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Loading Milk Cannisters at the Agassiz CPR Station, 1930s

Black and white photograph of men loading approximately 50 large milk cannisters onto a train. Cannisters are being loaded from a car in the foreground.

Image courtesy of The Agassiz-Harrison Historical Society, 1992.035.592.

Men loading milk cannisters onto the train at the Agassiz CPR Station, 1930s. The car in the foreground was used to transport some of the cannisters to the station. Special cargo trains, known as “milk trains,” regularly stopped in Agassiz to pick-up and transport the milk to the urban centres, such as New Westminster and Vancouver.