- RBSC-ARC-1679-CC-TX-258-14
- File
- 1887
Railway Government Publication item 133.
Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly
Railway Government Publication item 133.
Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly
Poster advertising a Canadian Pacific Railway Company exhibition of agricultural products from Manitoba to encourage settlement in the West, depicting mountains and a plough.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
The Canadian Pacific : the new highway to the east across the mountains, prairies & rivers of Canada
Pamphlet advertising the rail route from Montreal to Vancouver, with illustrations and text. Two copies.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Provincial Revenue Tax Act / British Columbia
No. 011330. Revenue tax notice issued to Gu Wo.
Province of British Columbia
Provincial Revenue Tax Act / British Columbia
No. 011331. Revenue tax notice issued to Sing Wat.
Province of British Columbia
Rent receipt / H. F. Heisterman and co.
Receipt for rent paid by Lun Chung and co. for a retail property on Cormorant Street. Chinese notes on verso.
H.F. Heisterman & Co.
To land hunters! To Winnipeg and return $25.00
A poster advertising a land explorers excursion round trip to Winnipeg from Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
[C.P. R.M.S. Parthia at wharf in Vancouver, BC]
Port bow view of C.P. R.M.S. Parthia at the Vancouver, BC pier with longshoremen visible in the background unloading cargo.
[Unknown] (Authorized heading)
[Cargo from the C.P. R.M.S. Parthia at a warehouse in Vancouver, BC]
Inscribed : "Tin from the S.S. Parthia in dock warehouse, Vancouver, BC".
[Unknown] (Authorized heading)
Canada Privy Council papers regarding public lands in British Columbia along the railway belt
Nine orders-in-council regarding the survey, administration and disposal of lands within the railway belt.
Canada. Privy Council
Railway Government Publication item 132.
Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly
Railway Government Publication item 134.
Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly
Proposal from the Vancouver Water Works
The proposal from The Vancouver Water Works company for the contract to create a consistent water supply to the city of Vancouver.
Vancouver Water Works
Agreement with the Coquitlam Water Works company
Agreement with the City of Vancouver on the details of resevoir and piping construction contract.
Coquitlam Water Works
Canadian Pacific Railway dining car menu for 15 Jun. 1887
Dinner menu typed on paper.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Report for the province of British Columbia regarding a land survey for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Two copies.
Bell, H.P.
[Letter from the Office of the Secretary]
A letter on letterhead from "The Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Office of the Secretary" in Montreal. The letter concerns the return of Sir Richard Blackman. The signature may read Ch(arles) Drinkwater.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
[Reproduction of a Railway Pass]
The pass enables Chief Crowfoot to travel on the line with no expiration date. Believed to be from "Building the CPR: Jackdaw No. C4" by Doug Stuebing, published in 1968, which is a compilation of reproduced material, among other things.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
What a Birmingham Man Says About Ontario
A letter from George Millett about his journey from England to Hamilton Ontario reprinted as a pamphlet by the CPR. Also includes some want ads that Millett mentions.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Print showing early Vancouver, British Columbia, with A. Kohl and J. Barclay printed in the lower left and right corners respectively. Engraving is based on an 1887 photograph by W.M. Notman.
Barclay, J.
Record of number of days work performed by Chinese on section of line near Myrtle Creek
Card filled out by a supervisor and given to the Chinese worker at the end of each month.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
First C.P.R. train arriving in Vancouver May 1887
Inscribed in ink: "Shallow water now CPR tracks" and "This bank is now part of CPR Depot site". Additional annotations in pencil on verso. Copy from the City of Vancouver Archives; copyright status is unknown.
[Unknown] (Authorized heading)
[Vancouver Water Works notice]
Notice from Vancouver Water Works written by G. A. Keefer, engineer, specifying work to be done in clearing, close cutting and grubbing. Handwritten note at bottom reads 'No Chinamen are to be employed directly or indirectly on the above works'.
Keefer, G.A.
