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Photographs within this file pertain to modes of transportation and transportation routes (including construction, surveying and traveling).

The images consists primarily of 130+ photographs taken by or belonging to Reverend R.W. Large, MD which depict communities on the Northwest Coast between approximately 1898 and 1920 including Bella Bella, Rivers Inlet, and Port Simpson, including native villages in which Reverend Large worked. Images show scenes of native fishing, canneries, mission hospitals, churches, girls schools, portraits of native families, and Northwest Coast totems. Other images include 25+ photographs and postcards from the Large family depicting ships and boats on the North Coast.

Consists of 165 black and white photographs depicting Northwest Coast communities including Bella Bella, Rivers Inlet, Port Simpson, and Prince Rupert between approximately 1900 and 1920. Also includes postcard images of ships and boats on the North Coast belonging to the Large family, from Reverend Large's son Dr. R.G. Large. Also includes 39 colour slides ca. 1960 of ship scenes and weather balloon launches from the Dr. R.G. Large family.

Consists of photographs depicting various forestry and forestry railway scenes, including early sawmills, Church Logging (Prince George) logging trucks, the Eagle Lake Spruce Mills (Giscome) railway locomotive and train cars loaded with logs, early logging with horse-drawn skids, an aerial of Eagle Lake Spruce Mills, among others.

Consists of photographs depicting unidentified rail stations, locomotives, equipment, communities and people.

Postcard depicts totem poles at Wapla Lake Camp. The lake was the headwaters of the Kicking Horse River.

Postcard depicts the first crossing of the Kicking Horse.

Postcard depicts Mount Field from a CPR hotel in Field, Canadian Rocky Mountains.

Postcard depicts Kicking Horse Canyon, Field, A.B.. on the CPR line.

Postcard depicts Kicking Horse Canyon in the Canadian Rockies.

Postcard depicts Kicking Horse Canyon.

Postcard depicts Kicking Horse Canyon.

Postcard depicts lower Kicking Horse Canyon, on the CPR line.

File consists of postcards collected by David Davies of Rogers Pass and Glacier, BC.

Postcard depicts Glacier House and Great Glacier House built in 1886 as one of three similar hotels, the other two being Mt. Stephen House in Field, and Fraser Canyon Hotel in North Bend. Business fell off rapidly in 1916 when tracks were relocated into a new tunnel. Buildings were demolished in 1930.

Postcard depicts a train oustide a snowshed in Glacier, BC. It was thought the view was looking south with Glacier Hotel in the middle distance at the head of the 180 degree loop. Outside trackage was built alongside sheds in the summit area of Rogers Pass.

Postcard depicts the entrance to the east end of the Connaught Tunnel.

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Glacier from the Railway. "One of the chief attractions for tourists is the Illecillewaet Glacier, and, while not the largest in the Canadian Rockies, it is the most accessible and in every way representative of these most interesting natural phenomena. A trip across its face leaves a lasting impression on one's memory. The Illecillewaet River takes its rise from the great glacier of the Selkirks."

Postcard depicts the crossing of "The Loop."

Postcard depicts the CPR station at Albert Canyon, BC, circa 1900.

Postcard depicts the east portal of the Connaught Tunnel and Mount Macdonald.

Postcard depicts Sicamous Station and Hotel, circa 1910. "Sicamous became a favorite statring point for fishermen to the Shuswap Lake and junction for the fruit growing Okanagan Valley. The first station in Sicamous, built in 1890, burned down in 1900. A new one was built, modernized in 1908, and torn down in the 1960s."

Postcard depicts Main Street (Victoria West) Kamloops in 1910.

Postcard depicts the Thompson River, 6 miles north of Spences Bridge, on the Okanagan Trail.

Postcard depicts the CPR crossing Skuzzy River, Fraser Canyon, BC

Postcard depicts Fraser River Canyon, near North Bend, BC

Postcard depicts the Four Tunnels on the CPR line through the Rocky Mountains.

Postcard depicts the Four Tunnels over Fraser River, BC

Postcard depicts Fraser Canyon in the Canadian Rockies.

Postcard depicts Fraser River in the Canadian Rockies.

Consists of photographs depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, the British Columbia Railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Canadian National Railway. Also includes photographs of various forestry-related scenes.

Photographs within this file document resource industries within Northern BC such as mining, fishing, forestry etc. They also represent resource industry cooperatives, processing, packing and shipping industries, construction and ship building, as well as salvage companies and operations.

Series consists of graphic material depicting railways in British Columbia. Includes prints, negatives, and postcards.

Postcard depicts Cantilever Bridge near Cisco, BC

Postcard depicts Vancouver's "Old 374" crossing the Spuzzum River, Fraser Canyon, BC

Postcard depicts Fraser River Canyon, showing Cariboo Highway, CPR and CNR Railways, British Columbia, Canada.