Keyword: Bridge

Upper Trail B.C.

Upper Trail and the Columbia river, Trail, B.C. This is taken from the esplanade the wall in west Trail above the Columbia river. It is looking more or less south (downriver) and shows what is now called Columbia heights (thanks real estate). Topping Daniel streets at the very top. the lower part of the shot is riverside avenue which has been developed as a walkway park. and of course that is the old bridge. built 1911 or 12.

Internal ID:	2306.0230
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Bridge on Columbia

Personalities of Kimberley, B.C. - Ruth Soderholm standing on bridge over the Columbia River, location not known

Internal ID:	0196.0231
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1950

A man standing on bridge with bottle in hand

Internal ID:	0523.0235
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Hilltop view of Trail, B.C. at night.

Photo of Trail B.C. at night from the banks of the Columbia River. Hughes Bros.

Internal ID:	2306.0236
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Eventide, Trail B.C.

Eventide, Trail B.C. Hughes Bros.

Internal ID:	2306.0237
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Overlooking Trail B.C. along the Columbia River.

Trail, B.C. Hughes Bros.

Internal ID:	2306.0240
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Garden Avenue

Cranbrook has new bridge over Baker Street near Garden Avenue.

Internal ID:	0050.0244
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 10th 1898

Cranbrook and C.P.R.

Land Commissioner of C.P.R returns to Cranbrook after a couple months away and was surprised at great strides of advancement made.

Internal ID:	0050.0247
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 4th 1898

Perry Creek News

Reporting that the plans for opening up the logging and lumbering enterprise on Perry Creek are making good progress.

Internal ID:	0051.0247
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 23rd 1904

Crows Nest Construction

Crows Nest Pass Chief of Construction satisfied with the progress of work being done in Cranbrook and roundhouse construction to start immediately.

Internal ID:	0050.0249
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 4th 1898

Wardner

Crow's Nest Pass Railway line now completed to Wardner, making it a boom town with many residents and visitors enjoying the busy times.

Internal ID:	0050.0252
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 4th 1898

Elk Lumber Co.'s Elk River Bridge After the Aug. 1, 1908 Fire

Unused sepia real photo postcard of wreck of the Elk Lumber Co.'s bridge across Elk River after the Great Fire at Fernie, BC Aug. 1, 1908. Velox style stampbox in use 1907-1911.

Internal ID:	0039.0267
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	August 1st 1908

Elk Lumber Co.'s Elk River Bridge After the Aug. 1, 1908 Fire

Unused sepia real photo postcard of wreck of the Elk Lumber Co.'s bridge across Elk River after the Great Fire at Fernie, BC Aug. 1, 1908. Velox style stampbox in use 1907-1911.

Internal ID:	0039.0268
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	August 1st 1908

Mark Creek Bridge

Mark Creek Bridge on the way to the mine, Kimberley, BC

Internal ID:	0205.0285
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	June 1st 1952

Crow's Nest Pass Railway

The days of slow, unreliable and expensive transportation in East Kootenay soon to be a matter of history as rail line almost complete and many contractors leaving for elsewhere.

Internal ID:	0050.0301
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 11th 1898

Wardner Notes

First train of cars to cross Kootenay River, ferry across river now charges, comings and goings of Wardner residents and visitors.

Internal ID:	0050.0312
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 18th 1898

Old Castlegar CPR Rail Overpass Bridge 1957

Internal ID:	2360.0323
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1957

Castlegar, B.C.

Aerial view of Castlegar, B.C., with Waldie's Sawmill to the right and the CPR bridge across the Columbia River.

Internal ID:	0131.0337
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1950

Mark Creek

Foot bridge across Mark Creek, from Ross Street to Deer Park Avenue, Kimberley, BC.

Internal ID:	0205.0338
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1930

Castlegar CPR Railway Bridge

A view of the Columbia River and the CPR railway bridge at Castlegar - c. 1940. Waldie's sawmill can be seen behind the bridge, with the Raspberry School building on the hillside above the mill.

Internal ID:	0131.0362
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Brilliant Bridge

Suspension bridge over the Kootenay River at Brilliant, B.C. - constructed by the Doukhobor community to provide convenient access to Nelson.

