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	British Columbia Electric Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A division of BC Electric, the BCER operated public transportation in southwestern British Columbia from its establishment in the mid-1890s, operating streetcar systems in Vancouver, Victoria, New Westminster, and North Vancouver.
		BCER interurban trams ran along 3 lines between Vancouver and New Westminster, as well as between Vancouver and Richmond, New Westminster and Chilliwack, and Victoria and North Saanich.
		In 1989, BC Hydro sold the railway to a new shortline operator and the railway is now known as the Southern Railway of British Columbia and is exclusively a freight railway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_Electric_Railway (208 words)

	BC Rail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1958, British Columbia Premier W.A.C. Bennett boasted that he would extend the railway to the Yukon and Alaska, and further extension of the railway was undertaken in the 1960s.
		In 1973, the British Columbia government acquired and restored an ex-Canadian Pacific Railway 4-6-4 steam locomotive of the type known as "Royal Hudsons", a name that King George VI permitted the class to be called after the Canadian Pacific Railway used one on the royal train in 1939.
		Looking to retire BC Rail's debt, on May 13, 2003, British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell reneged on promises to the contrary and announced that the government would privatise BC Rail (by means of a 999 year lease), while retaining ownership of the right-of-way.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_Railway (4245 words)

	British Columbia Electric Railway -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The British Columbia Electric Railway provided electricity to and operated public transportation in southwestern (A province in western Canada) British Columbia from its establishment in the mid (The decade from 1890 to 1899) 1890s.
		In 1961, the provincial government took the BC Electric over, and the company became (additional info and facts about BC Hydro) BC Hydro.
		In 1989, BC Hydro sold the railway to a new (additional info and facts about shortline) shortline operator and the railway was renamed the Southern Railway of British Columbia.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Br/British_Columbia_Electric_Railway.htm (208 words)

	CLARK v. CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO., [1988] 2 S.C.R. 680 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The decision in Winnipeg Electric was cited with approval by the Privy Council in British Columbia Electric Railway Co. Ltd.
		Canadian Pacific Railway Co., supra, and Pszenicnzy, supra, were cases in which the limitation period in the Act was applied to common law actions for damages or injuries sustained by reason of negligence in the operation of a railway.
		British Columbia (Workers' Compensation Board), [1988] 1 S.C.R. Provincial limitation of action legislation plainly does not impinge upon the management or operation of the railway in the manner of the legislation at issue in those cases.
	www.lexum.umontreal.ca /csc-scc/en/pub/1988/vol2/html/1988scr2_0680.html (8832 words)

	British Columbia Electric Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BCER train in the Fraser Valley shortly after the new subdivision was built in 1910.
		In 1962 the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority absorbed the BCER and its freight operations.
		The government-owned railway was sold in 1988 and became Southern Railway of British Columbia (SRY).
	www.ptbo.igs.net /~roughley/bcer.html (86 words)

	Transit History in BC - the early years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The forerunner of today’s SeaBus, the ferry departs from Columbia Street and crosses the inlet to the foot of Lonsdale Avenue.
		On the move to UBC…When the University of British Columbia moves to a new location in Point Grey in 1925, the company buys six Leyland buses to run along 10th Avenue to the new campus from a bus garage at 10th and Trimble Street.
		BCER is one of the first companies to pay women the same as men for the same work.
	www.coastmountainbus.com /Historyfiles/T_historyEarly.html (3013 words)

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		BCER 503 is an Electric Freight Motor of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company.
		It was built in 1899 by the shops of the BCER Co, rebuilt a few times, and in 1922 repainted in the then new BCER colors of red and cream.
		The Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society will be releasing the entire MSTS British Columbia Electric Railway, Fraser Valley Route as a CDR program package, in the late Summer of 2004 by "donation".
	www.paradesquare.ca /railway/BCER_503.htm (275 words)

	"RyPN Briefs" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After two days of preparing the car to make the 1200 mile trip north, two trucks hired to make the move came to the museum's site; however, before their appearance 1225 was moved from the car barn to the loading site under its own power.
		Along with the police was a representative from Southern Railway of BC (SRY), making sure all federal requirements were met as the large load had to cross and stop on SRY tracks.
		BCER 1225 being unloaded from the truck, soon to be reunited with its own trucks.
	www.rypn.org /RyPN/briefs/viewbriefs.asp?filename=050814234156.txt (584 words)

