Series consists of articles, clippings, and other material regarding railway accidents and mishaps in British Columbia. Includes information about derailments, collisions, fires, slides, washouts, avalanches, runaway trains, bridge failures, accidents at grade crossings, and accident statistics.
File consists of research material regarding accidents on bridges and trestles, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on accidents at Surprise Creek bridge, Lytton bridge, Cisco bridge, and a Cheakamus River bridge near Squamish.
File consists of research material regarding accidents at grade crossings, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Mainly includes newspaper clippings of train collisions with cars at grade crossings.
Subseries consists of general material regarding the Canadian Pacific Railway in both Canada and British Columbia. Includes information about the history of CPR, chronologies, statistics, CPR management and administration, and publicity. Also includes monographs relating to CPR.
File consists of research material regarding general information on the Canadian Pacific Railway, such as chronologies, statistics, and summary histories. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Canadian Pacific, 1881-1981 Part Two: A Brief History of the Company" by Elson; "CPR Regains Independence" by Ian Smith; "Corporate and Historical Chronology" by Canadian Pacific News; and "Canadian Pacific Facts and Figures" by the CPR Publicity Department; an excerpt from "The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881" by Pierre Berton; an excerpt from the "Scenic Rail Guide to Western Canada" by Bill Coo; "Railways of the Okanagan" by John Rushton; "Frontier Guide to the Dewdney Trail: Hope to Rock Creek" by Anderson; "Frontier Guide to the Incredible Rogers Pass" by Frontiers Unlimited; and "Frontier Guide to the Fraser Canyon" by Anderson.
File consists of a book by Omer Lavallee entitled "Van Horne's Road: An illustrated account of the construction and first years of operation of the Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway".
File consists of research material regarding Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel construction in the Rockies. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following articles: "The Spiral and Connaught Tunnels" by J. Marsh; "CP Rail Goes Under Ground: The Longest Tunnel in North America is Canada's Newest" by R. Steed; "CPR Connaught Tunnel and Electric Token Block System" by Davies; "CP Rail's Connaught Tunnel" by J.A. Beatty; "Third Conquest of Rogers Pass: This time, CP tames the Selkirks for $24 million a mile" by K. Keefe; "The Connaught Tunnel, 1916-1991" by R. Nobbs; and "CP Rail's Rogers Pass Project" from the Golden Star.
File consists of "Canadian Pacific's Kettle Valley Railway" by Joe Smuin.
File consists of "Canadian Pacific in Southern British Columbia: The Boundary Subdivision" by W.G. Kennedy.
File consists of "Canadian Pacific in the Rockies (Volume One)" by D.M. Bain.
File consists of "Canadian Pacific in the Rockies (Volume Five)" by D.M. Bain.
Photograph depicts a liquor store and church on Main St. in Lillooet, B.C.
Photograph depicts a courthouse in Vancouver, B.C. Photo shows the ripped up forecourt.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of miscellaneous subjects in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a baby seal at C.N. log drop at Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts gulls at Lost Lagoon in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts a view of Friendly Cove, near Nootka, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. View is taken from the M.V. Uchuck III.
Photograph depicts a deserted cannery at Nootka, on west Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts the Pacific Terminus of the Trans Canada Highway in Tofino, B.C. on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts Wickaninnish Beach, north of Ucluelet on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts a house fire possibly on 1000 Beach Block and Thurlow St. , caused by a wrecking gang.
Photograph depicts homes on 1000 Beach Ave., looking northeast.
Photograph depicts the ongoing wrecking of house #1053 on Beach Ave.
Photograph depicts the homes on 1000 Beach Ave. in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts the city hall at New Westminster on Victoria Day. The anvil battery is about to fire a 21 gun salute.
Photograph depicts the city hall at New Westminster on Victoria Day. The anvil battery firing round #3 of 21 gun salute.
Photograph depicts fields recently cleared from virgin bush on Miracle Breach on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts the Tsable coal pit on Vancouver Island as the first coal of the afternoon shift being hauled up.
Photograph depicts Granite Falls near the Wigwam Inn, Indian Arm, Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts the entrance to False Creek in Vancouver, B.C. The wooden navigation marker has since been removed. The photo is taken from 1053 Beach Ave.
Photograph depicts Granite Falls and wharf at Indian Arm, looking west from the top of the falls.
Photograph depicts the Vancouver Shipyards Ltd. on 555 Denman St. in Vancouver, B.C., looking south from Coal Harbour waters.
Photograph depicts the west end of Coal Harbour looking south to West Georgia St. and Chilco-Gilford block beyond. The old pilings exposed at low tide.
Photograph depicts the site of a new deep water ship wharf with Centennial Pier in the background, looking east. Left of the wall is the sea and the right side will be dirt filled.
Photograph depicts the site of a new deep water ship wharf. The left of the wall is sea and the right will be filled in with dirt. The view is looking east and shows the Centennial Pier in the background.
Photograph depicts a wooden irrigation flume on the west side of Oliver in the Osoyoos fruit valley, near #18 Rd.
Photograph depicts Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., 1 week after the official opening.
Photograph depicts Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., one week after the official opening.
Photograph depicts the intersection at Cordero and Nelson St. in the west end of Vancouver. The view is looking north along Cordero St.
Photograph depicts the entrance to the Squamish River at Squamish, looking upstream. The pier on the left belongs to the original logging railway, circa 1909-1925.
Photograph depicts the Hospital Cottage on Main St. in Sechelt, B.C. which also appears to have been home to the Magistrates and Small Debts Court at one point. A large central hospital for the whole of the Sechelt Peninsula was opened in 1965 at Sechelt.
Photograph depicts a view from the ship the Queen of Powell River, en route from Earl Cove to Saltery Bay.
Photograph depicts Cadero St. in the west end of Vancouver, looking north from Barclay St. intersection in the 800 block.
Photograph depicts a mill on the north stream of the north arm of the Fraser River, looking east from the Fraser St. bridge.
Photograph depicts an early type of spool donkey circa 1890-1900, on display at Promised Land Park on the Olympia Peninsula in Washington state.
Photograph depicts a steam donkey located in the Crown Zellerbach Museum at Ladysmith on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts an early type of steam donkey mounted on a flatcar and attached to a Shay Tank. It is displayed on the roadside at Promised Land Park, probably near Forks, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.
Photograph depicts a saw on the outskirts of Courtenay on the road to Cumberland.
Photograph depicts a donkey engine at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum
Photograph depicts a view of the main saw and bull chain of the Horne Bros. Ltd. Shingle mill on #305 West Esplanade Rd. in North Vancouver.