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Subject: Railways

Transportation Ad

Newspaper advertisement of revised transportation schedule for the Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company.

Internal ID: 0054.0469
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 29th 1896

SF & N Ry Ad

Promotion of the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway and the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway.

Internal ID: 0054.0485
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 4th 1896

Columbia & Western RR

Federal government receives proposal to build the Columbia and Western Railway from Rossland to Penticton.

Internal ID: 0054.0377
Medium:Newspaper
Date: March 14th 1896

Heinze

Heinze promoting the Columbia and Western Railway and moving to Trail.

Internal ID: 0054.0380
Medium:Newspaper
Date: March 14th 1896

Transportation Notes

Notes regarding expansion and changes of transportation routes and facilities.

Internal ID: 0054.0459
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 23rd 1896

British Investors

British money being brought into Columbia and Western railway construction by Heinze.

Internal ID: 0054.0473
Medium:Newspaper
Date: July 31st 1896

C&W Railway Ad

Timetable for the Columbia and Western Railway.

Internal ID: 0054.0478
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 4th 1896

Transportation News

Columbia & Western Railway news.

Internal ID: 0054.0493
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 11th 1896

Trail Smelter News

A mix of Augustus Heinze and smelter news.

Internal ID: 0054.0507
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 25th 1896

Columbia and Western

Columbia & Western route and construction newws.

Internal ID: 0054.0511
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 6th 1898

Columbia and Western Construction

Details of railway construction contract.

Internal ID: 0054.0517
Medium:Newspaper
Date: June 10th 1898

Brooklyn News

Brooklyn News is launched by the editors of the Trail Creek News.

Internal ID: 0054.0521
Medium:Newspaper
Date: June 24th 1898

Cascade City

Description of the present and future prospects of Cascade City.

Internal ID: 0054.0527
Medium:Manuscript
Date: July 1st 1898

Wagon Road

Columbia & Western Railway construction begins with tote road.

Internal ID: 0054.0528
Medium:Newspaper
Date: July 1st 1898

C & W Construction

The big construction project is opening up.

Internal ID: 0054.0531
Medium:Newspaper
Date: July 15th 1898

Brooklyn Development

Brooklyn is expanding fast, with all the conveniences of Liquor, prostitution and business.

Internal ID: 0054.0534
Medium:Newspaper
Date: July 22nd 1898

McLean Bros.

McLean Bros. to do tunnel work at Brooklyn.

Internal ID: 0054.0537
Medium:Newspaper
Date: July 22nd 1898

Construction And Brooklyn News

Thousands of men being put on the job.

Internal ID: 0054.0538
Medium:Newspaper
Date: July 29th 1898

Timber Contract

Large cut of ties and bridge timbers underway.

Internal ID: 0054.0542
Medium:Newspaper
Date: July 29th 1898

Peterson Bros.

Another hotel for the Columbia & Western route.

Internal ID: 0054.0546
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 12th 1898

Railway Labour

Continent-wide search for railway labourers.

Internal ID: 0054.0547
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 12th 1898

C & W Tunnels

The immensity of the Columbia & Western construction job, including tunnels.

Internal ID: 0054.0553
Medium:Manuscript
Date: October 7th 1898

Big Tunnel

Columbia & Western railway construction.

Internal ID: 0054.0555
Medium:Newspaper
Date: November 11th 1898

Newspapers

Newspaper

Internal ID: 0054.0557
Medium:Newspaper
Date: November 18th 1898

C & W Construction

Building of the Columbia & Western Railway, Robson to Penticton.

Internal ID: 0054.0564
Medium:Newspaper
Date: June 30th 1899

C & W Construction

Bridge and tunnel work on the railroad.

Internal ID: 0054.0565
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 12th 1899

Cascade Record

The first locomotive into Cascade City.

Internal ID: 0054.0566
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 19th 1899

First Locomotive

Columbia & Western Railway into Cascade City and pushing on to Grand Forks

Internal ID: 0054.0567
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 19th 1899

C & W Construction

Passenger service to Grand Forks.

