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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          Jean with Young Colt
          2009.5.3.115 · Item · [ca. 1915]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a young woman believed to A.K. Bourchier's niece Jean. Young colt stands on right, picket fence and porch to wood building in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "To my dearest Uncle Alan. This is little Betty Beauty's little colt. I broke her in to lead myself so I feel quite proud."

          2013.6.36.1.053.07 · Item · 7 Dec. 1969
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts what was believed to be the engine house of a private spur belong to the former Jingle Pot Coal Mine. The turning wye was retained by the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway and was lcoated behind the photograph at another 150 yards of track.

          2013.6.36.1.053.12 · Item · 7 Dec. 1969
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts what was believed to be a commencement of the private line to the Jingle Pot Coal Mine that had long since been closed. At the point where the cars disappear, line diverges into a wye which meets the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway tracks at the Wellington depot.

          2013.6.36.1.053.04 · Item · [16 May 1970]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a two road engine house, located about 300 yards west of the Wellington flag stop on the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway. Visible is a house that was believed to be a part of a private railway operated by the Jingle Pot Colliery.

          2013.6.36.1.053.05 · Item · [16 May 1970]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the interior of an engine house which may have been the property of Jingle Pot Colliery. It was located 300 yards west of the Wellington flag stop of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway.

          2005.3 · Collection · 1945 - 1946

          Collection consists of 73 photographs featuring the construction of the John Hart Highway in Prince George, BC from 1945-1946. Images depict construction, machinery, workers, bunkhouses, persons, wildlife, and buildings all associated with this construction project around the Summit Lake region of the city.

          John Hart Highway
          Joint CP/CN Vernon
          2013.6.36.1.043.07 · Item · 2 Sept. 1970
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts part of the Vernon yards just south of the principal round crossing. A box car without wheels on a sunken warehouse spur is visible.

          2013.6.36.1.018.01 · Item · [2 Sept. 1970]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the joint CPR and CN depot at Vernon. The depot office had three employees working inside. Vernon is at mile 46.2 from Sicamous, on the Okanagan Subdivision of the CPR. It has daily way freight.

          2013.6.36.1.018.05 · Item · 8 Aug. 1983
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the joint CPR and CN depot at Vernon. It shows a general view of the trackage, opposite the former depot, which is now attractively used for other purposes. The caboose on the left is CP # 437369, built in July 1949, and fairly recently painted.

          2009.7.1.138 · Item · September 1933
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Boat floats close to shore in foreground, forest and hills on opposite shore in background. Joyce is the daughter of Bertha and W.E. Collison, and the granddaughter of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Upper Nass River Sept. 1933. Joyce with Tom Moorhouse & the medical officer".

          Jura station
          2013.6.36.1.150.12 · Item · 11 Aug. 1991
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken at the station in Jura. Depicts a waiting shack that used to be around the bend on the left side of mile 60.1. Until the 1970s, there were three tracks at the location. Track on the left side was the running line. Middle trackage was passing siding, while track on the right (lifted at the time the photograph was taken) was a spur/siding that held 33 cars. The helper locomotives were from Princeton, but were being disengaged in Jura.

          2013.6.36.1.112.04 · Item · [29 June 2002]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken at the Kalamalka flag stop and siding that took up to 40 cars. A section house used to exist there, Davies notes. Virtually there was no public access in former days, so the siding was most likely used as a storage place for Kelowna fruit. A private speeder is found in the shadows on the main line.

          2013.6.36.1.123.08 · Item · [29 June 2002]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken at the Kekuli Bay Provincial Park and boat launch. Image captures the view of all 25 speeders on an Okanagan tour of "Motor Car Operators West" (a U.S. group with western Canadian additions). On this segment, Davies travelled in the fifth speeder from the front.

          2013.6.36.1.123.06 · Item · [29 June 2002]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken at the Kekuli Bay Provincial Park and boat launch. On the speeder meet, there was always a semi-official photograph of the whole group and this was the selected spot. Here, no power boats could take the see-saw.

          Kelowna "main" line
          2013.6.36.1.123.03 · Item · [29 June 2002]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken on the Kelowna "main" line, which was perhaps half of a mile south of the Lumby Junction on the very outskirts of Vernon.

          2000.1.1.3.15.25 · Item · 1961
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Photograph depicts ore haul truck at dump in mine, driver visible, mountain range in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Kenworth - Model 802 dumping stripping waste at 6565 Elevation", on verso: "1961".

          Kettle River Bridge
          2013.6.36.1.097.06 · Item · Aug. 1997
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken at Kettle River Bridge. Immediately on the far side of the river, the track did a sharp turn to the side of Christina Lake.

          Kettle River Bridge
          2013.6.36.1.097.05 · Item · Aug. 1997
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken at the Kettle River Bridge on the former Boundary Subdivision about 12 miles due east of Grand Forks. Visible is a deck truss and dock plate girder spans that were believed to have originally a covered bridge.