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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          PGE Shalalth
          2013.6.36.1.045.53 · Item · Aug. 1969
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Bridge River Hydro Power Station on the edge of Seton Lake. A BC Hydro First Aid trolley with a heater connection was plugged in. The train was the fastest method to get an injured person to Lillooet from Shalalth as it was about 16 miles by rail in comparison to 50 miles by uneven dirt road. Ordinary PGE trollies were used by injured civilians between D'Arcy and Lillooet as it was the quickest method of evacuation.

          PGE Shalalth
          2013.6.36.1.045.08 · Item · Aug. 1969
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts an the eastern portal of a Pacific Great Eastern tunnel on the west side of the Bridge River Hydro project in Shalalth. Penstocks of the hydro plants are clearly visible on the hill side.

          PGE Soda Creek
          2013.6.36.1.045.57 · Item · [July 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a wrecked steel box car used by a farmer as some kind of shed with some of the side panels removed.

          PGE Squamish
          2013.6.36.1.045.44 · Item · Sept. 1966
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken from the depot in Squamish that runs a half a mile spur down to a dumping site beside the Squamish River. Image displays the log dump looking towards the east with the depot in the background, towards the right.

          PGE Vancouver
          2013.6.36.1.045.43 · Item · 17 Mar. 1968
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern bridge over the Capilano River in northwest Vancouver. Also visible is a switching locomotive.

          PGE wreck at Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.047.04 · Item · [6 Aug. 1969]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photo depicts the interchange of passengers of a northbound dayliner around the wreckage of a derailment. Two budd car units from Vancouver can been seen in the background. Passengers were being transferred to a "scratch" train assembled at Lillooet and consisting of a budd car, caboose and a diesal switcher.

          PGE wreck at Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.047.05 · Item · [6 Aug. 1969]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photo depicts the transfer of a Vancouveer to Lillooet dayliner to the unit made up at Lillooet wich consisted of a budd car, caboose and switcher. The scene of the Seton Portage derailment was found 100 yards behind the photo.

          PGE wreck at Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.047.12 · Item · [8 Aug. 1969]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photo depicts a crane #6501 in position to lift locomotive #703. It was about to re-rail one end of the locomotive. Image captured looking towards the south with the shoo-fly in the immediate foreground and Setan Lake in the background.

          PGE wreck at Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.047.09 · Item · [7 Aug. 1969]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photo depicts a distant view of the Seton Portage wreck,. Squamish Shops crane was standing on the minor line of the loop. The crane was self-propelled and after its launch it had broken its drive axle. This was replaced by a standard axle and, therefore, was propelled by a switcher.

          PGE wreck at Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.047.01 · Item · [6 Aug. 1969]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photo depicts a close up view of the rear of the locomotive #703. It was stopped at the head of a freight onn the main line portion of the loop awaiting a southbound loaded freight. Its tracks were derailed, fuel tranks ruptures and a sliver of steel from the box car was forced into its forward tracks. The left side of the cab was also sheared.

          PGE wreck at Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.047.02 · Item · [6 Aug. 1969]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photo depicts the general view of a derailment, looking eastward. The derailed locomotive #703 was found beside a squashed box car. By this time, a PGE bulldozer had prepared a road bed for the wreck.

          PGE wreck at Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.047.06 · Item · [7 Aug. 1969]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photo depicts a shoo-fly that had been built around the Seton Portage wreck. locomotive #703 had stood at this spot just before the switch when the cars of the southbound freight piled into it.

          PGE wreck at Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.047.07 · Item · [7 Aug. 1969]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photo depicts a Pacific Great Eastern working train approaching Seton Portage. It had been diverted from the derailment to fill in a burnt out wooden culvert on the edge of Anderson Lake.

          PGE wreck at Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.047.10 · Item · [7 Aug. 1969]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photo depicts the general view of the clean up of the derailment in Seton Portage. The track in which a speeder stands a gondola car with rolls were the two tracks of the loop. They were both severed and respliced in making the "second edition" of the shoo-fly.

