Subject: Surveyors and Engineers

Cranbrook Survey Crew

A survey crew working from Cranbrook, BC. Identified are Jack Smith, Spry Morris and AJ Morris. The Morris brothers were sons of Sherrif "Baldy" Morris.

Internal ID:	0008.0004
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1915

Surveying at Cherry Creek

Cranbrook surveyors at Cherry Creek returning from a day of work. Stewart Morris in back.

Internal ID:	0008.0005
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Fredrick Whitworth Aylmer

Fredrick Whitworth Aylmer was born February 4, 1850 and died September 21, 1920. He was a registered Civil Engineer, a member of the Peerage by birth, and a Captain in the Canadian Militia.

Internal ID:	0015.0001
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1905

Cranbrook Divisional Headquarters

Cranbrook to be the largest and best town in East Kootenay due to Crow's Nest Pass Railroads decision to make Cranbrook it's divisional headquarters.

Internal ID:	0050.0194
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 12th 1898

Engineer Garden

Wardner C.P.R. Engineer was in Cranbrook last week.

Internal ID:	0050.0199
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 12th 1898

Cranbrook System Survey

Cranbrook water system survey from St. Joseph's creek commenced and should take six weeks to complete.

Internal ID:	0050.0213
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 19th 1898

Garden Avenue

Cranbrook has new bridge over Baker Street near Garden Avenue.

Internal ID:	0050.0244
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 10th 1898

Crows Nest Construction

Crows Nest Pass Chief of Construction satisfied with the progress of work being done in Cranbrook and roundhouse construction to start immediately.

Internal ID:	0050.0249
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 4th 1898

Wardner

Crow's Nest Pass Railway line now completed to Wardner, making it a boom town with many residents and visitors enjoying the busy times.

Internal ID:	0050.0252
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 4th 1898

H. L. Cummins, Surveyor

Provincial land surveryor from Fort Steele.

Internal ID:	0050.0282
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 4th 1898

Cranbrook Notes

Comings and goings of Cranbrook residents and visitors.

Internal ID:	0050.0293
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 11th 1898

Wardner Notes

Comings and goings of residents and visitors of Wardner, as well as another commission of inquiry over two deaths by diptheria with allegations of neglect and inhuman treatment.

Internal ID:	0050.0297
Medium:	Manuscript
Date:	August 11th 1898

Basin Notes

Newspaper article noting ongoing prosperity and growth in the basin, including new fire hall in Grand Forks, new post office in Greenwood, Chinese still barred from B.C. mines.

Internal ID:	0050.0298
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 11th 1898

Crow's Nest Pass Railway

The days of slow, unreliable and expensive transportation in East Kootenay soon to be a matter of history as rail line almost complete and many contractors leaving for elsewhere.

Internal ID:	0050.0301
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 11th 1898

Railway Lands

Only unsurveyed lands along the line of the Crow's Nest Pass road are available for settling, no other lands and in no other district.

Internal ID:	0050.0304
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 11th 1898

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

Wardner Notes

First train of cars to cross Kootenay River, ferry across river now charges, comings and goings of Wardner residents and visitors.

Internal ID:	0050.0312
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 18th 1898

In Wardner

Oldtime rider named "Kootenay Brown" visits two surveying camps bringing mail and messages.

Internal ID:	0050.0558
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 29th 1897

Deaths On Construction

Young local Invermere man missing and presumed dead after canoe accident on the Columbia River while surveying for the Big Bend automobile highway.

Internal ID:	0050.0658
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 2nd 1930

McVittie & Laidlaw

Mining engineers and surveyors in Cranbrook.

Internal ID:	0050.0953
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 5th 1905

McVittie

Cranbrook resident returns from a year in Nelson to take over his old surveying business.

Internal ID:	0050.0957
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 9th 1905

Cranbrook - Firsts

Detailing first things in Cranbrook, from first building to first baby born.

Internal ID:	0050.0985
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 19th 1908

Official Report On Kootenay

Coverage of the official trip to Kootenay Country by Colonial Secretary Birch. A very complete description of methods of access and the amount of gold coming out of the creek. Also a short list of provision prices.

