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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          4832 Archival description results for Transportation and Utilities

          4832 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
          Illecillewaet Valley
          2013.6.36.3.06.27 · Item · [before 1949]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley. Taken adjacent to snowsheds and the second crossing of the Illecillewaet River. It had the appearance of being the location for a safety switch and spur to divert a runaway train that had come down the "Loop" from Glacier Station.

          The Loop
          2013.6.36.3.06.11 · Item · [before 1949]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Postcard depicts "The Loop, as this great pear-shaped arc of trestle was known along with the spectacular station and hotel facilities at Glacier were replaced by the Connaught Tunnel in 1916."

          "Summit City"
          2013.6.36.3.06.16 · Item · [before 1949]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Postcard depicts "Summit City" in Rogers Pass, built in 1886 and existed only for the consctruction of the CPR.

          Illecillewaet Valley
          2013.6.36.3.06.28 · Item · [before 1949]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley. Circa 1914-16. New grade being built for use with Connaught Tunnel grade reductions at Rogers Pass. Original right-of-way still in use.

          Near Spences Bridge
          2013.6.36.3.08.16 · Item · [before 1949]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Postcard depicts a reproduction of a photograph from 1880s/1890s. "The Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) was officially completed to the Pacific Coast in 1885 but upgrading was continually being carried out as seen here near Spence's bridge in 1905."

          CPR SS Princess Charlotte
          2009.7.1.269 · Item · [ca.1900-1908]
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Photograph of the SS "Princess Charlotte" on the open ocean. Metallic annotation on recto reads: "C.P.R.SS Princess Charlotte entered according to act of the parliament of Canada, in the year 1908[?]. by A. Shaw, at the Department of Agriculture." Printed annotation on verso reads "Shaw & Co., Photo. Victoria. B.C. (Empire Series)"