Subject: Highway 3

Moyie from top of Mine Headframe

Image of Moyie BC taken in the 1960's from atop of the mine headframe.

Internal ID:	0002.0020
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1965

Postcard - West Entrance to Cranbrook, BC

Image showing the entrance to Cranbrook, BC, featuring West Arch. Note unpaved gravel highway.

Internal ID:	0003.0007
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1940

Automobile Road through the Rockies

Scenery on the Automobile Road through the Rockies from Cranbrook, B.C., c. 1913. Postcard front, linked to 0019.0166.

Internal ID:	0019.0165
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1913

Automobile Road through the Rockies

Scenery on the Automobile Road through the Rockies from Cranbrook, B.C., c. 1913. Postcard front, linked to 0019.0166.

Internal ID:	0019.0166
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1913

East Arch Entrance to Cranbrook, BC

Unused color chrome postcard of the East Arch entrance to Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID:	0039.0045
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1950

East Arch Entrance to Cranbrook, BC

Unused color chrome postcard of the East Arch entrance to Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID:	0039.0046
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1950

West Arch, Cranbrook, BC

Unused B&W real photo postcard of the West Arch entrance to Cranbrook BC with Shell gas station and Mount Fisher in the background.

Internal ID:	0039.0047
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1940

West Arch, Cranbrook, BC

Unused B&W real photo postcard of the West Arch entrance to Cranbrook BC with Shell gas station and Mount Fisher in the background.

Internal ID:	0039.0048
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1940

West Arch Entrance, Cranbrook, BC

Unused B&W real photo postcard of the West Arch entrance to Cranbrook, BC including Imperial gas station and faint view of Mount Fisher in the background.

Internal ID:	0039.0049
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1940

West Arch Entrance, Cranbrook, BC

Unused B&W real photo postcard of the West Arch entrance to Cranbrook, BC including Imperial gas station and faint view of Mount Fisher in the background.

Internal ID:	0039.0050
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1940

East Arch Entrance to Cranbrook, BC

Used hand coloured real photo postcard of East Arch Entrance to Cranbrook, BC with public elementary school in background. Nelson postal circle date stamp Feb.17, 1944. Cranbrook Series No. 47. Made in England

Internal ID:	0039.0051
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1940

East Arch Entrance to Cranbrook, BC

Internal ID:	0039.0052
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1940

East Arch Entrance, Cranbrook, BC

Unused B&W real photo postcard of the East Arch entrance to Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID:	0039.0053
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1945

East Arch Entrance, Cranbrook, BC

Unused B&W real photo postcard of the East Arch entrance to Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID:	0039.0054
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1945

East Arch Entrance, Cranbrook, B.C.

Unused B&W real photo postcard of the East Arch entrance to Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID:	0039.0055
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1945

East Arch Entrance, Cranbrook, B.C.

Unused B&W real photo postcard of the East Arch entrance to Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID:	0039.0056
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1945

East Arch Entrance, Cranbrook, B.C.

Unused B&W real photo postcard of the East Arch entrance to Cranbrook, BC. Velox stamp box style dates between 1945-1949.

Internal ID:	0039.0057
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1947

East Arch Entrance, Cranbrook, B.C.

Unused B&W real photo postcard of the East Arch entrance to Cranbrook, BC. Velox stamp box style dates between 1945-1949.

Internal ID:	0039.0058
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1947

Lizard Range and Crowsnest Highway, Fernie, B.C.

Showing the Lizard Range, looking south on the Crowsnest Highway near Fernie, B.C. Postcard front, linked to 0039.0342.

Internal ID:	0039.0341
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1915

Lizard Range and Crowsnest Highway, Fernie, B.C.

Showing the Lizard Range, looking south on the Crowsnest Highway near Fernie, B.C. Postcard front, linked to 0039.0342.

Internal ID:	0039.0342
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1915

Fernie-Cranbrook Road Scenic View

A scene along the Cranbrook-Fernie road, with the road hard-surfaced. This is a nearly view of a portion of Highway 3. Cranbrook Series No. 56.

Internal ID:	0039.0343
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1925

Fernie-Cranbrook Road Scenic View

A scene along the Cranbrook-Fernie road, with the road hard-surfaced. This is a nearly view of a portion of Highway 3. Cranbrook Series No. 56.

