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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          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.

          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”.

          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.

          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 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.

          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.

          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."

          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.

          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.

          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
          Mackenzie Centre
          2012.13.1.70.05 · Item · May 1973
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts numerous vehicles parked outside a building with a sign which reads "Mackenzie Centre;" it is possibly the mall in Mackenzie, B.C.

          MacMillan Bloedel, Nanaimo
          2013.6.36.1.051.17 · Item · [14 June 1972]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts locomotive #1077 built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1923. It was the road engine for log traffic to Ladysmith and had been left on a spur, isolated by three breaks in the tracks. It had been out of service, as had all MacMillan Bloedel traffic, for at least 12 months.

          2013.6.36.1.010.08 · Item · Aug. 1964
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the M.B. & P.R. Logging Railway Nanaimo River division, which is the only railroad left in the company. The photo depicts locomotive #1077 at the Nanaimo River Camp, 16 miles west of Ladysmith. It is a 2-6-2 tank locomotive built by the Montreal Locomotive Company in December 1923.

          2013.6.36.1.153.07 · Item · [June 1996]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken in front of the 'main line' that led to a pulp mill and river crossing. To the left was a lesser used connector to the CN main line. Behind the camera was a 4-track interchange yard. Beyond that, the CN line to Alberta could be found.

          Mainland St. in Vancouver
          2013.6.36.1.015.34 · Item · 22 Oct. 1974
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the 1500 block of Mainland St. in Vancouver. The boxcar in the view is CN #521160. The switch at Helmcken St. is still in position but not usable because it has been partially black topped and had the rods removed.