This series consists of records of the Royal Commission on the British Columbia Railway 1977, 1978. Records include exhibits, interrogatories, general files, clippings, printed matter, indexes, guides and synopses. A card index (BOXES 1-4), and guides and synopses (BOX 5) were compiled by the staff of the Commission. The card index provides subject and name access to the exhibits and testimony in the transcripts of evidence. References will be to exhibit number or volume(s) and page number(s) in the transcripts. For references to pages of testimony by individuals, see the indexes in boxes 1-4.

Special note should be taken of the series of files "Interrogatories", which were written questions submitted to B.C. Rail. The questions are compiled in item 3, BOX 5. Answers to questions are filed in BOXES 15 - 21. Several questions did not receive written answers This finding aid gives a listing of the subject matter of those submissions received from B.C. Rail.

Item consists of a mount of one landscape photograph on card. Includes mountains, a river, logged trees, and a railroad track. "735." and "E.A. Hogg" are captioned on the photograph in addition to the title. "no. 4" has been written on the verso in blue pencil.

Item consists of a published map and profile on a single sheet, mounted on linen and in a folio cover, showing the route of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway from Fort George to Vancouverr. The map and profile are revised to 1922. The verso bears the stamp of F.C. [Frederick Coate] Wade, who was appointed Agent General for British Columbia in London in 1918.

Item consists of a mount of one photograph on card of a train engine with one car and a caboose. Train is exiting a tunnel through mountain rock across a wooden bridge. Four men are visible on the train. "No. 8" is written in blue pencil on the verso.

Item consists of a mount of one landscape photograph on card. Includes a railroad track through a mountain pass. "733." and "E.A. Hogg" are captioned on the photograph in addition to the title. "no. 3" is written in blue pencil on the verso.

Item consists of a mount of one landscape photograph on card. Includes a railroad track, distant mountains, and a river winding below. "No. 710." and "E.A. Hogg" are captioned on the photograph in addition to the title. "no. 7" has been written on the verso in blue pencil.