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

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          2009.5.2.324 · Item · 1914
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          This commemorative souvenir was produced by the Prince Rupert Pioneers’ Association in 1914. Its content provides a textual overview of the individual persons who pioneered the establishment of Prince Rupert, as well as, their associated portrait photographs. This publication also provides a brief introduction to the history of Prince Rupert and includes some related historical photographs.

          2009.5.4.60 · Item · May 1981
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Julian Fry reminisces on his early life and acquaintances in Prince George during his work along the Blackwater Road in the early 1920's. Some notable references include: Blackwater Road, C.F.S. Baldy Hughes, Bill Comstock, Tom Cornell, Duncan MacKenzie, Ernest Levesque, [?] Hathaway, [?] Nelson, Ed and Julia Erickson, Blackwater Telegraph Station, Everett Vandenburg, and [?] Mackenzie.

          Columbia Coast Mission Ship
          2007.17.4 · File · [ca.1930] , [ca. 1960]
          Part of James Joseph Claxton Photograph Collection

          This file consists of 32 photographs pertaining to the Yukon steamship Tutshi, ca. 1936 and J.J. Claxton’s time aboard the Columbia Cost Mission Ship M.S. Columbia III, ca. 1960. General subject areas identified in these photographs include: individuals and communities visited by the Columbia III; families involved in receipt of pastoral services such as marriages and baptisms; as well as medical care.

          2000.13.1.14 · Item · 1944
          Part of Ray Williston fonds

          Item is a photograph of graduates of the Service Flying Training school in Calgary taken on October 27, 1944. Ray Williston is third from the left in the front row.

          Finlay Forks 2
          2000.13.1.48 · Item · 1957.
          Part of Ray Williston fonds

          Item is a photograph of Percy Gray and pilot Ian Watt gassing up their plane at Finlay Forks before continuing their survey of the Rocky Mountain Trench in March 1957.

          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.

          2000.13.1.51 · Item · 1958.
          Part of Ray Williston fonds

          Item is a photograph of Premier W.A.C. Bennett, members of the cabinet and other officials on the engine of a Pacific Great Eastern Railway train during inaugural run celebrations in Fort St. John on October 4, 1958. Mr. Williston is second from the right, his face partially hidden by the camera he is holding.

          2000.13.1.52 · Item · 4 October 1958
          Part of Ray Williston fonds

          Item is a photograph of Premier W.A.C. Bennett, members of the cabinet and other officials on the engine of a Pacific Great Eastern Railway train during inaugural run celebrations in Fort St. John on October 4, 1958. Mr. Williston is on the extreme right.

          2000.13.1.53 · Item · 1961.
          Part of Ray Williston fonds

          Item is a photograph of the B.C. Electric Board taken the day after the company’s take over by the Social Credit government on August 1, 1961. Pictured from the left are: Bill Means, former Lieutenant-Governor Frank Ross, Einar Gunderson, board secretary W. Goth, Gordon Shrum, Mr. Williston, Hydro lawyer Arthur Fouks and John Dunsmuir.

          Three diversion tunnels
          2000.13.1.66 · Item · [between 1962 and 1967].
          Part of Ray Williston fonds

          Item is a photograph of the three tunnels built to divert the Peace River around the Bennett Dam construction site.

          Coffer dam
          2000.13.1.67 · Item · [between 1962 and 1967].
          Part of Ray Williston fonds

          Item is a photograph of the coffer dam built to isolate the construction site for the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

          2005.3 · Collection · 1945 - 1946

          Collection consists of 73 photographs featuring the construction of the John Hart Highway in Prince George, BC from 1945-1946. Images depict construction, machinery, workers, bunkhouses, persons, wildlife, and buildings all associated with this construction project around the Summit Lake region of the city.

          John Hart Highway
          2011.3.2.13 · Item · 1921
          Part of North Coast & Central BC Postcard Collection

          Boardwalk in foreground, buildings and roads in mid ground, cut banks in background. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Prince George. B.C. 1921 by Moore”. Handwritten annotation in ink on verso reads: “The Netchaco river is between the mountain and the city and the C.N.R. runs along the river bank nearest the city. This picture is taken looking north.”

          Street in Prince George, BC
          2011.3.2.14 · Item · [ca. 1920]
          Part of North Coast & Central BC Postcard Collection

          Street scene in Prince George B.C. Several Union Jack flags are visible and there is a celebration banner at the end of the street. Long shadows in photo indicate summer (perhaps Dominion Day?). River in foreground, railroad and city in mid ground and hill in background. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Prince George. B.C.”