GR-0817 British Columbia Railway Department Railway Dept. correspondence files Originals m

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1 GR-0817 British Columbia Railway Department Railway Dept. correspondence files Originals m The Railway Department, established in 1911 by the Railway Department Act (1911, c.45), assumed responsibility for the regulation and control of all railways operating under the Railway Act of B.C. Railways which operated under federal charter came under federal regulation. In 1959, the Railway Department was incorporated into the newly created Department of Commercial Transport by the Department of Commercial Transport Act (1959, c.12). A further reorganization in 1973 expanded the department's responsibilities and resulted in it being renamed the Department of Transport and Communications. Legislation effecting this change appeared in the Department of Transport and Communications Act (1973, c. 112). In 1976, the Department of Transport and Communications became the Ministry of Energy, Transport and Communications (Order in Council 3199, 1976; BCS 1977, c.75). Further changes in 1979 resulted in all transportation responsibilities being brought together under a single jurisdiction named the Ministry of Transportation and Highways. This body of records is composed of incoming and outgoing general correspondence files, , concerning railroads operating in British Columbia. The unit includes extensive correspondence files on the Westminster Bridge (the Fraser River railway bridge at New Westminster); the British Columbia Electric Railway; correspondence relating to common carriers and industrial railroads; and legislation affecting the Railway Department. The bulk of this accession was transferred from the Victoria offices of the Ministry of Transportation and Highways in June 1980; two files were transferred in July Abbreviations used in this finding aid: Railway Companies BCER CNR CNOR CNER CNPR British Columbia Electric Railway Canadian National Railway Canadian Northern Railway Canadian North Eastern Railway Canadian Northern Pacific Railway G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 1

2 CNS CNSR CPR E and N GTP GNR NWSR PGER VV and E Canadian Northern System Crow's Nest Southern Railway Canadian Pacific Railway Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Great Northern Railway New Westminster Southern Railway Pacific Great Eastern Railway Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway Navigation Company Other DomBrCo Dominion Bridge Company Railway Department Ministers: Name Dates Thomas Taylor 10 Mar C.E. Tisdall 15 Dec Thomas Taylor 01 Mar John Oliver 29 Nov J. D. MacLean 17 Sep W. H. Sutherland 28 Aug S. F. Tolmie 21 Aug T. D. Pattullo 15 Nov G. S. Pearson 23 Dec Thomas King 15 Nov R.W. Bruhn 10 Dec John Hart 04 Sep Herbert Anscomb 15 Sep L.H. Eyres 12 Apr H.R. Bowman 19 Jan W.R. Chetwynd 01 Aug Lyle Wicks 27 Sep Box BCARS No. File Contents Date 1 1 4B CNPR: Crossings and road diversions 1 2 4B CNPR: Crossings and road diversions G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 2

3 1 3 4B CNPR: Crossings and road diversions B CNPR: Crossings and road diversions Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints 1915, Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints 1917, Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints 1919, Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints Westminster Bridge: Reports and complaints Westminster Bridge: BCER - maintenance, etc Westminster Bridge: BCER - running rights Westminster Bridge: BCER - running rights Westminster Bridge: BCER - running rights Westminster Bridge: BCER - running rights 1918, Westminster Bridge: BCER - running rights Westminster Bridge: BCER - running rights 1921, Westminster Bridge: BCER - running rights Westminster Bridge: BCER - running rights Westminster Bridge: BCER - running rights Westminster Bridge: BCER - running rights Westminster Bridge: B.C. Telephone Company Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNPR - general Westminster Bridge: CNR - general Westminster Bridge: CNR - general Westminster Bridge: CNS - running rights Westminster Bridge: CNS - running rights 1916 G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 3

