2018.004.15 This is where the men were working on the bridge doesn’t it look terrible.

Accession Num: 2018.004.15

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Document Date: 1933-06- - --

Donors: E. Annette Huyter and James Albert Terry

Creators: Walter Terry

Keywords: 1930s, Canadian Pacific Railway, Carpenter Creek, Carpenter Creek washout (1933), flood, Nakusp & Slocan Railway, and Silversmith Mine

Locations: Sandon

Physical Description:
1 b/w photograph (14.7 cm x 8.5 cm)

Notes:
Debris left behind from washout of Sandon and Carpenter (foreground) creeks caused by mining waste/debris slide at Silversmith Mine, Sandon, June 1933. Canadian Pacific (Nakusp & Slocan) Railway work train and piledriver on bridge over mouth of Sandon Creek at centre. Notes on rear: 'This is where the men were working on the bridge doesn't it look terrible. I hope you will like these and you can show the people there. Ronald is not to school is he I guess it is to[sic] far wishing you a happy birthday.'

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