A gondola used to ferry cars across the Fraser river between North Bend and Boston Bar. The North Bend Aerial Ferry was the only aerial ferry that carried cars and was opened to the public in North America. Installed in 1940, it ran until 1986 when it was replaced by a bridge.

In Collection:

• Chester P. Lyons Collection

Subject

• Motor vehicles
• Transportation
• British Columbia. Ministry of Forests
• Nature
• BC Parks
• Natural history

Language

• eng

Date created

• 1940 to 1941

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 1 photograph ; 12.5 x 18 cm

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--North Bend
• British Columbia--Boston Bar

Coordinates

• 49.88303, -121.45256
• 49.87002, -121.44399

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

• photographs
• black-and-white photographs

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2007-039; Series: Photographic materials; Subseries: 03; File: 4.12.1

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 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/bygm-1t81

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