This photograph album consists of photographs, membership cards and correspondence of Herbert F. Glassey. Subjects identified in this album include: automobiles, landscape vistas, hunting scenes, snowshoeing, dog sledding, provincial government offices and waterscapes. Identified geographic locations include: Nesutlane Trading Post, Atlin, Teslin Lake, Atlin Lake, McKee Creek, Taku Glacier and Otter Creek. The following of Mr. Glassey’s membership cards are also included within this album: “White Pass & Yukon Route, No. 308: Government Agent, Atlin account, 1939-1940”; “White Pass & Yukon Route, No. 283: Government Agent account, 1941-1942”; “Registration Certificate, 1940”; “The Wartime Prices and Trade Board, no.1305, 1942”; “Dominion Bureau of Statistics, no.252”; “The Society of Notaries Public Membership Card, 1956”; and “Prince Rupert Liberal Association, 1953”.
Glassey, SarahConsists 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.
Photograph depicts group of working men and 6 dogs standing outside wood building. Hill in background.
Large group of women, men, and children pose on front steps of church. Some men standing in back hold brass instruments. Bishop Ridley (with long beard) sits in front centre between W.H. Collison (on right) and his son W.E. Collison. Photograph depicts the first church built in Metlakatla, which was burned in a fire in 1901, and replaced in 1903.
Handwritten annotation below image reads: "A gathering of Missionaries and Indians in front of Metlakahtla Church During Synod"; on verso: "[Ven?] Arch Collison & Mrs Collison".
Village can be seen in distance. Large church building stands in centre, hills in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "For heading of Page 18. Kincolith or 'The Rock of Scalps.' Section of Kincolith [...]"
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.
Photograph depicts the a painting of three men in the Royal Highland military uniforms. Typed annotation glued to verso of photograph provides an interpretation of this piece of art: "The 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot - 1782. The first battalion of this British regiment arrived in New York in 1756. After serving in numerous campaigns and engagements in North America, the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot garrisoned in Nova Scotia. It is from this famous regiment that the Black Watch (Royal Highland) Regiment of Canada derives its name and much of its colorful dress and traditions."; "Le 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot - 1782. Le premier bataillon de ce régiment britannique arriva à New-York en 1756. Après plusieurs campagnes en Amérique du Nord, il fit garnison en Nouvelle-Ecosse. C'est de ce fameux régiment que s'inspirent les uniformes et les traditions du Black Watch (Royal Highland) Regiment of Canada. Cornemuses et tambours y ont toujours joué un rôle important et pittoresque."
Overview of a snow covered mountain tops of the Cassiar Mountains. Handwritten annotation on verso in pen reads: “Cassiar mtns.”
Group poses between two buildings, small dog visible behind. Wood piles and tree stumps can be seen on hill in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Metlakatla BC / Back row - W.E. Collison, Fr. Hogan, ?, ? Canon Keen / Front row - ?, ?, Bishop Du Vernet, Archdeacon Laycock". See also item 2009.7.1.32 for image featuring Father Hogan, and 2009.7.1.29 for image featuring Bishop Du Vernet.
Rev. W.E. Collison sits to left of totem pole, smoking a pipe (oldest son of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison). Log fence can be seen in front of forest in right background.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: “W.E. Collison at Massett, QCIs."; "Dad beside totem pole".
Photograph depicts a flock of birds at beach, water and shoreline in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “North Beach Massett QCIs."
The David Davies Railway Collection encompasses all facets of railway history specifically in the province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory. The collection consists of research material accumulated over the course of more than fifty years, and includes monographs, periodicals, articles, clippings, railway timetables, photographs, maps and plans, and excerpts. Material covers public, tourist, and private (industrial) railways, including: CPR, KVR, E&N; CNR, CNoR, GTPR; and PGER, BCR. The collection excludes material regarding streetcar systems and rapid transit, but includes long distance electric interurbans.
Series consists of graphic material depicting railways in British Columbia. Includes prints, negatives, and postcards.
Photograph depicts a cluster of canvas tents on the edge of an alpine meadow.
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.
Postcard depicts a snow slide scene, west of Calgary in the Canadian Rockies with a snow plow clearing the railroad of an avalanche. Three-colour process.
Postcard depicts a passenger train near Field, BC
File consists of postcards collected by David Davies of Kicking Horse Canyon in British Columbia.
Postcard depicts Kicking Horse Pass, Golden B.C.
Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge in the Selkirk Mountains of B.C.
Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge in the Selkirk Mountains of B.C.