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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          2008.26 · Collection · 1939 - 1956

          The Mabel Rutherford Photograph Collection consists of 8 photographs depicting images of Red Rock and region: family, road and rail construction, landscape, farming equipment.

          Rutherford, Mabel
          Lumber mill in Savona
          2013.6.36.1.016.45 · Item · Oct. 1984
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a lumber mill for Evans Wood Products Ltd. In Savona. It shows filling chip cars that are taken to Weyerhaeuser Pulp Mill in Kamloops, 25 miles to the east. And loading, the cars run down grade to the spur end. The total capacity of the spur is about 6 cars.

          Longworth - Railway Tracks
          2012.13.1.87.031 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts two unidentified individuals standing next to the train station, and two railway tracks running through Longworth, B.C.

          2011.3.3.64 · Item · 28 June 1928
          Part of North Coast & Central BC Postcard Collection

          Slightly elevated photograph of Prince Rupert buildings. A lone vessel is visible in the background. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Courtesy of Can Nat'l Rys. Prince Rupert. B.C." Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Dear Elma. We reached Prince Rupert (in the picture) today. Friday we arrive at Skagway and the glaciers. Having a fine trip- good weather and a good crowd. Love from Claire." Postcard is addressed to: "Mrs. Claude Millersh, River Forest, Guerneville, Sonoma Co., California." Postcard is affixed with a two cent American stamp. Postmark on verso reads: "Ketohikan Alaska. Jun 28 3 PM 1928."

          2012.13.1.87.013 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a pile of old logs on the bank of the Fraser River with mountains in the background. In the foreground, a set of railway tracks run through an uncertain location, likely Upper Fraser, B.C.

          Logging road, Gold River
          2013.6.36.1.069.15 · Item · Aug. 1975
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken north of Gold River, at the Tahsis Ltd. Tree Farm, on a logging road that led to Port McNiel. Crossing the Muchalat River. The bridge was disused and blocked off.

          Logging Railways
          2013.6.36.1.010 · File · 1964-1966
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of logging railways in British Columbia and Washington State.

          Logging caboose
          2013.6.36.1.136.28 · Item · [May 2007]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a primitive logging caboose. Believed to have been built by or for the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway in 1898.

          2009.6.1.115 · Item · 3 January 1975
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Photograph depicts a forested mountain, the bottom half of which has been logged and terraced; beneath the mountain is a railroad track and parked vehickes including a schoolbus and two dumptrucks.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Fairview Sodturning, Prince Rupert, 1/3/75”.

          Log house
          2012.13.1.135.5.23 · Item · 2010
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Photograph depicting a log house, presumably in the campground in Quesnelle Forks.

          Log house
          2012.13.1.135.5.24 · Item · 2010
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Photograph depicting a small log cabin with a front porch and a sign reading "Happy 150th Anniversary Cariboo Gold Rush 1859-2009", presumably taken in Quesnelle Forks.

          Log cabin
          2012.13.1.135.5.18 · Item · 2010
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Photograph depicting a log cabin with a woman sitting on the front porch, presumably Sue Sedgwick. The photograph is presumably taken in Quesnelle Forks.

          2009.7.1.101 · Item · [ca. 1878 - ca. 1915]
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Photograph depicts totem poles (crest poles?) in front of lodge buildings on river shore. Canoes can be seen floating in foreground, hills in background.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Chapter XII. Number 1. Section of Indian Village on Nass River showing lodges and totems".

          2013.6.36.1.010.30 · Item · [May 1964]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts two locomotives at the Rayonier Railroad Camp, north of Hoquiam in Washington. On the left is a 2-6-6-2 Baldwin locomotive #110. It is 111 tons and has 37, 500 lbs. of tractive effort. It is being fired Sunday night for a Monday start. Beside it is either locomotive #38 or #111.

          Locomotives
          2013.6.10 · Series · [before 2012]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Series consists of research material relating to steam and diesel locomotives that were used on British Columbia railways. Includes information about the steam to diesel transition period, details about specific locomotives, locomotive manufacturers, and self-propelled coaches.

          Locomotive-pushed snow plow
          2013.6.36.3.06.31 · Item · [after 1949]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Postcard depicts a snow plow. "Completion of the Connaught Tunnel in 1916 solved the worst of the severe weather problems faced by the CPR in Rogers Pass, where snowfalls average 50 feet. Based at Revelstokem a locomotive-pushed wedge plow and a Jordan spreader equipped with air-operated wings and retractable nose plates skim over the rails near Fraine, BC"