Steam train crossing a trestle in Capilano Valley

Steam train crossing a trestle in Capilano Valley

Economic development
Transportation
Lumberjack industry
Logging
Steam
Railway
Capitalist expansion
British Columbia

The source is a picture of a train loaded with lumber crossing a trestle in Capilano Valley. The valley runs from north to south through the Coast Mountains on Vancouver's North Shore. It shows the lumberjack industry literally in motion with a train transporting cut lumber to its destination for the next stage of transport or production with a constructed trestle to allow passage across the Capilano Valley. The source is significant because it highlights the theme of economic and transportation development. The lumberjack industry has grown so much that trestles have been constructed to allow trains to cross valleys they would never have been able to cross without manmade construction. This is to keep up the production and demand of the logging industry.

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North Vancouver & Museum
http://nvma.ca/virtual-exhibits/logging/

1921

Sebastian Cook

North Vancouver & Museum (Item number: NVMA 1279)

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Visual - photograph

20th century British Columbia