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      Official No.: 107220; First Rebuild: Official Number: 107220 Propulsion: Screw Dimensions: 79 x 16 -- 97 tons Rebuilt: Kenora, Ontario, Canada in 1912 60x16x5 Owned by C. Lewis, Keewatin 1901; J. & R. S. Fraser, Keewatin 1917, 1927. Licensed for 182 passengers 1914.

      Official No.: 78014; First Rebuild: Official Number: 78014 Propulsion: Screw Dimensions: 40 x 10 -- 27 tons Rebuilt: Kenora, Ontario, Canada in 1898 38x10x4 Owned by Keewatin Lumber Co. Built by J. Mather, Keewatin (Kenora) Ont. 1880. Engine 6x8 by J. & R. Weir, Montreal. Tug.

      Official No.: 103662; 55x13x4 Owned by C. Lewis, Rat Portage (Kenora) 1901. Destroyed by fire 28/11/02 Rat Portage while hauled out for the winter. ; Final Location: Kenora, Ontario, Canada, Burnt

      Official No.: 121912; First Rebuild: Official Number: 121912 Propulsion: Screw Dimensions: 76 x 15 -- 76 tons Rebuilt: Kenora, Ontario, Canada in 1910 60x14x4 Owned by Robertson & Doucette, Kenora. Used on Winnipeg River.

      Official No.: 92693; 52x12x5 Owned by Keewatin Lumber Co. Built by G. Dickson, Keewatin (Kenora) Ont. 1889. Engine 10x12 by Doty Engine Works. Fish tug. Destroyed by fire 29/08/03 Kenora. ; Final Location: Kenora, Ontario, Canada, Burnt

      Official No.: 92701; 57x14x4 Owned by E. Brydges, Keewatin (Kenora) Ont. 1890, 1895; L. R. Mackey, Kenora 1901. Built by E. Webster, Keewatin 1890. Engine 8x9 by Allen & Nichol, Port Hope Ont., from "Fleetwing". Passenger vessel, later tug. Destroyed by fire 28/11/02 while hauled out for winter Rat Portage …

      Workers and horses pose for a photo during the clearing of a rock cut near Kenora, Ontario during the early 1900s.

      A group of workers pose for a photo while working on the Trans Continental Railway tracks near Kenora (Rat Portage), Ontario. According to the McDonald papers, 12 000 men and 5000 horses were employed in the construction in this area. The cost was $12 million, of which 10% was spent …

      Alternate views taken, but not scanned. IHC catalogue number: 2507, 2509, & 2510.

      IHC catalogue number: 2514

      The equipment in this photo belonged to W.H. Marr Limited. IHC catalogue number: 2521. Alternate view taken, but not scanned. IHC catalogue number: 2514.

      To bridge the gap between rivers, or to create a solid road bed for the rail, a great amount of ballast was required in preparation for the tracks for the TransContinental Railway. At times, the 'track layers' were only ten miles behind the bridge makers on the line.

      A Linde photo of the TransContinental Railway wooden trestle, contracted out to Anderson and Johnson in the early 1900's, near Kenora, Ontario. In most cases, the wooden trestles were filled in with crushed rock that had been dynamited, to provide a solid base for the line of track on the …

      The Marion Steam Shovel loads crushed rock into boxcars, for transport to another area on the railway line. The rocks were used to build solid foundations in the areas that were sinking due to muskeg. This photo was taken by Gustave Linde during the construction of the Trans Continental Railway, …

      A group of workers on the Trans Continental Railway take a short break to pose for a photo by a pallet of crushed rock. This photo was taken during the construction of the Trans Continental Railway near Kenora, in Northwestern Ontario. ~1900.

      Thunder Bay, Ontario, transportation, railways, railroads, work gang, McArthur, tracks, construction

      Black and white photo of a 'Bucyrus' steam shovel used to prepare the roadbed for the laying of the tracks for the TransContinental Railway near Kenora, Ontario.

      This photo by Linde shows the heavy work involved in removing a rock cut for the construction of the Trans Continental Railway in the area of Rat Portage(Kenora), in Northwestern Ontario. Jachetta was the contractor or foreman for this section of the railway line.

      A Carl Gustave Linde photo showing hand made booms used to lift the blasted rock onto pallets, for removal to another area, in the construction of the TransContinental railway during the early 1900's. 'Chambers, Mc&Mc' were the foreman and contractors on this section of the construction of the railway tracks.

      A Carl Gustave Linde photo of the rail gang working on the Anderson and Johnson contract on a section of the Trans Continental Railway near Kenora, Ontario, during the early 1900's.