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[World Travel Photo Album]

A photo album documenting the world travels of a Canadian family. They appear to have spent time living in Ontario as well as British Columbia, and travelled extensively. The photos are well captioned and dated, and often include individual names. The album and photos are still in generally good shape.

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[Western inspection tour by W. M. Neal of the C.P.R.]

Album consists of photographs depicting of C.P.R. President, W. M. Neal's western inspection tour, accompanied by the Board of Directors of the C.P.R. in 1947. The album includes the president and board members in trains, train yards, stations, Canadian Pacific aircraft, and the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. There is also related ephemera in the album.

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[Various views of Skagway, Yukon, including landscapes, hospital, and cabin]

Harry L. Suydam stamped on verso, some contain handwritten captions on verso. Included with album is small informational page on Hazel Achison (1894-1898)-- find a grave memorial. 'Four year old Hazel was the first of many who died during a major epidemic of cerebro-spinal meningitis in 1898.' Signatures on photograph and mats match that of Asahel Curtis, presumably the creator of these photographs.

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[Vancouver Photo Album]

A photo album of images taken in and around Vancouver, including Stanley Park, Howe Sound, Bowen Island, and Deep Cove; also includes family portraits and other miscellaneous scenes. Housed in a leather-bound album with an image of an Aboriginal Chief burned onto the cover. The captions are badly faded, and some of the photos are fading as well.

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[Vancouver Family Photo Album]

An album of a Vancouver family, documenting their travels throughout B.C. and the United States as well as life in Vancouver, including the royal visit of 1939. The pages are beginning to tear out of the album, but the photos are still in relatively good shape (with some fading).

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[Travel and Family Photographs]

An album of family and travel photographs; including some of a cruise to Alaska. There are also photos from British Columbia, the Yukon, Alberta, and Ontario, as well as a few from other parts of the United States. The album and the photographs are in fairly good shape.

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The first C.P. R.M.S. Empress of Canada

This album, which was assembled by Dr. W. B. Chung, consists of photographs, newspaper clippings and ephemera related to the first C.P. R.M.S. Empress of Canada, its voyages, particularly its trips around the world, its crew, and its service during the Second World War.

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The British Columbia Provincial Museum's 1985 exhibition titled The New Highway to the Orient : The Canadian Pacific in British Columbia, 1885-1985 folder

This album consists of a file folder that held pictures mounted on card for the British Columbia Provincial Museum's 1985 exhibition titled The New Highway to the Orient : The Canadian Pacific in British Columbia, 1885-1985. An inscription: "To Wally with my sincere thanks, Bob" is on the inner right side of the folder with a picture of the builder's model of the C.P. R.M.S. Empress of Asia mounted on the folder's verso. The file folder was presented to Dr. W. B. Chung by the museum, curator Robert Turner, in acknowledgement of his assistance in the preparation of the exhibition. Included are two complimentary tickets to the exhibition.

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[Textual records related to Yukon gold rush]

Textual records consist of gold commissioner's court documents, receipts, certificate of the assignment of a placer mining claim, grants for placer mining, free miner's certificate, certificates of work, correspondence, Canadian Bank of Commerce and Bank of British North America checks, Canadian gold rush centennial maps, postcard, British Yukon Navigation Co. Ltd pass, and White Pass & Yukon Railway first class ticket.

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