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  1. 2024.999.016 - Postcard

    Image: Hillcrest No. 1 Shay locomotive Caption: Text on back:

    Record Type: Photo

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  2. 2024.999.017 - Postcard

    Image: CVR No. 25 (Samson) coming up the hill towards Alderlea Caption: Text on back: A 1910 Vulcan 18 ton locomotive, 36" gauge, heading for Alderlea Station at the B.C. Forest Museum Park. It was used in the construction of the C.N.R. grade down the Fraser Canyon, on the B.C. mainland.

    Record Type: Photo

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  3. 2024.999.018 - Postcard

    Image: CVR No. 25 (Samson) coming down the grade towards Drinkwater Station Caption: Text on back: Samson #25 loaded with Forest Museum visitors coasts down-grade, under a picturesque footbridge, heading into Drinkwater Station.

    Record Type: Photo

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  4. 2024.999.020 - Postcard

    Image: Tree cookie with significant historical dates marked on it Caption: List of Dates 640 - 1867 Text on back: "1300 Years of History" The oldest douglas-fir in Canada. This seed germinated in AD 640 and grew til 1867, it was felled in 1950's.

    Record Type: Photo

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  5. 2024.999.021 - Postcard

    Image: Visitor looking at giant log Caption: "Sitka Spruce" British Columbia Forest Museum, Duncan, B.C. Canada Text on back: 400 year old Sitka Spruce log 9 feet 8 inches in diameter.

    Record Type: Photo

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  6. 2024.999.022 - Postcard

    Image: Ralph Davies leaning out window of CVR No. 25 (Samson) Caption: Text on back: Head engineer, Ralph Davies, aboard Steam Locie Samson #25, one of the many working engines currently carrying visitors through the 100-acre B.C. Forest Museum Park

    Record Type: Photo

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  7. 2024.999.023 - Postcard

    Image: Celebration of Steam 2012 Poster Caption: Text on back: Vancouver Island's biggest heritage fair with steam train rides, demonstrations of traction engies, historical trucks, live entertainment and good food!

    Record Type: Photo

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  8. 2024.999.024 - Postcard

    Image: CVR No. 24 coming off trestle with CVR No. 23 on siding Caption: No. 24 "Suzie" British Columbia Forest Museum, Duncan, B.C. Canada Text on back: No. 24 "Suzie" 0-4-0 Built by Vulcan Iron Works in 1901 (Note: Vulcan misspelled as Valcan on original card)

    Record Type: Photo

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  9. 2024.999.025 - Postcard

    Image: Bloedel Stewart & Welch No. 1 parked in front of museum Caption: "Old One Spot" British Columbia Forest Museum, Duncan, B.C. Canada Text on back: Located on the Trans Canada Highway on Scenic Vancouver Island. "Old One Spot" This Shay locomotive, the first of her type brought into British Columbia by Bloedel Stewart & Welch, was built in 1911 by Lima Locomotive Works

    Record Type: Photo

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  10. 2024.999.026 - Postcard

    Image: CVR No. 24 (Suzie) coming off trestle with CVR No. 22 on siding Caption: British Columbia Forest Museum, Duncan, B.C. Canada Text on back: The B.C. Forest Museum, near Duncan on Scenic Vancouver Island is dedicated to preserving the history of the logging industry on British Columbia. No. 24, a 12 ton saddle tank locomotive was built in 1901

    Record Type: Photo

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  11. 2024.999.027 - Postcard

    Image: Visitor sitting on Little Jakey Caption: B.C. Forest Museum, Duncan, B.C. Canada Text on back: The B.C. Forest Museum, Duncan, B.C. on HIghway No. 1, is devoted to the history of the logging industry in British Columbia One of the most popular exhibits is "Little Jakey", a 10 hp steam log hauler, built in 1897

    Record Type: Photo

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  12. 2024.999.029 - Postcard

    Image: CVR No. 25 (Samson) crossing trestle Caption: Text on back: Steam train on the Somenos Lake trestle, B.C. Forest Museum, near Duncan, Vancouver Island

    Record Type: Photo

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  13. 2024.999.030 - Postcard

    Image: Hillcrest No. 1 Shay at Alderlea Station Caption: Beautiful Vancouver Island Text on back: A steam engine from the bygone days carries passengers around the track at the British Columbia Forest Museum, Duncan, B.C.

    Record Type: Photo

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  14. 2024.999.031 - Postcard

    Image: Three steam locomotives steamed up side by side at lower grounds siding (CVR No. 24 Susie, CVR No. 25 Samson, and Hillcrest No. 1 Shay) Caption: Text on back: British Columbia Forest Museum, 1 km north of Duncan, B.C. in the beautiful Cowichan and Chemainus Valleys. Experience the operating stgeam trains and visit the 100-acre park and its logging artifacts.

    Record Type: Photo

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  15. 2024.999.032 - Postcard

    Image: CVR No. 25 (Samson) taking on water Caption: Water Stop, Forest Museum Railway, Duncan, B.C. Text on back: Cowichan Valley Forest Museum, on the Trans-Canada HIghway one mile north of Duncan, Vancouver Island, is a treasury of the history of British Columbia's most important industry: Forestry. Visitors ride on a mile-long railway behind a real steam locomotive.

    Record Type: Photo

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  16. 2024.999.034 - Postcard

    Image: Group of loggers on log with yarder in background Caption: Cowichan Forestry Life CamptoCommunity.ca Text on back: On the west coast of Canada, Vancouver Island's Cowichan Valley shelters forests of magnificent, towering trees that once lured great camps of loggers and now support communities of forestry workers When most of us think about life of a Canadian logger, our imaginations fill with images of thick stocks dryi...

    Record Type: Photo

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  17. 2024.999.035 - Postcard

    Image: Logger walking alongside fallen log Caption: Logging on Vancouver Island, B.C. Canada Text on back: The faller is one of the many highly skilled workers in the forest industry on Vancouver Island. He must fell the tree in a way to avoid all possible damage to hiself and the surroundings. This 227 ft. Sitka Spruce, 15 ft. in diameter will yeild some 30,000 board feet of lumber

    Record Type: Photo

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  18. 2024.999.036 - Postcard

    Image: MacMillan Bloedel truck loaded with logs Caption: Logging on Vancouver Island, B.C. Canada Text on back: Another load of logs en-route to the mill for converting into pulp, plywood, or lumber, enough to build a two bedrom house. IN the inset view, a "faller" sizes up a forest giant. He is a man with special skills for he must be able to down any tree without damage and in such a position as to allow sawing and removal

    Record Type: Photo

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  19. 2024.999.037 - Postcard

    Image: Gas passenger car in front of mural of steam locomotive Caption: Nanaimo, British Columbia Text on back: An E&N Dayliner glides past a mual depicting an earlier era of train travel in Nanaimo

    Record Type: Photo

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  20. 2024.999.038 - Postcard

    Image: MacMillan Blodel H152 truck loaded with logs Caption: Text on back: One of MacMillan Bloedel large off highway haulers with 95 ton load of Sitka Spruce at Juskatla, Queen Charlotte Islands

    Record Type: Photo

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