Summary: Promotional film. The BC Electric Railway Company's $50 million post-war expansion and modernization program, to be completed by 1950. Includes: expansion of transit services, including start of the switch from streetcars to trolley buses; water gas plant; explanation of the Bridge River project, with footage of construction (including La Joie Falls storage dam); Lower Mainland power sub-stations. Various Vancouver street scenes, especially Fraser Street and downtown
Credit note : sponsored/presented by: British Columbia Electric Company; producer: Lew M. Parry; producing agency/company: Trans-Canada Films Ltd.
Commercial Crossing Agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs Respecting the BC Electric Railway Turn-around at 16th Avenue and Cumberland Road
Photograph of the Cumberland Road Station on the Burnaby Lake Line. The station shelter is on a small, raised platform in a wooded area. Electric power poles are visible running along the tracks.
Photograph of the Cumberland Road Station on the Burnaby Lake Line. The station shelter is on a small, raised platform in a wooded area. Electric power poles are visible running along the tracks.
Note on verso of photograph reads: "Cumberland Rd. Station, Burnaby Lake line, 1949/ Ernie Plant photo from/ the Henry Ewert Collection/ photo produced by/ Robert Bodlak/ 1/88"
Photograph of the Norris station shelter and small wooden plank platform along the British Columbia Electric Railway New Westminster - Chilliwack line.
Photograph of the Norris station shelter and small wooden plank platform along the British Columbia Electric Railway New Westminster - Chilliwack line.
Note on verso of photograph reads: "Norris Station on B.C. Electric's/ New Westminster-Chilliwack railway line/ -photographed in 1949 by/ Ernie Les Plant/ Photo is in the collection of/ Henry Ewert/ Copied for Elizabeth Czerwinski/ 21/2/94"