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Contour plan of a portion of the City of Vancouver

Item is a map of the area from Chilco Street to Raymur Avenue and Coal Harbour/Vancouver Harbour to False Creek showing topographic contour lines, streets, block numbers (in Roman numerals), sewers, manholes, and elevations at various points along streets.

Contour plan 220a [Mt. Pleasant]

Item is a map showing the topography of the area south of False Creek to 15th Avenue in the south and from Glen Drive in the east to Bridge Street (now Cambie Street) in the west.

False Creek development : san [sanitary] sewers tentative layout

Item is a copy of a sheet from a sectional map of Vancouver which has been annotated to show the proposed locations of sanitary sewers in the area from Keefer Street in the north to 3rd Avenue in the south and from Clark Drive in the east to Ontario Street in the west.

Vancouver (B.C.). Engineer's Office

Hydro electric survey Green River to Alpha Lake

Item is a portion of a draft version of a map, which depicts hydro-electric survey data from the Green River north of Green Lake, to the headwaters of Millar Creek south of Alpha Lake. The map includes the route of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, timb

Hydro electric survey. Plan showing preliminary survey of Cheakamus Lake

Item is a topographical map showing a preliminary hydro electric survey of Cheakamus Lake, including a capacity diagram of Cheakamus Lake with dam at Section A-B and a cross-section on that line. The sheet includes a graph depicting the capacity of Cheakamus Lake with dam at section A-B. The map includes the Cheakamus River, creeks, characteristics of the terrain, elevations, and water level. Certified correct by Charles W. Williams.

Hydro electric surveys. Preliminary plan of Brandywine Creek

Item is a map which shows the results of a survey of the hydro-electric capacity of a section of Brandywine Creek, a tributary of the Cheakamus River north of Squamish, B.C. (D.L. 4098 and D.L. 4100]. The map depicts elevations, creek beds, gravel bars, flat areas, waterfalls, benches, wagon road and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway line. The map includes two cross-section maps of areas A-A and B-B. Notes on the map indicate that the elevations given are the height above the Pacific Ocean, and that Great Eastern Railway datum was used.

Plan and profile from Cultus Lake to Vedder Crossing

Item is a map sheet that contains one main map showing the area between Cultus Lake and Vedder Crossing. The sheet also contains four cross-sections of the Chilliwack River. MAP 1117 appears to be a draft version in the hand of the surveyor, H. Idsardi.

Garibaldi Lake study 1932-1933

Item is a graph depicting gauge water heights for Lesser Garibaldi Lake, Garibaldi Lake, Upper Rubble Creek, Lower Rubble Creek for the period Apr. 1932 to Apr. 1933.

British Columbia. Commercial map of B.C.

Item is a map depicting political and commercial information. The map shows the location of cities and towns, government agent offices, post offices, railway stations, villages, lighthouses, mining recording offices, international and inter-provincial boundaries, land district boundaries, park boundaries, hospitals, radio stations, telegraph and telephone lines, railways, roads and trails and elevations in British Columbia. An inset map shows details around southern Vancouver Island. The sheet also includes distance tables by coast, road, and rail, and an index of post offices.

Capilano and Seymour water sheds

Item is a map showing Capilano and Seymour water sheds, reservoirs, pipelines, lot numbers and major roads in the area from Howe Sound to Port Moody and Britannia to Delta. The item includes information about the drainage area, annual precipitation and annual runoff associated with the Capilano and Seymour water sheds.

The Empress of Asia

Item is an amateur film which captures the ocean liner RMS Empress of Asia as workers on scaffolding use brushes attached to long poles to apply BAPCO anti-corrosive second coat paint to the hull of the large ship. Multiple angles reveal features of the dry-docked ship typically obscured by water, including the ship's propellers and depth markers on the hull.

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