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[Maps of] Railway Belt B.C.

19405Y
Item
[after 28 Sep. 1904]

Part of Archives cartographic collection

Item consists of one bound album measuring 43 x 57 cm. It contains seven maps of the Railway Belt of BC photo-lithographed at the Surveyor General's Office in Ottawa after September 28, 1904. Maps depict trails, trails surveyed, post offices, railway stations, range numbers, and township numbers. Each also includes a diagram "shewing subdivision of townships".

Maps include: Donald sheet, west of fifth meridian (90, revised to March 13, 1902); Sicamous sheet, west of sixth meridian (91, revised to Jun 4, 1903); Seymour sheet, west of sixth meridian (92, revised to July 5, 1904); Yale sheet, west of sixth meridian (93, revised to September 25, 1902); Lytton sheet, west of sixth meridian (94, revised to June 24, 1903); Kamloops sheet, west of sixth meridian (95, revised to September 28, 1904); and Port Moody sheet, west of seventh meridian (96, revised to August 2, 1902).

Thomas Hurley interview

T0620:0001
Item
1965-10-25

Part of Imbert Orchard fonds

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Thomas Cole Hurley remembers early days in the Lillooet district. Mr. Hurley recalls how his father, Daniel Edward Hurley, arrived from Nova Scotia around 1883; his uncle Thomas Jameson Cole; more about his father; Bridge River mines and its amalgamation into Bralorne in later years; working at the mine in 1912; his father's Victoria Hotel built in 1900; the town of Lillooet in the 1890s; the Chinese miners; more about Lillooet; the Depression; more on Lillooet in the 1890s, the industry, the town; anecdotes about Halley's Comet; Old Bill; and a New Years Eve prank.

TRACK 2: Mr. Hurley tells two stories about law and order; Lillooet's Chinese section; more anecdotes; Frank Gott; Lytton in the 1890s; the stopping houses; the stages between Lillooet and Lytton; arrival of the PGE Railway from Squamish; hunting; minerals; travel by road; steamers and river traffic in the early years; and the opening of the Golden Cache Mine.

Indian Church, Lytton.

B-05490
Item
[190-]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Lytton : cantiliver C.P.R. bridge over the Fraser River, under construction

A-05987
Item
[ca. 1882]

Part of Archives discrete item collection

The item is a b&w photograph of the C.P.R. bridge under construction at Lytton.

Lytton

A-05988
Item
[ca. 1882]

Part of Archives discrete item collection

The item is a b&w photograph of the C.P.R. bridge under construction at Lytton.

Lytton

A-03553
Item
[ca. 1885]

Part of Maynard family collection

Item consists of one photograph of the village of Lytton, taken from a distance, with railway tracks in the foreground. "Lytton, C.P.R." is captioned on the image.