4 Westminster Bridge: CNS - running rights Westminster Bridge: CNS - running rights Westminster Bridge: CNS - running rights Westminster Bridge: CNS - running rights Westminster Bridge: CNS - running rights Westminster Bridge: CNS - running rights Westminster Bridge: CNS - running rights Westminster Bridge: CNS - running rights Westminster Bridge: GNR - general Westminster Bridge: GNR - running rights Westminster Bridge: GNR - running rights Westminster Bridge: Soundings, steelwork, electrolysis tests Westminster Bridge: Interlocking and signals Westminster Bridge: Lighting Westminster Bridge: Rails and materials sold by Government Westminster Bridge: Rails and materials sold 1938 by Government Westminster Bridge: General 1916, Westminster Bridge: General 1918, 1919, Westminster Bridge: General Westminster Bridge: General Westminster Bridge: General Westminster Bridge: General Westminster Bridge: General Westminster Bridge: General Westminster Bridge Westminster Bridge Westminster Bridge Westminster Bridge Westminster Bridge Westminster Bridge: History Westminster Bridge: Pier protection, rails, 1940 painting Westminster Bridge: Staff Westminster Bridge: Staff Westminster Bridge: Supplies Westminster Bridge: Swing span Westminster Bridge: Swing span Westminster Bridge: Swing span Westminster Bridge: Swing span Westminster Bridge: Swing span 1913, Westminster Bridge: Swing span 1915,1916 G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 4

5 Westminster Bridge: Swing span 1917, 1918, Westminster Bridge: Accounts Westminster Bridge: Highway deck Westminster Bridge: Highway deck Westminster Bridge: Sidewalks Westminster Bridge: Sidewalks 1920, Westminster Bridge: Sidewalks Westminster Bridge: Sidewalks Westminster Bridge: Port Mann Trestle Westminster Bridge: Port Mann Trestle Westminster Bridge: Port Mann Trestle 1921, Westminster Bridge: Port Mann Trestle Westminster Bridge: Port Mann Trestle Jan - Jul Westminster Bridge: Port Mann Trestle Aug - Dec Westminster Bridge: Port Mann Trestle Westminster Bridge: Port Mann Trestle Westminster Bridge: Highway traffic Westminster Bridge: Highway traffic Westminster Bridge: Highway traffic Westminster Bridge: Highway traffic Westminster Bridge: Approaches Westminster Bridge: Widening 1928, Westminster Bridge: Retaining wall Westminster Bridge: Retaining wall Westminster Bridge: Engine and train 1921, 1922 loading Westminster Bridge: Engine and train 1923 loading Westminster Bridge: Engine and train loading Westminster Bridge: Engine and train 1941 loading Westminster Bridge: Engine and train loading various Westminster Bridge: Auxiliary plant 1913, Westminster Bridge: Auxiliary plant Westminster Bridge: Auxiliary plant Westminster Bridge: Auxiliary plant Westminster Bridge: Reinforcement DomBrCo estimates Westminster Bridge: Reinforcement Jan - Mar Westminster Bridge: Reinforcement Apr - Nov Westminster Bridge: Tie renewal contract G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 5

6 Westminster Bridge: Regarding 1923 reinforcement contract accounts, R.W. Hunt's shop inspection Westminster Bridge: Regarding 1923 reinforcement contract accounts, R.W. Hunt's shop inspection Westminster Bridge: Regarding 1924 reinforcement contract Westminster Bridge: Heating, fire protection, water supply, coal hoists Westminster Bridge: Correspondence with 1923 Dominion Construction Westminster Bridge: Correspondence with 1924 Dominion Construction D Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway, 1915 Vancouver - terminals D Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway, 1916 Vancouver - terminals D Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway, 1917 Vancouver - terminals D Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway, assorted Vancouver - terminals BCER: General BCER: General BCER: General BCER: Accidents, BCER: Accidents, BCER: Accidents, BCER: Equipment and boiler inspections BCER: Equipment and boiler inspections BCER: Equipment and boiler inspections BCER: Equipment and boiler inspections BCER: Equipment and boiler inspections BCER: Equipment and boiler inspections BCER: Equipment (Victoria Street Railway) BCER: Equipment (Victoria Street Railway) BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 6

