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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          2009.7.1.161 · Item · [ca. 1880 - ca. 1915]
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Canoes sit on shore in foreground beside village buildings. A dock is visible above water in background.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Alert Bay Indian Ranch No. 14 Alert Bay. To be shown on page 69 or 70, re Alert Bay Mission."

          2009.5.3.64 · Item · [ca. 1913]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a small pass through an island or peninsula on the Fraser River. Photo is believed to have been taken near Stone Creek, south of South Fort George. Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "FORT GEORGE CANYON. CANOE PASS. J. HEAY. PHOTO."

          Canoe at Summit Lake
          2005.3.23 · Item · [ca. 1945]
          Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

          Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "I built this boat." Photograph depicts canoe and paddles afloat in water, grassy shore in foreground. A pair of pants can be seen in boat, as well as wood planks, box, and rope on shore.

          Cannery, Fraser River
          2013.6.36.1.068.10 · Item · 4 Mar. 1967
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a cannery at the seaward entrance to the south arm of the combined north arm of the Fraser river. Visible are a few rusted anchors. One was marked "Locomotive B.C. 100 Ibs. 1943 U.S. Navy."

          2013.6.36.1.131.01 · Item · [23 June 1992]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a free tourist attraction on the Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train. The trip of 8 and a half miles from the Woss terminus was operated by Canadian Forest Products Ltd., Englewoood Logging Division.

          2013.6.36.1.131.03 · Item · [23 June 1992]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a locomotive built by America Locomotive Co. in 1920 for revenue service in Oregan. Purchased in 1948 for logging work. Canfor purchased it in 1953 and used it till 1966. It was kept servicable until 1976, then was displayed at Woss. In 1988, it was restored in Nimpkish to working order.

          2013.6.36.1.052.24 · Item · 9 Aug. 1975
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts upper terminal facilities on about mile 62. Image captured looking northwards, down the grade towards Beaver Cove from a massive "A" frame loader. A log car and flat car with a Canfor station wagon mounted on it are visible.

          Canfor Logging Railway
          2013.6.36.1.131.28 · Item · [23 June 1992]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train on display at Beaver Cove. It was built in 1923 and had always been a logging liner, first in the USA. It was purchased by Canfor (Englewood) in 1947 and retired around 1960.