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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          4835 Archival description results for Transportation and Utilities

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          Chemainus, Vancouver Island
          2013.6.36.1.051.12 · Item · 29 Aug. 1971
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a part of trackage owned by MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. which connects the mill on the upper or town level and the tidewater below it. This is the southward grade to the tidewater. Image taken from the upper branch at about half of a mile from the mill.

          Chetwynd
          2012.13.1.91.32 · Item · Nov. 1978
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a view of Chetwynd, possibly from Highway 97.

          Chip car at Creston CPR yard
          2013.6.36.1.028.24 · Item · Aug. 1983
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a gondola converted to a chip car at the Creston CPR yard. It was built of converted in July 1953 and is car #343319. It was awaiting loading when the picture was taken.

          Chute depot on the CPR line
          2013.6.36.1.024.11 · Item · [24 June 1979]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Chute depot at mile 106.5 on the CPR line in the Carmi Subdivision. It is a totally isolated location, but not reachable by road. The photo shows the only surviving large building. The rail here is dated 1942.

          Clear Cut Logging
          2012.13.1.122.03 · Item · Oct. 1975
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a highway, and a section of mountain in the background which is bare due to clear-cut logging. It is possibly somewhere near Prince George, B.C.

          Clearwater River, BC
          2009.5.3.4 · Item · [ca. 1913]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts opposite shore in background behind river, and close shore in foreground on right. Men can be seen standing and paddling on canoe in distance. Handwritten photo caption on verso and recto of this photograph reads: "On the Clearwater".

          Cliff Road
          2012.13.1.59.12 · Item · July 1980
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a camper parked on the side of a narrow road along a cliff as another car approaches; located somewhere near Bralorne, B.C.

          Cliff Road - Overhang
          2012.13.1.59.14 · Item · July 1980
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a camper passing under an overhang as it drives along a narrow road near a cliff; located somewhere near Bralorne, B.C.

          Climbing the Rockies
          2013.6.36.3.02.01 · Item · [before 1906?]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Postcard depicts Field station in the Rockies. Man standing on the left with a bowler hat was Chris McGregor, a professional (mining?) engineer. Earliest frank seen for the postcard was in July 1906.

          Clinton Creek Construction
          2000.1.1.2.08 · File · 1966 - 1967
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd opened a second mine in 1967 at what became the one-industry town of Clinton Creek, Y.T. File contains photographs depicting progressive construction of buildings at the Clinton Creek mine, plant, townsite and powerhouse. Mine photos depict the crusher site and tramline station. Plant photos depict the dryer, fibre storage, mill, service, vault, and office buildings, as well as the dry rock storage tunnel, reclaim tunnel, and loading dock. Construction living quarters are depicted as well as the construction of residences at the townsite. The power house was built south of the town and plant, on the shore of the 40 Mile River. Some annotations describe the type of material being used for construction.

          2009.7.1.093 · Item · [ca. 1876 - ca. 1900]
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of a line of houses. Blanketed canoes sit on beach in right foreground; forest in background.

          Handwritten annotations on verso read: “Haida Encampment [crossed through with line]"; "Skidegate Queen Charlottes Islands / To illustrate Introduction / Introduction Trophies from a Song [Trail?] Page 1 Heading."

          CN Boston Bar
          2013.6.36.1.116.04 · Item · Aug. 1995
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Boston Bar CN depot that once was a dismissal point of some importance that had a roundhouse, turntable, etc. The depot was now empty, awaiting a purchase.

          CN caboose
          2013.6.36.1.102.18 · Item · [3 June 1989]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts train master Al Wingrave in a caboose stationed at the Kamloops Junction. Undergoing speed checks on the Clearwater Subdivision.

          CN caboose
          2013.6.36.1.102.20 · Item · [3 June 1989]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a caboose that had just reached a terminal relief switch at Blue River. It was eastbound and contained 103 empty grain cars. Taken at the Kamloops Junction.

          CN caboose
          2013.6.36.1.102.25 · Item · [3 June 1989]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the arrival of an eastbound empty grain train, carrying 103 cars, at the Kamloops Junction in Blue River.