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BC Electric was NOT a Crown corporation, but a privately-owned company headquartered in London, England... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.83.208.107 ( talk) 05:13, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Using the BC Hydro page it looks like it only became a crown in the later part of it's existence http://www.bchydro.com/about/company_information/history.html. -- M@sk ( talk) 02:14, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
I just made the BC Electric Company redirect and pointed it here, but held back from creating British Columbia Electric Company, which was the power-generating subsidiary of the railway company, so no rename is needed later; I don't have any documents to start it with; sketchy materials might be had on the BC Hydro site but no doubt there's some political/journalistic accounts online somewhere; I'll alert WP:Energy to the needed article, likewise WP:Companies. Skookum1 ( talk) 00:11, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
I happened to find this report on BCER's rail services v. jitneys from 1917 which looks to have all kinds of useful detail/information. The title is Report of Dr. Adam Shortt, commissioner investigating the economic conditions and operations of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company and subsidiary companies, and to decide definitely as to the possibility of street car service being maintained in competition with the jitneys.. Skookum1 ( talk) 13:54, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
I've amended the line-template, partly because "Salish Sea" is a recentism and the more accurate Georgia Strait is the temporal frame of reference for this line, but raised the issue no the template talkpage that it should display the actual station names, not the general and vague modern municipal lines; Abbotsford was not amalgamated for years; its stations including Mount Lehman, Matsqui, Huntingdon, Vedder Mountain etc.....similarly within Langley and Surrey t he actual route did not have those station-names alone; a real map would be far better, of course. Skookum1 ( talk) 13:38, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Seems to me New Westminster Bridge needs amending; didn't the BCER use it also? don't recall there being another bridge...and the interurban ran from downtown Vancouver to downtown Chilliwack without a ferry, no? Skookum1 ( talk) 13:39, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
I'd thought, based on an older bcer.bc.ca site that doesn't appear to be online anymore, that the Stave Falls Branch was an electric line...maybe after Stave Falls was opened? The picture here on the Mission Museum's website says obviously "steam". A separate article may arise soon because of discussions with an area old-timer (older than me haha) on Talk:Whonnock and Talk:Ruskin, British Columbia and on User talk:Braches. Skookum1 ( talk) 07:32, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
The section on the Rails-to-Rubber Transition appears to have been edited fairly recently, adding in un-sourced comments and commentary regarding a recent proposal that was shot down by TransLink (British Columbia) regarding a revival of a passenger rail service along the same line. I've tagged the article and section with the appropriate infoboxes, which can be removed once proper sourcing is provided. ThePointblank ( talk) 08:34, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
As such, I'll take out the recent edit based upon the information present in this document. ThePointblank ( talk) 03:33, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
When a knowledgeable contributor rewrites the page, it would be helpful to enhance the operational history of each line and to update the more recent history (eg. Arbutus corridor developments over past decade, Richmond's Railway Ave greenway, Surrey light rail cancellation and Skytrain extension proposal), and if feasible to create rail line templates showing all stations on each line. DMBanks1 ( talk) 23:09, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
Patricia Roy has written several good academic articles about the BCER, including her PhD thesis on the electric railway. Several of these are available from the internet (her doctoral thesis is on the UBC Circle site, and she has a couple of articles in BC Studies, online). A future writer may wish to consult these works. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.92.51.32 ( talk) 22:50, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
I found some old posters I believe from the late 1940’s or 1950’s was wondering if I could get any info about them
Thank you Shannon Shannonlynne70 ( talk) 18:38, 20 February 2023 (UTC)