Subject: City Works
City Power Shovel
An image of a power shovel used by the City of Cranbrook.
| Internal ID: | 0008.0023 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1935 |
Cranbrook Fire Department Truck Being Washed
A Ford F-150 Fire Department Truck being washed by firefighter Walter "Wally" Tymchyna behind the 11th Avenue fire station. Image shows old City Works sheds.
| Internal ID: | 0014.0047 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1991 |
Cranbrook City council meeting
Cranbrook City Council meeting
| Internal ID: | 0042.0040 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 23rd 1926 |
City Tourist Park extracts
City Tourist Park extracts, Fire Dept.,Police Dept.,Mount Baker Park Joseph Creek.
| Internal ID: | 0042.0078 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 14th 1926 |
Airport Upgrades
Airport Upgrades
| Internal ID: | 0042.0220 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 1st 1938 |
City Airport
Grant made by Department of Transport to to extend and improve landing facilities at Cranbrook Airport
| Internal ID: | 0042.0223 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 18th 1938 |
Works and Electric Department Reports
Works and Electric Department Reports
| Internal ID: | 0042.0227 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | June 16th 1938 |
City Works Garage
Newspaper article two Cranbrook landmarks demolished in preparation of the Cranbrook Mall.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0020 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | July 27th 1966 |
Works Report 1930
Annual report by City Superintendent for Water, Sewers, Streets, Sidewalks, Drainage, Street Maintenance Departments of the City of Cranbrook.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0120 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 29th 1931 |
City Council
Cranbrook City Council monthly meeting, paying of accounts due, repairs and maintenance on city services and utilities.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0365 |
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| Medium: | Manuscript |
| Date: | October 18th 1917 |
Council Reports
Minutes of council meeting, mostly dealing with idea of airport field being handed over to the city.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0208 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | June 20th 1929 |
New Fire Hall Plans
Reporting the acceptance by Council for new three-stall firehall.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0210 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | June 20th 1929 |
City Expenditures
Listing estimated expenditures and grants approved by city council for the year 1939.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0708 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 16th 1939 |
Cranbrook Cemetery
Expansion of current cemetery with ornamental natural stone wall in budget.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0713 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | April 27th 1939 |
Cranbrook Cemetery
Cemetery project for Cranbrook municipal works given final approval by Government.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0725 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | July 27th 1939 |
Cranbrook Cemetery
City Works department gives report on cemetery and airport extensions.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0793 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 17th 1938 |
Tourist Park Interpretation
City of Cranbrook undertaking supervision of auto tourist camp grounds, with noticeable improvements.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0917 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | July 27th 1923 |
Tourist Park
Ongoing city works and electrical departments at cemetery, tourist park and scout hall detailed in report.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0957 |
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| Medium: | Manuscript |
| Date: | September 19th 1940 |
City Council
Detailing regular monthly meeting of Cranbrook's City Council dealing with things from war memorial plot to utilities.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0319 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 15th 1921 |
2nd Fire Hall
Cranbrook voters to decide in upcoming referendum on public works expenditure for new roads program, storm sewer program and building of a second fire hall.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0373 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 4th 1974 |
City Council Estimates
Cranbrook City Council held special session with estimates for upcoming years expenses and proposed by-laws.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0532 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 23rd 1922 |
Pool Construction
Construction of Cranbrook swimming pool, when completed, will be the largest outdoor pool in the province, other construction in Cranbrook is excavating for concrete sidewalk and widening of other sidewalks.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0876 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | April 17th 1930 |
Work On Baker Park
Newspaper article reporting that Baker Park has been cleaned up, and it is a pleasent place to spent an afternoon in Cranbrook. Also states a former useless building has been converted into a summer rest house.
| Internal ID: | 0053.0043 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | June 2nd 1927 |
Brewery Water Line
Cranbrook Works committee rescinds on deal to relay old brewery line as the city's legal authority questions their agreement.
| Internal ID: | 0053.0154 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 18th 1930 |
Council Meeting Report
Cranbrook City Council meeting burns midnight oil with large volume on agenda, including proposal of street lights in Slaterville, new concrete sidewalks, and closing of tourist park, playground and cemetery water facilities for the winter.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0612 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 20th 1930 |
Gold Creek Line Finished
New pipe line on the Gold Creek diversion has been tested out thoroughly, and after strengthening a few places, every requirement has been met.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0723 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | October 23rd 1930 |
Cranbrook Brewing Co. Water
City Council agrees to refund Cranbrook Brewing Co. water bill through rebates on monthly water accounts.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0729 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | October 23rd 1930 |
Council's Work Plan
Cranbrook City Council outlines work to be done by the unemployed in relief fund projects.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0741 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | October 30th 1930 |
Cranbrook Storm Sewer
6 years from start to completion, Cranbrook storm sewers final link working.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0741 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 7th 1935 |
City Council Report
Cranbrook City Council monthly meeting proved to be a lengthy session dealing with continuing freezing and thawing of water lines, sewer cave-in, icy sidewalks and extension of airport.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0820 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | February 20th 1930 |
City Works - Water
Cranbrook City Council working as the water supply committee authorizes the purchase of tractor with dragline equipment to use in preliminary work for laying pipe for conveyance of Gold Creek water to the city.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0839 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 6th 1930 |
Concrete Pipe
Cranbrooks' skating rink not to stand idle on off seasons but to be put to use as a place for making concrete pipe and will be used as an enclosure for livestock exhibit during fall fair.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0897 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 1st 1930 |
Gold Creek Pipeline
Local firm starts on construction of concrete pipe at Cranbrooks' Arena ring, which they will use as a factory during the summer, for Gold Creek water diversion.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0903 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 1st 1930 |
Unemployment
Cranbrook's unemployment remains acute due to slackness in lumbering trade, hopes of Gold Creek road drying up will relieve some of the unemployment when public works will get busy with diversion.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0908 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 1st 1930 |
Equipment Shed
Cranbrook airport builds equipment shed and 20,640 feet of pipe laid down on Gold Creek diversion project.
| Internal ID: | 0053.0092 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 21st 1930 |
Pipe Making Plant
City of Cranbrook makes a good investment when purchasing a pipe making machine, supplying city water works and selling off excess pipe.
| Internal ID: | 0053.0102 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 28th 1930 |
Concrete Pipe Finished
Cranbrook concrete pipe making machine completed its work for Gold Creek water project, turning out close to five miles of piping.
| Internal ID: | 0053.0118 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 11th 1930 |
Summer Work In The City
Ongoing and completed work carried on by the City, including cemetery improvements and tourist camp signs repainted and under construction.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0723 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | July 20th 1939 |
Jackson's Wall
Like Stonewall Jackson, Cranbrook man Jackson is fighting over a stonewall today.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0846 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 25th 1930 |
Joe Jackson
Cranbrook resident busy supervising two jobs at the same time, one is the construction of a stone retaining wall on his lawn and the other is removal of his store on Baker Street to new site on Norbury (10th Avenue South).
| Internal ID: | 0052.0902 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 1st 1930 |
