Selected References

A starting point for references on BCER and other trains in the Fraser Valley

Online sources in the area

City of Surrey Archives   http://surrey.minisisinc.com/

Township of Langley Archives

City of Burnaby archives https://www.burnaby.ca/about-burnaby/about/history/burnaby-archives.html

City of Burnaby archives  https://heritageburnaby.ca/

City of Richmond archives  http://archives.richmond.ca

City of Vancouver Archives  https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/

UBC Library Archives  https://open.library.ubc.ca/

Selected Books

This is not an exhaustive list, there are many more book on the subject. If you feel there is a work that should be added to this list, please contact info@FVHRS.org

Please note: this list may reference books that are no longer in print; you may not be able to purchase them.  Many should be in local libraries.

Friends of Interurban 1223, Tram Memories in celebration of the restoration of Interurban 1223, City of Burnaby, 2007

Chuck Davis, The Greater Vancouver book  – an urban encyclopedia, Linkman Press,  1997

Henry Ewert, The story of the BC Electric Railway Company,  Whitecap Books, 1986

Derek Hayes, Iron Road West An illustrated history of British Columbia’s Railways, Harbour Publishing, 2018

Derek Hayes, British Columbia – A new Historical Atlas, Douglas & McIntyre, 2012

Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the lower Fraser Valley, Douglas & McIntyre, 2005

Ron Hyde, The Sockeye Special: The story of the Steveston tram and early Lulu Island, (self published), 2011

Barrie Sanford, Railway by the Bay 100 years of trains at White Rock, Crescent Beach and Ocean Park, National Railway Historical Society – BC Chapter, 2009

Barrie Sanford, The pictorial history of railroading in British Columbia, Whitecap Books, 1981

Fred Thirkell & Bob Scullion, Frank Gowen’s Vancouver 1914 – 1931, Heritage House publishing,  2001

K. Jane Watt, Surrey A city of stories,  City of Surrey, 2017