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Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung collection British Columbia Coast Steamship Service
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Princess Maquinna

Newspaper clippings, a telegram, and other material related to the life of the Princess Maquinna, including a Christmas card featuring a photograph of the ship.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Princess Nanaimo

Newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and other material related to the Princess of Nanaimo and its service as a passenger and car ferry for the Canadian Pacific.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Diary of Captain W.H. Porter

A diary kept from 1904 to 1917 by W. H. Porter, a captain with the B.C.C.S.S. The diary includes several carbon copies of letters from Porter. The diary also includes annotations by Dr. W. B. Chung regarding the diary, inside front cover, and is accompanied by a typed transcription made in the 1980s.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung collection

  • RBSC-ARC-1679
  • Collection
  • ca.1860-2008

The collection consists of documents, archival records, photographs, ephemera and artifacts related to three broad themes: British Columbia history, immigration and settlement and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Included are the archival fonds of the Yip family and Yip Sang Company, the Dart Coon Club and Chinese Freemasons of Victoria, Hugh G. Robinson (regarding the S.S. Greenhill Park Explosion), Rev. MacDonnell (regarding the Clandonald colony of Scottish immigrants in Alberta) and the British Columbia Coast Steamship Service. Includes documents, ephemera and artifacts of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, including records of travelers on CPR rail and steamships.

Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung

Princess Kathleen enquiry of stranding

Photocopies of statements, a notice of investigation, and a letter regarding the questioning of John Douglas Meredith, Third Officer on the Princess Kathleen, regarding the "stranding of S. S. Princess Kathleen on Lena Point, Lynn Canal, Alaska, Sunday, September 7th, 1952".

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

B.C. Coast Steamships envelopes

Many envelopes. B.C. Coast Steamships logo found on top flap on back of envelope. Assembled by Lawrence Crawford, orchestra leader on the Canadian Pacific second Empress of Japan, Princess Louise, and Princess Alice.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Stationery from the Alaska Steamship Company, Canadian National Steamships, Canadian Pacific B.C. Coast Steamships, Canadian Pacific Steamship Lines cruises, and Canadian Pacific Steamships Limited

Stationery and envelopes from various transportation companies. Assembled by Lawrence Crawford, orchestra leader on the Canadian Pacific second Empress of Japan, Princess Louise, and Princess Alice.

Alaska Steamship Company

British Columbia Coast Steamship Service

Subseries consists of records related to the operation of the British Columbia Coast Steamship Service, which began operating in 1903 following the 1901 purchase of the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The records in this subseries reflect the business activities and operations of the British Columbia Coast Steamship Service and its "Princess" line of steamships, which ran passenger, freight, and ferry services along the British Columbia coast, including the popular "Triangle Route" operating between Victoria, Vancouver, and Seattle. Passenger services continued on the British Columbia Coast Steamship Services until the 1970s.

These records include log books, a captain's diary, engineering notes, contracts, memoranda, reports, payroll records and timesheets, budget summaries, invoices, inventories, technical drawings, maintenance and operation manuals, maps, sailings schedules, tickets, passenger lists, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, menus, newsletters, stationery, correspondence, photographs and photographic negatives, and artefacts such as a letter in a bottle and B.C.C.S.S. facecloths.

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