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Paddlewheel Park
2012.13.1.7.202 · Item · Nov. 2000
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts the Fraser River at Paddlewheel park, with a train on the other side of the river, in Prince George B.C.

Paddlewheel Park
2012.13.1.7.201 · Item · Nov. 2000
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts the Fraser River at Paddlewheel park, with a train on the other side of the river, in Prince George B.C.

Parker photograph collection
2011.13 · Collection · [between 1910 and 1930]

The photographs depict the geographic areas of Stewart, BC, Boundary Pass, Nelson River, Bitter Creek Glacier, Portland Canal, Red Cliff and Bear Creek; as well as the ships “Camosun” and “S.S. Prince George.” Types of subjects identified in this collection include: community life, surveying, mining and transportation (i.e. dog-sledding, horse and buggy, and the Portland Canal Short Line Railway “P.C.S.L. Rlwy”).

Parking Lot Frisbee
2012.13.1.93.18 · Item · 1979
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a group of people throwing a frisbee in a parking lot at an uncertain location, likely in the Peace River Region.

Parksville, BC
2013.6.36.1.034.01 · Item · 15 Aug. 1975
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken in Parksville on Vancouver Island. Between the two utility poles in the photograph lies the northbound Courtenay main line. It has been closed since 30 June 1975. The Parksville Alberni highway is behind the camera.

2009.5.2.52 · Item · [ca. 1910?]
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a man standing in a loaded canoe floating close to shore. Two men stand on rocky shore in left foreground. Tall hills in background, river rapids behind canoe in midground. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Parle Pas Rapids Peace River."

2012.13.1.87.004 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts several eighteen wheelers at the Pass Lake Road and Upper Fraser Road intersection with numerous houses and buildings in the background in McGregor, B.C. Map coordinates 54°04'38.1"N 121°50'00.1"W

Passenger car at Cranbrook
2013.6.36.1.028.18 · Item · 18 Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a 12 wheeler passenger car, CPR #411641, used as car man's sleeper. Behind it is wash/shower car #412718. It is followed by work diner car #411369, which is also a 12 wheeler with an arch bar truck. They are used for work and wreck train service.

Passenger ferry "MV Ballena"
2020.08.01 · Item · [between 1914 and 1920]
Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts the "MV Ballena" docked at a wharf. The Ballena was a passenger ferry built in 1892 by the Albion Iron Works Company of Victoria and originally named the Joan. This ship was sold to the Terminal Steam Navigation Company in 1914 and renamed the Ballena. It was later acquired by the Union Steamship Company in 1920 but burned at the Union dock in November of that year.

2013.6.36.1.001.78 · Item · [May 1965]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the rail connections below the north bank of the Patullo Bridge in New Westminster. The track in the foreground belongs to C.N. and the flyover foreground rail bridge belongs to the B.C. Electric Railway. The flyover background rail bridge is shared by the Great Northern Rail and C.N. Rail.

2011.13.54 · Item · 9 August 1911
Part of Parker photograph collection

Side perspective photograph of a crowd of people gathered around a Portland Canal Short Line Railroad train, presumably either leaving or arriving Printed annotation on recto reads: "Bitter Creek BC Aug 9 1911."

2011.13.53 · Item · 9 August 1911
Part of Parker photograph collection

Side perspective photograph of a Portland Canal Short Line engine being either loaded or unloaded by several men at the station in Stewart, BC. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Aug 9 1911 Stewart BC."

Peace River?
2012.13.1.91.06 · Item · Oct. 1978
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts what is possibly the Peace River running parallel to a road, possibly Highway 29.

Pedestrian overpass
2013.6.36.1.104.01 · Item · [13 June 1993]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a pedestrian overpass, with rail below, leading to the Riverside Park and Coliseum. CPR container freight was moving westwards.

Penny Station
2012.13.2.15.21 · File · 1980, 2010
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Penny station. Also includes photographs depicting the Penny train station (1980?).

PGE Australian
2013.6.36.1.045.46 · Item · [3 July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a trestle near Australian, BC on mile 364. Visible is a northbound freight of 2 locomotives and about 60 cars.

PGE Chasm
2013.6.36.1.045.10 · Item · [22 May 1972]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a section house, track motor shed, and a disused bunk house and supplies shed which are property of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.

2020.08.43 · Item · [between 1913 and 1923]
Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts an early model Jordan Spreader used in the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. A railway worker is standing on the spreader. The stencil on equipment states "P.G.W.R.R.". The flora suggests that this photograph may have been taken somewhere in the Lillooet/Clinton area.