Monday, August 25, 2014

Pictures of CP Empress Ships

Empress of Russia entering Vancouver Harbour June 7th 1913

CPR RMS Empress of Indian circa 1900

Empress of India at the cocks in Vancouver circa 1898

CP Pier B-C in 1935 with the Empress of Japan (1929) in the background and the Aorangi in the foreground

Empress of Canada approaching Pier B-C in 1930

Empress of Canada entering Vancouver Harbour circa 1927
Empress of Japan (1890) at the outer harbour in Victoria in 1903

Empress of Japan (1929) entering Vancouver Harbour circa 1930

Empress of Russia leaving Vancouver circa 1928



Some photos of CP Princess Ships

Motor Princess in 1930 - 
Motor Princess in 1962 - yes, this is the same ship as the one above

Princess Charlotte in the foreground and Princess Kathleen behind, Esquimalt Graving Dock

Princess Elaine in Ganges 

Princess Maquinna in Bamfield 1948

Princess Marguerite in three different liveries

Princess of Nanaimo in the Inner Harbour in 1959 
Princess of Vancouver leaving Vancouver in 1974

Princess Patricia in 1965

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Film of a CPR Steam Train to Kootenay Lake and then the SS Moyie on the ...

MV Anscomb ferry leaving from Kootenay Bay ca 1950s

Construction of the wooden roller coaster at the PNE/Playland in 1958

Bridging the Nass - A BC Forest Service film from 1976

Aerial view of Cowichan Lake and CN Trestles in 1955

Fresh From The Deep: film of BC's halibut fishery in 1922

Lumbering in British Columbia - a silent film from circa 1925

How Salmon are Caught - a Canadian government film from about 1921

Sandbagging in Richmond for the great flood of 1948