Subject: YMCA

Early Frontal View of Railway YMCA Building

An early frontal front view of the Railway YMCA building in Cranbrook BC.

Internal ID:	0014.0055
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Y.M.C.A Building in Cranbrook, BC

Y.M.C.A Building in Cranbrook, BC It was also known as the Armouries at one time. It was located on Van Horne across the street from Imperial Bank of Canada.

Internal ID:	0017.0029
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Y.M.C.A Building in Cranbrook, BC

Y.M.C.A Building in Cranbrook, BC It was also known as the Armouries at one time. It was located on Van Horne across the street from Imperial Bank of Canada.

Internal ID:	0017.0030
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Railway Y.M.C.A., Cranbrook, B.C.

Railway Y.M.C.A., Cranbrook, B.C. Postcard front, linked to 0019.0010.

Internal ID:	0019.0009
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1915

Railway Y.M.C.A., Cranbrook, B.C.

Railway Y.M.C.A., Cranbrook, B.C. Postcard front, linked to 0019.0010.

Internal ID:	0019.0010
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1915

Railway Y.M.C.A., Cranbrook, B.C.

Railway Y.M.C.A. in Cranbrook, B.C., c. 1910. Postcard front, linked to 0019.0080.

Internal ID:	0019.0079
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1910

Railway Y.M.C.A., Cranbrook, B.C.

Railway Y.M.C.A. in Cranbrook, B.C., c. 1910. Postcard front, linked to 0019.0080.

Internal ID:	0019.0080
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1910

Railway Y.M.C.A. Building, Cranbrook, B.C.

Y.M.C.A. Building, Cranbrook, B.C. Postcard front, linked to 0019.0182.

Internal ID:	0019.0181
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1911

Railway Y.M.C.A. Building, Cranbrook, B.C.

Y.M.C.A. Building, Cranbrook, B.C. Postcard front, linked to 0019.0182.

Internal ID:	0019.0182
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1911

Cranbrook YMCA Building,CPR Station and Yard

Unused B&W real photo postcard of Cranbrook CPR Station, YMCA building and train track. Taken from train yards looking East towards Imperial Bank of Commerce. Cyko stamp box style on back in use 1904 - 1920's.

Internal ID:	0039.0087
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

Cranbrook YMCA Building,CPR Station and Yard

Internal ID:	0039.0088
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

Y.M.C.A Building, Cranbrook, BC

Colour printed postcard of the Y.M.C.A. building in Cranbrook, BC. Handwritten note on back of postcard.

Internal ID:	0039.0127
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

Y.M.C.A Building, Cranbrook, BC

Colour printed postcard of the Y.M.C.A. building in Cranbrook, BC. Handwritten note on back of postcard.

Internal ID:	0039.0128
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

Y.M.C.A Building, Cranbrook, BC

Unused colour printed postcard of the Y.M.C.A. building in Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID:	0039.0129
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

Y.M.C.A Building, Cranbrook, BC

Unused colour printed postcard of the Y.M.C.A. building in Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID:	0039.0130
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

Y.M.C.A Building, Cranbrook, BC

Colour printed postcard of the Y.M.C.A. building in Cranbrook, BC. Sign on corner of building reads: Y.M.C.A. Public Grill. Printed in Great Britian.

Internal ID:	0039.0131
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

Y.M.C.A Building, Cranbrook, BC

Colour printed postcard of the Y.M.C.A. building in Cranbrook, BC. Sign on corner of building reads: Y.M.C.A. Public Grill. Printed in Great Britian.

Internal ID:	0039.0132
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1915

YMCA Swimming Pool(2)New Gymnasium

Internal ID:	0042.0059
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 11th 1926

Cranbrook's first paved thoroughfare, Baker Street

Internal ID:	0042.0122
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 17th 1926

Organizing Hockey

Meeting for hockey fans held in the Cranbrook Y.M.C.A. for organizing upcoming winter games.