7 BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Highway crossings and diversions BCER: Crossings other than highways Equipment and appliances - electric railways Correspondence regarding Professor A Shortt's enquiry into the BCER BCER: Correspondence regarding interchange BCER: Mainland operations Robert McNair Logging Company, Port 1912 Moody, Coquitlam Logging Company Robert McNair Logging Company, Port 1913 Moody, Coquitlam Logging Company Robert McNair Logging Company, Port 1914 Moody, Coquitlam Logging Company Robert McNair Logging Company, Port 1915 Moody, Coquitlam Logging Company Robert McNair Logging Company, Port 1917 Moody, Coquitlam Logging Company Robert McNair Logging Company, Port 1921 Moody, Coquitlam Logging Company Robert McNair Logging Company, Port 1922 Moody, Coquitlam Logging Company BCER: Sidings, spurs and interchange BCER: Sidings, spurs and interchange BCER: Sidings, spurs and interchange 1918, BCER: Sidings, spurs and interchange 1920, 1921 G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 7

8 BCER: Sidings, spurs and interchange BCER: Sidings, spurs and interchange BCER: Sidings, spurs and interchange BCER: Sidings, spurs and interchange BCER: Sidings, spurs and interchange BCER: Sidings, spurs and interchange A Kettle Valley Railway A Kettle Valley Railway A Kettle Valley Railway BCER (Vancouver Island): Accidents BCER: Crossings and diversions BCER: Change in rule of road, one man car 1918 operations, etc BCER: Change in rule of road, one man car 1921 operations, etc., (includes report on track changes) BCER: Change in rule of road, one man car 1922 operations, etc., (includes report on track changes) BCER: Change in rule of road, one man car 1923 operations, etc., (includes report on track changes) BCER: Change in rule of road, one man car operations, etc., (includes report on track changes) BCER: One man car - Saanich line (includes time-tables) BCER: Miscellaneous correspondence. regarding Saanich line BCER (Vancouver Island) regarding crossings B.C. and Alaska Railway, White Pass and Yukon B.C. Yukon Railway B.C. Yukon Railway Cowichan Bay Railway Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Logging Railway 1916, Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Logging Railway 1923, Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Logging Railway 1925, 1926 Great Central Sawmills Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Logging Railway 1927 Great Central Sawmills Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Logging Railway Great Central Sawmills 1928 G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 8

9 Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Logging Railway 1929 Great Central Sawmills Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Logging Railway Great Central Sawmills Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Logging Railway Great Central Sawmills Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Logging Railway Great Central Sawmills 7 17 Gamble, Francis C.: Correspondence Proctor, A.F.: Correspondence 1917, A Proctor, A.F.: Correspondence Comptroller General Comptroller General Comptroller General Comptroller General Comptroller General Comptroller General CNER CNER CNER CPR CPR (Lardeau, Gerrard and Vernon branches) Capilano Timber Company: General Cariboo, Barkerville and Willow River Railway Public Utilities Commission Comox Logging and Railway Company Comox Logging and Railway Company: 1917,18,19 Accidents Comox Logging and Railway Company: 1920,1921 Accidents Comox Logging and Railway Company: 1922,1923 Accidents Comox Logging and Railway Company: 1924,1925 Accidents Comox Logging and Railway Company: 1928 Accidents Comox Logging and Railway Company: Boiler and equipment inspection Workmen's compensation , Crow's Nest Southern Railway Crow's Nest Southern Railway Crow's Nest Southern Railway 1914, Crow's Nest Southern Railway 1916 G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 9

10 Crow's Nest Southern Railway Order in Council 447, 1901, regarding Crow's Nest Southern Railway: Authority to occupy and use certain lands 8 17 Order in Council 461, 1901, regarding the bringing into force of an act to incorporate the CNSR Company 8 18 Order in Council 639,1904, regarding CNSR: Approval of an agreement between the CNSR Company and the Morrissey, Fernie and Michel Railway Company 8 19 Order in Council 1686, 1913, regarding CNSR: Exemption from taxation, Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, Crow's Nest Pass Lumber Company, Morrisey, Fernie and Michel Railway Morrisey, Fernie and Michel Railway CNPR: Dominion government - arbitration Dec Aug, 1 and correspondence CNPR: Dominion government - arbitration Sept- Dec, 1917 and correspondence CNPR: Dominion government - arbitration 1918 and correspondence CNPR: Highways and diversions, crossings Estimates: Branch lines Estimates: Branch lines Estimates: Branch lines Estimates: Branch lines 1918, Estimates: Branch lines Estimates: Branch lines Estimates: Branch lines Estimates: Branch lines CNPR: Location plans CNR: Miscellaneous CNPR: Complaints CNPR: Complaints CNPR: Complaints CNPR: Complaints CNPR: Complaints CNPR: Complaints , CNPR: Right of way CNPR: Right of way CNPR Mainland structures: Bridges (Port Mann, Yellowhead Summit) CNPR: Terminals G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 10

