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

          4832 Archival description results for Transportation and Utilities

          4832 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
          2009.5.4.51 · Item · [ca. 1930]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "PRINCE GEORGE B.C. FARMERS TAKING DELIVERY OF CATERPILLAR TRACTORS." Bob sits on first tractor in line of three. Fifteen men stand in a line against street buildings. "THE SALVATION ARMY" building stands in background on right. This photograph was taken at the corner of 4th and George St.

          2009.5.4.7 · Item · December 1926
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts two dark horses pulling a loaded sleigh on a snowy road, trees on either side. Bob stands behind them on sleigh. Handwritten caption below this photo reads: "Dec. 1926 Bob with Munroe's team Mud River." Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Robbie & Munro's team B.C. Dec. 1926."

          2009.5.3.152 · Item · [ca. 1910]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts boats on river and shore. Riverbank in foreground, buildings and forest on opposite shore in background. Mountains can be seen in distance. Illegible handwritten annotation on verso of photograph. Poor image quality, left portion of image is not visible.

          Boathouse?
          2012.13.1.77.15 · Item · Aug. 1979
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a boat docked inside what appears to be a type of boathouse, possibly located in Metlakatla near Prince Rupert, B.C.

          Boat on a Lake
          2012.13.1.87.034 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a riverboat on the Fraser River, possibly in Longworth, B.C.

          2009.5.3.42 · Item · [ca. 1908]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a man in snowshoes leading a line of dogs pulling supplies on a toboggan. The second figure, walking behind dogs, is believed to be a man named Fred Burden. Forest trees in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Billy Seymour at toboggan". Billy Seymour was a South Fort George man of First Nations descent, employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, and well-known for his ability and endurance in land travel by foot.

          2009.5.3.18 · Item · [ca. 1913]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts Mr. Barnett seated in floating canoe tied to tree on shore. Forest on opposite shore in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of this photograph reads: "Billy Barnett". It is speculated that this photograph may have been taken on the Fraser River near Giscome Portage, B.C.

          2009.7.1.021 · Item · 1910
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Rev. William Edwin Collison stands in centre of boat, with wife Bertha and daughters Muriel and Katherine seated behind. Unknown man and woman are also seated in boat, and an unknown man stands on shore holding rope.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Will Collison with wife & children leaving Metlakatla to catch steamship en route to England (1910)".

          2005.3.55 · Item · [ca. 1945]
          Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts Bert Youngstrom leaning on one of two gas pumps in front of three long buildings. Trees can be seen in background, as well as snow all around. Steel drums an other miscellaneous material surround the buildings. Handwritten captions above and beside this photo read: "Bert Youngstrom" "Shop & Warehouse".

          2005.3.59 · Item · [ca. 1945]
          Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

          Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Bert and Kitchen Staff". Photograph depicts Bert (Youngstrom?) standing close to a woman and young girl on snow in front of unidentified buildings. Forest trees can be seen in background. It is believed that this photo was taken at the camp in Summit Lake, B.C. (see item 2005.3.57).

          2000.13.1.50 · Item · 1958.
          Part of Ray Williston fonds

          Item is a photograph of Bert Leboe, MP for Peace River, watching the construction of a trading boat traditionally used in the Peace / Parsnip area. These boats were used to conduct surveys and transport supplies during the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

          Beaverdell CPR depot
          2013.6.36.1.027.15 · Item · [July 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the CPR Beaverdell depot located at about 35 miles northeast of Osoyoos and at mile 91.4 east of Penticton on the Carmi Subdivision. The traffic here is ore from a local mine, some lumber, and freight for the village. The depot building is in use and has a telegraph. There is also siding capacity for 31 cars. This section was built between 1914 and 1915. The view is looking north.

          Beaverdell CPR depot
          2013.6.36.1.027.07 · Item · [23 June 1979]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Beaverdell, located at about mile 42.3 on the Carmi Subdivision. To the right is an ore loader for concentrate from mines. There is no rail traffic at this date. The view is looking north.

          2013.6.36.1.093.08 · Item · Aug. 1995
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts Beaver Trucking located on Kamloops Indian Reserve No. 1 on Tk'emlups te Secwepemc territory, Kamloops, BC. It had been a company since 1990 and received 2 or 3 boxcars weekly loaded with items from Toronto that were then delivered around town. Davies later noted that the business was destroyed by arson in 1997.

          Bear in Forest
          2005.3.20 · Item · [ca. 1945]
          Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts blurry image of a bear among what is believed to be slash piles in the forest. Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Supposed to be a bear".

          BCR
          2012.13.1.50.027 · Item · 1975
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the BCR tracks passing through a mill somewhere near the 100 Mile.

          BCER Vancouver
          2013.6.36.1.049.34 · Item · Apr. 1976
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts old BC Electric Railway interurbans purchased for restoration by the government of BC from an Oregon owner. They stood in the CPR Duke Street Yards in Vancouver.

          BCER New Westminster
          2013.6.36.1.049.37 · Item · [June 1967]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts former BC Electric car barns in New Westminster. In the foreground remained an old flat and possibly a hoist for battery plates.

          BCER New Westminster
          2013.6.36.1.053.14 · Item · Feb. 1967
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a fitter examing the condition and safety of an old steam crane en route to an iron works in Burnaby, possibly Coast Steel Fabricator Ltd.

          BCER Langley
          2013.6.36.1.049.36 · Item · [June 1970]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the passing loop and goods shed found at the Milner Siding. The main line had just been uprgaded to take coal units trains to Roberts Bank.