Internal ID:	0131.0365
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1925

Automobile on Murphy Creek Bridge

Very early automobile on the Murphy Creek bridge, near Trail on the Columbia River.

Internal ID:	0131.0390
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1910

Brilliant Bridge

Bridge at Brilliant, B.C. completed in 1913 by the Doukhobors. It spans the Kootenay River, giving road access to both Nelson and Robson.

Internal ID:	0131.0391
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Tame Mark Creek

Larry Musser and Milo Fabro standing on the bridge over Mark Creek. Caption on face: Civic Administration: How Kimberley plans to tame Mark Creek.

Internal ID:	0205.0418
Medium:	Ephemera
Date:	March 1st 1959

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, England, opened in 1864.

Internal ID:	0131.0422
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1900

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, England, opened in 1864.

Internal ID:	0131.0423
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1900

CPR Photos

C.P.R. man in Cranbrook to photograph all the old bridges and trestles along the entire CPR system.

Internal ID:	0052.0433
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 20th 1901

Church Hiking Group

The St. Paul Anglican Church hiking group of 1914. Part of the group and pack horses on a bridge on the Berg Lake trail.

Internal ID:	0070.0440
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1914

Church Hiking Group

Ladies in the 1914 St. Paul Anglican Church hiking group crossing a pole bridge, carefully.

Internal ID:	0070.0442
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1914

Menai Suspension Bridge

Menai Suspension Bridge of the London and North Western Railway COmpany, Wales.

Internal ID:	0131.0442
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1904

Church Hiking Group

Ted of the 1914 St. Paul Anglican Church hiking group, crossing the pole bridge on the Berg lake hike.

Internal ID:	0070.0443
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1914

Menai Suspension Bridge

Menai Suspension Bridge of the London and North Western Railway COmpany, Wales.

Internal ID:	0131.0443
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1904

Maidstone, England

Aylesford Bridge in, Maidstone, England.

Internal ID:	0131.0446
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

Maidstone, England

Aylesford Bridge in, Maidstone, England.

Internal ID:	0131.0447
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

Waldie's Sawmill

The Wm. Waldie sawmill on the Columbia River with a large beehive burner in the foreground, the CPR railway bridge over the Columbia River in the background with Castlegar beyond that.

Internal ID:	0131.0459
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

Waldie's Sawmill

The Wm. Waldie sawmill on the Columbia River with a large beehive burner in the foreground, the CPR railway bridge over the Columbia River in the background with Castlegar beyond that.

Internal ID:	0131.0460
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

Logging Bridge

New wooden bridge on Forestry (logging) road, Kinbasket Lake located between Golden and Valemount, BC

Internal ID:	0127.0467
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Review of Progress

Review of Cranbrook and district's progress during 1911 and outlook for 1912.

Internal ID:	0052.0469
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 4th 1912

Waldie's Sawmill

Waldie's Sawmill at Castlegar, BC. The CPR bridge and the cable ferry on the Columbia River are visible in the background.

Internal ID:	0131.0473
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1915

Nelson Bridge

Nelson and district residents go to Victoria with petition signed by three thousand citizens from the district asking for the proposed bridge over Kootenay river be located at Nelson.

Internal ID:	0052.0476
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 25th 1912

Waldie's Sawmill

An excellent aerial view of Waldie's sawmill, across the Columbia River from Castlegar. The booming layout to the lof pond and the orientation to the CPR railway are very noticeable.

Internal ID:	0131.0479
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1915

Fernie Bridge

Newspaper excerpt from Fernie Free Press - advising contract for bridge over Elk River in Fernie has been awarded and must be completed in two months.

Internal ID:	0051.0484
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 31st 1901

Wasa Bridge

Describing what a great benefit the new bridge over the Kootenay River at Wasa will be to Cranbrook and people in the Windermere district.

Internal ID:	0051.0495
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 31st 1901

Taghum Bridge

Taghum Bridge built over the Kootenay River, at Taghum near Nelson, B.C.

Internal ID:	0131.0503
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	August 14th 1973

Bridge Construction

Logging road and bridge construction, with bucket machine, on Hammil Creek, near Argenta, B.C.

Internal ID:	0131.0505
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Highway 5 construction

Highway 5 construction, Valemount to Tete Jaune Cache, BC. Location of new bridge.

