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Aerial view of piers, "Oriana" docked

Photograph depicts an aerial view of piers and the CP services building.

Rail cars and brick building in foreground of image; overpass leading to large building stationed on dock in right of image; white ocean liner named "ORIANA" in centre of image; North Shore mountains and what appears to be the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge in background.

Arrival of 1st Can. Pacific Train, May 1887

Photograph depicts the arrival of the first Canadian Pacific Train in Vancouver.

Crowd gathered on wood platform on stilts over water; train decorated with wreaths of flowers to right of train; rail causeway over water in centre of image; mill and forested area in background.

Arrival of 1st Can. Pacific Train, May 1887, with captioning written by Major Matthews, Vancouver City Archives

Photograph depicts the first Canadian Pacific Train in Vancouver.

Crowd gathered on wood platform on stilts over water; train decorated with wreaths of flowers to right of train; rail causeway over water in centre of image; mill and forested area in background.

Large caption written across top of image.

Note: Date of 1887 originally noted must be a mistake as Leonard Frank did not arrive on the west coast of North America, and more specifically in Vancouver or Victoria, until 1894. See "An Enterprising Life: Leonard Frank Photographs 1895 - 1944" by Cyril E. Leonoff.

B.C. Electric Plant, Ruskin, B.C.

Photograph depicts construction on Ruskin Dam.

Blurred locomotive passing through middle of image on raised railway tracks; two storey steel frame structure in middle of image, connected to bridge; outbuildings on top of hill in background.

Close view of train wheel

Photograph depicts train wheels

Close up, ground level view of round, iron wheel mechanism attached to underside of train; stationed on rail tracks; gravel, debris, and trail ties in foreground; printing on wheel mechanism reads "PATENTED", other illegible words.

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