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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          29 Archival description results for Transportation and Utilities

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          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.

          CPR line at Princeton
          2013.6.36.1.021.08 · Item · 19 Sept. 1970
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the CPR line at Princeton, located at mile 70.5 on the Princeton Subdivision, from Penticton. The way freight runs Penticton-Princeton-Penticton. Twice a week this crew does the Penticton-Midway-Penticton run. The freight train in the picture is headed by CPR locomotive #8830 and had 4 boxcars loaded with lumber.

          KVR Princeton
          2013.6.36.1.125.04 · Item · Aug. 1990
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken looking east, towards the depot and town of Princeton. Behind the yard lay the beginnings of the former Copper Canyon branch.

          KVR Princeton
          2013.6.36.1.125.07 · Item · Aug. 1990
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a spur that led off on the norst side of the main line between Princeton and Brookmere. The last train seen here was in May, 1989.

          KVR Princeton
          2013.6.36.1.125.08 · Item · Aug. 1990
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts an open space where former yards of the KVR were located. Visible is a 2 stall engine shed, a turning ballon (in place of a wye), and the connection with the 14 long Copper Mountain Bracnch which conveyed copper concentrate and closed in 1957. Just out of view, on the right, was the Princeton Tunnel built by the GNR in 1910.

          Road crossing
          2013.6.36.1.150.06 · Item · Sept. 1991
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a road crossing somewhere on the "loops" on the Princeton to Jura line. Looking downgrade at a loop.

          CPR Princeton spur line
          2013.6.36.1.155.05 · Item · [July 1988]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a CPR spur line (located on the right), running off from the 'main line' that went from Princeton to Penticton. The spur led to a sawmill.