	Chapter 6: The B.C.E. Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The public's dissatisfaction with the steamers told the British Columbia Electric Railway shareholders that the time was ripe for a line through the Fraser Valley.
		The B.C. Electric Railway Company financiers expected this and approached the milk producing farmers that were anxious to have the line pass as closely as possible to their farms.
		Shortly after the completion of the British Columbia Electric Railway line George I. Blair, in the capacity of the municipality's police commissioner, received a letter from Vancouver that a large cougar was killing deer in Stanley park.
	www.fortlangley.ca /langley/6cbce.html (3504 words)

	BC Electric #941
		This is one of the first 3 diesel locomotives owned by the British Columbia Electric Railway.
		It served the BCER until it was sold to Eurocan Pulp in Kitimat BC where it and a sister 70 Tonner switched cars in the pulpmill.
		Donated to the West Coast Railway Association, the locomotive was shipped on a flatcar to Squamish in late 1996.
	www.wcra.org /collection/BCER941.htm (104 words)

	Langley City (British Columbia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This was one of the many small communities established in the area, separated from other settlements by large tracks of farm land and bush.
		The construction of the Inter-Urban railroad (BC Electric Railway) in 1910 resulted in significant growth in the community.
		Combines a mural coronet as a traditional heraldic emblem for municipal government with Maple leaves for Canada and Dogwoods for British Columbia.
	www.hampshireflag.co.uk /world-flags/allflags/ca-bc-ly.html (401 words)

	Canadian Freight Railcar Gallery - Southern Railway of British Columbia
		The BC Electric Railway (BCER) was incorporated in 1897 to unite the separate interurban and street railway systems in Vancouver, Victoria and New Westminster.
		The BCER was taken over by the provincial government when BC Hydro was created in 1961.
		BC Hydro continued to operate the railway until 1988 when it was sold to Itel Rail Corp., and became Southern Railway of British Columbia.
	freight.railfan.ca /sry.html (163 words)

	The Changing Structure of the Electric Power Industry: Historical Chronology of Energy-Related Milestones, 1800-1994
		Edison Electric Light Co. (USA) and American Electric and Illuminating of Montreal founded.
		Attleboro--selling electricity interstate cannot be regulated by state.
		FPL Group cuts dividend, possibly the first electric utility to reduce dividend as a matter of financial policy rather than from financial necessity.
	www.eia.doe.gov /cneaf/electricity/page/electric_kid/append_b.html (1203 words)

	The 27 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It's one of a limited number of "originals." Oregon Electric Railway had a trio of these: 960, 961 and 962.
		Columbia Electric Railway bought two of them in 1946.
		On the prototypes, this seems to have been the normal place for air compressors and miscellaneous electrical gear, although in many cases the pumps were put in the hoods or under the car body.
	home.comcast.net /~OhioRiverElectricRailway/27.htm (949 words)

	Pacific Stage Lines
		The New Westminster Station at the foot of 8th Street and Columbia Avenue was a shared facility.
		Both the BC Electric Railway and the Pacific Stage lines used this station.
		When passenger service ended on the railway in 1950 the facility was sold and by 1954 was redeveloped as the Wosk building.
	members.shaw.ca /j.a.brown/PacificStage.html (1886 words)

	Railway Act -- B.C. ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Railway Act -- B.C. Copyright (c) 2004: Queen's Printer,
		1 Each examiner employed by the British Columbia Electric Railway Company Limited may be provided with Keystone Vision Telebinocular apparatus, and if the examiner is so provided, section 2 of the Visual Acuity, Colour Perception and Hearing of Railway Employees Regulations (B.C. Reg.
		457/59) does not apply to such examiner or examiners of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company Limited, subject to the following condition: That cases not meeting the prescribed standards be referred to the Medical Department of the Company for further medical investigation.
	www.qp.gov.bc.ca /statreg/reg/R/railway/179_58.htm (153 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After the discovery of electricity in the 19th century, it was quickly learned that the movement of water could be 'harnessed' to produce this new and mysterious form of energy.
		The VPC also promised that they would provide cheaper electricity for the City and that their parent, the BCERC, would upgrade their electric railway system in the New Westminster area.
		Maber, Superintendent of the British Columbia Lands Branch, and with Mr.
	www.alternatives.com /bctwa/CoqRivHist.htm (6289 words)

	Chilliwack Museum and Archives - History - Community of Villages - Yarrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1910, the British Columbia Electric Railway [BCER] completed construction of a railway line that followed the base of Vedder Mountain, along the shores of Sumas Lake.
		The construction of the BCER meant improved transportation and communications, and an alternative to steam powered riverboat travel along the Fraser River.
		With the construction of the line the BCER established a station stop, that was named Yarrow.
	chilliwack.museum.bc.ca /history/cov/yarrow.htm (995 words)