De Montreal a Victoria par le transcontinental Canadien
Pamphlet containing text and engravings from a presentation for the Montreal Chamber of Commerce by M. Honoré Beaugrand regarding travel from Montreal to Victoria, British Columbia, with the Canadian Transcontinental.
Beaugrand, Honoré
An open letter to the shareholders of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Pamphlet regarding the disallowance of railway charters issued by the legislature of Manitoba.
Winnipeg Board of Trade
[C.P. R.M.S. Parthia unloading tin in Vancouver, BC]
View from C.P.R. R.M.S. Parthia's outer deck as longshoremen unload tin at the Vancouver, BC pier.
[Unknown] (Authorized heading)
[C.P. R.M.S. Abyssinia Coaling at Departure Bay, Vancouver Island BC]
Starboard view of the C.P. R.M.S. Abyssinia at Departure Bay, Vancouver Island BC.
Maynard, Richard
[Three C.P.R. steamships at Vancouver, BC]
Inscribed : "S.S. Abyssinia or S.S. Parthia and the S.S. Islander at Vancouver, BC".
[Unknown] (Authorized heading)
[C.P. R.M.S. Parthia unloading tin in Vancouver, BC]
View from pier as longshoremen unload tin from the C.P.R. R.M.S. Parthia.
W.M. Notman & Son
[C.P. R.M.S. Abyssinia in Vancouver, BC]
Port view of the C.P. R.M.S. Abyssinia in Vancouver, BC harbour.
[Unknown] (Authorized heading)
Fred Brown's Daily Journal 1888
Fred S. Brown, the dispatcher for Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company, kept an almost daily log of activity on the railroad from 1887 until 1905. It includes information such as where trains were going, what they were carrying, who was working on them, and what the weather was like.
Brown, Fred S.
Satirical cartoon published in 'The Wasp' magazine.
[Unknown] (Authorized heading)
Provincial Revenue Tax Act / British Columbia
No. 80981. Revenue tax notice issued to Ah Yon. 陑, the family name, is written verso.
Province of British Columbia
Railway Government Publication item 137.
Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly
Bow River trestle bridge in Alberta.
[Unknown] (Authorized heading)
Ross Peak, BC and C.P.R. railroad loop.
[Unknown] (Authorized heading)
Field, BC and Mount Stephen as seen from the C.P.R. railroad.
[Unknown] (Authorized heading)
Unidentified mountain railroad with a river running to the right of the tracks perhaps near the Rogers Pass area of British Columbia, Canada.
[Unknown] (Authorized heading)
Mount Stephen, East side, Rocky Mountain range, British Columbia
Hand-coloured wood engraving by Paterson printed in the Illustrated London News, depicting a Canadian Pacific train on the East side of Mount Stephen, British Columbia, including a typed note regarding the print attached to the mat, recto.
Paterson
Interior of a colonial sleeping car on the Canadian Pacific Railway
Engraving by Melton Prior from the Illustrated London News of passengers in a Canadian Pacific Railway colonial sleeping car.
Prior, Melton
Register of vessels inward from sea
Consists of one bound registry of incoming Canadian, British and foreign vessels to the port of Vancouver/Burrard Inlet from 1 July 1888 to 30 June 1898.
Department of Marine and Fisheries
[The Loop at Illecillewaet below Glacier House, BC]
The Loop at Illecillewaet below Glacier House, BC with an unidentified man sitting on a log in the left foreground with a trestle bridge in the background.
Macmunn, Charles
A handbook of rules and regulations for Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company employees. Possibly from 1888 and owned by F.J. Porter (based on annotations).
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
[Portrait of a Chinese man with a walking stick]
Printed on card: "Moore / Successors to Abell & Son, / 29 Washington St. / Portland, Or." A list of clothing items is inscribed in pencil on verso.
Moore, [Elbridge W.]
Macmunn, Charles
[Railroad station, with mountains in the background]
Macmunn, Charles
[River, with steep rock faces on both sides]
Macmunn, Charles
Canadian Pacific Railway timetables
Pamphlet-form timetables for passenger trains produced by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company for eastern Canada. 10 pamphlets.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company