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2009.6.1.616 · Item · March 2006
Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

Unidentified women and an officer in uniform stand in background. Photograph taken during Michaëlle Jean’s visit to Government House, Victoria, B.C.; see also items 2009.6.1.617 - 2009.6.1.625.

Handwritten notation on accompanying piece of paper reads: “+ GG’s visit.”

2009.6.1.642 · Item · 13 December 2006
Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

The group stands in large room featuring Canadian flags and British Columbia crest.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Divas, Left to Right: Sharon Ramshaw, Janet Germann, Wilma Harvie, Laura Fee, Carla Davies, Her Honour Ms Campagnolo, Artist Ms. Joseph, Christine MacLean, Bev Campbell, Lesley Zurrer, Lynne Woodgate front Doreen Wheeler”; printed label affixed to verso reads: “Cowichan Valley Dragon Divas, Box 653, Duncan, B.C., V9L 3X9”.

CPR SS Princess Charlotte
2009.7.1.269 · Item · [ca.1900-1908]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Photograph of the SS "Princess Charlotte" on the open ocean. Metallic annotation on recto reads: "C.P.R.SS Princess Charlotte entered according to act of the parliament of Canada, in the year 1908[?]. by A. Shaw, at the Department of Agriculture." Printed annotation on verso reads "Shaw & Co., Photo. Victoria. B.C. (Empire Series)"

Steam crane, Victoria
2013.6.36.1.059.01 · Item · 1971
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a steam crane, lettered "Osborn Bay Wharf Ltd." Davies suggests that it may have been on the Victoria-Pacific tourist line on the outskirts of Victoria.

CNR Victoria
2013.6.36.1.044.07 · Item · [26 May 1968]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the end of the trackage near Cedar Hill Cross Road and Borden Road in Saanich. This line was formerly part of the Victoria to Sidney line built by the Canadian Northern Pacific in 1913-1914.

Replica of "SS Beaver"
2013.6.36.1.067.05 · Item · [23 May 1971]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a replica of the "SS Beaver" entering the Inner Harbour of Victoria. It was open to the pubic over the May Long weekend of 1971.

St. Ann's Academy, Victoria
2013.6.36.1.073.05 · Item · Oct. 1969
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts St. Ann's Academy, a girls boarding school that was close to the centre of Victoria. In the corner of the property, nuns had established the first school in B.C. in 1853.

2013.6.36.1.135.09 · Item · Oct. 2000
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a Pacific Wilderness Railway caboose after its first season's work that went from June to September. Davies noted the "reproting abbreviation" had been changed from OHCR to PAW. A company decal was also applied.

CNR bascule bridge
2013.6.36.1.156.01 · Item · Apr. 1993
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CNR bascule bridge across the upper waters of Victoria Harbour. The rest of the trackage had been removed, except for the bridge itself.