Dams

Bridge across spillway of original dam

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-12
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the pump house

[Construction site for Coquitlam Dam, showing construction camp, flumes and borrow pit]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1281
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam

AM54-S4-: LGN 1301
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a cross section diagram of the dam, showing: rock fill in upstream and downstream toes; location of original dam buried in new structure; and the equivalent cross section of a concrete dam. Negative was created in order to produce a lantern slide of the image.

Coquitlam Dam

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-102
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the construction camp

Coquitlam Dam

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2859
Item
[193-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam - New Westminster intake site showing clearing done around the intake

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-70
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Coquitlam Dam construction camp and borrow pit]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1279
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Coquitlam Dam construction site, showing trestle and monitor in partially excavated area]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1138.1
Item
[1911?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam entrance channel cut looking towards headworks stake

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-46
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam from 2300.0 on 9th Aug. 1913

AM54-S4-: LGN 878
Item
9 Aug. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows centre of dam near completion.

Coquitlam Dam general view of entrance channel cut looking towards headworks stake showing monitor above slope

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-59
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam general view of ledge exposed at Mr. Schuyler's headgates site

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-28
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam headworks site as suggested by Mr. Schuyler after ledge exposed by monitors

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-29
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam headworks site as suggested by Mr. Schuyler after ledge exposed by monitors

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-30
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam headworks site as suggested by Mr. Schuyler after ledge exposed by monitors

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-31
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam looking along the slope in the headworks entrance channel

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-74
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam looking northeast

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-11
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view of the sluicing done for a proposed canal to sluice from south abutment of existing dam

Coquitlam Dam looking south from tunnel showing clearing

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-65
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam looking west

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-26
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the sluice pit from Mr. Schuyler's headgates site

Coquitlam Dam [showing a] view of sluicing done for proposed canal to sluice tunnel

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-18
Item
July 16, 1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph was taken from top of the slope at the west side of the river looking northeast

Coquitlam Dam [showing] bed rock exposure at headworks location at the end of the entrance channel cut

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-71
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam showing contractors' tunnel camp and lower half of new dam site

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-45
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam showing dam outline looking east

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-49
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] depth of water over crest of 5 feet

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-61
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the new facing on the crib in front of the pump house

Coquitlam Dam [showing] drag bucket entering tipple

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-10
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] drag bucket entering tipple

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-98
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] entance channel to headworks

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-36
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] entrance cut to sluice tunnel

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-56
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] entrance to channel cut

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-52
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam dam showing headworks cut, rock placed in upstream toe wall and shaft No. 1 on Westminster Tunnel line

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-44
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] headworks entrance channel looking from headworks location

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-67
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] hydraulic monitor sluicing material

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-53
Item
[ca. 1911]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] J.L. Albert and F. Proteau at monitors [in] entrance cut

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-37
Item

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] monitors at work [at] entrance channel to headworks

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-39
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] monitors in entrance cut

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-38
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] New Westminster intake site, coffer dam and shaft No. 2

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-68
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] original intake

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-101
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam showing outline looking west

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-47
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the construction camp

Coquitlam Dam [showing] overflow from spillway of original dam

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-48
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] sluicing material by hydraulic monitor

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-60
Item
[ca. 1911]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] sluicing materials on east bank of river by hydraulic monitors

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-50
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] trees cut down and ground cleared and ready to burn

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-62
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] view downstream from east bank over spillway

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-41
Item
[ca. 1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the pumphouse for sluicing

Coquitlam dam [showing] view of camp taken from platform on cedar tree at north side of dam site

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-81
Item
Sept. 9, 1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam site

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-13
Item
May 21, 1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam site

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-100
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam site

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-14
Item
May 21, 1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Coquitlam dam site covered in snow and ice]

AM54-S4-: LGN 868
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows partially completed dam structures, as well as the lower end of Coquitlam lake before the completion of the dam raised the level by sixty feet.