Internal ID:	0039.0344
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1925

Highway 3 between Fernie and Cranbrook

Fernie, A Scene Along the Cranbrook-Fernie Road, B.C. An early view of a portion of Highway 3. Cranbrook Series No. 60.

Internal ID:	0039.0347
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1925

Highway 3 between Fernie and Cranbrook

Fernie, A Scene Along the Cranbrook-Fernie Road, B.C. An early view of a portion of Highway 3. Cranbrook Series No. 60.

Internal ID:	0039.0348
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1925

Highway 3 Tunnel

Tunnel on Highway 3 between Fernie and Elko, B.C. This was originally a tunnel on the Great Northern Railway roadbed.

Internal ID:	0039.0349
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1960

Highway 3 Tunnel

Tunnel on Highway 3 between Fernie and Elko, B.C. This was originally a tunnel on the Great Northern Railway roadbed.

Internal ID:	0039.0350
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1960

Buffalo Rock

Buffalo Rock, an early view of Highway 3 near Fernie, B.C.

Internal ID:	0039.0351
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	0000

Buffalo Rock

Buffalo Rock, an early view of Highway 3 near Fernie, B.C.

Internal ID:	0039.0352
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	0000

The Lizard Range

The Lizard Range of the Rocky Mountains near Fernie, B.C., along with an early view of Highway 3.

Internal ID:	0039.0371
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1925

The Lizard Range

The Lizard Range of the Rocky Mountains near Fernie, B.C., along with an early view of Highway 3.

Internal ID:	0039.0372
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1925

Kuskanook Road

Internal ID:	0042.0246
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 15th 1927

Kimberley Board Of Trade

Regular monthly meeting of Kimberley Board of Trade, touching on the subject of paving the southern trans-provincial highway and starting to prepare for relief and donations to Kimberleys unemployed.

Internal ID:	0050.0538
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 10th 1931

Trail Condition Survey Ordered

Microfilm Reel B1317 - correspondence authorizing surveying and estimate of cost to repair trail from Hope to Similkameen.

Internal ID:	0050.0890
Medium:	Manuscript
Date:	May 25th 1864

Auto Accident - Clapp

On a car accident occuring when one driver pulled over to let other car by and grade giving away. One serious injury occured.

Internal ID:	0051.0148
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 18th 1924

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
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 11th 1936

Road Work

Two picks and four shovels arrive in Moyie for road gang crew of two men.

Internal ID:	0052.0102
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 25th 1915

Sash & Door Kitchener

Creston Review reports Kitcheners' Sash and Door Mill has forty men on payroll and more is expected, as four loads of timber to be used on bridge construction on Sirdar - Kuskanook road.

Internal ID:	0052.0270
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 27th 1921

Dewdney Trail

Newspaper excerpt Spokane Review - interviews ex-Governor George Dewdney on the reasoning behind and blazing of Dewdney trail through southern B.C.

Internal ID:	0052.0437
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 10th 1901

Tote Road

Tote Road from Rykert's to Moyie Lake is completed for 17 miles and should be finished to the lake in a month.

Internal ID:	0052.0516
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 30th 1897

Moyie Autoists

Newspaper article travelling from Cranbrook to Moyie is now easier and more scenic, with new road being done to save mileage and cutting down on grades.

Internal ID:	0052.0585
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 11th 1922

Road Reconstruction

Ongoing road work on outlying areas in Cranbrook district nearing completion, and more work will be done on Kimberley/Windermere road once equipment being used in other construction gets freed up.

Internal ID:	0052.0914
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 8th 1930

Wycliffe Beats Cranbrook

Newspaper article reporting that due to weather conditions the Yahk ball team is unable to attend their opening game with Wycliffe. Cranbrook substituted, with disastrous results.

Internal ID:	0053.0022
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 12th 1922

The Kuskanook Road

Newspaper article reporting that the boards of trade are pushing for the completion of the southern Trans-Canada highway.

Internal ID:	0053.0053
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 17th 1930

Three Sisters or Trinity Mountains

Looking at the Three Sisters above Fernie from the early road linking Fernine and Cranbrook.

Internal ID:	0223.0013
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1920

Cranbrook Railway Museum Site

The site of the Cranbrook Railway Museum (now the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel) before expansion; 1981.

