Photograph depicts Mac McGarvey (right) and Frank Dewing (left) sitting in a boat on the Peace River. Mac McGarvey is steering the boat while Frank Dewing is pumping water from the boat. In the background a low mountain range is visible.
Photograph depicts Mac McGarvey (left) and Frank Dewing (right) getting the boat "Starvation" ready on a rocky shoreline in preparation for travel on the Peace River.
Photograph depicts Mac McGarvey (right) and Frank Dewing (left) seated in a boat on the Peace River. Mac McGarvey is steering the boat while Frank Dewing is pumping water from the boat.
The Mabel Rutherford Photograph Collection consists of 8 photographs depicting images of Red Rock and region: family, road and rail construction, landscape, farming equipment.
Rutherford, MabelPhotograph depicts an M. & B. R.R. locomotive. Location and details unknown.
Photograph depicts the Lytton CPR depot in the Fraser Valley. The view is looking north and upgrade.
Photograph depicts the Lynn Terminals wharf in Vancouver Harbour. The view is looking east with the Second Narrows bridge in the background. The photo also shows a steam dredger at work.
Photograph taken at the Lumby Branch that commenced with a timber trestle on Vernon Suburbs Road.
Photograph depicts a lumber wagon.
Photograph depicts a lumber sledge on an Indian Reserve. It was horse drawn and looked abandoned.
Photograph depicts a lumber mill for Evans Wood Products Ltd. In Savona. It shows filling chip cars that are taken to Weyerhaeuser Pulp Mill in Kamloops, 25 miles to the east. And loading, the cars run down grade to the spur end. The total capacity of the spur is about 6 cars.
Postcard depicts a lower spiral tunnel along the CPR line near Field, BC
Postcard depicts a train exiting a tunnel along the CPR line.
Postcard depicts lower Kicking Horse Canyon, on the CPR line.
Postcard depicts lower Kicking Horse Canyon near Golden, B.C,
Postcard depicts lower Kicking Horse Canyon.
Postcard depicts lower Kicking Horse Canyon, Golden B.C.
Image depicts several old shacks and some railway tracks running through Longworth, B.C.
Image depicts two unidentified individuals standing next to the train station, and two railway tracks running through Longworth, B.C.
Slightly elevated photograph of Prince Rupert buildings. A lone vessel is visible in the background. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Courtesy of Can Nat'l Rys. Prince Rupert. B.C." Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Dear Elma. We reached Prince Rupert (in the picture) today. Friday we arrive at Skagway and the glaciers. Having a fine trip- good weather and a good crowd. Love from Claire." Postcard is addressed to: "Mrs. Claude Millersh, River Forest, Guerneville, Sonoma Co., California." Postcard is affixed with a two cent American stamp. Postmark on verso reads: "Ketohikan Alaska. Jun 28 3 PM 1928."
Image depicts a pile of old logs on the bank of the Fraser River with mountains in the background. In the foreground, a set of railway tracks run through an uncertain location, likely Upper Fraser, B.C.
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a switchback, wood plank logging road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Truck Logging / Giscome BC.”
Photograph taken north of Gold River, at the Tahsis Ltd. Tree Farm, on a logging road that led to Port McNiel. Crossing the Muchalat River. The bridge was disused and blocked off.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a Canadian Forest Products logging railway in the Nimpkish Valley in British Columbia.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of logging railways in British Columbia and Washington State.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of logging railways in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts logging equipment at Koksilah Station, 2 miles south of Duncan, on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island. The view is looking south.
Photograph depicts a primitive logging caboose. Believed to have been built by or for the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway in 1898.
Photograph depicts a forested mountain, the bottom half of which has been logged and terraced; beneath the mountain is a railroad track and parked vehickes including a schoolbus and two dumptrucks.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Fairview Sodturning, Prince Rupert, 1/3/75”.
Photograph depicts log poles on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway flat cars at Ladysmith interchange yard.
Photograph depicting a log house, presumably in the campground in Quesnelle Forks.
Photograph depicting a small log cabin with a front porch and a sign reading "Happy 150th Anniversary Cariboo Gold Rush 1859-2009", presumably taken in Quesnelle Forks.
Photograph depicts a CN car carrying logs.
Photograph depicting a log cabin with a woman sitting on the front porch, presumably Sue Sedgwick. The photograph is presumably taken in Quesnelle Forks.
Photograph depicts totem poles (crest poles?) in front of lodge buildings on river shore. Canoes can be seen floating in foreground, hills in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Chapter XII. Number 1. Section of Indian Village on Nass River showing lodges and totems".
Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "C.P.A Lodestar, Whitehorse. Taking Off for Edmonton." Photograph depicts military plane, "CF-CP8" on its side. Runway in foreground, snowy range of hills in background.
Royal Canadian Air ForceHandwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "Scene on the Apron, 'Any Day' Fort Nelson, Our 'Lodestar' in the foreground." Photograph depicts three planes on apron, surrounded by various unidentified men and trucks. Pavement in foreground, trees in background.
Royal Canadian Air ForcePhotograph depicts locomotives at the Rayonier Railroad Camp, north of Hoquiam in Washington. The locomotive on the left is #110, 2-6-6-2 Baldwin. It is 111 tons and has 37, 500 lb. tractive effort. The main line from Crane Creek is on the left.
Photograph depicts a locomotive at the Rayonier Railroad camp, north of Hoquiam in Washington. It is a 2-6-6-2 Baldwin locomotive #110 built in 1928. It is 111 tons, has 37, 500 lbs. of tractive effort, 44" drivers, and cylinders 17"x26'x24".
Photograph depicts two locomotives at the Rayonier Railroad Camp, north of Hoquiam in Washington. On the left is a 2-6-6-2 Baldwin locomotive #110. It is 111 tons and has 37, 500 lbs. of tractive effort. It is being fired Sunday night for a Monday start. Beside it is either locomotive #38 or #111.
Series consists of research material relating to steam and diesel locomotives that were used on British Columbia railways. Includes information about the steam to diesel transition period, details about specific locomotives, locomotive manufacturers, and self-propelled coaches.
Postcard depicts a snow plow. "Completion of the Connaught Tunnel in 1916 solved the worst of the severe weather problems faced by the CPR in Rogers Pass, where snowfalls average 50 feet. Based at Revelstokem a locomotive-pushed wedge plow and a Jordan spreader equipped with air-operated wings and retractable nose plates skim over the rails near Fraine, BC"
Photograph depicts a locomotive on a railway track. Location and details unknown.
Photograph depicts a #45 2-6-2 Baldwin locomotive built on display a Hoquiam in Grays Harbour County on the Olympic Peninsula. It was built in 1906, weighs 44 tons, and has 16, 700 lbs. of tractive effort.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on display in Forks on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. The locomotive is a #10 Lima, built in 1930 and weighs 94 tons, with a tractive effort of 38, 200 lbs.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on display at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum at Somenos Lake, 1 miles north of Duncan.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on display. Location and details unknown.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on display.
Photograph depicts a locomotive near Cowichan Bay, B.C.