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Report of the Minister of Justice with reference to the arrangement made for the settlement of matters in difference between the Government of Canada and the Government of British Columbia

Pamphlet containing the report of the Minister of Justice regarding the settlement of a dispute between the Government of Canada and the Government of British Columbia over the Vancouver Island Railway, Esquimalt graving dock, railway lands and judicial districts. Signed A. D. Cosmos, February 21, 1884, on front cover.

Canada

Scrapbook

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, annotated by Dr. Wallace B. Chung. Of note are an article about Victoria, an article about Chinese servants in Victoria, and an article about the first C.P.R. tracks.

[Unknown] (Authorized heading)

Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 30th January, 1884 :-- For copies of any correspondence, documents, contracts or agreements with the Pullman Palace Car Company in relation to the company's cars, running over the Intercolonial Railway ; also any contract or agreement with express companies as to conveyance of express matter over the said railway

Railway Government Publication item 121b.

Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly

Rail section

Part of the last rail laid at Craigellachie, BC Nov 7, 1885. Souvenir was cut from the end piece of the final sawn rail after the ceremony - part of the newly laid rail that the train full of dignitaries passed over and on through the mountains for the first time to Port Moody :"All aboard for the Pacific!"

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Extract from the Sessional Papers, No. 25, 48 Victoria, of the 5th Parliament, regarding construction of a railway connecting the Ontario Railway System with the Canadian Pacific Railway

Pamphlet containing an extract from the Sessional Papers, No. 25, 48 Victoria, of the 5th Parliament, regarding construction of a railway connecting the Ontario Railway System with the Canadian Pacific Railway. Missing cover.

Canada

Extract from the Sessional Papers, No. 25, 48 Victoria, of the 5th Parliament, regarding a report of the engineers appointed to re-measure and re-classify the wonk on section B of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Pamphlet containing an extract from the Sessional Papers, No. 25, 48 Victoria, of the 5th Parliament, regarding a report of the engineers appointed to re-measure and re-classify the wonk on section B of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the claims of contractions for increased remuneration and damages. Missing original cover.

Canada

Return to an Address (Senate) presented to His Excellency the Governor General, dated the 17th day of March last ; Praying His Excellency to cause to be laid before this house copies of the reports of the various surveys made by engineers under the direction of the government, for a line of railway connecting Montreal with the harbors of St. John and Halifax by the shortest and best practicable route (including the reports of Messrs. A. L. Light and Vernon Smith on the lines surveyed by them, respectively, running up the valley of the Etchemin River and from Canterbury, New Brunswick, to the northern end of Chesuncook Lake, in the State of Maine) ; together with a statement showing the height of the summit level, the maximum grade per mile, the number of miles with a grade exceeding froth-two feet, the average grade per mile, and the number and position of the curves with a less radius than nineteen hundred and ten feet, upon each of such surveyed lines, as well as upon any existing railway proposed to be use

Railway Government Publication item 123.

Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly

Letters and statements from George Stephen, Esq., president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, to the Honorable the Minister of Railways and Canada, accompanied by Mr. Miall's condensed balance sheet on the affairs of the C.P.R. Co., on the 1st Janu

Clipping from a book providing letters and statements to the Minister of Railways and Canals from George Stephen, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

Stephen, George

An appeal to public opinion against the railway being carried across the Selkirk range, that route being objectionable from the danger of falls from glaciers and from avalanches, also, generally on other matters

Pamphlet appealing to the public and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to find a less treacherous route through the Rocky Mountains than the current route through the Selkirk Range. Includes a fold out map.

Veritas., Philo.

Return to a standing order of the House of Commons, dated 20th February. 1882 ;-- That it is desirable that a report should be presented to this house, within fifteen days from the opening of each session, giving full information on all subjects affecting the Canadian Pacific Railway up to the latest date, and particularly all details as to : 1. The selection of the route. 2. The progress of the work. 3. The selection or reservation of the land. 4. The payment of moneys. 5. The laying out of the branches. 6. The progress therein. 7. The rates of tolls for passengers and freight. 8. The particulars required by the Consolidated Railway Act, and the amendments thereto, up to the end of the previous fiscal year. 9. Like particulars up to the latest date before the presentation of the Return. 10. Copies of all orders in council and of all correspondence between the government and the railway company, or any member or officer of either, relating to the affairs of the company

Railway Government Publication item 116.

Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly

Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 23rd February, 1885 ;-- For copies of the report of Mr. Van Horne, vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, of September last, and of Mr. S. B. Reed, C.E., of the same month, with reference to the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia ; and also for copies of the reports of engineers of high standing as to the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the point where a temporary line has been built, referred to in the letter from Mr. Van Horne to the Minister of Railways and Canals of 19th May, 1884, and for any report of Mr. Fleming on the subject in the possession of the Railway Company

Railway Government Publication item 117.

Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly

Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated the 24th February, 1885 ;-- For any information in the possession of the department as to the character of the work done near Lytton, British Columbia, on the Canadian Pacific Railway on that portion of the road for which Mr. Hugh J. Keefer had a sub-contract, and which was under the inspection of his brother, Mr. George Keefer, government engineer ; also copies of any statements as to the character of the material allowed as rock or as other than earth in this part

Railway Government Publication item 119.

Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly

Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 6th February, 1885 ;-- For copies of all orders in council, reports, correspondence and papers respecting the grant or payment of any subsidies to railways other than the Canadian pacific railway, not already brought down, and statements in detail of all such payments to date

Railway Government Publication item 122.

Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly

Commission of Sir Mathew Baillee Begbie, Henry Pering Pellew Crease, John Hamilton Gray, John Foster McCreight and George Anthony Walkem

Item is a document commissioning Sir Mathew Baillee Begbie, Henry Pering Pellew Crease, John Hamilton Gray, John Foster McCreight and George Anthony Walkem as Justices in the Province of British Columbia by command of Clement F. Cornwall, Governor. The document is a printed text with handwritten dates and signatures, with the great seal of the province of British Columbia affixed in the upper left corner, signed Clement F. Cornwall in the upper right corner, and has been folded twice. A printed decorative border runs along the left edge of the document, which is surrounded by the Royal Arms.

British Columbia. Lieutenant-Governor. (Francis 1881-1887)

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