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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          Pedestrian overpass
          2013.6.36.1.104.01 · Item · [13 June 1993]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a pedestrian overpass, with rail below, leading to the Riverside Park and Coliseum. CPR container freight was moving westwards.

          Peace River?
          2012.13.1.91.06 · Item · Oct. 1978
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts what is possibly the Peace River running parallel to a road, possibly Highway 29.

          2011.13.53 · Item · 9 August 1911
          Part of Parker photograph collection

          Side perspective photograph of a Portland Canal Short Line engine being either loaded or unloaded by several men at the station in Stewart, BC. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Aug 9 1911 Stewart BC."

          2011.13.54 · Item · 9 August 1911
          Part of Parker photograph collection

          Side perspective photograph of a crowd of people gathered around a Portland Canal Short Line Railroad train, presumably either leaving or arriving Printed annotation on recto reads: "Bitter Creek BC Aug 9 1911."

          2013.6.36.1.001.78 · Item · [May 1965]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the rail connections below the north bank of the Patullo Bridge in New Westminster. The track in the foreground belongs to C.N. and the flyover foreground rail bridge belongs to the B.C. Electric Railway. The flyover background rail bridge is shared by the Great Northern Rail and C.N. Rail.

          Passenger ferry "MV Ballena"
          2020.08.01 · Item · [between 1914 and 1920]
          Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts the "MV Ballena" docked at a wharf. The Ballena was a passenger ferry built in 1892 by the Albion Iron Works Company of Victoria and originally named the Joan. This ship was sold to the Terminal Steam Navigation Company in 1914 and renamed the Ballena. It was later acquired by the Union Steamship Company in 1920 but burned at the Union dock in November of that year.

          Passenger car at Cranbrook
          2013.6.36.1.028.18 · Item · 18 Aug. 1983
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a 12 wheeler passenger car, CPR #411641, used as car man's sleeper. Behind it is wash/shower car #412718. It is followed by work diner car #411369, which is also a 12 wheeler with an arch bar truck. They are used for work and wreck train service.

          2012.13.1.87.004 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts several eighteen wheelers at the Pass Lake Road and Upper Fraser Road intersection with numerous houses and buildings in the background in McGregor, B.C. Map coordinates 54°04'38.1"N 121°50'00.1"W

          2009.5.2.52 · Item · [ca. 1910?]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a man standing in a loaded canoe floating close to shore. Two men stand on rocky shore in left foreground. Tall hills in background, river rapids behind canoe in midground. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Parle Pas Rapids Peace River."

          Parksville, BC
          2013.6.36.1.034.01 · Item · 15 Aug. 1975
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken in Parksville on Vancouver Island. Between the two utility poles in the photograph lies the northbound Courtenay main line. It has been closed since 30 June 1975. The Parksville Alberni highway is behind the camera.

          Parking Lot Frisbee
          2012.13.1.93.18 · Item · 1979
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a group of people throwing a frisbee in a parking lot at an uncertain location, likely in the Peace River Region.

          Parker photograph collection
          2011.13 · Collection · [between 1910 and 1930]

          The photographs depict the geographic areas of Stewart, BC, Boundary Pass, Nelson River, Bitter Creek Glacier, Portland Canal, Red Cliff and Bear Creek; as well as the ships “Camosun” and “S.S. Prince George.” Types of subjects identified in this collection include: community life, surveying, mining and transportation (i.e. dog-sledding, horse and buggy, and the Portland Canal Short Line Railway “P.C.S.L. Rlwy”).

          Paddlewheel Park
          2012.13.1.7.202 · Item · Nov. 2000
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the Fraser River at Paddlewheel park, with a train on the other side of the river, in Prince George B.C.

          Paddlewheel Park
          2012.13.1.7.201 · Item · Nov. 2000
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the Fraser River at Paddlewheel park, with a train on the other side of the river, in Prince George B.C.

          2009.5.4.52 · Item · [ca. 1912]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts four men on conveyor, and clear view of paddle wheel. A small boat is docked to the conveyor with men and equipment. Crowd of men on shore in foreground on right, trees on opposite shore in background. Mountains visible in distance. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Str. Conveyor".

          Pack-train at Bitter Creek
          2011.13.02 · Item · ca.1910-ca.1930
          Part of Parker photograph collection

          Photograph of many loaded pack horses in front of the "McMillan Transfer Company." Printed annotation on recto reads: "Pack-Train At Bitter-Creek Hughes 116."

          2006.25.1.58 · Item · Jul. 1969
          Part of Al Elsey Moving Images Collection

          The footage begins with a man hauling a rubber boat to shore. The man displays the fish that he has caught to the camera. The film cuts to a pontoon plane for Coast Mountain Flight Services Ltd., and then back to the man placing his fish into a bag. The filming then returns to the plane taking off over water. There is aerial footage of the river and mountains, most likely the Bella Coola Valley. Also include is footage of duck with ducklings.

          Possible other locations that are seen in the footage are Gitcha Mountains, Ulkatcho Mountains or Rainbow Mountains.

          2006.20.12.22 · Item · [ca. 1940]
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: “Packing for home: ^Sick Indian.” Arrow is pointed at man facing plane and holding small bundle. Three other men in uniform stand with luggage in front of plane (one believed to be unidentified man from item 2006.20.12.18). A fifth man in suit is semi-visible, loading plane.

          Royal Canadian Air Force
          2006.25.1.62 · Item · [between 1961 - 1967]
          Part of Al Elsey Moving Images Collection

          Footage of large animal, most likely a moose, along a steep bank. Two men and their pack horse traveling along an open landscape, a close shot of their campfire at night, then footage of them preparing for a journey early in the morning. Also a view of a herd of caribou, the men traveling in a pack train over a stream and through upper valleys of the mountains, various sunset shots, a lake full of birds feeding, and finally the men packing the horses with killed game meat, most likely caribou.

          The location of the filming is most likely the Rainbow Mountains.

          Pack Dogs at Fort St. James
          2006.20.11.7 · Item · June 1923
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts two First Nations men and two pack dogs loaded with bags. A small group of people can be seen in distance in front of semi-visible building. Stand of trees in background. Handwritten photo caption below photograph reads: "Indians & Pack Dogs - Fort St. James."

          2013.6.36.1.144.03 · Item · Sept. 2001
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a private locomotive owned by a Pacifica Papers Inc. that was to switch to their yards. Opposite their yards was an Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway wye which was being used to stored loaded cars awaiting daily Rail America freight.