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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          Mission City CPR depot
          2013.6.36.1.016.23 · Item · 9 Oct. 1971
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Mission City CPR depot located at mile 87.3 from North Bend in Cascade Substation. It was built in 1902 and add onto in 1909. It has living quarters on the 2nd floor that are still in use, which is quite rare for BC in 1973.

          Mission City CPR depot
          2013.6.36.1.016.25 · Item · [3 June 1973]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Mission City CPR depot located at mile 87.3 from North Bend in Cascade Substation. It was built in 1902 and add onto in 1909. It has living quarters on the 2nd floor that are still in use, which is quite rare for BC in 1973. It is 41.7 miles from Vancouver and 2, 839.6 miles from Montreal.

          2002.1.6 · Series · 1887-1992
          Part of Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Collection

          This series consists of material created by various societies, companies, railways, unions and government branches for the use and instruction of railway companies and employees. Includes publications, time tables, training materials, union materials, forms, maps and plans related to rail operations in North and South America, but predominately related to Canadian railway operations. Also comprises material created by several American and Canadian railways and transportation companies.

          2002.1.9.4 · Subseries · [190-?]-[195-?]
          Part of Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Collection

          Consists of photographs depicting various forestry and forestry railway scenes, including early sawmills, Church Logging (Prince George) logging trucks, the Eagle Lake Spruce Mills (Giscome) railway locomotive and train cars loaded with logs, early logging with horse-drawn skids, an aerial of Eagle Lake Spruce Mills, among others.

          2002.1.8 · Series · 1912-1992
          Part of Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Collection

          The Miscellaneous Forest History Material series consists of material created or used by various logging and pulp mill companies. Includes forms, union materials, maps, plans and other records related to the forestry sector in British Columbia. The series also comprises publications related to equipment and employee training, and correspondence and memorandum developed by B.C. Chemicals, a division of Canfor.

          2009.6.1.182 · Item · August 1977
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          The pair stands among piles of boxes in what appears to be a warehouse.

          Handwritten annotations on verso read: “lost election thanks to Otto Longs Transport decision to OK subsidy to North Coast Freight shipping,” and “Iona and storekeeper Werner Funk discussing freight costs, Queen Charlotte City, August / 77.”

          2000.1.1.3.13.42 · Item · 1978
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine, switchback road in foreground, mountain range in background. Pit is visible behind the West peak. The new mine garage can be seen on West peak just above "#7 switchback" in centre of image. Photograph was taken from the air, portion of plane visible in top left of image.

          2000.1.1.3.13.44 · Item · 1978
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine, switchback road in foreground, mountain range in background. Pit is visible behind the West peak. The new mine garage can be seen on West peak just above "#7 switchback" in centre of image. Photograph was taken from the air, portion of plane visible in top left of image.

          2000.1.1.3.13.45 · Item · 1978
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine, switchback road in foreground, mountain range in background. Pit is visible to right of West peak. The new mine garage can be seen on West peak just above "#7 switchback" in centre of image.

          Mine locomotive, Fernie
          2013.6.36.1.053.39 · Item · Aug. 1983
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a narrow gauge mine locomotive built bu Hunslet Engine Company Ltd., Leeds, England in 1949. It was used by the Elk River Colliery until about 1965.

          Mine Garage & West Peak
          2000.1.1.3.15.09 · Item · [ca. 1958]
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Photograph depicts buildings near West Peak of Cassiar mine. Haul trucks parked near old mine garage in background, new mine garage and unknown buildings in foreground. Mine valley crosses midground, expansive western mountain range in background.

          Mill west of Lumby
          2013.6.36.1.145.07 · Item · Aug. 1997
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken on the CPR branch from Vernon to Lumby. Depicts a mill just west of Lumby (Possibly Lavington Planer Mills or Riverside Forest Mill). Daily way freights by CN and CP.

          2006.20.12.26 · Item · [ca. 1940]
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: " 'Parked For The Night.' C.P.A. [Locheed ?] at Ft. Nelson." Photograph depicts military plane in runway, its engines draped and enclosed in tarp covering. Steel drums and hose on trailer pulled by tractor in foreground, as well as movable staircase. Trees on horizon in background.

          Royal Canadian Air Force
          Military Plane Called "39"
          2006.20.12.40 · Item · [ca. 1940]
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "P '39'". Photograph depicts view of plane from front parked in airstrip believed to be at Whitehorse. Ladder, hose, and unidentified objects in left foreground. Snow and horizon in background.

          Royal Canadian Air Force
          Military Plane Called "32"
          2006.20.12.7 · Item · [ca. 1940]
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts military plane landed in Grande Prairie airstrip. One man is semi-visible behind left wing. Land rollers, other unidentified equipment, and flat horizon in background. Handwritten photo album caption beside this photo reads: "32".

          Royal Canadian Air Force
          2006.20.12.13 · Item · [ca. 1940]
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a military plane in flight with the number "7634" on its side. As the photo was taken through the window of a second plane in flight, the outline of the window is visible, as is the left engine. Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "Our Travelling Companion, '34' at 10 000 feet."

          Royal Canadian Air Force
          Military
          2006.20.12 · File · ca. 1940
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Photographs within this file document Canadian military service, training activities, military institutions, bases and site; individuals and organizations (eg. veterans, military personnel, militia, cadets), military vehicles and ships, equipment, weapons, uniforms, artifacts and legislation as it pertains to Northern British Columbia.

          Miles Canyon - the Schwatka
          2012.13.1.98.61 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts numerous unidentified individuals getting off a boat which bears the name "Schwatka." It is located somewhere in Miles Canyon.

          Midway CPR depot
          2013.6.36.1.028.01 · Item · 17 Sept. 1970
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Midway CPR depot located at the eastern terminus of Kettle Valley Railway. It was a subdivisional point with way freights originating at Nelson and Penticton, and running west and east respectively to Midway. There are two to 3 freights weekly from Nelson and 1 to 2 from Penticton. It lost its agency in June 1969 and all small freight [

          Men on Conveyor Deck
          2009.5.3.55 · Item · [ca. 1912]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts men standing on different deck levels of conveyor in river. Wood planks built into shore in foreground, trees on opposite shore in background. It is speculated that this photo may have been taken near Tete Jaune Cache shortly after the conveyor was rebuilt. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Str. Conveyor".