Transportation and Utilities

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  • Act of means of transporting from one place to another
  • Act of means of providing water, power, sewage, etc. to communities
  • Facilities and infrastructures (eg. harbours, highways, airports, hydroelectric projects)
  • Vehicles, rolling stock, aircraft, equipment, ships and boats, ferries
  • Accidents (eg. highway crashes, derailments, air crashes, ship wrecks)
  • Rescue services (eg. towing, coast guard)
  • Businesses and corporations (eg. motor associations)
  • Professional organizations and unions
  • SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Business and Commerce; Industries; Military

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          2013.6.36.1.054.28 · Item · 30 Sept. 1975
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a derelict mine electric railway in Britannia Beach. Visible is an ambulance car that was painted silver and was made of steel. It was likely to be cut up on site for scraps. Anacanada Britannia Mine closed on November 1, 1974.

          2013.6.36.1.054.39 · Item · 30 Sept. 1975
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a mine electric railway. Visible is a powder car that was painted red and head a wooden box. It was used twice weekly on the explosives haul till the Anaconda Britannia Mine was closed on November 1, 1974.

          2013.6.36.1.054.29 · Item · 30 Sept. 1975
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photo depits a mule locomotive. A contractor from Calgray won the contract to remove the rails of the Anaconda Britannia Mine that was closed on November 1, 1974. The contractor bought the locomotive to do the job. It pulled out 2000-3000 ft. of twin sets of rails from the far end of a tunnel to open air at this point. Then, it unbolted them further into lengths and stocked them for shipment possibly to the Yukon.

          2013.6.36.1.054.40 · Item · 30 Sept. 1975
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a view of some of the auctioned mine railway equipment in the yards of the Anaconda Britannia Mine. Visible on the left are repair shops and dump ore cars. On the left are flat cars including one with pole support used to depoit graphite grease on an overhead copper cable.

          Britannia Mine Entrance?
          2012.13.1.54.52 · Item · July 1980
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the entrance to a mine with an unknown individual present. It is possibly the entrance to the closed Britannia Mine in the Howe Sound Region.

          2012.13.2.15.07 · File · 2001-2004
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the British Columbia Express Company. Barnard's Express, later known as the British Columbia Express Company or BX, was a pioneer transportation company that served the Cariboo and Fraser-Fort George regions in British Columbia, Canada from 1861 until 1921.

          2009.6.13.45.20 · Item · [between 1974 - 1979]
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Map depicts annotations of the freight-way routes throughout British Columbia. These routes include: the Garnet Enterprise Truck Haul from Vancouver to Terrace, the Canadian Freightways from Vancouver to Edmonton to Alaska; the Lindsay Transfer from Terrace to Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek; and the Northland Navigation roll-on and roll-off service.

          2002.1.4 · Series · 1962-1998
          Part of Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Collection

          The British Columbia Railway (BC Rail) series consists of promotional ephemera material, employee time tables, fare rates and multiple forms, used and unused, pertaining to daily train movements and BCR operations. Several employee manuals, employee examination material, employee seniority listings, and union agreements are also contained within. Three plans detail various BC Rail sites.

          British Columbia Railway
          2009.6.13.45.19 · Item · 1975
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          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.

          Brodie Junction on CPR line
          2013.6.36.1.020.13 · Item · 15 Oct. 1972
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts Brodie Junction on the CPR Spences Bridge to Princeton line, located at mile 65.2 from Spences Bridge. The former northbound connector of the Coquihalla line (Hope to Brodie) is in the right foreground but it's not a dead-end spur of 200 yards in length. The mainline makes an 180 degree loop at this point. The tracks in the left rear of the photo lead to Merritt. The elevation is 3025 ft.

          Brush Rake
          2005.3.16 · Item · [ca. 1945]
          Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts heavy machinery believed to be a brush rake in front of a long unidentified building. Treetops can be seen in background, snow in foreground.

          2006.20.12.47 · Item · [ca. 1940]
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "D.O.T [Department of Transportation?] Bldgs & Garage, Whitehorse." Photograph depicts numerous buildings and a four-door garage on streets in Whitehorse. Dump trucks and other various vehicles surround garage. Road and gravel covered area crosses foreground.

          Royal Canadian Air Force
          2013.6.36.1.026.06 · Item · [22 June 1979]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a possible storage and coal shed, and toilets located on the west side of track about a quarter mile north of the McCulloch depot building. McCulloch depot is located at mile 76.6 on the Carmi Subdivision.