City of Vancouver Archives

Log train on Vancouver Island

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-842
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[Sailors on deck during] navy corvette trial

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-869
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Big pole [loaded on a truck]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-867
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Inscription on verso of print "B.C. Telephone"

Cowichan Indian totem [inside house posts]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-846
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

These totems are inside house posts, originally they would have stood inside the house and supported house beams.

B.C. Electric Railway Interurban [car No. 1219 after] collision with truck carrying canned salmon

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-909
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Big pole [on a truck being escorted by police]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-868
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Chief Officer E.W. Gray [at the helm on the] S.S. "Prince Rupert"

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-852
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Full-length portrait

Navy corvette trial

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-870
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Man with oyster rake in oyster bed

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-831
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Salmon cans on track [after] B.C. Electric Railway Interurban collision with truck

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-911
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows people picking up cans

Salmon cans on track [after] B.C. Electric Railway Interurban collision with truck

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-910
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows people picking up cans near the Branscomb stop

Scenic [view on] Vancouver Island

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-844
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows a farm among the trees. Inscription on verso of print "Near Mission, B.C."
Steffens-Colmer notebook identifies photograph as "Scenic log fences and trees, Van. Is."

Navy corvette trial

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-871
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

C.N.R. [Canadian National Railway employee shovelling] coal

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-888
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

C.N.R. [employee shovelling] coal

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-889
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Man with oyster rake in oyster bed

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-832
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Inscription on verso of print "Oysters - B.C."

A.R.P. - Dr. Chen [visiting display]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-906
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[Truck after collision with] B.C. Electric Railway Interurban

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-912
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows the Branscomb stop

A.R.P. - Visiting firemen

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-905
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Cowichan Indian totem

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-845
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Soldier in tower

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-861
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Log train on Vancouver Island

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-843
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Mate Serka of "Cape Caution"

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-943
Item
[1943?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Inscription on verso of print "#5559 Mate Serko, forty year old crew member of the 'Cape Caution' inspects the seine enroute to the fishing grounds. 15 years fishing on the Pacific Coast is Mate's record. Don Coltman Photo."

Pacific Command landing barges

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2247
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Pacific Command landing barges

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2248
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Soldiers training on Vancouver Island

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1177
Item
1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

St. John Ambulance Association - blood grouping employees [at] A.R.P. Provincial Headquarters

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2243
Item
Mar. 18, 1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Troops training on Vancouver Island

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1172
Item
1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Vancouver Island A.R.P. [drill]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1629
Item
1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Pulling in nets aboard seiner ["Cape Knox"]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-930
Item
[1943?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows Cape Knox Crew 1943, left to right: Ira MacDonald, Alex MacKay (wearing hat with band), Dayton Haines (behind Alex), Rod Skinner, Joe Edwards and Gordon Wilson (skipper's son).
Identification by researcher in 1994.

Salmon on fish dock

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-949
Item
[1943?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Sockeye salmon in net

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-936
Item
[1943?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Inscription on verso of print "2 col x6 Saturday 1st Edition"
News clipping on verso of print " 'It's in the bag,' this young giant of the sea exclaims as the seine net has been pursed and the catch of salmon enclosed within the net between the seiner and the skiff. This catch is eyed by the brawny skiff man who takes out the end of the seine net."
Stamp on verso of print "Copyrighted Photograph / This copy sold for / use of original purchaser only. / Additional copies available."
Inscription on additional print "#5530 - Hundreds of captured sockeye salmon mill about as the seine is hauled in. Photo Don Coltman"
Date stamp "Aug 30, 1952"