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605 Carrall Street, Vancouver, B.C. [B.C. Electric Carrall Street gas works]

File consists of architectural drawings of various structures at the Carrall Street gas works. The drawings depict site plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, details and schedules. The file includes the following sets of drawings:

Site plans, 1945: LEG2285.08240 to .08241
Detarrer rectifier house, 1947: LEG2285.08242 to .08243
Meter house, 1947: LEG2285.08244 to .08248
Pump house no. 1 & 2, 1947: LEG2285.08249 to .08252
Exhauster house east extension, 1948: LEG2285.08253 to .08260
Purifier boxes & naphthalene washers, 1949: LEG2285.08261 to .08281

100 Block East 13th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. [B.C. Electric car barns]

File consists of architectural drawings of various buildings at the B.C.E.R. car barns facility at the SE corner of Quebec Street and 13th Avenue, Blk 48 DL 302. The drawings depict block plans, footing plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, details and schedules. The file includes the following sets of drawings:

Additions and alterations to Mount Pleasant car barns, 1911: LEG2285.07798 to .07802
New car barn buildings, 1914: LEG2285.07803 to .07817

South Foot of Carrall Street, Vancouver, B.C. [B.C. Electric Railway Co. Carrall Street yards]

File consists of architectural drawings of multiple buildings at the B.C.E.R. Carrall Street yards. The drawings depict site plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, details and schedules. The file includes the following sets of drawings:

Workshop building, 1929: LEG2285.05102 to .05106
Trackman's toilets, 1931: LEG2285.05107
Men's services building, gas works, 1947: LEG2285.05108 to .05117
Electrical shops & lab, meter loading area, 1952: LEG2285.05118 to .05119

715 Main Street, Vancouver, B.C. [B.C. Electric substation]

File consists of architectural drawings of a series of structures comprising the B.C.E.R. Murrin Substation and annex. The drawings depict site plans, excavation plans, foundation plans, floor plans, roof plans, elevations, sections, details, schedules and a perspective rendering of the Murrin Substation. The file includes the following sets of drawings:

New substation on Main Street (addition), 1912 (copied 1940s?): LEG2285.04861 to .04867
City substation for BCER (Murrin substation), 1945: LEG2285.04868 to .04885
Murrin substation annex, 1949: LEG2285.04886 to .04909

425 Carrall Street, Vancouver, B.C. [B.C. Electric Railway head office and streetcar depot]

File consists of architectural drawings depicting the original design and subsequent alterations to the B.C. Electric Railway Co. Building (Carrall Hastings Building) on the south-west corner of Carrall and Hastings streets, including alterations to offices, public spaces and shops within the station building. The drawings depict floor plans, framing plans, elevations, sections, details and schedules. Projects documented in the file include:

Original design (architectural), [1910?]: LEG2285.02097 to .02110
Original design (structural), 1910: LEG2285.02111 to .02120
Proposed changes Carrall Street newsstand, n.d.: LEG2285.02121
Floor plan for lightwell, n.d.: LEG2285.02122
Proposed re-arrangement first floor head office, n.d.: LEG2285.02123
Alterations to ground floor, 1914: LEG2285.02124
Alterations to cigar stand, 1918: LEG2285.02125
Proposed boot black stand in Carrall St. Station, 1919: LEG2285.02126
Proposed exterior of Construction Department, 1926: LEG2285.02127 & .02128
Alterations & additions, 5th floor B.C. Electric Head Office, 1945: LEG2285.02129 to .02134
Load dispatch room, 1947: LEG2285.02135 to .02140
Changes to 3rd floor, 1947: LEG2285.02141
Addition to fire escape, 1965: LEG2285.02142
Carrall Building 5th floor, alterations to existing offices, 1967: LEG2285.02143 to .02147

North foot of Rogers Street, Vancouver, B.C. [British Columbia Sugar refinery]

File consists of architectural drawings of multiple generations of construction of buildings at the B.C. Sugar Refinery. The drawings depict site plans, plot plans, footing plans, foundation plans, floor plans, roof plans, elevations, sections, details, schedules and equipment schematics. The file includes drawings of the following projects:

