Freight Teams traveling through Vancouver

Freight Teams traveling through Vancouver

British Columbia
19th century
Transportation
Cattle
Rural
Cargo
Freight
Livestock
Trade
Vancouver

This is an image of a large column of wagons and livestock being transported 15 miles from Yale, Vancouver. In the 1860’s the transportation of trade goods was evolving, incorporating large groups of wagons, animals and labourers to move the goods from town to town, and eventually in the coming decades the increased use of trains and steam boats. This image is very worn and of a poor-quality due to the technology used to capture it. This image was taken using ‘wet plate’ photography, a process which was both complicated and expensive and is the reason that the exposure and quality of the image is low. However, this shows how much the photographer valued capturing this event on photograph, as they would have had to carefully transport the plate many miles to develop the picture. This source demonstrates the stark change that the development of transport had on the area.

Believed to be taken by Frederick Dally

City of Vancouver archives

Link: http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/14-mile-house-showing-freight-teams-passing-tavern-15-miles-above-yale

1866-70

Samuel Armitage

Public domain

N/A

Visual - photograph

British Columbia