Internal ID:	0127.0506
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1969

Bailey Bridge (Swift Creek Bridge) in Valemount, BC

Highway 5 construction, Valemount to Tete Jaune Cache, BC. Bailey Bridge(Swift Creek Bridge) set up. This is the temporary Bailey Bridge located on Main St. in Valemount. The replacement bridge was built in 1983.

Internal ID:	0127.0507
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1969

Bailey Bridge over Swift Creek in Valemount, BC

Bailey Bridge over Swift Creek on Main Street in Valemount during Highway 5 construction c.1969

Internal ID:	0127.0509
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1969

Coffee Creek Mine

Abandoned Coffee Creek mine, above Kootenay Lake, between Balfour and Ainsworth Hot Springs, B.C.

Internal ID:	0131.0509
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1940

Bailey Bridge over Swift Creek in Valemount, BC

Bridge beams on Bailey Bridge (Swift Creek Bridge) over Swift Creek in Valemount, BC 1983

Internal ID:	0127.0510
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1983

Woodbury Mine

Woodbury Mine on Woodbury Creek, north of Ainsworth, B.C. Lots of good "fools gold" samples lying around outside this mine.

Internal ID:	0131.0510
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1950

Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

Bridge beams placed on Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

Internal ID:	0127.0512
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1983

Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

P & H crane putting beams in place on Swift Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

Internal ID:	0127.0515
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1983

Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

P & H crane putting beams in place on Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

Internal ID:	0127.0516
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1983

Highway 5 construction

Highway 5 construction, Valemount to Tete Jaune Cache, BC. P & H crane putting beams in place.

Internal ID:	0127.0517
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1969

Highway 5 construction

Highway 5 construction, Valemount to Tete Jaune Cache, BC. Reimer crane putting beams in place.

Internal ID:	0127.0518
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1969

Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

P & H crane putting beams in place on Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

Internal ID:	0127.0519
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1983

Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

Crane putting beams in place on Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

Internal ID:	0127.0520
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1983

Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

Crane putting beams in place on Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

Internal ID:	0127.0521
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1983

Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

Pillars with beams placed on Swift Creek Bridge in Valemount, BC 1983

Internal ID:	0127.0523
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1983

Castlegar CPR Bridge

Tugboat under the C.P.R. railway bridge, Castlegar, B.C.

Internal ID:	0131.0527
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1920

Highway 5 construction

Highway 5 construction, Valemount to Tete Jaune Cache, BC. Crane on barge installing beams.

Internal ID:	0127.0540
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1969

Route Surveying

Describing the trials and tribulations of two men travelling from Lethbridge to Fort Steele, report also gives distances and descriptions of places encountered along the way.

Internal ID:	0051.0551
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 29th 1897

Railway Construction Notes

Storehouses will be erected in Fort Steele district to supply contractors in railway construction, also noted with 27 bridges required between Medicine Hat and Lethbridge, local lumbermen will be busy.

Internal ID:	0051.0562
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 29th 1897

Tugboat Elco II

Elco II, a steam tugboat, Castlegar, B.C.

Internal ID:	0131.0562
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1925

Mount Robson

Mount Robson with Tete Jaune bridge below.

Internal ID:	0127.0564
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Railway Construction

Ongoing constuction of railway to and around Cranbrook. The Canadian-Alien law is being strictly enforced, and no workmen but Canadians will be employed.

Internal ID:	0051.0582
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 12th 1897

C.N.P. Construction

Article about a chat reporter had with C.P.R. vice-president trying to confirm Golden as being made a divisional center and whether work on Crow's Nest Pass railway will be completed before winter.

Internal ID:	0051.0591
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 26th 1897

Phillips Bridge

Spring of 1916, Curly Phillips with the help of E.B Abram, Frank Doucette and another man, built a bridge across a log jam just below Robson Overlander Falls on the Fraser river to replace the Denny Hogan Construction bridge that was washed out. Bridge was built to take pack outfits and dudes into the Robson area. Phillips bridge was washed out June 25, 1919

Internal ID:	0070.0593
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Phillips Bridge

Internal ID:	0070.0594
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Railway Construction

Ongoing construction on railway, with 10 mile prohibition belt to be enforced. Meaning any town closer than 10 miles can not sell any alcohol during construction in their area.