Char and filter house, 1908: LEG2285.32585 to .32589
Addition to filter house, 1911: LEG2285.32590 to .32595
Women's building, 1911: LEG2285.32596
Alterations to old packing house, 1912: LEG2285.32597 to .32607
Addition to No. 1 warehouse, 1911-1912: LEG2285.32608 to .32612
New machine shop, 1912: LEG2285.32613 to .32621
No. 2 warehouse addition/completion, 1914: LEG2285.32622 to .32626
Transformer house, 1913: LEG2285.32627
Economizer housing, 1915: LEG2285.32628 to .32629
Syrup grain factory, 1914: LEG2285.32630 to .32633
Air compressor housing, 1916: LEG2285.32634
Garage, 1916: LEG2285.32635 to .32640
Raw sugar railway, 1916: LEG2285.32641 to .32643
Addition to phosphoric acid factory, 1916: LEG2285.32644 to .32648
Boiler house extension, 1917: LEG2285.32649 to .32652
Pulverized coal plant, 1918: LEG2285.32653
Machinery shop building, 1919: LEG2285.32654
Transformer station, 1920: LEG2285.32655 to .32657
Dust collecting room and interior sugar dust washer, 1920: LEG2285.32658
Gunny sack baling plant, 1922: LEG2285.32659
Two subsiders on roof of filter house, 1923: LEG2285.32660
Saltwater pumping station, 1923: LEG2285.32661 to .32662
Addition of 3 floors to No. 1 warehouse, 1923: LEG2285.32663 to .32665
Alterations and extension to filter house, 1926: LEG2285.32666 to .32671
Penthouse for hummer screens on No. 3 warehouse roof, 1929: LEG2285.32672 to .32673
20" belt sack conveyor from filter house to No. 3 warehouse, ca. 1930: LEG2285.32674
Platform for conveyor, 1932: LEG2285.32675
Blacksmith & sheet metal shop, 1938: LEG2285.32676 to .32682
Alterations to laboratory and offices building, 1939: LEG2285.32683 to .32684
Alterations to unidentified building, 19440: LEG2285.32685
Raw sugar bulk storage building: LEG2285.32686 to .32691
Boiler & power plant, 1944-1945: LEG2285.32692 to .32703
Bridge enclosure between offices & storeroom, 1947: LEG2285.32704
Manlift for No. 1 warehouse, 1949: LEG2285.32705 to .32706
Greenhouse and conservatory, 1952: LEG2285.32707 to .32708
Construction shop, 1952: LEG2285.32709 to .32710
New office building, 1952: LEG2285.32711 to .32755
New No. 2 raw sugar warehouse, 1955: LEG2285.32756 to .32771
Site plan of entire plant and index of buildings, 1959: LEG2285.32772
New pan house (architectural), 1959: LEG2285.32773 to .32781
New pan house (structural), 1959: LEG2285.32782 to .32825
New pan house (mechanical), 1959: LEG2285.32826 to .32841
New sugar bins, 1959: LEG2285.32842 to .32863
Site plan for new pan house and bins + arrangement of packing stations in pan house, 1958: LEG25285.32864 to .32866
Pre-cast concrete panels [for new pan house?], 1959?: LEG2285.32867
New screen room on roof of No. 3 warehouse, 1959: LEG2285.32868 to .32876
Extension of No. 2 raw sugar warehouse, 1967: LEG2285.32877 to .32887
Elevator pit for new melt house and conveyor gallery between No. 1 & No. 2 raw sugar warehouse, 1968: LEG2285.32888 to .32893
New melt house (architectural), 1968: LEG2285.32894 to .32901
New melt house (structural), 1968: LEG2285.32902 to .32909
Staff cafeteria alterations, 1976: LEG2285.32910 to .32914

5700 Block Dunbar Street, Vancouver, B.C.

File consists of an architectural drawing of a bus shelter, built for the bus loop at the south-west corner of West 41st Avenue and Dunbar Street. The drawing depicts floor plans, elevations and sections.

700 Block Main Street, Vancouver, B.C. [British Columbia Electric Railway substation]

File consists of architectural drawings of a B.C.E.R. substation located adjacent to an existing substation on Main Street. The drawings depict floor plans, elevations, sections and details. The file includes drawings of the following projects:

Original construction, 1912: LEG2285.22789 to .22801
Addition to meter room, 1914: LEG2285.22802 to .22804
Various additions and alterations, 1916-1934: LEG2285.22805 to .22809
Excavation plan, 1945: LEG2285.22810

B.C. Electric Railway lines completed and under construction

Map shows B.C. Electric Railway lines completed (in red), B.C. Electric Railway lines under construction (in yellow), lot numbers and major roads in the Greater Vancouver area from Burrard Inlet in the north to the north arm of the Fraser River in the south and from New Westminster in the east to Point Grey in the west.

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