and replaced a steel stack built on 1900, immediately below it.

Tofino Airport
2013.6.36.1.077.11 · Pièce · [20 June 1972]
Fait partie de 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.

CPR wharf building
2013.6.36.1.077.08 · Pièce · [22 July 1968]
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CPR wharf building at Okanagan Landing, Okanagan Lake. It was presumably used as a covered slipway and as a store. It was was now boarded up and the rail track between Vernon and Okanagan Landing was removed in 1940.

2013.6.36.1.077.06 · Pièce · 16 Sept. 1970
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Transformer Sub-Station of West Kootenay Power and Light Company, which is the only private power distribution company left in B.C. at the time. In was built in 1905 and was in operation by 1906. There were identical buildings made in Grand Forks and Phoenix, but they were demolished at the latter place.

Pioneer Sash and Door Company Ltd.
2013.6.36.1.077.05 · Pièce · 2 Sept. 1970
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts Pioneer Sash and Door Company Ltd. Davies suggests that it may have been the same as S.C. Smith Ltd., which commenced operating in Vernon in 1883. In the early days, products were verandah posters, balusters, and fancy trim. Most products were sent to the U.S. Most of the fancy trim in early north Okanagan homes came from this plant. In 1972, its main output was cedar panelling for Florida.

RCAF Langer
2013.6.36.1.077.03 · Pièce · Aug. 1975
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an RCAF Langer that was erected in 1942 as part of a flying boat base to counter possible Japanese sea and activities. It was used subsequently as whaling station premises.

Old mine buildings
2013.6.36.1.077.01 · Pièce · 13 Sept. 1970
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts one of various old lead and zinc mine buildings. Behind this building, on the foreshore, were a few men working on the reclamation of tailings and waste from the mine that was dumped in Kootenay Lake.

Stave Falls School
2013.6.36.1.076.13 · Pièce · [June 1968]
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts Stave Falls School, a type of rural school that was falling into disuse. This one was still in use and cared for.