Transport Archives | Royal Engineer to Reeve: The Life and Times of Philip Jackman

Sara Catherine Lehman (née Jackman), on her great-grandfather, Philip Jackman, 1976

Oral history interview conducted by Don Waite, 1976. SL = Sara Lehman DW = Don Waite SL: He was a strict man except to poor families, they would get […]

The Cork Daily Reporter on the Columbia Detachment

Updates on the Columbia Detachment of Royal Engineers were in multiple “Military and Naval” sections throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. This clipping from September […]

Facsimile of an original issue of The Emigrant Soldier’s Gazette and Cape Horn Chronicle

This facsimile is from the January 15, 1859 issue of The Emigrant Soldiers’ Gazette and Cape Horn Chronicle, which was printed and bound in a special 1907 souvenir […]

1907 souvenir edition of The Emigrant Soldier’s Gazette and Cape Horn Chronicle

This copy of the gazette acquired by the Langley Centennial Museum belonged to Royal Engineer Thomas Argyle. Argyle became the lighthouse keeper at Race Rocks lighthouse located just […]

An advertisement for the Theatre

An advertisement for the first Theatre Royal production, Crossing the Line, from the November 13, 1858 issue of The Emigrant Soldier’s Gazette and Cape Horn Chronicle.

The Cariboo Road, 1862: Royal Engineers Push Gold Route through Fraser Canyon

This painting was created by Rex Woods in 1967 as part of a Centennial series called Confederation Life.

The voyage of the Tynemouth

World map showing the voyage of the Tynemouth in red. The Tynemouth followed the same route of the Thames City, going around Cape Horn.

The “Tynemouth” at San Francisco

A clipping from the September 17, 1862 issue of The British Colonist printed in Victoria, British Columbia. The article shows the excitement and nervousness of the men awaiting […]

Esquimalt, 1862

Watercolour painting of ships in the Esquimalt Harbour created by Richard Frederick Britten.

Old Yale Road winding through the bush, ca. 1900

Photograph of an unknown portion of the Old Yale Road.

Plaque commemorating the Cariboo Wagon Road, 2017

This plaque was installed by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and is located along the Fraser River in Yale, BC.

The wagon road at the 17 mile post. Road to goldfields

Construction of the Cariboo Wagon Road began in 1862 and continued until 1865. It spanned roughly 650 kilometers, providing a route from Fort Yale to Barkerville. Two of […]