          Photographs
          2002.7.1 · Series · 1912-1959
          Part of H.G.T. (Harry) Perry fonds

          Photographs in this series document Perry's political career, his business enterprises and his familial connection with relatives in England. Other featured subjects include various transportation modes (ca. 1913) used in the BC Interior, as well as railroad and bridge construction in the same era.

          Photographs
          2002.1.9 · Series · 1900-1986
          Part of Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Collection

          Consists of photographs depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, the British Columbia Railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Canadian National Railway. Also includes photographs of various forestry-related scenes.

          Photographs
          2004.2.1 · Series · [ca. 1898]-1960, prominent 1900-1920
          Part of Reverend R.W. Large fonds

          The images consists primarily of 130+ photographs taken by or belonging to Reverend R.W. Large, MD which depict communities on the Northwest Coast between approximately 1898 and 1920 including Bella Bella, Rivers Inlet, and Port Simpson, including native villages in which Reverend Large worked. Images show scenes of native fishing, canneries, mission hospitals, churches, girls schools, portraits of native families, and Northwest Coast totems. Other images include 25+ photographs and postcards from the Large family depicting ships and boats on the North Coast.

          Photographs
          2009.7.1 · Series · [ca. 1873 - ca. 1939]
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Series consists of images pertaining the Collison family, North Coastal First Nations communities, means of transportation along North Coastal British Columbia, and various church structures and religious events.

          Photographs
          2013.6.36 · Series · [before 2013]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Series consists of graphic material depicting railways in British Columbia. Includes prints, negatives, and postcards.

          Photographs
          2000.13.1 · Series · 1914 - 1997
          Part of Ray Williston fonds

          Series consists of photographs relating to Ray Williston's life from childhood to recent times, air photographs of Prince George, photographs of Bangladesh, and a listing of photographs slated for use in Mr. Williston's biography "Forests, power and policy: the legacy of Ray Williston" written by Eileen Williston and Betty Keller.

          2013.6.36.1.009.28 · Item · Apr. 1966
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a piece of abandoned track leading to the peat plant at #8 road on Lulu Island on the Westminster Highway. The track runs parallel to the Westminster Highway, which is at the left beyond the photo. The rail is undated and marked, "Rlymney Steel" (South Wales). The photo is looking west and the Canadian National Railway (CN) spur lies a quarter mile behind the camera.

          Pier #2 in Vancouver
          2013.6.36.1.015.16 · Item · 4 Oct. 1974
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts Pier #2 in Vancouver at the north end of Columbia St. It shows disconnected trackage on the east side of the pier that was formerly serviced by the CPR. It has not been in use for some years. The switch fittings were made by the Nelson Iron Works in Seattle.

          Pipe yard
          2013.6.36.1.117.02 · Item · [Nov. 1991]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a pipe yard of West Coast Gas Transmission. Two large pipes had gotten away and rolled onto the railway.

          Plane on Summit Lake, BC
          2005.3.37 · Item · [ca. 1945]
          Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

          Handwritten caption above this photo reads: "Plane on Sumit Lake." Logs can be seen floating on water in foreground, as well as trees on opposite shore in background. The seaplane has the letters "CF-ATF" on its side.

          Plane on Summit Lake, BC
          2005.3.36 · Item · [ca. 1945]
          Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

          Handwritten caption above this photo reads: "Plane on Sumit Lake." Logs can be seen floating on water in foreground, as well as trees on opposite shore in background. The seaplane has the letters "CF-ATF" on its side.

          2006.20.12.23 · Item · [ca. 1940]
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: “Fort St John Apron. F/Rideouts 'Norseman'^" Arrow is pointed at plane on far right with the number "2466" on its side and unidentified equipment below. Runway in foreground, approximately four military planes in background surrounded with unidentified people and equipment.

          Royal Canadian Air Force