Internal ID:	0335.0001
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1981

East Highway Arch, Cranbrook

East Arch (east entrance to city of Cranbrook) over Highway 3, 1939.

Internal ID:	0385.0001
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1939

Canadian Museum of Rail Travel

The rail coach 'Argyle' and a CPR caboose at Canadian Museum of Rail Travel in Cranbrook ,1978. The photo also shows the proximity of the museum to Highway 3.

Internal ID:	0399.0002
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1978

Tunnel Hill at Moyie Lake

Tunnel Hill at Moyie Lake, near Cranbrook, B.C. This view shows the highway before any hard surfacing occurred. (Cranbrook Series No. 8), postcard front, linked to 0457.0466.

Internal ID:	0457.0465
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1925

Tunnel Hill at Moyie Lake

Tunnel Hill at Moyie Lake, near Cranbrook, B.C. This view shows the highway before any hard surfacing occurred. (Cranbrook Series No. 8), postcard front, linked to 0457.0466.

Internal ID:	0457.0466
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1925

Crowsnest Mountain from Highway 3

Crowsnest Mountain from Highway ,. c. 1965. Crowsnest Mountain dominates the Alberta landscape, marking the eastern entrance to the Crowsnest Pass.

Internal ID:	0460.0022
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1965

Crowsnest Mountain from Highway 3

Crowsnest Mountain from Highway ,. c. 1965. Crowsnest Mountain dominates the Alberta landscape, marking the eastern entrance to the Crowsnest Pass.

Internal ID:	0460.0023
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1965

Bonderoff Farm

Grasndmother Nastya to left and grandfather William Bonderoff in background. Brothers and sister Phillip, Winnie and Nicholas Bonderoff working in the garden potato patch, with highway behind. A large row of sunflowers to the right.

Internal ID:	0473.0028
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1940

Phillip Bonderoff

Phillip Bonderoff walking in from the highway on the Bonderoff farm south of Salmo, B.C.

Internal ID:	0473.0033
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1940

Bonderoff Farm

Bonderoff farm house and barn as seen from what was once Highway 3 south of Salmo, B.C.

Internal ID:	0473.0096
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1985

Tourist Map of East Kootenay

A travel map of East Kootenay, printed on the full reverse side of the Cranbrook Board of trade "Gateway" pamphlet, featuring facilities for the auto tourist and showing the Banff-Windermere highway and the road between Radium and Golden as unpaved. In fact the only paved highway is that coming up through Kingsgate as far as Radium Hot Springs, and the highway out of Calgary through Banff to Lake Louise - everything else is dirt road.

Internal ID:	0484.0004
Medium:	Map
Date:	1930

Canadian Rockies Circle Tour

This map shows the Banff-Windermere Highway as a portion of a larger circle tour that incorporates Calgary and Macleod, Alberta as well as Fort Steele, Windermere and Golden, B.C. Interestingly, Cranbrook is not on the map.

Internal ID:	0484.0007
Medium:	Map
Date:	1924

Moyie Lake

Moyie Lake, with Highway 3 running along the eastern shore.

Internal ID:	0505.0015
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1970

Moyie Lake

Moyie Lake, with Highway 3 running along the eastern shore.

Internal ID:	0505.0016
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1970

Moyie Lake

View of Moyie and the lake from above, looking northwest. The Crows Nest Pass Railway and Highway 3 are visible in the foreground.

Internal ID:	0505.0019
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1970

Moyie Lake

View of Moyie and the lake from above, looking northwest. The Crows Nest Pass Railway and Highway 3 are visible in the foreground.

Internal ID:	0505.0020
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1970

Moyie Lake from the Highway

A view of Moyie Lake from Highway 3, with some old footings from the St. Eugene Mine complex in the foreground.

Internal ID:	0505.0021
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1970

Moyie Lake from the Highway

A view of Moyie Lake from Highway 3, with some old footings from the St. Eugene Mine complex in the foreground.

Internal ID:	0505.0022
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1970

Moyie Fire Hall

The Moyie Fire Hall, c. 1988, with Highway 3 in the foreground.

Internal ID:	0507.0001
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1988

Irishman Creek Dine and Dance

Irishman Creek Dine and Dance, owned by Annie Ophelia 'Midge' Robson, And located on the highway at Irishman Creek. She passed away in 1959. Her daughter Marie kept the business for another 4 years before selling it to Al & Norma Broderick.