Index of the Onderdonk Albums at the BC Archives (Acc. No. 98401-6)

Album No. 1

Views of British Columbia
Photos of Scenery along the line of the Canadian Pacific Ry
(taken during construction for the Contractor Andrew Onderdonk)

[Pages] Title
(as inscribed in album)
1 a. Residence of Governor of British Columbia

b. Victoria's Park called 'Beacon Hill'

2 a. Yale (a glimpse)

b. A.O.'s Office near Yale

3 a. View of Yale from A.O.'s Residence

b. A.O.'s Shops - 'Salmon Cache in tall tree - Some Indian Houses'

4 a. Race Rock Light House, B.C.

b. Steamboat Landing at Yale

5 a. Front St. Yale during Railway Construction 1880

b. Yale in 1880

6 a. An Engineer's House (Mr. Gouins - White - Gouin)

b. Mr. O's Residence near Yale, Built in 5 weeks, covered with vines in 2 years
Percy, G.M. Allen, [illegible]
Mrs. O., [illegible]
Sherly [on roof], Delia

7 a. Church of England and Parsonage, Yale (Rev. Ridley, Mrs. H., Rev. Horlock)

b. Engineer's House (Cambie's) (Mrs. C.)

8 a. One of A.O.'s Steamboats, 'The Skuzzy'

b. 'Skuzzy' ('Onderdonk') [inscription on back of photo reads 'Camp with 'Skuzzy'. Mallard Pt., Salmon Arm,. Shuswap

9 a. On the Waggon road to Cariboo

b. A Railway truss (at Spuzzum)

10 a. Tunnel (No. 16)(1)

b. Railway at Black Canyon

11 a. Suspension Bridge over the Fraser River (Alexandra)

b. Gorge Bridge near Victoria

12 a. Indian Graves near Lytton

b. Low Water at 'Hell Gate' (rises 156 ft. per day)

13 a. Retaining Walls showing Freight Team Passing(2)

b. Tunnel 28 (called 'Ladders')

14 a. A Railway truss near Boston Bar
15 a. The Nicomen
16 a. 89 Miles above Yale

b. Truss and Trestle near Camp 140 - Tunnel No. 22

17 a. The Thompson River

b. Fountain Bluff

18 a. Falls in Yale Creek
19 a. Building the Fraser River Cantilever Bridge

b. The Cantiliver finished (end view) Tunnel 36

20 a. The Waggon Road to Cariboo

b. The same

21 a. A.O.'s Residence - For Chinamen's quarters and servants - Stable

b. Port Moody

22 a. Fraser River Crossing

b. Bridge over Pitt River

c. Side view of Cantilever

23 a. A.O.'s 'Old Curly' - first locomotive built on Pacific Coast

b. At Kanaka Bar

24 a. RR Trusses at the Scow Wash

b. Tunnel near Crossing

25 a. An Engineer's house - Keefer's - one of A.O.'s boats

b. Fraser Bridge

26 a. An Engineer's House (Bodwell's) - Mr. B.

b. Skuses - Mrs. S.

27 a. A Glimpse of the River from the Railway

b. Railway opp. Boston Bar

28 a. Railway Trestle No. 1420

b. The Top of Jack-Ass Mountain showing Cariboo road

29 a. Near Lytton - 'Heavy Ry Cut - 500,000 c yds'

b. Railway - Nearing the Skuzzy River

30 a. Building a Cantilever Bridge going west

b. The same, going east

31 a. The upper Fraser River

b. Approaching the Dry Country

32 a. Qui Eek Structure

b. Keefer's Siding

33 a. Tunnel near Crossing

b. Keefer's Bluffs - Where Engine No. 8 jumped 260 ft (vertical feet) during construction.

34 a. Some Chinamen's (laborers) houses

b. Engineer's House (Gray's) Jack Gray, Chinamen, Indians)

35 a. In the heart of the Cascade Range

b. In the Cascades

36 a. The Pitt River Bridge (near the sea) C.P. Ry

b. The Salmon River Bridge

37 a. Sunlight on the Fraser River Crossing

b. Cloud effect - shade - sunlight

38 a. Ry Crossing at the 'Skuzzy'

b. Trestle on Contract 61

39 a. The Lytton Trestle

b. Structure on Contract 61

40 a. Indian Graves near Yale

b. Engineer's House - Keefer's (Mrs. K., the baby, Gertie, Mr. K.) [75101]

41 a. A View on the Fraser

b. The Fraser near Lytton

42 a. A.O.'s Residence - summer

b. Same - autumn

43 a. Rock Cutting near Keefers

b. Camping Party - An Outing on Kamloops Lake

(Mrs. O., Ball, Mrs. H., Judge Walkman, Mrs. W., Dr. Tunstall, Mrs. Ledder, Herbert)

(Simonds, Sherly, Mrs. Bacon, A.O., Eva)

44 a. The Jump of Locomotive No. 8

b. 260 ft. (vertical) jump, No. 8 Locomotive

45 a. Hope Mountains

b. Drying Salmon for Winter

46 a. On the Fraser River

b. Near Saddle Rock

47 a. Tunnel 33

b. Entering Fraser Canyon

48 a. Portion of an A.O. Pack Train

b. Laying CP Ry Track(3)

49 a. Returning for Ballast

b. Train with Private Car Eva in rear(4)

50 a. A.O. Sailboat on Lake Kamloops(5)

b. RR Camp in Eagle Pass

51 a. Lytton's First Class Hotel - (Hautier's)

b. A.O. and Engineer's Moving Camp

52 a. Baloon Bridge

b. Suspension Bridge over Fraser

53 a. Cascade Tunnel

b. Around Black Canyon tunnel - Temporary track(6)

54 a. Harrison River Tunnel #1

b. 5 Tunnels in Fraser Canyon in 5 Miles

55 a. The Big Tunnel

b. Portal of Tunnel 49 on Shuswap Lake

56 a. Best Train Men on the Road - Locomotive #5(7)

b. Railway hands being moved to new Camp near Spullamacheen(8)

57 a. In the Cascade Mountains

b. Tunnel No. 40 on Kamloops Lake

58 a. Castle Bluff on the Salmon Arm of Shuswap Lake

b. The Columbia River (Revelstoke) near end of Onderdonk's Contracts


NOTES:

1. This photo is very similar to one in a Maynard Album identified as 'mining scene - where?'

2. printed on photo: 10. Fountain Bluff (3 miles above Yale) Looking up Valley

3. Identifical photo in Album #2, 36.

4. Actually not the Private Car, but one of A.O.'s passenger cars built at Yale.

5. Photo also in Album #2, 22.

6. Photo also in Album #4, 34

7. Photo also in Album #5, 3.

8. Photo also in Album #2, 42.


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