Canadian West and The Pas Lumber Company album

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Descriptive Summary

Title: Canadian West and The Pas Lumber Company album

Dates: 1930-1935

Collection Number: MS 778

Creator/Collector:

Extent: 1 album

Repository: California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Sacramento, California 95814

Abstract: This album consists of personal photographs showing the construction of a dam at Seven Systems, British Columbia and The Pas Lumber Company.

Language of Material: English

Access

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Preferred Citation

Canadian West and The Pas Lumber Company album. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Scope and Content of Collection

This album consists of personal photographs. First photos show the construction of a dam at Seven Systems, British Columbia in 1930. Others were taken at Salvador, Saskatchewan and showed a railroad station and grain elevators. More taken at Loon Lake, Saskatchewan in 1931. In January 1935, photographs were taken of The Pas, Manitoba showing plowing roads in winter, skidding logs for hot-logging, loading hot-logs, decking with a jammer, skidding logs for decking, loading from a deck with a jammer, hauling logs with a 60 HP caterpiller, a steam hauler taking on water, a log train hauled by a steam hauler, and photographs of The Pas Lumber Company. [Album 108]