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City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection Lower Mainland (B.C.) Railroads
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Map of the municipalities of New Westminster City and District, British Columbia

Part contains a map of the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley from the Gulf of Georgia in the west to Harrison Lake in the east. Map shows locations of churches, schools, canneries, sawmills, brickyards, tanneries, woolen mills and hatcheries; existing and proposed railways; and roadways.

Railroads of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia

Primary map shows railroads, railroad names, subdivisions, spurs or yards, timetable station names, station buildings, absolute signals, signal identities, hot boxes and/or dragging equipment detectors, mileboards, bridges and interchanges in the Greater Vancouver area from West Vancouver in the north to the United States border in the south and from Haney in the east to Horseshoe Bay in the west. Ancillary maps show the B.C. Rail Squamish subdivision, the Vancouver B.N., C.N. and C.P. railroad yards, New Westminster C.N., C.P. and S.R.Y. railroad details, Burlington Northern Brunette details, the Canadian National Thornton Yard and Coquitlam C.P. details.

Railroads of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, 1882-1992

Primary map shows existing track, abandoned track, station buildings and bridges in the Greater Vancouver area from West Vancouver in the north to the United States border in the south and from Haney in the east to Horseshoe Bay in the west. Ancillary maps show details of Vancouver B.C.E., C.No.P., C.P. and G.N. railroad yards and New Westminster B.C.E., C.No.P., C.P. details. The item also includes a chronology of railroad subsidiaries, takeovers and mergers.

Rights of way Vancouver and vicinity

Item is a portion of a topographical map of the Lower Mainland which has been extensively annotated to show the routes and rights-of-way of the various railways running through the region.

The lines shown are: Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian National Railway, Great Northern Railway, B.C. Electric Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway operated by B.C. Electric Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway joint operation with National Harbours Board Terminal Railway, Great Northern Railway joint operation with National Harbours Board Terminal Railway, Great Northern Railway joint operation with Canadian National Railway, National Harbours Board Terminal Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel and Pacific Great Eastern Railway lease to National Harbours Board.