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Archibald Murchie collection

Landscapes showing developing infrastructure in the interior of British Columbia in the later 19th and early 20th century, with especially robust coverage of the construction of railroads and bridges, as well as some mining operations. Features group portraits of work crews.

Murchie, Archibald

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

E.H. Crump Photographic Collection

  • CA OSC-ARC-10
  • Collection
  • 1904-1989

The fonds consists of predominantly of photographs. Photographic coverage includes: N.R. “Buck” Crump as President of the CPR, CPR employees, the 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche, wrecks, fires, steamers, engines, stations, and scenery.

Crump, E.H.

The challenge of the mountains

Pamphlet advertising attractions in the Canadian Rocky Mountains through text and illustrations, bound in a white cover with a colour drawing of a woman in the mountains. Includes a map of Canadian Pacific routes across Canada.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

The challenge of the mountains

Pamphlet advertising attractions in the Canadian Rocky Mountains through text and illustrations, bound in a white cover with a colour drawing of a woman in the mountains. Includes a map of Canadian Pacific routes across Canada.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

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.

Canadian Pacific Railway

Subseries consists of records related to the Canadian Pacific Railway, including records pertaining to the construction of the railway which was completed at Craigellachie, B.C. in 1885, four years behind schedule. Other records in this subseries pertain to trains, railway operations and station business, railway tourism, and settlement activities led by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in Western Canada. Records in this subseries relate both to those travelling on the C.P.R. as well as those who worked on it, and include notable items such as and a blueprint book of Canadian Pacific Railway Standard Plans, 1908, and engineer-in-chief Sandford Fleming's "Report on Surveys and Preliminary Operations on the Canadian Pacific Railway up to January 1877."

These records include monographs about railway history, pamphlets, contracts, forms, memoranda, reports, receipts and invoices, ledgers and cash books, budget summaries, maps, technical drawings, blueprints, employee handbooks, technical manuals, newsletters, train timetables and fares, land titles, stock certificates, photographs and photograph albums, posters and broadsides, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, postcards, diaries, menus, tickets, correspondence, ephemera, and artefacts, including a slice of the Last Spike railroad track.

CP Rail local inward revising station car record

A register recording incoming and outgoing C.P.R. railroad cars at the Canadian Pacific Railway depot in Vancouver. Entries for outward billing, local inward revising and wharf revising provide the date, initials for foreign company cars, car numbers and other information with numbers perhaps indicating engine number and car position.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

CP Rail wharf revising station car record

A register recording incoming and outgoing C.P.R. railroad cars at the Canadian Pacific Railway depot in Vancouver. Entries for outward billing, local inward revising and wharf revising provide the date, initials for foreign company cars, car numbers and other information with numbers perhaps indicating engine number and car position.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

CP Rail wharf revising station car record

A register recording incoming and outgoing C.P.R. railroad cars at the Canadian Pacific Railway depot in Vancouver. Entries for outward billing, local inward revising and wharf revising provide the date, initials for foreign company cars, car numbers and other information with numbers perhaps indicating engine number and car position.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

CP Rail station car record outward billing

A register recording incoming and outgoing C.P.R. railroad cars at the Canadian Pacific Railway depot in Vancouver. Entries for outward billing, local inward revising and wharf revising provide the date, initials for foreign company cars, car numbers and other information with numbers perhaps indicating engine number and car position.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

CP Rail station car record

A register recording incoming and outgoing C.P.R. railroad cars at the Canadian Pacific Railway depot in Vancouver. Entries for outward billing, local inward revising and wharf revising provide the date, initials for foreign company cars, car numbers and other information with numbers perhaps indicating engine number and car position.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

[Reproduction of an Ad for the Canadian Pacific Railway]

An ad reading "England's Key to her Asiatic & Australasian Possessions is Canada and must use the Canadian Pacific Railway, (the only line from the Atlantic to the Pacific) to reach them on time". 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

[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

Across Canada

A "Descriptive Time Table of the Tour of General His Imperial Highness Prince Fushimi, G.C.B. Across Canada by the Canadian Pacific Railway 1907". In a bound journal including some photos.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

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