Photograph depicts a locomotive on display. Location and details unknown.

Photograph depicts a locomotive on display.

Photograph depicts a locomotive near Cowichan Bay, B.C.

Photograph depicts a locomotive near Cowichan Bay, B.C.

Photograph most likely depicts a locomotive at the Crown Zellerbach Museum in Ladysmith.

Photograph most likely depicts a locomotive at the Crown Zellerbach Museum in Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts a compressed air operated locomotive frame that had unequal sized cylinders (high and low pressure) and was believed to have come from the Canmore coal mines.

Photograph depicts a compressed air locomotive frame owned by Mr. Shane Sherman. It was believed to have come from the Canmore coal mines.

Photograph depicts a locomotive at the Crown Zellerbach Museum in Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts a locomotive at the Crown Zellerbach Museum in Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts a locomotive at the Crown Zellerbach Museum in Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts a 2-6-6-2 Bladwin locomotive at the Rayonier Railroad camp, north of Hoquiam in Washington. It is on the scrapping line 200 yards from the engine house. It was built in 1934, and possibly numbered 38. The weight is 146 1/2 tons with 59, 600 lb. tractive effort.

Photograph depicts #120 2-6-6-2 Baldwin locomotive at the Rayonier Railroad camp, north of Hoquiam in Washington. It is on the scrapping line, 200 yards from the engine house. It was built in 1936, weighs 186 1/2 tons, and has 59, 600 lbs. of tractive effort. Probably locomotive #38 behind her.

Photograph depicts a 22 ton Lima Shay locomotive, built in 1910 and with a tractive effort of 10, 700 lbs. It is in Promised Land Park on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

Photograph depicts a locomotive on display at Pioneer Park & Museum at Totem Lake, 3 miles north of Yahk and 30 miles east of Creston on Route #3895.

Photograph depicts locomotive #25 at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It was first used in building the C.N.R. in B.C. and/or western Alberta. The gauge is 3' and it is believed it was built to this gauge. The drive is Elmer Blackstaff, the chief mechanic at the museum.

Photograph depicts locomotive #25 at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It was built by Vulcan in 1910. It has a 0-4-0 saddle tank to which has been added a tender. Its length is 21'8", width 7'6", and height 9'8". It has a wheel diameter of 29" and a wheel base of 60". Its cylinders are 10"x18". It has a boiler pressure of 150 lbs. and a water capacity of 400 gallons. It weighs 36, 000 lbs. The driver is Elmer Blackstaff, RR4 Duncan.

Photograph depicts locomotive #25 at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It was first used in building the C.N.R. in B.C. and/or western Alberta. The gauge is 3' and it is believed it was built to this gauge. The drive is Elmer Blackstaff, the chief mechanic at the museum.

Photograph depicts locomotive #24 "Susie" at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It was built by Vulcan in 1894 and has a 0-4-0 saddle tank. The length is 17'16", width 6', and the height 8'. The wheel diameter is 29" and the wheelbase is 52". The cylinders are 9"x14". It has a boiler pressure of 125lbs and a water capacity of 300 gallons,. The weight is 24,000 lbs.

Photograph depicts locomotive #24 "Susie" at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It has a 3' gauge. The last known owner before acquisition by G. Wellburn was the Elk River Collieries Ltd.

Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "This 'Nose' holds a lot." Photograph depicts four men in uniform loading a red cross suitcase onto the nose of a plane. Airstrip, snow, trees and hills in background.

Photograph depicts a loading spur on the B.C. Electric Railway at Jackman St. (or nearby), 10 miles east of Langley. The view is looking east.

Photograph taken on the CPR branch from Vernon to Lumby. Depicts loading poles at Gorman Bros Ltd.

Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "Everybody Works." Photograph depicts four men in uniform (same men from item 2006.20.12.33) loading a red cross suitcase and other luggage onto plane, movable staircase behind them. It is believed that a fifth man is also semi-visible behind them. Snowbank and various unidentified buildings in background on right.

Photograph depicts five men loading packed bags into a long boat belonging to Mac McGarvey. The boat is resting near the shore of an inlet at Rolla Landing.

Six men visible on hillside and wood plank roadway, working together to roll cut logs down the hill and load them onto the truck.

Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso read: “logs up to 32 feet in length.”

Photograph depicts six men by building on shore. One man sits in small boat that has been loaded onto a wagon. River and opposite shore in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Loading for the Peace River." Photograph believed to have been taken either at Giscome Portage, or the trading post at Summit Lake, BC.

Photograph depicts five men in uniform loading supplies onto a military plane with the number "7632" on its side. Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "LOADING FOR THE NORTH." It is believed this photograph was taken at the military base in Whitehorse, YT.

Photograph depicts loading coal at Buckley Bay. Coal is from Tsable Mine belonging to the Comox Colliery Co. The view is looking north.

View of a scow loaded with provisions and several people passing through rapids of the Grand Canyon. Printed annotation on recto reads: “A scow loaded with provisions passing through the Grand Canyon on it’s way to Fort George.” Handwritten annotation in pencil on recto reads: “Nearly Bumped, Nachaco River” Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “My address will be Fort George BC. Dear Mrs. Cooper, I am up in the wild part of BC now where men horses and everything get drowned every day, sometimes automobiles get drowned also. This is the way we travel up where I am now. I saw a boat upside down in this Canyon it had a bundle of blankets tied on it and one oar was dancing in the whirlpool. This made my hair stand straight up and down.”

Photograph depicts the Lions Gate (suspension) Bridge.

Photograph taken from a small hill looking down on a crowd of men gathered around the Grand Trunk Pacific railway tracks in the winter. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Linking up of Steel on G.T.P. Transcontinental 1914."

The last spike ceremony was held on April 7, 1914 one mile east of Fort Fraser, BC.

Photograph depicts a line of cabooses on the caboose track at Revelstoke. There are rumours that the vehicles are to become obsolete by replacing them with a monitoring device attached to the last car of a train.

Photograph depicts a car crossing the Lillooet Suspension Bridge (also known as the Lillooet Old Bridge) over the Fraser River.

Photograph depicts the the Lillooet River Bridge north of Pemberton, BC. Mt. Currie is visible in the background.

Image depicts a hotel in Likely, B.C.

Image depicts numerous vehicles and individuals outside a hotel in Likely, B.C.

Front of engine reads "BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA", "2860". Decorated building stands in left background. A man with large video camera and an RCMP officer in a red serge can be seen standing in crowd. Mountain peak visible in distance.

Front of engine reads "BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA". Building and construction area visible in background.

Image depicts a building, possibly an office building, next to a set of rail road tracks in Leo Creek, B.C. An unknown individual is present, and a number of barrels and culverts are visible in the foreground.

Image depicts several individuals seated on a ferry as it possibly departs from a dock somewhere in Prince Rupert, B.C. It is most likely headed for Haida Gwaii, B.C.

Image depicts numerous boats docked by the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Association from the deck of a ferry, possibly as it's leaving Prince Rupert, most likely for Haida Gwaii.

This clip of original film footage depicts Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) track laying in Northern British Columbia.

Dock in foreground, ship in water, mountain in background. Unidentified men partially visible in foreground. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Launching of Canadian Scottis –CGM.M. 5500, ton ship at Prince Rupert B.C.”

Photograph depicts men standing on different deck levels of conveyor on the Fraser River. Wood planks built into shore in foreground, trees on opposite shore in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Launching Conveyor", on recto: "Launching the rebuilt steamer Conveyor at Tete Jaune 1912".

Photograph depicts the last spike at Craigellachie, 15 miles northeast of Sicamous, looking southwest.