Subject: Canal Flats
Canal Flats
Mr. Archer, rancher from Canal Flats visits friends in Cranbrook.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0354 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | October 11th 1917 |
W.T. Reid Interview
Newspaper interview with W.T. Reid, not only a pioneer store keeper of Cranbrook but Wardner and Moyie as well.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0968 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | July 13th 1905 |
Federal Election Results
Printing the results of election, with Windermere candidate receiving no votes from own home town.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0128 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 16th 1926 |
Canal Flats Ranger Station Auction
Reporting successful bidding on a timber stand at auction held at Canal Flats Ranger Station.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0271 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | February 11th 1960 |
Game Animals
Game Commissioner of B.C. gives annual report with game animals in East Kootenay faring well.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0745 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | April 4th 1935 |
Canal Flats
Owner of still from Canal Flat serving 3 month sentence in Nelson jail.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0755 |
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| Medium: | Manuscript |
| Date: | May 23rd 1935 |
EK Voter List
Revised voters list shows increase in voters in Kootenay East.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0764 |
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| Medium: | Manuscript |
| Date: | August 22nd 1935 |
Hanging Glaciers Hike
First hand report from ladies who spent holiday on horseback visiting Lake of the Hanging Glacier near Windermere.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0765 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 5th 1935 |
Lost Lemon Story
Shedding new light on Lost Lemon gold digging, indicating claim never existed and Lemon murdered his partner and took his gold from an earlier find.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0803 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | June 4th 1936 |
Moyie Autoists
Comings and going of Moyie residents and visitors, with note of surveying for paved highway three miles on each side of Moyie.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0807 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | June 11th 1936 |
Game In East Kootenay
Historic description by C.M. Edwards.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0811 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 3rd 1936 |
Potential of East Kootenay
Newspaper excerpt Vancouver World - describing the rich mining and farming available in East Kootenay, as well as the natural geography of the land.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0868 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 6th 1893 |
Ad for Transportation
Rates and time table for Upper Columbia Navigation & Tramway Co.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0876 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 20th 1893 |
Maurice Isaac
Only Kootenay Indian known to have enlisted for service during the war and served overseas, dies on a hunting trip from complications from gas poisoning he suffered overseas.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0343 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 1st 1921 |
Skookumchuck Autoists
Comings and goings of Skookumchuck residents and guest by train, automobile, speeder and horse and wagon. Many to see the ice being harvested.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0834 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | February 27th 1930 |
Kimberley Jr. Fish and Game Team
Members of the Kimberley Junior Fish and Game club under the leadership of the late Bill Moffatt. They were working to construct a survey plot for U.B.C. or N.D.U. study to monitor wild lands feeding and grazing impacts on the Premier / Quartz Ridge, above Premier Lake. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats area and Findlay Creek Known names are: Tom Haverko, Bob Muir, Jim Foulkes, Greg Bergland, Keith Scott, Jack Foulkes
| Internal ID: | 0158.0001 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | June 5th 1966 |
Team of Jr. Fish and Gamers, 1966
Members of the Kimberley Junior Fish and Game club under the leadership of the late Bill Moffatt. They were working to construct a survey plot for a U.B.C. or N.D.U. study to monitor wild lands feeding and grazing impacts on the Premier / Quartz Ridge, above Premier Lake. Known names are Tom Haverko, Bob Muir, Jim Foulkes, Greg Bergland, Keith Scott, and Jack Foulkes. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek area.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0003 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | June 5th 1966 |
Map of Buck Ridge
Map of Buck Ridge from Canal Flats Sheet 82J/SW; scale 1 inch = 2 miles; (4.66 square miles = 5.42 acres per head). The study plot is shown in red.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0012 |
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| Medium: | Map |
| Date: | 1965 |
Bud Hart Surveying Findlay Range, 1970
Bud Hart from Marysville, BC standing in part of Findlay range. Picture taken in the spring time. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek area. Bud Hart was a great outdoorsman and worked in the Sullivan Mine for 40+ years.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0013 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1970 |
Part of Findlay Creek Range, 1970
Part of Findlay range, the Jr. Fish and Game club wanted a field trip to prove their point. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek areas.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0014 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1970 |
Kim Milroy and Dunc Hamilton in the Field, 1972
Newspaper clip - Jim Milroy, BC Forest Service from Nelson and Dunc Hamilton, a Canal Flats forest ranger, compare notes around the heavy utilization of the lower Findlay Creek range by the wildlife in the winter and cattle in the summer. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek area.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0017 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | May 1st 1972 |
Ray Demarchi, Wildlife Biologist, 1972
Newspaper clip - Ray Demarchi, Wildlife biologist explains various pitfalls of bad land use practices. Field trip by BC Forest Services and Games Branch. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek area.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0018 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | May 19th 1972 |
