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[Headgate valve house for Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1284.2
Item
[1913?]

Photograph shows building containing valves used to control the outflow from the lake during dam construction. Photograph also shows rock cut for the permanent overflow spillway, and the riprap facing of the upstream side of the dam.

[Headgate valve house for Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1284.1
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows building containing valves used to control the outflow from the lake during dam construction. Photograph also shows rock cut for the permanent overflow spillway, and the riprap facing of the upstream side of the dam.

Panorama of dam site taken from co-ord: 850.550S on 17th May 1913

AM54-S4-: LGN 1282
Item
17 May 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Coquitlam Dam site, showing construction camp, flumes and borrow pit.

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

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

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Man on sluicing flume for construction of Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1280
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows man on flume used to deposit materials to build up the dam. Flume is mounted on sloping timber caps.

[Coquitlam Dam construction camp and borrow pit]

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

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Coquitlam Lake and Coquitlam Dam construction camp]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1278
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Details of 60' "A" frame [used for overhead cableways in construction of Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1277.3
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a technical drawing produced by the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company.

Top details - head "A" frame [used for overhead cableways in construction of Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1277.4
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a technical drawing produced by the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company.

Top details - tail "A" frame [used for overhead cableways in construction of Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1277.2
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a technical drawing produced by the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company.

Details of 50' "A" frame [used for overhead cableways in construction of Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1277.1
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a technical drawing produced by the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company.

[Internal parts of electric transformer damaged by fire]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1276
Item
25 Apr. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[O.B. Allan clock]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1275
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows outdoor clock which was never installed at any location.

[Two men at partially constructed driveway at east end of C.P.R. station]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1274
Item
13 May 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Hastings Street, looking west from near Seymour Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1273
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Oak Street streetcar travelling along road at night]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1272
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows streetlights, and streetcar with headlight on.

[Electric sign for the Trocadero Grill]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1271
Item
2 Apr. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows sign, storefronts, and pedestrians on sidewalk.

[Diagram showing electrical connections of rectifier for New Westminster High School]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1270
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of technical drawing produced by the Standard Electric Time Co.

[Three men, including Distribution Engineer Mr. Busch (in bowler hat), on float in False Creek conducting an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1269.3
Item
6 May 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Three men on float in False Creek conducting an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1269.2
Item
[6 May 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Three men on float in False Creek conducting an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1269.1
Item
6 May 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows three men with equipment on a small float, and two men in canoes nearby.

[Man sitting in back seat of electrically operated passenger coupe style car]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1268
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electrically operated bus used by the Dunsmuir Hotel to meet boats at the dock]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1267.3
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electrically operated bus used by the Dunsmuir Hotel to meet boats at the docks]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1267.2
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electrically operated bus used by the Dunsmuir Hotel to meet boats at the docks]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1267.1
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electrically operated bus used by the Lotus Hotel to meet boats at the docks]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1266
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electric storage battery operated truck outside B.C. Electric Railway Co. building on Carrall Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1265
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men using a storage battery operated truck to haul reels of cable at the south side of False Creek]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1264.3
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men using a storage battery operated truck to haul reels of cable at the south side of False Creek]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1264.2
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men using a storage battery operated truck to haul reels of cable at the south side of False Creek]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1264.1
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Reconstruction of upper portion of penstocks for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1258
Item
16 Aug. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the pipes in the process of having the original wood stove sections replaced with rivetted steel sections.

[Partially constructed penstocks for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1257
Item
27 July 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men on the partially assembled pipes, including (left to right, sitting on scaffolding): F.S. Easton, Hydraulic Engineer for the B.C. Electric Railway Co., and Martin Tracey, Resident Engineer of the Buntzen Lake Power Plant.

[Upper portion of penstock number one for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1256
Item
11 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows section of penstock, butterfly valve and air vent intake pipe in background, and section for assembly of penstock number two behind beam of erection derrick.