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'From the painting by A. Sherriff Scott, R.C.A.'

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245 x 192 mm. A view looking along the line, with a sheer granite cliff to the left of the track. On the line itself four railwaymen pose for the camera on and beside a trolley. Hope lies on the Fraser River (glimpsed at the right of the photograph) south of Yale.

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245 x 193 mm. A view looking along the line which curves around a large granite outcrop with the Fraser River to the right of the track. Photograph probably taken near Sailors' Bar.

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245 x 192 mm. A view looking down on the steel cantilever bridge supported on stone piles which crosses the Fraser near Lytton. On the far side of the river the track enters a tunnel. The first bridge of its kind in North America, it was designed by the New Yorker C.C. Schneider.

Scope and Contents 243 x 192 mm. A view looking towards the Fraser River and Canyon with mountains in the distance. In the foreground beside the river is an Indian Reservation of wooden cabins, with a section of line visible at the left of the picture. The word 'rancherie', indicating a settlement of Indians, probably comes from the communal plank-house of the Pacific Coast Indians: 'We pulled the goods ... into a near-by large Indian house, called in those days a rancheree ...' (Moberly, c.1906, p....

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245 x 192 mm. A view looking down from the line along the drop into the Fraser River. This is presumably the accident described by Pierre Berton: 'An unexpected slide near Keefers Station was struck by a train with such impact that the locomotive became detached. It hurled over a 250-foot embankment, did a full somersault, and landed upright at the river's edge. The fireman and engineer climbed out, unhurt' (Berton, 1971 p. 192).

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A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Canada. The series also contains a few slides of historical events.

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246 x 191 mm. A view looking along the line towards a tunnel blasted through a rock outcrop, with the (?Fraser) River on the right. Exact location unidentified; Ruby creek is probably one of the many small creeks which run into the Fraser River.

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242 x 191 mm. A view looking along the line towards a tunnel blasted through a rocky outcrop, with the Fraser River at the left of the print.

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245 x 193 mm. A view showing the line curving along the Fraser Canyon, supported in places by trestlework, with three railway men standing in front of a tunnel in the foreground.

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246 x 192 mm. A view looking along the Fraser Canyon with the old Cariboo Road at the left of the picture. The railway tunnel entrance can just be seen in the background on the far side of the river. The tunnel is situated 20 miles upriver from Yale.

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240 x 189 mm. A view looking along the river with the old Cariboo Road visible on the far side.

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245 x 190 mm. A view looking down river from the northern end of the Fraser Canyon. Cisco Flat lies about 7 miles south of Lytton, the junction between the Fraser and Thompson Rivers.

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245 x 192 mm. A view looking along the line, which crosses a small trestle bridge and cuts through a rock outcrop, with the old Cariboo Road beneath. Photograph probably taken somewhere between Wellington Bar and the Suspension Bridge which crosses the Fraser River a little further north.

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245 x 193 mm. A view showing the line running beside the Fraser River on a stone embankment, with the old Cariboo Road running just below and alongside it. Photograph probably taken just south of Sailors' Bar.

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245 x 192 mm. A view looking along the Fraser Canyon showing the railway to the left of the river piercing three large granite outcrops. The Cariboo Road is on the other side of the river.

Scope and Contents 245 x 192 mm. A view looking along the line and over a small bridge with the Fraser River on the right. At the far right of the print can be seen the narrowly separated cliffs of Hellgate rapids, just north of the Black Canyon. It was through this narrow channel that Onderdonk, financially straitened by freight charges on the Cariboo Road, determined to send his supplies by steamboat. This was in the Spring of 1882. By the end of September he had built his boat and, after finding a crew...