Internal ID:	0050.0645
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 27th 1930

Crembo Officers

Crembo Club meeting at Y.M.C.A. for election of new officers for upcoming year.

Internal ID:	0050.0725
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 23rd 1930

Baker Street

Cranbrooks main street now partially paved and open to traffic.

Internal ID:	0050.0797
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 17th 1926

Armouries

Notes for happenings in Cranbrook area, including ongoing work on Armouries building.

Internal ID:	0051.0700
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 9th 1939

Runaway

Horse shies from east bound train and becomes a runaway on Baker street in Cranbrook.

Internal ID:	0052.0101
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 25th 1915

Cranbrook Rotary

Lethbridge Rotarian presented the charter to the Cranbrook club making them official.

Internal ID:	0052.0388
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 21st 1922

Cranbrook Rotary

Cranbrook Rotary Club members will drive Boy Scouts and necessary equipment to camp opening at Morrissey.

Internal ID:	0052.0563
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 14th 1922

Cranbrook Rotary

Cranbrook Rotary meet for regular weekly luncheon, with speaker dealing with several aspects of the building situation affecting the district.

Internal ID:	0052.0584
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 11th 1922

Cranbrook Rotary

Cranbrook Rotary Club hold weekly luncheon meeting with speech on the great importance of community service to Cranbrook and district.

Internal ID:	0052.0618
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 29th 1922

Cranbrook Rotary

Each member of Cranbrook Rotary was instructed to invite, and pay for the meal, of one of his competitors in business.

Internal ID:	0052.0667
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 1st 1922

Gyro Bowling

Five pin bowling match played at Cranbrook's Y.M.C.A. alleys, with Crembos and business girls against married couples, Bankers against Gyros and Gyros against City.

Internal ID:	0052.0775
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 23rd 1930

Fink In Rotary

Cranbrook Rotary held regular luncheon meeting and condolences were passed to past president Fink on the loss of his brother, pioneer of this district.

Internal ID:	0053.0149
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 18th 1930

Aerial view of Cranbrook, B.C.

Aerial view of Cranbrook, B.C., ca. 1938; Numbers on photo correspond to - #1-CPR, #2-Armouries, #3-Hospital, #4-Hotel, #5-Gyro Park, #6-Public School, #7-Government Buildings, #8-Arena, #9-Brewery, #10-Airport.

Internal ID:	0138.0016
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1938

Demolition of Armories Building in Cranbrook, BC 1974

Demolishing the old Armories building, December 1974. Western Demolition and W.N. Trotter Trucking are doing the demolishing at a cost of about $10,000.00. This building was originally constructed as the YMCA building.

Internal ID:	0140.0017
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	December 1st 1974

Cranbrook Architecture - The CPR-YMCA

The old CPR-YMCA, built in 1910, stood at the far west end of Baker Street across Van Horne Street, near the railway tracks. It later became the Boys Club before being demolished in 1974.

Internal ID:	0141.0012
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1976

YMCA Building

Cranbrook, B.C. - The old CPR-YMCA building completed in 1910. It later became the Armouries, then the Boy's Club. Due to lack of maintenance, it was demolished in 1974. A portion of the Railway Museum is now situated on the site.

Internal ID:	0147.0002
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1970

YMCA Building

Cranbrook, B.C. - The old CPR-YMCA building prior to demolition. Completed in 1910, it later became the Armouries, then the Boy's Club. Due to lack of maintenance, it was demolished in 1974. A portion of the Railway Museum is now situated on the site.

Internal ID:	0147.0003
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1973

Sam Steele Days c.1968

A float promoting the S.W. Kootenay during the Sam Steele Days parade on Baker Street in Cranbrook, BC c.1968. Notice the Imperial Bank & the roof of the Y.M.C.A. building in the background

Internal ID:	0155.0105
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1968

1st Troop Contingent Leaving Cranbrook, B.C.

Photo shows a large gathering at the rail station in Cranbrook BC as the 1st troop Contingent leaves Cranbrook, 1914.