Lower Findlay Creek Range, 1970
Looking north on lower Findlay Creek range towards Rocky Mountains. A good picture of poor land management by BC Forest Service. Note: Canal Flats - Kootenay River. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek area.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0019 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1970 |
Badly over grazed
Badly over grazed field (possibly Findlay Creek range area). Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek areas.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0020 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1970 |
Binoculars on the Lower Findlay Range, 1970
Binoculars on the lower Findlay area in some over browsed land. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek areas.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0022 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1970 |
Ray Demarchi, BC Wildlife Biologist, 1972
Field Trip Findlay Lower Range; Ray Demarchi, BC Wildlife Biologist, reason of field trip - To study the damage of overgrazing. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek areas.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0023 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | May 19th 1972 |
Ray Demarchi, BC Wildlife Biologist, 1972
"Now this is a window!" Field Trip Findlay Lower Range; Ray Demarchi, BC Wildlife Biologist. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and, Findlay Creek areas.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0024 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | May 19th 1972 |
Field Trip to Findlay Creek Lower Range, 1972
Field Trip Findlay Lower Range. In picture are: Darryl Moore, Walter McKersie, Jim Milroy, Ray Demarchi, Buz Harmsworth, Duane Hamilton, Randy Battel. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek areas.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0025 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | May 19th 1972 |
Field Trip Findlay Lower Range
Field Trip Findlay Lower Range. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats area, Findlay Creek
| Internal ID: | 0158.0026 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | May 19th 1972 |
Field Trip to Findlay Creek Lower Range, 1972
Field Trip Findlay Lower Range, Ray Demarchi in forefront. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek areas.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0027 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | May 19th 1972 |
Jim Milroy and Dunc Hamilton on Lower Findlay Creek Trip, 1972
Field Trip Findlay Creek Lower Range; Jim Milroy, BC Forest Service from Nelson and Dunc Hamilton, a Canal Flats forest ranger, compare notes around the heavy utilization of the lower Findlay Creek range by the wildlife in the winter and cattle in the summer. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek areas.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0028 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | May 19th 1972 |
Team of Jr. Fish and Game Members, 1966
Members of the Kimberley Junior Fish and Game club under the leadership of the late Bill Moffatt. They were working to construct a survey plot for a U.B.C. or N.D.U. study to monitor wild lands feeding and grazing impacts on the Premier / Quartz Ridge, above Premier Lake. Known names are: Tom Haverko, Bob Muir, Jim Foulkes, Greg Bergland, Keith Scott, and Jack Foulkes. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek areas.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0038 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | June 5th 1966 |
Bartholomew Lake, 1964
Bartholomew Lake, NE of Kimberley, 1964. Just having fun, two kids in a rubber boat. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek areas.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0048 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | April 26th 1964 |
Bartholomew Lake, NE of Kimberley, 1964
Bartholomew Lake near Mather Creek NE of Kimberley. People enjoying themselves from the efforts of work and cleanup from Kimberley youth. Part of large album, Jr Fish and Gamers, Canal Flats and Findlay Creek areas.
| Internal ID: | 0158.0049 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | April 26th 1964 |
Scenic View at Canal Flats
Photo of the Kootenay River running East - West, joining with the White River. A beautiful view of the rivers and mountains at Canal Flat, BC.
| Internal ID: | 0427.0008 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1935 |
Main Street in Canal Flats, BC
Main Street in Canal Flats, BC Showing Queens Hotel & Columbia Hotel
| Internal ID: | 2332.0001 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 0000 |
Dave White at the Canal Flats Sawmill
Dave White at the Canal Flats Sawmill receiving a plaque for the best moose. Part of the "Name that Logger" project.
| Internal ID: | 2254.0006 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 0000 |
CFI workers Billy Nichol,Bill Clark and Bob Storey from the Canal Flats Mill
CFI workers Billy Nichol,Bill Clark and Bob Storey from the Canal Flats Mill. Part of "Name That Logger" Project
| Internal ID: | 2257.0027 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 0000 |
Baillie-Grohman Canal at Canal Flats 1887
Building the canal at Canal Flats 1887, This was part of his work to secure the Kootenay Flats at Creston.
| Internal ID: | 0049.0099 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | June 1st 1888 |
Baillie-Grohman Sawmill at Canal Flats 1887
Baillie-Grohman?s sawmill at Canal Flats c. 1887. This is where the NWMP got the lumber to build the coffins for the three members lost during their time at Kootenay Post.
| Internal ID: | 0049.0105 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | June 1st 1887 |
Map of the Baillie=-Grohman Canal c. 1997
Map of Baillie-Grohman canal c. 1887. Two river boats passed through this canal, both captained by Frances Patrick Armstrong.
| Internal ID: | 0049.0128 |
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| Medium: | Map |
| Date: | 1887 |
Sketch Map of Baillie-Grohman Canal
Sketch map of the Baillie-Grohman canal at Canal Flats
| Internal ID: | 0049.0129 |
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| Medium: | Map |
| Date: | 1888 |
Old Stage Stop Near Canal Flats
Old stage stop near Canal Flats, c. 1925
| Internal ID: | 0049.0170 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1925 |
CFI Safety Committee
Canal Flats Safety Committee for Crestbrook Forest Industries (CFI)I. Do you know these men?
