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Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. of the third CPR station site. View is looking west. Photograph shows the station site with a derrick, railcars, temporary track, steamshovel, and a locomotive. Image includes the 600 block of Cordova with the Hotel St. Francis and the second CPR station.

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. of the third CPR station site. View is looking east. Photograph shows the station site with a locomotive, railcars, and a steamshovel. Image includes the second CPR station and the 600 block of Cordova with the Austin Grand View Hotel and the Post Office.

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. of the third CPR station site. View is looking east. Photograph shows the station site with derricks and workmen. Image includes the 600 block of Cordova Street with pedestrians, carriages, the Hotel St. Francis, Austin Grand View Hotel, and the Depot Restaurant.

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. of the third CPR station site. View is looking west from the Kelly Douglas & Co. Building. Photograph shows the station site with derricks, the second CPR station, and the 600 block of Cordova Street with the Hotel St. Francis.

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. of the third CPR station site. View is looking west. Photograph shows the station site with derricks, railcars, and temporary tracks. Image includes the 600 block of Cordova St.

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. of the third CPR station site. View is looking sourthwest. Photograph shows the excavated site. Image includes south retaining wall, flat-bed railcars, the second CPR station, and the 600 block of Cordova St. with the Hotel St. Francis and Austin Grand View Hotel.

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. of the third CPR station site. View is looking east. Photograph shows the station site with derricks. Image includes the 500 - 600 blocks of Cordova St. with an electric streetcar, the second CPR station, the Hotel St. Francis, and Clarke & Stuart Stationers.

Caption with the photograph: Contrary to common belief the C.P.R. did not import Chinese labor to build the Railway. The Chinese were imported by contractor Andrew Onderdonk, building through B.C. under contract to the Canadian Government. The C.P.R. took over the line later.

Progress photograph for S.E. Junkins & Co. of the CPR Pier "B/C". View is looking north into Vancouver Harbour. Photograph shows the pier's foundation, the floating pile driver Tarzan, and new freight shed under construction.

Progress photograph for S.E. Junkins & Co. of the Tarzan, a floating pile driver. Photograph shows the completed Tarzan floating between Piers "A" (Section 2) and "D" with the CPR station and Vancouver waterfront in the background.

Progress photograph for S.E. Junkins & Co. of the CPR Pier "B/C". View is looking north into Vancouver Harbour. Photograph shows the pier foundation with concrete pilings, crane, and the floating pile driver Tarzan.

Panoramic view shows the barque "Curzon" , a tugboat "Commodore", Hastings Mill Store and other buildings on the Hastings Sawmill site.

Men and women assembled on the Court House steps for a group photograph.

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, & Co. of the third CPR Vancouver Terminal station. View is looking toward the station from the corner of Granville and Cordova Streets. Photograph shows the semi-completed station with scaffolding, news-boys, and street car tracks.