11 CNPR: Terminals CNPR: Terminals CNPR: Terminals - False Creek, Vancouver Canadian National Railways: Terminal estimates CNPR Kamloops - Kelowna Branch Mid Provincial and Nechaco Railway CNPR - Lulu Island branch CNPR (Vancouver Island): Estimates CNPR (Vancouver Island) CNPR (Vancouver Island): Tracklaying, rails CNPR (Vancouver Island): Tracklaying, rails 1921, CNPR (Vancouver Island): Testimony regarding extension of railway to Sooke Miscellaneous material relating to CNPR 9 15 CNPR: Construction and expenditures, mainline, New Westminster to Yellowhead Summit 9 16 Agreement between the City of Vancouver, Canadian Northern Pacific Railway and Canadian Northern Railway 9 17 CNPR: Patricia Bay terminals 9 18 CNPR: Extensions of time (Orders in Council lists) 9 19 CNPR: Trust deeds; Memorandum regarding Provincial government and CNPR 9 20 CNPR: Terminals - work estimates 9 21 CNPR: Terminals - amounts advanced by government on real estate 9 22 CNPR: Cost sheets 9 23 CNPR: Debentures, main line 9 24 CNPR: Minister's correspondence 9 25 CNPR: Memoranda regarding work completed 9 26 List of documents regarding CNPR in Provincial Secretary's office 9 27 CNPR: Specifications for railway construction 9 28 Northern Construction Company: Schedule of rates 9 29 Canadian Northern Railway arbitration, 40th day, Toronto, 1 May CNPR: Regarding branch lines 9 31 CNPR: Regarding terminal properties 1913 G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 11

12 9 32 CNPR: Regarding Vancouver terminals 9 33 Price, Waterhouse and Company: Regarding report on investigation into the financial relations of the government with the CNPR up to 31 Dec, Minister of Railways to CNPR regarding default on contractual obligations 9 35 Dept. of Lands to Minister of Railways regarding CNPR property 9 36 regarding Canadian Northern Securities 9 37 Agreement between Pacific Dredging Company and Mackenzie, Mann and Company regarding filling of False Creek 9 38 CNPR: Miscellany CNPR (Vancouver Island): Right of way CNPR (Vancouver Island): Structures on 100 mile section CNPR (Vancouver Island): Track progress reports CNPR (Vancouver Island): Track progress reports CNPR (Vancouver Island): Track progress reports Dolly Varden Mines Railway Eastern British Columbia Railway 1927, Eastern British Columbia Railway 1929, Eastern British Columbia Railway 1931, Eastern British Columbia Railway Annual reports Annual reports A Estimates Flathead Valley Railway, Kootenay Central Railway Graham Island Railway Island Valley Railway GTP: General GNR: Oil GNR: Crossings and interchange New Westminster Southern Railway Penticton Railway Company Hexatone Air Horn Victoria Sidney Railway, Victoria Terminal Railway and Ferry Company Victoria Sidney Railway, Victoria Terminal Railway and Ferry Company G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 12

13 Victoria Sidney Railway, Victoria Terminal Railway and Ferry Company Victoria Railway and Ferry Company By-law Brittannia Mining and Smelting Company Kaslo and Slocan Railway Nakusp and Slocan Railway Kettle Valley Railway: General Highway crossings - industrial railways Industrial railways - Vancouver Island Industrial railways - Vancouver Island Industrial railways - Vancouver Island Industrial railways - Vancouver Island Industrial railways - Vancouver Island Industrial railways Industrial railways Logging and mining railways - accidents Merrill and Ring Ltd.; Merrill, Ring and Wilson; Merrill Ring and Moore Merrill, Ring and Wilson Legislation Menzies Bay Railway Maps of B.C. and miscellaneous information Naas and Skeena Rivers Railway Nelson Street Railway Northern Vancouver Island Railway Forestry Department and fire protection Pacific Coast Coal Mines Railway Railways, chartered and operating (exclusive of industrial railways): General Questions asked in House Sessions PGER: Inspecting engineer reports Returns and balance sheets under Railway Act Returns and balance sheets under Railway Act Elk River Timber Company Rules and regulations 1914, Rules and regulations Canadian Puget Sound Company, Island Logging Company Wood and English Limited (Englewood, B.C.) McCoy Wilson Limited G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 13

