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archival descriptions
Clemes family fonds
CA KMA 79.53.1 · Fonds · 1885-1947

The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, and legal documents of Arthur Clemes, W.S. Clemes, and Dorothy Clemes and of the Spences Bridge Light and Power Company.

Clemes (family)
CA MMB L1893.1-2;L1895;L4269 · Fonds · 1916-1959

The fonds consists of photographs of HMC ships as well as photographs of James Cook, W.B. Holmes, SS Weser, and HMS Victory guns; model plans for the Cutty Sark (1959); and, letter and newsclippings relating to the Grisle in 1916.

Finch-Noyes, Edward William, 1909-
Ernie Plant fonds
CA VPL 33194-33321 · Fonds · 1948-1956

The fonds consists of photographs of operations of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, including general scenes, trackage, rolling stock, and bridges.

Plant, Ernie, d. 1992
Fonds · 1891-1903

The fonds consists of way bills (1891-1893), payroll time book for Wellington Shops (1899-1900), and vouchers (1899-1900).

Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company
Estelle Dickey fonds
Fonds · 1885-1967

The fonds consists of research files of Estelle Dickey pertaining to the history of Revelstoke and surrounding areas. Fonds includes photographs of railroad stations, engines, and equipment, scenes of Revelstoke and area and Rogers Pass, and of paddlewheeler service on the Arrow Lakes as well as individuals, community groups, and the built and physical environment of Revelstoke and area. Fonds includes railway, mineral and topographical maps of Revelstoke and area and of the Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Mountains.

Dickey, Estelle
Ethel Rhodes fonds
CA FFG P994.2 · Fonds · 1962-1963

The fonds consists of some photographic prints in black and white or colour and depicts the road construction taking place along the Highway 16,construction crews; construction equipment; pipelines; Dome Creek and the Bowron in the northern interior of Prince George region.

Rhodes, Ethel
Fonds · 1941-2000

The collection consists of Ex-Forestry Vessel Squadron Association documentation, such as textual records, photographs, personnel and vessel lists, reports regarding the physical condition of the Dean Ranger, logbook of the Dean Ranger, and newsletters. Collection also contains manuscripts, proofs and galleys, illustrations and photographs used in Forest Ranger, Ahoy! by Michael Coney (Sidney, B.C. : Porthole Press, 1983).

Frederick V. Longstaff fonds
CA MMB L816;L1221 · Fonds · 1929-1957

The fonds consists of photographs of HMC and HM ships, Commander Hose, sealing schooners and other ships and views. Fonds includes articles written by Longstaff and newsclippings.

Longstaff, Frederick Victor
G.A. Casey fonds
CA MMB L373 · Fonds · 1912-1914

The fonds consists of monthly time book (1912-1914) kept by G.A. Casey, Purser for the SS Coquitlam operated by Union Steamship Company of B.C. Ltd.

Casey, G.A.
Neil Swainson fonds
CA UVICARCH AR122 · Fonds · 1955-1971

The fonds consists of research files on various people and government officials, including E. Davie Fulton; Swainson's typescript of "International Development of the Columbia River"; U.S. Committee minutes; Canadian Committee minutes; and file card notes.

Swainson, Neil
Norman Hacking fonds
Fonds · 1919-1997

The fonds consists of records created by Norman Hacking during his private life and public life as a writer. The majority of the fonds are textual records, but there are some photographs that document his childhood, family members and friends, and marine vessels. Included in the fonds are correspondence (documenting his activities and relationships with family and friends while stationed overseas during World War II), research notebooks, scrapbooks, and ephemera relating to B.C. history and the maritime history of Vancouver, newspaper articles from the Vancouver Daily Province, and unpublished drafts of manuscripts and short stories.

