A carved wooden sign in the foreground that says "Bromley Picnic Site BC Forestry Service" and a cleared area with a couple picnic tables at the edge of a forest in the background. Photo's caption reads "Bromlet Picnic Site. The first developed campsite was made here around 1944-45 by Lyons and Trew to se if there was a demand for a roadside facility. There was!"

In Collection:

• Chester P. Lyons Collection

Contributor

• Lyons, C. P. (Chester Peter), 1915-

Subject

• Forests and forestry
• BC Parks
• Parks--Maintenance
• Signs and signboards
• Picnic grounds
• Natural history
• British Columbia. Ministry of Forests
• Recreation areas
• Parks--Planning
• Wooden signs and signboards
• Parks--Management
• Parks
• Nature
• Outdoor recreation

Language

• eng

Date created

• 1940s

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 1 photograph ; 13 x 12 cm

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Bromley Rock Park

Coordinates

• 49.41644, -120.26075

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Chester P. Lyons Collection

Provenance

• Fonds donated to UVic Archives by Lyons' daughter, Susan Lyons, in 2007.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• black-and-white photographs
• photographs

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2007-039; Series: Photographic materials; Subseries: 03; File: 4.12.4

Fonds title

• Chester P. Lyons fonds

Fonds identifier

• AR409

Is referenced by

• Archival Finding Aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/chester-p-lyons-fonds

Date digitized

• March 2025

Technical note

• Scanned on Epson Expression 1300XL (600 DPI tif) by LG. Metadata by KD.

Rights

• This item is under copyright and made available on this site for research and private study only. Commercial use is prohibited. For all other uses please contact UVic Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/4gze-hh79

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