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    Black and white photo of trolley car on Cumberland Street in Port Arthur, Ontario. Pickard Block is at the centre to the right. This was the first municipally-owned electric railway in Canada. With t

    Black and white photo of Pagoda Tourist Centre, Daily News, and waterfront (Prince Arthur's Landing), Port Arthur, Ontario. Also the site of the C.N.R. train terminal.

    The CPR steamer Athabasca docked at the Canadian Pacific Railway grain elevator built over the fall and winter of 1883/84 that became operational in May 1884. The elevator was leased by Joseph Goodwi

    The Alberta sits at anchor in the harbour at Port Arthur, Ontario. The Alberta was considered one of the sturdiest ships on the Great Lakes. She was built in 1883 in Glasgow, Scotland and transported

    This grand looking building with curved verandas and turrets was once on the corner of Dawson Street and Algoma Street, where the Dawson Apartments are today. On the day of the grand opening, the 96t

    Black and white photo showing the timber frame construction of the ore dock.

    Black and white photograph showing the wreckage occurring from a Grand Trunk Railway accident (date unknown).

    A head on collision, where one engineer lost his life. The rest of the passengers/workers came off without a scratch.

    Our mystery photo shows people boating on a river, while two other small boats with masts are tied up a dock. Above the boaters, on the top of the river bank three people are standing in front of a t

    An unidentified photo of an apparent train derailment or collision in the Thunder Bay District~1900.

    This photograph was taken at mile 79, just outside of Upsala. These men were from camp C9. Crews were spaced out at camps five miles apart. Each camp had about 130 workers. Building a five mile stret

    A Linde photo of the TransContinental Railway wooden trestle, contracted out to Anderson and Johnson in the early 1900's, near Kenora, Ontario. In most cases, the wooden trestles were filled in with

    Linde photo of J.D. McArthur Pit #2. View of a 'Bucyrus' steam shovel loading rocks onto rail cars. A stockpile of lumber is in the background. McArthur was awarded Contract #8 to construct a portion

    The Marion Steam Shovel loads crushed rock into boxcars, for transport to another area on the railway line. The rocks were used to build solid foundations in the areas that were sinking due to muskeg

    Carl Gustave Linde was commissioned to photograph the construction of the Transcontinental Railway near Kenora, Ontario. Construction in the area of the Transcontinental Railway took place in the ear

    Inscription on the photo reads: 'Chambers, & Mc. Mc., 60 ft. high, 80,000 yds.' A boom is removing a boulder from the work site.

    The steam locomotive in this Linde photo, was probably used to push materials in the construction of the Trans Continental Railway in Northwestern Ontario.

    Thunder Bay, Ontario, mines, mining, silver mines, Badger Mine, stampmill, tramway, Stanley

    Date on the photo is written to be 1927, however a patron commented that he believed it was 1928, and local history research shows this event to have taken place at 2:55 a.m. on a foggy August 6, 192

    Workers clearing snow in order to release a steam locomotive stuck after a snow storm.