Internal ID:	0051.0012
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 11th 1864

Columbia River Mines Report

Article featuring a letter from Mr. Murphy, formerly at William Creek in the Cariboo. He mentions many Caribooites on the Big Bend and discusses the promise of the new gold field.

Internal ID:	0051.0019
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 27th 1865

Kootenay and Columbia Diggings

Newspaper reports featuring comments from Expresman Reade with regard to ongoing digs in Kootenay and Columbia mines. Good description of the Big Bend workings.

Internal ID:	0051.0033
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 14th 1865

Big Bend Mines Rich Diggings

An excerpt from Government Gazette with second official report on the rich placer diggings at the Big Bend Mines of not only being very rich but also extending over a large area of the country.

Internal ID:	0051.0069
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 29th 1865

Thomas T. McVittie

Reporting on surveying in Galloway vicinity being done on timber limits.

Internal ID:	0051.0218
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 23rd 1904

A.W. McVittie

Surveys of land purchases, pre-emptions, mining claims, etc.

Internal ID:	0051.0517
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 31st 1901

Route Surveying

Describing the trials and tribulations of two men travelling from Lethbridge to Fort Steele, report also gives distances and descriptions of places encountered along the way.

Internal ID:	0051.0551
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 29th 1897

Construction Notes

Newspaper article reporting 150 men arriving in Calgary to work on new railway and the Trade and Labor Council being opposed to Minister of the Interior bringing people from the Old Country to work on Crow's Nest Pass railway when there are enough people in Canada to build it.

Internal ID:	0051.0561
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 29th 1897

Railway Construction

Ongoing constuction of railway to and around Cranbrook. The Canadian-Alien law is being strictly enforced, and no workmen but Canadians will be employed.

Internal ID:	0051.0582
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 12th 1897

Swansea Surveyed

Reporting on another new townsite being surveyed near Moyie Lake.

Internal ID:	0051.0607
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 7th 1897

Thomas McVittie

Land surveryor from Fort Steele.

Internal ID:	0051.0667
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 11th 1907

Cranbrook Townsite Office

One of the first buildings erected in Cranbrook undergoing alterations.

Internal ID:	0051.0709
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 23rd 1939

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

Crows Nest Railway Survey

Civil engineers from Montreal pass through Golden enroute to Crow's Nest Pass to survey C.P.R. Crow's Nest Railway.

Internal ID:	0051.0878
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 27th 1893

Big Bend Report

Newspaper article stating Mr. Ashdown Green, C.E., brings word from Big Bend of the richeness of the mines but also of the rough terrain in which prospecting would have to be done in early spring.

Internal ID:	0052.0009
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 12th 1866

Big Bend Map

Newspaper article describing the printed map to Big Bend as well as to the Kootenay and Cariboo.

Internal ID:	0052.0032
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 1st 1866

Cranbrook Airport

Department of National Defense aviators fly into Cranbrook airport on their exploration of proposed southern air mail route, met by board of trade representatives. Board of Trade about to give deed to the property of airport to City Council.

Internal ID:	0052.0793
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 23rd 1930

West Kootenay News

Mining and town news.

Internal ID:	0054.0107
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 25th 1896

Railroad Construction

Work has started.

Internal ID:	0054.0175
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 23rd 1895

Kaslo Notes

Railway construction, ministers and government offices.

Internal ID:	0054.0190
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 6th 1895

Assayer Ad

Newspaper advertisement

Internal ID:	0054.0195
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 27th 1895

Marysville News

People and events.

Internal ID:	0054.0231
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 4th 1902

CPR Survey

Surveying railway line between Robson and Trail.

Internal ID:	0054.0302
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 1st 1896

Beaver Creek Water

Water rights pre-empted.

Internal ID:	0054.0338
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 22nd 1896

Trail Development

CPR to boom a new townsite additional to Trail.

Internal ID:	0054.0393
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 14th 1896

Deer Park

An expansive description of Deer Park before development.

Internal ID:	0054.0425
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 9th 1896

Transportation Notes

Notes regarding expansion and changes of transportation routes and facilities.

