Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston receiving the Man of the Year Award from the Newsmen’s Club of BC for outstanding achievement in public service. The award was presented by Dr. John B. MacDonald, President of UBC on November 7, 1964.
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston after receiving his honourary degree. Mrs. Williston is pictured with him.
Item consists of transcript and tape summary of interview with local boxer Harold Mann discussing his boxing career.
Sans titreItem consists of transcript and tape summary of interview with Catholic Bishop Fergus O'Grady on his retirement as Bishop of the local Catholic Diocese of Prince George. Discusses also the Oblate Missionary Order and their history in Northern British Columbia. Also discusses the founding of the Prince George College.
Sans titreConsists of one bound 1938 Annual from Lord Byng High School in Vancouver.
Item consists of a Certificate of Achievement from the University of British Columbia certifying that Nedra Jane Paul attended the Summer School of the Theatre 5 July to 17 August 1954 and completed the requirements in Stagecrafts.
This bound photo album comprises 122 photographic images featuring the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, boats, machinery) and First Nations Peoples on the Nass & Skeena Rivers and North Pacific Coast. Images also include warships, freighters, automobiles, railway stations and trains, and some photographs of Yokohama, Japan and California ca.1924-25. Includes photographs of the 1924 Special Service Squadron World Cruise in Vancouver. Each photograph is accompanied by a handwritten description glued below or beside the image and each image is glued to the album page at its corners. The verso of front cover has a handwritten name plate:
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”.
Sans titreMap depicts British Columbia in its entirety as-well as smaller subsequent maps of Vancouver, Victoria and Vicinity, Prince George, Kamloops, Nelson, and Vancouver Island.
Map depicts annotations marking the major freight-ways: Garnet Ent. Truck Haul from Vancouver to Terrace, Canada Freightways Lyndon Trucking from Vancouver-Edmonton-Alaska Highway, Lindsays Transfer from Terrace to Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek, and the Northland Navigation roll-on and roll-off service. The cities and towns of Vancouver, Prince George, Dawson Creek, Terrace, Kitimat and Whitehorse are noted.
Map depicts the city of Vancouver and its railways.
Photograph believed to have been taken at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, B.C. Unidentified individuals can be seen walking in front of forest in background.
Item is one of nine photographs accompanying a greeting card from Agnes Hauglak, Addie Milewski’s sister, reading: “I though you might want these photos. I had to go and send every one their family things. Thank you for being kind to my sister Addie, Agnes M Hauglak”; see also items 2009.6.1.569 - 2009.6.1.577.
Photograph depicts the former C.P.R. passenger vessel "Lady Alexandra", now a floating restaurant in Coal Harbour. The Bayshore Hotel is at the right. The picture was taken after a snowfall and shows a view looking east.
Photograph depicts the ship the "Princess Louise" under tow by the Vancouver tug "La Pointe", going through the First Narrows. Just before going through the current took her at 45 degrees to the course and for a moment it looked as if she might run aground.
Photograph depicts the coasting vessel "Hecate Prince" owned by the Northland Navigation Co. Ltd. at their wharf on the southeast side of Vancouver Harbour.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Master" on a Sunday outing near the C.P.R. rail pier at the entrance to Coal Harbour, Vancouver.
Photograph depicts Coal Harbour in Vancouver. The photo was taken nearly at the head of the harbour on the south side.
Photograph depicts the Harbour Park Development site in Coal Harbour, Vancouver. Taking rock from the scow to face fill with anti-erosion material. The site is for new high rise apartments at the edge of Stanley park between Georgia St. and the sea.
Photograph depicts Pier B in Burrard Harbour, Vancouver. The photo shows the inside the main roadway and the CPR trackage.
Photograph depicts a CPR spur leading to a lane on the east of Richards St in the 1300 block. Much of the trackage here is dated 1911 and may be original. The photo was taken approximately 100 yards southwest of Richards St. and Pacific St. in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a view looking northeast down a rail and road lane at the west end of Homer St. in Vancouver. It shows CP box car #296105 with end loading doors, built in November 1951. The car was empty. The rail in this area is dated 1911.
Photograph depicts the CPR line at the northeast edge of the Drake St. yards, adjacent to the east foot of Nelson St. The box car behind steel in photo is CP #37948, built in May 1946. It has a notice "To be used between Mainland Ice Co., Coach yard, and Coquitlam. It was still there on the 6 March 1975. The spur continues for 200 yards beyond the icehouse and divides into 2 lines to service a plant at 196 Smithe St. The building is now used as an art school and the trackage is disused.
