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Photograph depicts the ship, S.S. Spokane on open water. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "S.S. Spokane - Pacific S.S. Co-".

Photograph depicts an unnamed tug boat. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Tug - name unknown".

Photograph depicts a Krupp Morser 21 cm Howitzer on display near parliamentary buildings. This mortar was a Canadian war trophy from World War I, captured September 27, 1918 near Bourlon Wood. It was transported to Victoria on the CPR in July 1920. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "German gun at Victoria , BC".

Photograph depicts a large ship in the water, treed shoreline and mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph read, " Freighter in the 1st Narrow."

Photograph depicts an aerial view of a dredge boat in the mouth of the Capilano river.

Photograph depicts a view of a pile driver docked next to the Canadian Pacific Railway Pier at Vancouver, B.C. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Pile driver C.P.R. Pier Vancouver, B.C.".

Photograph depicts a view of the sun on the ocean with the ship's bow in the foreground. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Summer at sea".

Photograph depicts a small fishing boat tied to a dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Seine boat maybe".

Photograph depicts a creek with lush vegetation on both banks, a snow-capped mountain in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "View on Barton's Creek - Naas River".

Photograph depicts looking down on a gathering of men around a table. The men appear to be gambling. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Earnest Amusement".

Photograph depicts the Canadian National Railway Station in Vancouver. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Can National Station, Vancouver".

Photograph depicts the North Pacific Cannery in Port Edward with a cannery building on a pier next to the shore, water in the foreground, treed hillside in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "North Pacific Cannery - Skeena".

Photograph depicts several homes and building constructed on and near the water, treed hills and snowy mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Part of the bergh of Port Essington".

Photograph depicts a small shed constructed of lumber, three boats, with scattered logs and lumber. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Charcoal Charley's Ship Yard"

Photograph depicts a view of the Canadian Pacific Railway hotel from the hillside looking down to the hotel, railroad and lake. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Sicamous junction, BC as above".

Photograph depicts the Canadian Pacific Railway station and hotel at Sicamous, BC.

Photograph depicts the H.M.S. Repulse battle cruiser warship in Vancouver with 1924 Special Service Squadron. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "taken from Prospect Point".

Photograph depicts the battle cruiser H.M.S. Hood in Vancouver with the 1924 Special Service Squadron. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "H.M.S. Hood. Vancouver, June 24".

Photograph depicts a view from the lake looking toward the hotel on the shore and treed hillside behind. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "C.P.R. Hotel and Station".

Photograph depicts many birds on the waters near the shore line. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Some of the gulls at Red Bluff 4/5/24

Photograph depicts building near a shore. Trees in the background have a skiff of snow. Handwritten annotation below photograph read, "George Delabo's mill, Sicamous, BC".

Photograph depicts a view from the water looking toward a treed, mountainous hillside. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Hills north of Sicamous".

Photograph depicts a view from above, looking down on a wharf with water and treed hillsides in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "wharf at Sicamous".

Photograph depicts looking down on a railway locomotive. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "C.P.R. No. 5775. 10/1/24".

Photograph depicts a lofty view of a rail yard.

Photograph depicts the H.M.A.S. Adelaide light cruiser warship at Vancouver with 1924 Special Service Squadron. In the foreground, the M-1 motor launch bears the Royal Air Force Ensign. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Cruiser Australia".

Photograph depicts the H.M.S. Repulse in the waters of Burrard Inlet with the 1924 Special Service Squadron. People watch the ship from the shore in the foreground, water the large ship and several small boats in the midground, forested shores in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Vancouver, June 1924".

Photograph depicts the H.M.S. Delhi light cruiser warship with 1924 Special Service Squadron in Esquimalt Harbour. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "H.M.S. Delhi Light Cruiser".

Photograph depicts the MV Aorangi. This passenger vessel was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand and launched in 1924 for the Vancouver-Australia passenger route. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "motor driven ship Aorangi".

Photograph depicts a lifeboat on a ship. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "McLaughlin, Davits Aorangi".