Internal ID:	0161.0001
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1914

1st Troop Contingent Leaving Cranbrook, B.C.

Photo shows a large gathering at the rail station in Cranbrook BC as the 1st troop Contingent leavies Cranbrook, 1914. Same as 0161.0001.

Internal ID:	0161.0002
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1914

1898-1948 - Fifty Years of CPR in Cranbrook

1948- Fifty year celebration of the C.P.R. railroad arrival in Cranbrook, B.C.

Internal ID:	0175.0001
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1948

Cranbrook Railway YMCA Building

Built near the present (2008) King Street railway crossing, this building served a wide variety of purposes in Cranbrook until torn down in the 1970s.

Internal ID:	0223.0011
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1915

Kimberley Bowling

Champions of the Railway Y.M.C.A. Bowling League 1916-17. The Railway Y.M.C.A. was located in Cranbrook

Internal ID:	0230.0325
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1917

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce building on Baker Street, Cranbrook, B.C., March 1973. Part of the Railway Y.M.C.A. can be seen to the left of the photo, and a Credit Bureau is located upstairs through the door on the right of the bank building.

Internal ID:	0271.0004
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	March 1st 1973

Steam Locomotive in Front of Cranbrook YMCA

Steam locomotive & train coming into Cranbrook in the winter, beginning to pass the Railway YMCA building.

Internal ID:	0393.0001
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Y.M.C.A. Building

Cranbrook, B.C. Y.M.C.A. building, ca. 1935.

Internal ID:	0419.0007
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1935

Cranbrook Gyro Club Members c.1929

Gyro Club members at Cranbrook, B.C., 1929. Photo was taken on the lawn beside the YMCA building and across from the Imperial Bank

Internal ID:	0451.0002
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1929

Members of the 225th In Cranbrook

A portion of the B.C. 225th Battalion in front of the Railway Y.M.C.A., which became the Armouries.

Internal ID:	0470.0003
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1915

Cranbrook Schools

Central School float in the Coronation Parade, "King Alfred-father of the British Navy". The parade is in front of the YMCA building, with the CPR station in the background.

Internal ID:	0493.0144
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Clark Purvis

Clark Purvis in a Cranbrook parade on Baker Street, with bike and sidecar.

Internal ID:	0493.0148
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Eleanor McKowan

Eleanor Mckowan holding a flag and sitting a horse in the Cranbrook parade, paused in front of the old Y.M.C.A. building.

Internal ID:	0493.0150
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Cranbrook Parade

Cranbrook High School Coronation Coach in a parade going past the YMCA at the west end of Baker Street.

Internal ID:	0493.0152
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1950

Eleanor McKowan on Parade

Eleanor McKowan on a horse in a Cranbrook parade, holding the British flag. A group from the Wycliffe school is in the background in front of the Cranbrook Armouries building.

Internal ID:	0521.0003
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Cranbrook Parade with Marching Band

A marching band on Baker Street in Cranbrook, led by the RCMP.

Internal ID:	0521.0005
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Central School Float

Central School float commemorating King Alfred, father of the British Navy. In the background are the Armouries building and the Cranbrook CPR station.

Internal ID:	0521.0008
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Cranbrook Girls Bugle Band 1969

Cranbrook Girls Bugle Band marching downtown Cranbrook 1969

Internal ID:	2308.1462
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1969

Coronation Parade in Cranbrook, BC 1937

Central School float in the Coronation Parade, "King Alfred-father of the British Navy". The parade is in front of the YMCA building in Cranbrook May 12th, 2019

Internal ID:	2352.0004
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	May 12th 1937

Walkathon from Fort Steele to Cranbrook c.1967

Two young individual walking a Van Horne Street in Cranbrook. Notice C.I.B.C. Building which is now Cranbrook Photo in the background as well as the Kootenay Cattle Company & the Y.M.C.A. Recognize anyone? If you do please let us know