Internal ID: 0054.0570
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 2nd 1899

Railroad Construction

The track laying crew of the Columbia and Western Railway at Trail Creek, B.C. Notice the cut that has been made.

Internal ID: 0131.0691
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1900

Ore Bunkers at LeRoi Mine, 1897

Ore Bunkers at LeRoi Mine, 1897 Columbia and Western railway

Internal ID: 2305.0026
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1897

Columbia & Western Depot in Rossland, BC 1897

Columbia & Western Depot in 1897. Located on the southside of LeRoi Ave. between St. Paul St. and Monte Christo St. where the present highway enters Rossland from Trail

Internal ID: 2283.0091
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1897

Morrissey, Fernie & Michel Work Train c.1906

Miners going to work on Morrissey, Fernie & Michel railway at Fernie, B.C. c. 1906 .

Internal ID: 0049.0059
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1906

Michel and Natal, B.C. 1908

Michel B.C. "New Town, Michel B.C. 1908" with Michel Creek to the left and the Morrissey, Fernie and Michel Railway to the right.

Internal ID: 2040.0584
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1908

Sullivan Mine

Sullivan Mine in Kimberley finds great strike of ore with high assay values.

Internal ID: 0050.0311
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 18th 1898

Perry Creek

Reporting on establishing of mill, railroad and lumbering plant on Perry Creek.

Internal ID: 0051.0234
Medium:Newspaper
Date: March 26th 1904

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

North Star Railway

The work of laying of steel lines will have to be suspended on rail line until cuts are completed.

Internal ID: 0051.0298
Medium:Newspaper
Date: December 14th 1899

B.A.C. Company

Reporting on the extensive mining operations soon to start up at two locations in the area.

Internal ID: 0051.0307
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 31st 1900

Wycliffe Autoists

Comings and goings of Wycliffe residents by automobile and train.

Internal ID: 0052.0822
Medium:Newspaper
Date: February 20th 1930

Moyie Autoists

Newspaper article reporting an automobile accident west of Moyie. Also reporting the opening of a new Catholic Church in Kimberley.

Internal ID: 0053.0029
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 29th 1922

Smelter News

Marysville development news.

Internal ID: 0054.0222
Medium:Newspaper
Date: December 21st 1901

Boosting Marysville

An article charting Marysville's economy and industrial base.

Internal ID: 0054.0237
Medium:Newspaper
Date: January 25th 1902

Marysville News

Newspaper

Internal ID: 0054.0239
Medium:Newspaper
Date: January 25th 1902

Marysville Smelter

Site is expanding and lots of work.

Internal ID: 0054.0241
Medium:Newspaper
Date: January 25th 1902

CM & S Fertilizer Plant

A long view of the CM & S fertilizer plant from the southwest, November 24, 1952.

Internal ID: 0202.0003
Medium:Photograph
Date: November 24th 1952

CM & S Fertilizer Plant

C.M. & S. Fertilizer Plant - June 21, 1962; unloading first boxcar load of freight (plywood); John Sapriken, labourer (foreground) returning to boxcar for more plywood.

Internal ID: 0202.0031
Medium:Photograph
Date: June 21st 1962

Fertilizer Plant Construction

Fertilizer Plant Construction - Acid plant, rail lines and large crane lifting plant components into position, Oct. 27, 1952.

Internal ID: 0202.0071
Medium:Photograph
Date: October 27th 1952

Otis Staples Lumber Company

Photo of the Wycliffe lumber mill on the St. Mary's River, known as the Otis Staples Lumber Company. A good photo of the mill layout showing burner and railway access spur.

Internal ID: 0232.0005
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1910

Railway Worker

Unknown man standing on railway tracks, presumed near Kimberley, BC. It has been reported that the tracks to the concentrator were not standard gauge, and that this photo may be the overpass over Highway 95A? Does anyone have information on either of these points?

Internal ID: 0236.0001
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1946

Corbin, B.C.

