Happy #ThrowbackThursday! Fully suited fireman on house roof tearing up hot spots in 1980. (P09897)
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Happy #MuseumMonday! A smiling man sitting side-saddle on a ride-on locomotive pulling small cars filled with passengers. These trains were at Swan Point in Hatzic Lake. The operator lived in Mission and moved the trains from place to place. Photo taken by Bill Saunders in the 1950’s. (P11925)
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Happy #ThrowbackThursday! Here is a man using a horse to pull a laden wheelbarrow type cart on train tracks during dyke-building operations in 1950. (P09116)
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Happy #MuseumMonday! Man sitting atop a huge pile of railway ties that look like they are loaded on a truck but it may just be parked behind the pile. Not much is known about this image that was taken in the 1920s. (P09106)
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Happy #ThrowbackThursday! Look at this cool Dredge in Pitt Meadows working on the dykes. Taken in 1909. (P09108)
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Happy #MuseumMonday! Young men in a car with baseball dance posters in their hands parked in front of Gordon's Drug Store. Taken in 1921. (P09048)
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Happy #ThrowbackThursday! 6 men standing around a new breathing apparatus and oxygen tank in 1955. Taken outside the fire hall that was on 224th. (P08033)
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Happy #MuseumMonday! Ethel Lougheed seated next to Lord Willingdon on an open sided car in 1924. Lord Willingdon is looking over a double headed axe. (P08024)
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Happy #ThrowbackThursday! A rail car of visitors to the Allco Camp 1 watching as a loaded log train passes by on the second set of tracks in 1924. (P08016)
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Happy #MuseumMonday! Here is a picture of the Saunders family Border Collie sitting outside on a bench with a pink toy. Such a fluffy dog! (P11941)
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Happy #MuseumMonday! This is Vernon Military Training Camp where there was annual training with the Westminster Regiment 2nd Battalion (Home Guard) B Company (Haney, Hammond etc). A long row of tents, some with sides hauled up for cooling. The building at the far end is identified as the latrine.
(P13167)
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Happy #ThrowbackThursday! Take a look at these lovely women in old fashioned clothing on the S.S Beaver, fall-fair parade float. This was taken during the maple ridge fall-fair of 1961. Don’t they look beautiful and festive?
(P02040)
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Happy #MuseumMonday! Two men with backs to us looking out the windows of the Pitt Meadows control tower with instruments in front of them. This was taken in the 1950’s, just after the construction of the airport was complete.
(P04262)
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Happy #ThrowbackThursday! Here is a dog at the top of a ladder with a pipe in its mouth, wearing a belted shirt and a hat with a bottle beside it. On the front is written, "Come boys. Have a drink." Taken in the 1930’s.
(P08749)
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Happy #MuseumMonday! Shown is the Pioneer Lumber Water Tower lying on its side and all bashed in. Taken in December 1992, the words on tower say "Whonnock Lumber", the former name of the mill. The two workmen reveal the size of the tower. Don’t you think the picture looks a bit eerie?
(P04488)
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#ThrowbackThursday to the Hart family's victories at a loggers' sport competition in 1976! Here are Cindy, Gordon, and Greg posing with their trophies
(P12226)
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Happy #MuseumMonday! Oh yikes, somebody better call a tow truck for this tow truck!
(P12155)
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#ThrowbackThursday to 1927 at Davidson's pool. Nothing better than a dip in the local creek!
(P12132)
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Happy #MuseumMonday ! Seated on the right in this photo is Mr. C.F. Nelson, otherwise known as the Boatman of Haney, displaying one of the fully rigged miniature model sailing ships he built himself.
(P12142)
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#ThrowbackThursday to that time St. John the Divine Anglican church was taken down River Road on a bed of rolling logs to move it to it's new location.
(P12075)
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