Transportation and Utilities

Elements area

Taxonomy

Code

Scope note(s)

  • 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

Source note(s)

  • MemoryBC Subject Groups

Display note(s)

    Hierarchical terms

    Transportation and Utilities

      Equivalent terms

      Transportation and Utilities

        Associated terms

        Transportation and Utilities

          4835 Archival description results for Transportation and Utilities

          4835 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
          Gibraltar - 80 Tonne Truck
          2012.13.1.50.094 · Item · [1978?]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts an unknown woman standing in front of a truck that either weighs 80 tonnes, or is capable of carrying that much; the slide is simply labelled "80 tons." It is located at the Gibraltar mine site.

          Girder bridge, Keremeos
          2013.6.36.1.070.08 · Item · [July 1967]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a covered wooden grider bridge of the former Great Northern Railway spur that ran from north Washington state into B.C. at Keremeos, then west to Princeton. It was now only operating as far north as Keremeos.

          Girder bridge, Keremeos
          2013.6.36.1.070.07 · Item · [July 1967]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a covered grider bridge of a former railway (subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway, built in 1907-14) that formerly ran between Keremeos and Princeton, but had long since been lifted. The bridge was now used by vehicles going to a nearby ranch.

          2012.13.1.87.087 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the Giscome mill site in Giscome, B.C. The railroad tracks are in the foreground. Map coordinates 54°04'17.6"N 122°22'06.1"W

          Giscome CN Station
          2012.13.1.87.161 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the old CN station in Giscome, B.C. Map coordinates 54°04'20.7"N 122°22'01.1"W

          Giscome Parking Lot
          2012.13.1.87.174 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a parking lot full of vehicles with the Giscome store in the background. Map coordinates 54°04'18.5"N 122°21'57.7"W

          2009.5.3.150 · Item · [ca. 1910]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts people on river shore, and boat and buildings in midground. River bank in foreground, forest in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Giscombe Portage Fraser River", on recto: "Huble & Seaback on Fraser River."

          Giscome Station
          2012.13.1.6.034 · Item · May 1975
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the old Giscome Train Station in Giscome, B.C. It was demolished between 1976 and 1977.

          Giscome Street Scene
          2012.13.1.87.173 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a street in Giscome B.C. The Giscome Store is located on the left side of the image with the church in the background. Map coordinates 54°04'18.5"N 122°21'57.7"W

          2013.6.36.3.06.03 · Item · [before 1949]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Postcard depicts Glacier House and Great Glacier House built in 1886 as one of three similar hotels, the other two being Mt. Stephen House in Field, and Fraser Canyon Hotel in North Bend. Business fell off rapidly in 1916 when tracks were relocated into a new tunnel. Buildings were demolished in 1930.

          GNR branch to Keremeos
          2013.6.36.1.070.09 · Item · [July 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a bridge over the Similkameen River. When track ran to Hedley, there were 3 of these bridges. All stood still at the time the photograph was captured. The other were on the lifted Keremeos to Hedley section.

          GNR branch to Keremeos
          2013.6.36.1.070.15 · Item · [July 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a bridge over the Similkameen River. The branch was still in use with very little traffic. One padlocked door on each side of the bridge allows examination of trusses.

          GNR connection, Vancouver
          2013.6.36.1.035.16 · Item · [between 1967 and 1983]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken at the Great Northern Railway connection from its terminal yards to its wharf on Vancouver Harbour or the connection with CPR. Image captured crossing Powell Street, looking southward, north of Glen Drive, Vancouver.

          Goat River Station
          2012.13.2.15.23 · File · 1982, 2002-2010
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Goat River railway station. Includes photographs depicting the Goat River station and a painting of the station (2009).

          Goodyear airship
          2013.6.36.1.084.09 · Item · 12 Aug. 1971
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a Goodyear airship travelling over Spanish Banks, Vancouver. It took part in the Abbotsford Air Show of 1971.

          Goodyear Blimp
          2013.6.36.1.084.07 · Item · [9 Aug. 1973]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a Goodyear Blimp cruising over the Centennial Museum near Sunest Beach, False Creek, Vancouver.

          Goodyear Blimp
          2013.6.36.1.084.08 · Item · [9 Aug. 1973]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a goodyear Blimp cruising over the Centennial Museum near Sunest Beach, False Creek, Vancouver. It came for the 1973 Abbotsford Air Show.

          Grade in Cloverdale
          2013.6.36.1.060.05 · Item · Jan. 1970
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a recently constructed grade that ran parallel to the BC Hydro Railway and led to a new super post. A CPR ballast train is visble on the track. Ownership of the line was vested in the BC government.

          Grading at Fort Fraser
          2004.5.16 · Item · 1911-1912
          Part of Fort Fraser Historical Photograph Collection

          Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "11. Grading at Fort Fraser." Photograph depicts railway construction workers loading dirt and rocks from the track being laid, into cargo cars attached to a steam train engine. Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation

          Grading at Fort Fraser
          2004.5.10 · Item · 1911-1912
          Part of Fort Fraser Historical Photograph Collection

          Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "40. Grading at Fort Fraser." Photograph depicts a steam train engine pushing three cargo cars along a train track. Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation

          Grain Elevator and Dock
          2012.13.1.77.35 · Item · 1980
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a large vessel docked at a grain elevator and two smaller boats at a dock in the foreground somewhere in Prince Rupert, B.C.

          Grain elevator at Wynndel
          2013.6.36.1.028.05 · Item · Aug. 1983
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the a grain elevator at Wynndel, located at mile 73.8 on the CPR line on the Nelson Subdivision. It is between Creston at mile 67.2 and Kootenay Landing at mile 83.1. Grain elevators are rare in BC and this one belongs to the United Grain Growers. The view is looking east.

          Grand Forks CPR depot
          2013.6.36.1.028.04 · Item · Aug. 1983
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Grand Forks CPR depot, located at mile 94.8 on the Boundary Subdivision, which runs from Nelson to Midway (127 miles). It was originally built by the Columbia & Western Railway in 1899. IT has not seen a passenger train in years but it is still in use for administrative purposes.

          2012.13.2.15.19 · File · 2005-2006
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to a failed tunnel build for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway line between McBride and Goat River and a potential homestead on the land surrounding the tunnel. The land was later owned by Russ Purvis of Dunster in 2006.