Tag: history

The Kitimat branch line operating trestle bridges

The 38.5 mile (62 kilometre) Canadian National Railways branch line from Terrace to Kitimat is one of the last working rail lines in North America that still uses wooden trestle bridges. There are three large and three smaller trestles along the line, as well a large bridge built to cross the Skeena River at Terrace […]

Those marauding pirates who infest certain cities and rob hardworking photographers

“Such miserable pirates are too sordid to engage a photographer to make a special series for them; they prefer to rob an already poorly paid class of men-men who have to depend for their living upon the sale of views taken during the short summer months.”   Most photographers today believe that the problems of […]

A visit to the North Pacific Cannery National Historic Site

I was in Prince Rupert and Port Edward, BC on Friday, May 29.  I was able to pay a brief visit to the North Pacific Cannery National Historic Site.  I had always wanted to see the site, but in the past my visits to Prince Rupert were either in the winter, when the site is […]

The magic of Kodachrome I: Pompeii

How many times do we say “if I had a chance to do it all over again….” Well, if I had a chance to do it all over again, I would have shot more Kodachrome.  Joni Mitchell was right, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” In all those years, I only shot […]