14 B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Company, Hastings Logging Company Railway P.B. Anderson, Grassy Bay Timber Company Vedder Logging Company Alberni Pacific Lumber Company Alberni Pacific Lumber Company Redonda Logging Company Limited, (Ellis Lake Lumber Company) Columbia River Logging Company Second Narrows Bridge King Farris Lumber Company, Galbraith and Sons H.R. MacMillan Export Company (Victoria Lumber Company) Smith Hutchinson Lumber Company B.C. Forest Company: Logging railway Canadian Robert Dollar Company: Logging 1923 railways - Vancouver Island Johnson Street Bridge Songhees reserve: Relief work Southeast Kootenay Railway Canada Copper Corporation Mayo Lumber Company, Eastern Lumber Company Nicola Pine Mills, White Spruce Lumber Company Powell River Company Powell River Company, O'Brien Logging Company Thurston-Flavelle Limited Bernard Timber and Logging Company, Band K Logging Company Gwilt Lumber Company, Dawson-Taylor Logging Company Lake Logging Company Limited Lake Logging Company Limited (Western Forest Industries) Mainland Timber Company, Pacific Mills Limited Cheakamus Timber and Logging Company Deep Bay Logging Company Deep Bay Logging Company Timberland Lumber Company Vancouver Power Company G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 14

15 Wellington Colliery Railway (Canadian Collieries Dunsmuir Limited) Wellington Colliery Railway (Canadian Collieries Dunsmuir Limited) Wellington Colliery Railway: Accidents Wellington Colliery Railway: Boiler and equipment inspections Canadian Western Fuel Company: boiler and equipment inspections Campbell River Timber Company 1940 Minister of Railways: general Regarding Associated Boards of Trade of B.C PGER: Barkerville Road crossing, Quesnel Regarding BC United Farmer organization PGER: Electrification PGER: Employees' complaints, investigations, etc PGER: Personnel retrenchment, regarding W.E. Roberts PGER: International Association of Machinists E and N: Regarding Johnson Street (Victoria) grading contract PGER: Regarding shipment of livestock PGER: Locomotive 56, regarding boiler failure MacLean, J.D. Correspondence regarding appointment as Minister of Railways MacLean, J.D. Miscellaneous correspondence PGER: Order of Railroad Telegraphers, regarding labour complaints PGER Development Company: Regarding mill site at Squamish booming grounds PGER: Regarding railway barge PGER: Regarding insurance Accusations concerning PGER operations PGER: Personnel organization, chart of officials (1922) PGER: Settlement Act, regarding composition of the Board of Directors Regarding Quesnel Board of Trade PGER: Regarding rail passes G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 15

16 PGER: Rail service - complaints regarding B.C. Railway Act - changes, etc PGER: Regarding Seattle Mountaineers trip to Garibaldi, PGER: Regarding slash burning Union Steamship Company West Vancouver, Municipality of Mines: Right of Way Act Miscellany Correspondence regarding Bedlington and 1918 Nelson Railway PGER: Minutes of directors' meetings 1918, 1919, Dept. of Railways: Rules and regulations governing the construction, operation and equipment of railways pursuant to the Railway Act, c. 241, RSBC Synopsis of report: Engineers of CNR and CPR proposed routes from Peace River Dept. of Railways: Index to certificates Dept. of Railways: Certificates Dept. of Railways: Certificates Dept. of Railways: Certificates Dept. of Railways: Certificates Dept. of Railways: Certificates 301, 305, 306, 311 G:\RSD\@ORCS09\ \GR-0817.DOC:2000/09/21 page 16