Chinese immigrants labouring on the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the mountains of British Columbia.

In Collection:

• Chester P. Lyons Collection

Contributor

• Lyons, C. P. (Chester Peter), 1915-

Subject

• Railroads--Design and construction
• History
• Labor
• BC Parks
• Railroads
• Canadian Pacific Railway Company
• Immigrants
• Nature
• British Columbia. Ministry of Forests
• Natural history
• Migrant labor

Language

• eng

Identifier

• British Columbia Provincial Archives digital collections image C-04284

Date created

• 1881

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 1 photograph ; 25 x 20.5cm

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Kootenay Region

Coordinates

• 49.50381, -116.73522

Additional physical characteristics

• In a folder labelled "Historic picture Kootenays and miscellaneous [ca.1898]"

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: 4.6

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

• February 28, 2025 to March 4, 2025

Technical note

• Scanned on Epson Expression 1300XL (600 DPI tif LL). 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/zv3p-mh51

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