Front Street, Yale, During Construction of the CPR, c. 1882
BCA Catalogue Number: HP009730
BCA Call Number: A-03579
Photograph in Onderdonk Album #1, p. 5. (BCA Accession No. 98401-6)

The sternwheeler is probably the R.P. Rithet. Yale was a bustling community in the 1880's because of the railway construction, and the fact that Onderdonk selected Yale as his headquarters. The town had not known such activity since the 1858 gold rush. The Inland Sentinel reprinted a description of the town in its issue of July 7, 1881.