Dump Wagons Used To Build Grade For CPR Bridge
- 90.82.07
- Item
- ca.1937
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Two men standing with 14 horses all wearing harnesses; a building can be seen in the background
Dump Wagons Used To Build Grade For CPR Bridge
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Two men standing with 14 horses all wearing harnesses; a building can be seen in the background
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Exterior view of Engine #3536 near Biggar, Saskatchewan.
First building built in Yorkton
Part of Howard Jackson Collection
First building in Yorkton, the J.W. Thornton Building. The business men at the old town-site realized that the village had little future with a railway being built three miles to the south. J.W. Thornton was the first to move. He built this building on Livingstone street and Market street in late 1888 or early '89.
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Two men on a tennis court
Four buildings on First Avenue in Biggar, SK can be seen in the background
Written on the bottom: "First C.N.R. Tennis Court"
Written on the back in pencil and blue ink: "Foreground Johnny Johnson Ray McKay in Back About 1926 or 28"
Written on the back in blue ink: "I believe O.J. Rowe not McKay - Rowe was Asst. Sept C.N.R at Biggar & was a great tennis player & was instrimental in having C.N.R. build and maintain up to 6 tennis courts on C.N. Right of way. Courts were made of cinders & clay - watered - raked & rolled daily"
Frosted Up Steam Engine At Biggar, SK
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Five men standing in front of a steam engine covered in a heavy frost
Written on the bottom: "Biggar. Sask. 1912"
Written on the back in black ink: "R.N. Blaikie"
The letters "BIG" are etched backwards in black near the bottom
Part of Hans Dommasch fonds
The silhouette of a grain elevator next a railway track is seen during sunset near Maple Creek, Saskatchewan.
Dommasch, Hans Siegfried
Part of MJ General Photograph Collection
Exterior view of Grant Hall Hotel, with Canadian National Railway freight and ticket office. Cars parked at curb
Group Of Men In Front Of train Car
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Nine men standing in a row in front of a train car
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Two men standing on the back of, and three men standing beside a caboose with "Grand Trunk Pacific" printed on the side, in the railyard in Biggar, Saskatchewan.
"G.T.P. Station, Biggar, Sask."
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
A train and a large group of people standing on the platform in front of the Grand Trunk Pacific train station in Biggar, SK
The numbers one through five are written in black ink underneath some of the people in the crowd
Printed at the top: "G.T.P. Station, Biggar, Sask."
Printed at the bottom: "W.G. Elliot's Studio, March 12th, 1914."
Written on the back in pencil: "1-H.J. Richards 2-Geo. Adcock - call boy 3-Dunning 4-Jasper Glover 5-Sam Calvert See CD & Booklet by R. Chamberlain IMG: 056"
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Men and women standing on the platform with the train station building behind them and a steam engine pulling up in front of them
The sign on the train station says "Biggar"
Printed on the top of the postcard: "G.T.P. Station, Biggar, Sask."; Printed on the bottom of the postcard: "...by W.G. Elliot's Studio, March 12th, 1914."
Written on the back in black ink: "Miss L... 105 bed bones Rd. Bl... Lon...E..."
"G.T.P. Station, Biggar, Sask."
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
A train and a large group of people standing on the platform in front of the Grand Trunk Pacific train station in Biggar, SK
"G.T.P. Steam Engine #857 and Wrecking Crane"
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
A steam engine with "Grand Trunk Pacific 857" printed on the side and a wrecking crane in front of it
Written on the back in pencil: "G.T.P. steam engine 857 wrecking crane"
J.R. Jenkins and L. Jones Sr. in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Two men standing with their arms over each other's shoulders, identified as J.R. Jenkins and L. Jones Sr.
"Laying of Steel in This Area" Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Men working on some rail road tracks