This is the EBC track (the Eastern British Columbia) line through Corbin, B.C. c. 1910. The EBC was a subsidiary of Corbin Coal & Coke. Photo shows railway, commercial establishments and some houses.

Internal ID: 0182.0011
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1910

Corbin, B.C. Old Mining Town in the Crowsnest Pass

Corbin, B.C. old coal mining town, railroad known as the S.I. (Spokane International).

Internal ID: 0336.0020
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1920

General News

Economic, mining and political news.

Internal ID: 0054.0502
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 25th 1896

Messiter Tunnel

Sandy Czorny added: Canadian Northern Pacific Railway passenger train exiting the east end of the tunnel at Messiter, B.C. K.Deckert added: This tunnel is still in use at Mile 12.5 On the Clearwater subdivision 12.5 miles south of Blue River British Columbia. and less than a mile upstream from Little Hells Gate. North Thompson river in the fore ground.The trestle that is visible has long ago been filled in.

Internal ID: 0115.0027
Medium:Photograph
Date: 0000

Michel Townsite with B.C. Southern Rails Adjacent

Michel sitting right beside the B.C. Southern railway c. 1908

Internal ID: 2518.0041
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1908

Tramway Trouble

Dispute between Mr. Heinze and D.C. Corbin regarding construction of the Trail Creek Tramway.

Internal ID: 0054.0331
Medium:Newspaper
Date: February 1st 1896

Tramway

News of the Trail Creek Tramway.

Internal ID: 0054.0369
Medium:Newspaper
Date: March 7th 1896

Tramway Notes

Building the Trail Creek Tramway.

Internal ID: 0054.0400
Medium:Newspaper
Date: March 14th 1896

Tramway

Rolling stock for the Tramway.

Internal ID: 0054.0421
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 2nd 1896

Spokane Focus

Large article on Trail Creek mining prospects and the towns of Spokane, Trail and Rossland.

Internal ID: 0054.0436
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 9th 1896

Tramway

Work going ahead on the Tramway.

Internal ID: 0054.0439
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 9th 1896

Tramway

The Trail Creek Tramway is progressing with good speed.

Internal ID: 0054.0440
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 9th 1896

Trail People

People and business items re Trail and Rossland.

Internal ID: 0054.0492
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 11th 1896

Trail Smelter

Discussion on the ownership and importance of wood for fuel at smelters.

Internal ID: 0054.0366
Medium:Newspaper
Date: March 7th 1896

Hauling Canoes on the railway c.1925

Workers on a pumping a Handcar on the railway tracks pulling canoes just south of Golden, B.C. on the K.R.C. track c.1925

Internal ID: 1903.0065
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1925

Columbia & Red Mountain RR

President Cleveland gives sweeping rights to railway company for use of Colville Reservation lands.

Internal ID: 0054.0376
Medium:Newspaper
Date: March 14th 1896

Railway Ad

The Wisconsin Central Railway advertising connections to St. Paul, Chicago, Milwaukee and Portland.

Internal ID: 0054.0484
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 4th 1896

Cranbrook Realty Property Transfers

Newspaper article detailing the large number of property transfers being effected lately.

Internal ID: 0051.0083
Medium:Newspaper
Date: June 10th 1926

Navin

Harry Navin resigns his position as C.P.R. Storekeeper in Cranbrook, to join his father in contracting and building.

Internal ID: 0052.0423
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 23rd 1901

Lionel Deforge and Ernest Williams

Left person unknown, middle is Lionel Deforge, right is Ernest Williams ( Norah Meyer's granddad / Lionel's father-in-law ).

Internal ID: 0076.0036
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1950

Red Pass Junction B and B Men

Red Pass Junction B and B men - L to R: Fred Parsons, ,Stan Williams, Joe Brookes. Stan Williams married Lionel Deforge's sister. He was married one month then was killed in a tunnel collapse. The inquiry stated he was sent into the tunnel too quickly after blasting.

Internal ID: 0096.0008
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1940

Railway Construction

Crew working on railway construction - bridge building.

Internal ID: 0115.0001
Medium:Photograph
Date: 0000