	Central Hobbies resin kits page.
		British Columbia Electric Railway #1208 (# 1205-1216, 1312, 1322, 1600, 1602 and 1603 similar).
		British Columbia Electric Railway #1222 (# 1217-1244, 1313-1320 similar).
		British Columbia Electric Railway #1706 (#1706, 1708, 1709 similar).
	www.central-hobbies.com /products/resin.html (459 words)

	UBC Special Collections - BCER Inventory
		The records of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company were transferred to the University of British Columbia Library (in lieu of the Provincial Archives) in 1964 when the Provincial Government "nationalized" the B.C.E.R. and the B.C. Power Commission to form the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority.
		B.C. Electric Railway Co. Ltd., June 4, 1906.
		Railway and Electric Co., traced by Leslie, revised to Aug. 26th, 1913.
	www.library.ubc.ca /spcoll/inventories/bcer.html (15691 words)

	Blank Again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The negligence of such detail is unfortunate, not only because the lake was such a major feature of the Lower Fraser Valley, but because it figures in her history of the British Columbia Electric Railway.
		Although the B.C.E.R. company wanted to drain the lake as part of its plan to push the rail through to Chilliwack, the plan was abandoned due to expense of the proposal.
		Nevertheless, the railway, built on the south shore of the lake, was successfully completed in 1910, and is currently utilized by B.C. Hydro service trains.
	www.mqup.mcgill.ca /files/cameron_laura/blank2.html (118 words)

	Southern Railway of British Columbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Formed in 1897 as British Columbia Electric Railway to unite the separate interurban and street railway systems in Vancouver, Victoria and New Westminster.
		BCER taken over by provincial government and became British Columbia Hydro Railway in 1962.
		Line sold to Itel Rail Corp in 1988 and became Southern Railway of British Columbia.
	www.trainweb.org /rosters/SRY.html (144 words)

	Things to Do in Vancouver - downtown historic railway, vancouver
		The restored tram cars were originally operated by the British Columbia Electric Railway on its Greater Vancouver - Fraser Valley interurban electric railway system.
		Tram 1231 was built in 1912 by the St. Louis Car Company and was part of the general fleet of interurbans tram cars.
		The Downtown Historic Railway operates from the Victoria day weekend in May to the Thanksgiving day weeked in October, on weekends and holidays only, from 1 pm to 5 pm.
	www.findfamilyfun.com /historicrail.htm (162 words)

	British Columbia Electric Railway #1304 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The British Columbia Electric Railway ran city and suburban routes around Vancouver, and fast interurban line east to Chilliwack.
		Used later in regular service, Car 1304 was gutted by a fire in 1947, and then completely rebuilt as original, except for the simpler arch roof was substituted for the original railroad arrangement.
		This car is arguably designated as the world's newest wood interurban car, and is presently on loan to the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society.
	home.gwi.net /trolley/collection/interurban/1304.html (180 words)

	British Columbia Electric Railway Interurban # 1304 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		3995 Brooklake Rd Brooks, OR Oregon Electric Railway.org
		Built as an elegant private car for the visiting Duke of Connaught, it was converted to passenger service in 1912.
		The OERHS is the owner/operator of the Oregon Electric Railway Museum and the operator of the Willamette Shore Trolley.
	www.trainweb.org /oerhs/roster/bce_1304.htm (230 words)

	British Columbia Electric Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These companies eventually merged to form the Consolidated Railway and Light Co. But a tragic event in 1896 ensured that Consolidated Railway would not operate the province's transit.
		The company was sold to the Colonial Railway and Investment Company of eastern Canada.
		The British Columbia Electric Railway Company began an association with the province which lasted 65 years.
	www.busweb.co.uk /bctransit/HTML/bcer.htm (382 words)

	Transit History of Victoria, British Columbia
		Operator of transit in Vancouver and interurbans on the Lower Mainland.
		Also operated transit service in Vancouver and interurban service on the Saanich Peninsula and the Lower Mainland.
		By 1945 was operating eight streetcar routes and eleven bus routes in greater Victoria (CC67).
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/alltime/victoria-bc.html (663 words)

	Jerry's Railroad Photo Archive - Page T4
		727 (Cincinnati 1926) on Iowa Railway Historical Museum excursion on the Southern Iowa Railway at the Milwaukee Road bridge near Centerville, Iowa.
		80 (Preston 1921) ex-Grand River Railway 226 (purchased 1963) in the yard at Emery, Iowa.
		80 (Preston 1921) ex-Grand River Railway 226 (purchased 1963) and 81 (Preston 1921) ex-Lake Erie and Northern 337 (purchased 1963) in the yard at Emery, Iowa.
	www.jerryapp.com /arcv_t4.html (2254 words)

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