Photograph depicts CPR waterfront trackage in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a general view of the C.P.R. yards adjacent to Ballantyne Pier in Vancouver. The sheeted units in the middle distance consist of an export train of 11 locies, travelling dear, just brought in by the G.N.R. switcher. The locomotives were built by General Motors, Electro-Motive Division in La Grange, Illinois. For shipment to Korean National Railways, Pusan. Diverted to Vancouver because of the U.S. Pacific Coast long shoreman strike.
Photograph depicts the CP rail track beside Burrard Inlet, approximately parallel with Simon Fraser University. It shows the rear view of the eastbound "Canadian" at about 7 pm.
Photograph depicts the CPR Drake St. yards in Vancouver. It shows CPR locomotive #3716, 2-8-0 Consolidation. It was built in February 1929 at the Montreal Locomotive Works. It was acquired in 1966 from the CPR by the city of Port Coquitlam. The locomotive is not renovated or repainted, and the fire box is in poor shape. Considering that is has been 5 years in the open it has little or no vandalism. All gauges in the cab are still intact.
Photograph depicts the 1500 block of Mainland St. in Vancouver. The boxcar in the view is CN #521160. The switch at Helmcken St. is still in position but not usable because it has been partially black topped and had the rods removed.
Photograph depicts the former Coal Harbour branch of the CPR line in Vancouver. The photo was taken near the north foot of Broughton St. in Coal Harbour. A single spur line ran back behind the camera for 150 to 200 yards. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts former tram tracks, looking north from the intersection at Campbell Ave and east Georgia St. in Vancouver, BC
Photograph depicts Vancouver Fireboat #2 having its hull sandblasted in a dry dock at the Burrard Shipyard & Marine Ways Ltd. at 1729 West Georgia St., Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the tugboat "Island Sovereign" moored at a dock in North Vancouver, 200 yards west of the Burrard Dry Dock, 2 days in service after refit.
Photograph depicts a ship the "Laurier", which may have been a Fisheries Protection Vessel, at the Federal Immigration Dock in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a new Canadian Navy Oceanographic vessel at C.P.R. B Pier (east side) in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the H.M.C.S. Beacon Hill at English Bay in Vancouver during the maritime festival.
Photograph depicts the H.M.C.S. Beacon Hill at English Bay in Vancouver during the maritime festival.
Photograph depicts the H.M.C.S. Saskatchewan in English Bay, Vancouver during the maritime festival.
Photograph depicts the ship the "Princess of Vancouver" outward bound at midday. It is passing below the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the C.N.R. ship "Prince George" outward bound from Vancouver, passing Prospect Point.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Master" in English Bay, Vancouver during the maritime festival.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Master" with steam up at Kingcome Navigation Dock in Vancouver. The C.N.R. wharf/terminal is at left.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Master" in English Bay, Vancouver during the maritime festival.
Photograph depicts the P.W.D. dredger at work in the north arm of the Fraser River in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. on the North Shore in Vancouver. There is a freighter in dock #2.
Photograph depicts "Extra 382" eastbound freight. Image captured passing Dennison on mile 30.8 from New Westminster.
Photograph depicts "Extra 382-Eastbound" freight. Taken from the cab of locomotive #382 on 2% grade between Scott Road and Kennedy in North Surrey. Train had 3 locomotives and about 45 cars.
Photograph taken at the south end of Fraser Bridge in New Westminster. Image captured from the cab of locomotive #382.
Photograph depicts old BC Electric Railway interurbans purchased for restoration by the government of BC from an Oregon owner. They stood in the CPR Duke Street Yards in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the resurfacing of several blocks of East Georgia Street that caused old streetcar lines to be pulled up.
Photograph depicts a shay locomotive en-route for preservation at the National Museum of Science in Ottawa. It was previously owned by Elk Falls Ltd., near Campbell River, Vancouver Island and was taken out of regular service on October 9, 1973.
Photograph depicts a close up of a shay locomotive last steamed in service at the Elk Falls Mile near Campbell River on October 9, 1973. Here, it was on en-route to the National Museum of Sciene in Ottawa after being off-loaded from a Gulf of Georgia barge at the CPR "A" dock.