Hacking, Norman
Norris Adams fonds
CA VPL 50525-50540;54838-54980;78483-78543 · Fonds · 1960, 1977-1989

The fonds consists of photographs and slides of scenes of Vancouver, Jasper, New Westminster, Port Moody, North Vancouver, Richmond, West Vancouver, Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam, Surrey, Matsqui and Huntingdon, many depicting railway activity.

Adams, Norris, d. 1992
Fonds · 1924-1968

The Pacific Coast Terminals Co. Ltd. fonds consists of records relating to the incorporation of the Fraser River Dock & Stevedoring Co. and Pacific Coast Terminals Co. Ltd., investment records, miscellaneous administrative records, insurance records, records related to purchasing services and goods, as well as property leasing/renting records and records relating to the storage and handling of customer goods.

Pacific Coast Terminals Company
Fonds · 1891-1985

The fonds consists of minutes, statements of accounts, financial ledgers, correspondence, membership lists, banking records, promotional material, and reference files pertaining to the activities of the Kamloops Railway Museum Society, and a collection of archival material and reference material (including published items) acquired by the society, including records of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railway and of railway workers' unions. Fonds includes photographs collected by the museum society of trains and railway equipment and of scenes of railroad activity in the Kamloops area.

Kamloops Railway Museum Society
Fonds · [ca. 1891]-1993

The collection consists of photographs of people, events, industries and the built and natural environment of Kaslo and area, including transportation, mining, logging, fruit growing, and the Japanese internment. Collection incorporates the SS Moyie photograph collection earlier accumulated by the Kootenay Lake Historical Society.

CA LMA MS 19 · Fonds · 1880-1957

The collection consists of photographs from 1880 to 1957. Includes Lytton citizens, graduation photos, building the highway, a Greyhound bus crash, buildings, sports, train wreck, and a B.C. Express sternwheel steamer on the Fraser River.

CA FFG 987.8 · Fonds · 1956-1971

The fonds consists of ledgers, account statements, and log books as well as constitutions and a certificate of incorporation.

Prince George Railway Society
Fonds · [ca. 1914]-1982

The collection consists of townsite maps of Tulameen, Allenby, Coalmont, and Copper Mountain and survey, subdivision, First Nations reserve, topographic and transportation maps of Princeton and area.

R.H. Trueman fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1890-1930]

The fonds consists of photographs depicting scenery, towns, and railways in the Rocky Mountains of B.C. and Alberta and portraits and scenery of Vancouver and White Rock, B.C.

Trueman, Richard Henry
Fonds · 1885-1960

The collection consists of topographic maps, mineral and land claims maps, townsite and subdivision plans, and architectural drawings pertaining to Revelstoke and locations in the Columbia basin and of structures constructed by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in the Revelstoke District.

Lorne Yorke fonds
CA MMB 987.24.1 · Fonds · 1964

The fonds consists of the pilot house log for the vessel Lorne Yorke (1964), noting arrivals and departures of crew and cargo loaded and unloaded.

Lorne Yorke (Ship)
John B. Sclater fonds
Fonds · 1913-1977

The John B.Sclater fonds consists of personal papers, correspondence, ledgers, survey reports, specification sheets, vouchers, and duty papers related to his activities as Port Warden and Private Marine Surveyor.

Sclater, John B.
John J. Porter fonds
Fonds · 1887-1891

Fonds consists of 1 bound volume comprising the personal diary of John J. Porter, a labourer for the Canadian Pacific Railway, working largely between Field and Revelstoke.

Porter, John J.
Fonds · [ca. 1890]-1995

The collection consists of photographic prints and negatives of maritime activity (predominantly vessels and ships crews) occurring in North America, the largest percentage relating to the West Coast. The collection includes photographs of maritime vessels of World War I and World War II vintage, Royal Navy vessels, and naval officers.

Thorvald N. Larson fonds
Fonds · 1935-1955

The fonds consists of photographs of parades in Vancouver and of ships in Burrard Inlet and First Narrows, Vancouver, B.C.

Larson, Thorvald N.