Photograph depicts the Seymour Narrows section of the Discovery Passage in British Columbia. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Seymour Narrows, BC Coast, September, 1924".

Photograph depicts the MV Aorangi docked at Vancouver pier. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Vancouver to Australia".

Photograph depicts a young girl dressed in a coat, hat and scarf standing on a broken chair outside. There is a row of trees and a snowy field behind her. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Hazel Dec. 1924".

Photograph depicts the Balmoral Cannery building on a wharf, treed hillside behind and snowy mountains in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Balmoral Cannery - wharf, 1924".

Photograph depicts houses, trees and hillside covered with a skiff of fresh snow. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "April showers 22/4/24".

Photograph depicts deep snow on buildings. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "March snow, 1925".

Photograph depicts a man standing beside a building, outdoors on a boardwalk, snowy trees and hillside in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "spring thaw wanted".

Photograph depicts the Japanese cruiser Izumo at Vancouver, BC. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Jap. Cruiser at Vancouver, BC".

Photograph depicts a Japanese steam launch boat during rescue efforts for the drowned crew of the Izumo. Several crew members are standing on deck, there is a Japanese flag on the stern. Handwritten annotation below the photograph reads, "Jap navy steam launch".

Photograph depicts a young woman and a boy standing in front of a house in Laxgalts'ap (Greenville, BC). Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Elsie and Frank Greenville 19/7/25". Boy may be Frank Calder.

Photograph depicts a man standing beside a small dwelling. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Cabins, Naas Harbour".

Photograph depicts the newly constructed Second Narrows bridge on a postcard photograph. The bridge and water in the foreground, forested shores with a few scattered building in the background. Printing on the photograph reads, "Second Narrows Bridge, Vancouver, BC Opened November 1925". Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "a 20 years dream come true".

Photograph depicts a man dressed in a long coat and cap standing beside a 1920's car. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "E. A. Crowe and car Prospect Point Feb./25

Photograph depicts a boiler for Hanbury's Mill in Vancouver, B.C. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, " Hanburys Mill-Van-BC Feb 1925".

Photograph depicts buildings surrounded by heavy snow. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "at Naas Harbour March, 1925".

Photograph depicts five men, two boys and a woman posing for a photograph. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Cannery folks, 5/6/25". Seated man with moustache is "Jack", as referenced from photograph 2009.10.2.078.

Photograph depicts a creek lowing away from the photographer, trees and snow and the creek banks, a mountain in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Naas Harbour 12/3/25.

Photograph depicts a small boat on a river at Laxgalts'ap, BC (Greenville, BC). Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Gas boat, Louisa C Greenville B.C. 19/27/25".

Photograph depicts the construction of the Chemistry Building at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "B.C. University".

Photograph depicts the Japanese cruiser Izumo and rescue boats in the harbour in Vancouver. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, " Dragging for two drowned sailors and Jap squadron". On February 8, 1925 seventeen Japanese sailors drowned in Vancouver harbour when the motor launch pinnance in which they were returning from shore leave to the cruiser Idzumo collided with the Canadian Pacific tug Nanoose. The event is described in the New York Times on February 9, 1925: "The bodies of the officer, petty officers and five seamen have been recovered. Nine others are still missing. The men had been attending a dinner ashore and left the dock in the pinnace, which towed a ship's barge with eighty men in it. As the pinnace neared the three visiting Japanese cruisers, the Canadian Pacific tug with a car barge in tow, came up the harbor. Strong winds and currents prevailed and navigation with the tow was difficult. As the pinnace and car barge came together the tow line to the barge of men broke, thus saving the lives in that craft. Searchlights played on the scene of rescue all night, but outside of the eight men picked up, no more came to the surface. Today dragging operations to locate the pinnace have been conducted by boats of the fleet with four divers, three from the squadron and one provided by the Harbor Board, but up to the present the little steam carrier has not been hooked. A derrick stands by to lift the boat when located....In the meantime, dragging operations are being continued to locate the pinnace and men."