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Betty Clarke Pearson collection

  • RBSC-ARC-1819
  • Collection
  • 1939-2003

This collection consists of correspondence and published materials gathered by Betty Clarke Pearson about the last voyage of Empress of Canada that was sunk by an Italian submarine on March 14th, 1943. Betty's father, John St.Claire Clarke, was the chief officer of Empress of Canada at the time of the attack. He survived while nearly 400 others were lost. Betty gathered these documents which include newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and a memorandum speech, reflecting stories of her father along with other survivors of the attack.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company steamships

Subseries consists of records related to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's steamship division, which was first introduced in 1887 following the completion of the transcontinental railway. The Canadian Pacific Steamship Company (later the Canadian Pacific Steamships Ocean Services Ltd.), built a fleet of opulent ocean liners built to C.P.R. specifications, including several which operated as Royal Mail Ships for the British Empire. Canadian Pacific steamships became known for the luxury they offered passengers in addition to functioning as a major cargo carrier. Records in this subseries pertain to the Canadian Pacific steamships themselves, such as shipbuilding specifications, as well as to the ships' operations. There is a particular emphasis on the Empress line of ocean lines, although records about ships from other lines, such as the Princess and Duchess lines, are also found in this subseries.

These records include photographs and photograph albums, scrapbooks, ships histories, pamphlets, postcards, broadsides, newspaper clippings, diaries, menus and programmes, passenger lists, sailings schedules and fares, boarding cards, ship plans and technical drawings, reports, invoices, inventories, account books, log books, service records, maps, baggage labels, stationery, correspondence, ephemera, and artefacts.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Series consists of records related to the operations of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, which was incorporated in 1881. The Chung Collection contains a wealth of unique materials related to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and details its extensive operations ranging from the construction of the transcontinental railway to the development of new divisions to the experiences of travellers on C.P.R. ships, trains, and planes. The records in this series include photographs, historical documents, books, maps, pamphlets, and artefacts, and include a number of very rare items such as Alfred Waddington's "Overland Route through British North America" (1868).

This series has been arranged into eight subseries: the Canadian Pacific Railway, C.P.R. Steamships, Travel and Tourism with the C.P.R., the British Columbia Coast Steamship Service, Artwork and images of the C.P.R., C.P.R. artefacts, Working for the C.P.R., and the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company.

Memograms

98 memograms in a specifically-designed folder. Memograms are defined by CP as "pictorial memoranda produced by artists on board and issued from time to time at luncheon and dinner during the entire cruise". These are from a Canadian Pacific South America-Africa Cruise in 1929 aboard the Duchess of Atholl. It is likely that this constitutes a complete set.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Alaska! Inside Passage Cruises

A folder containing information about Alaskan cruises aboard the T.E.V. Princess Patricia. Including: letters about how enjoyable the cruise was; a daily bulletin pamphlet; a pamphlet about the cruise generally; information from the public relations department; a clipped portion of a paper bag with a picture of an Alaskan village; a photocopy of a newspaper article about a teacher taking the trip; some sales material; and copies of menus.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

A Souvenir of a Voyage of Discovery aboard the T.E.V. Princess Patricia

A package of memorabilia for children, originally housed in a plastic sleeve. Including: a booklet about Captain Cook and his journey; three colouring posters; a printed 'Poem of Alaska'; a 'personal scroll' that talks about the cruise; a title page; and a record album called "Captain Cook and the Pacific Ocean".

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

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