| Internal ID: | 2257.0001 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1980 |
Skookumchuck Pulp Mill Construction
March 1967 Grading & leveling of site by McPhails Construction Ltd.
| Internal ID: | 2324.0005 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
Construction of Grade Wall for Pulp Drying Plant
June 1967 Grade wall - Pulp Drying plant by Burns & Dutton. CFI's Skookumchuck pulp mill.
| Internal ID: | 2324.0045 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | June 1st 1967 |
Construction of Skookumchuck Pulp Mill June 24th, 1967
Construction of CFI's Skookumchuck Pulp Mill June 24th, 1967.
| Internal ID: | 2324.0115 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | June 24th 1967 |
Workers Standing Outside at Canal Flats Mill
A Shift PG 9 CFI group of construction workers standing outside at Canal Flats. Do you know anybody?
| Internal ID: | 2325.0010 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1970 |
Elwood Hahccurracr
Elwood Hahccurracr at Canal Flats.
| Internal ID: | 2325.0020 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1980 |
CFI Logging Near Canal Flats
Loaded logging truck on dirt road
| Internal ID: | 2326.0017 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1970 |
Grapple Loader At Work
Machine hauling logs in bush at Canal Flats and building a log deck.
| Internal ID: | 2326.0052 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1980 |
CFI Canal Flats Cut Block
Loading truck bed with logs. Crestbrook Forest Industries had active logging in the Canal Flats area for many years.
| Internal ID: | 2326.0060 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1975 |
Logging Camp, Canal Flats
Cabin and horses at an unnamed camp near Canal Flats.
| Internal ID: | 2332.0002 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1930 |
Canal Flats Logging
Canal Flats logger with 2-man crosscut saw. Do you know this man?
| Internal ID: | 2332.0004 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1940 |
Group of Canal Flats Men
Group of men, Hans Hansen 3rd from left. Can you name the other Canal Flats residents?
| Internal ID: | 2332.0005 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1940 |
Canal Flats Logging Camp
Plank houses and firewood. Does anyone know more about this Canal Flats camp? Maybe associated with Hans Hansen.
| Internal ID: | 2332.0006 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1930 |
Canal Flats Logging Camp
Munk - UK - Hans Hansen - UK and Sconny. Men on hill. Camp located near Canal Flats. Do you know anything about this?
| Internal ID: | 2332.0007 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1930 |
Unidentified Canal Flats Logger
Man standing in snow at a Canal Flats logging camp. Do you know him?
| Internal ID: | 2332.0008 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1930 |
Canal Flats Logging Camp Pet
Man and deer at a Canal Flats logging camp. Does anyone know him?
| Internal ID: | 2332.0009 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1930 |
Canal Flats Logging
Columbia Contracting Co. Ltd,. Canal Flat B.C. logging truck. Does anyone know the people?
| Internal ID: | 2332.0010 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1940 |
Columbia Lake Near Canal Flats
Columbia Lake B.C. "Columbia Lake near Cranbrook B.C." Front of postcard Post Marked July 21 1932
| Internal ID: | 2040.0800 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1930 |
Columbia Lake Near Canal Flats
Columbia Lake B.C. "Columbia Lake"
| Internal ID: | 2040.0798 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1930 |
Premier Lake and S Half Diamond Ranch
Skookumchuck, B.C. "The S Half-Diamond Ranch Skookumchuck, B.C. Canada" Front of postcard. Situated on Premier Lake near Canal Flats.
| Internal ID: | 2040.0805 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1950 |
Canal Flats Logging
Group of men on truck, Hans Hansen 4th from right. Do you know any of these men?
| Internal ID: | 2332.0011 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1940 |
Canal Flats Logging
Men by tree. Left to right: Unknown, Hans Hansen, Pete Leiman, Lucken
| Internal ID: | 2332.0012 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1940 |
Canal Flats Logging
Skidding logs out of the bush, Canal Flats operation.,
| Internal ID: | 2332.0014 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1940 |
Canal Flats Logging
Playfighting, Hans Hansen on left
| Internal ID: | 2332.0015 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1940 |
Canal Flats Logging
Rolling logs with a cant hook.
| Internal ID: | 2332.0016 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1940 |
Canal Flats Logging
Group of men on logs in snow. Do you know any of these people, or where the camp was?
| Internal ID: | 2332.0017 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1940 |
Canal Flats Logging
Rooftop view of a town-- Canal Flats?
| Internal ID: | 2332.0018 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1940 |
Family Gathering - Canal Flats??
Some people possibly in the Cranbrook Auditorium. Canal Flats family gathering - we don't know but part of the Canal Flats collection.
| Internal ID: | 2332.0019 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1940 |
Columbia Lake Near Canal Flats
Columbia Lake B.C., Postcard. Photo Byron Harmon
| Internal ID: | 2443.0149 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1935 |