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

Railroads

Promotion of Heinze's efforts to build a railway through the Boundary to Penticton.

Internal ID:	0054.0472
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 24th 1896

Brooklyn History

A good write-up on Brooklyn.

Internal ID:	0054.0519
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 17th 1898

C & W Engineering

Construction of the Columbia & Western Railway.

Internal ID:	0054.0552
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 30th 1898

Road Bed

L.J. Cole was a surveyor and resident engineer for the construction of the GTP railway. This looks to be part of the railway road bed.

Internal ID:	0070.0102
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1912

First Wooden Trestle

L.J. Cole was a surveyor and resident engineer for the construction of the GTP railway. L.J. Cole standing on first wooden trestle at present mile 12.8 (old MP 39-40)

Internal ID:	0070.0106
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1912

First Wooden Trestle

L.J. Cole was a surveyor and resident engineer for the construction of the GTP railway. Woman standing beside GTP first wooden trestle M.P. 12.8

Internal ID:	0070.0107
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1912

Thompson Crossing 1914

Division 12 Engineering staff, office interior at Thompson Crossing, 1914.

Internal ID:	0086.0001
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1914

GTP Survey Moving Camp in Winter 1911/12

Grand Trunk Pacific surveyors moving camp in winter 1911/12.

Internal ID:	0090.0012
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1912

120th Meridian Boundary on the Peace River

Looking up Peace River where the 120th meridian, the boundary between BC and AB, crosses the river.

Internal ID:	0107.0030
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	May 29th 1930

Civil Engineer

Civil Engineer, C.R. Ward for Canadian Pacific Railway, Cranbrook, BC

Internal ID:	0156.0009
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

McVittie & Parker Advertisement

This ad is from the Professional Cards and Lodge Notices section of the newspaper. Ad Copy: McVittie & Parker P.L.S. & C.E. Cranbrook, ... B.C.

Internal ID:	0185.0007
Medium:	Ephemera
Date:	April 26th 1913

J. T. Laidlaw Advertisement

Newspaper - Professional Cards and Lodge Notices section. Ad Copy: J. T. Laidlaw, Mining Engineer and B.C. Land Surveyor, P.O. Box 236 Phone 222 CRANBROOK, ... B.C.

Internal ID:	0185.0012
Medium:	Ephemera
Date:	April 26th 1913

Wardner C.P.R. Bridge

Charles R. Ward standing beside one of the concrete piers of the C.P.R. railway bridge across the Kootenay River at Wardner, B.C. He was engineer on this project and is inspecting the concrete forms for one of the piers.

Internal ID:	0226.0011
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

Wardner C.P.R. Bridge

Charles R. Ward standing beside one of the concrete piers of the C.P.R. railway bridge across the Kootenay River at Wardner, B.C.

Internal ID:	0226.0012
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

CPR Surveyors at Cranbrook

CPR surveyors in a Cranbrook office, ca. 1900. Charles R,. Ward was part of this crew, presumably the young man with the cigar in his mouth.

Internal ID:	0226.0013
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

Charles R Ward

hareles R. Ward, c. 1912, railway construction surveyor and engineer.

Internal ID:	0226.0018
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1912

Charles R Ward

Charles R. Ward standing on platform og a railway car, perhaps a work office?

Internal ID:	0226.0021
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Charles R Ward

Charles R Ward & others at Capilano Canyon near Vancouver.

Internal ID:	0226.0022
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1920

Charles R Ward

Charles R. Ward & other surveyors, presumably for railroad.

Internal ID:	0226.0024
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1910

Charles R Ward

Charles R Ward & other graduates at McGill University, c. 1900. Presumably engineering class

Internal ID:	0226.0025
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

Surveying Cranbrook Townsite

Photo of the Cranbrook town site survey crew, ca. 1896. You can see fifteen unidentified men with tents in the background. Believed to be part of the Garden Herman & Burwell crew.

Internal ID:	0233.0001
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1896

Miners At Portal

Sullivan mine, Kimberley, BC - portal 3900 level, old machine shop in background. L-R: CDM Chisholm, unknown, unknown, Clarence Myrene, with surveyor's transit.