Robert Turner Collection

Robert Turner has been researching, photographing and writing about transportation history since the 1970?s. He has written hundreds of articles and reviews and his photos have been widely used in books, magazines, exhibits and websites. He received the Canadian Railroad Historical Association?s Lifetime Achievement Award and the American Association for State and Local History?s Award of Merit for the excellence of his books, along with many other awards. A retired heritage consultant and a curator emeritus at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, Bob has traveled widely around the world photographing the last steam railways and early industries, while documenting the people, places and stories of this disappearing history and culture. Among other projects, since 1988 he has been Project Historian at the SS Moyie National Historic Site at Kaslo, BC, where a major restoration is underway on the world's oldest passenger sternwheeler. For his work on Canadian railway history he received the Canadian Railroad Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Bob was writer in residence at Pierre Berton House in Dawson City in the spring of 2009. He lives in Victoria, BC.