- RBSC-ARC-1679-CC-TX-155-17
- File
- 1896-1967
Pamphlets, menus, and other material related to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's lakes and rivers steamship services.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Pamphlets, menus, and other material related to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's lakes and rivers steamship services.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Alaska by Canadian Pacific route, 1892
Two pamphlets regarding early tours to Alaska via the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Steamer Islander for Freight and Charges from Vancouver to Victoria
A bill for shipping on the steamship. Most of the writing is illegible or difficult to read.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Three receipts.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian Pacific Navigation Company Limited
Receipts and other material related to the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company Limited.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
British Columbia Coast Steamship Service letterhead
Correspondence, forms, and other material related to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company British Columbia Coast Steamship Service. Two items in Chinese.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
The Cassiar Gold Rush collection contains materials related to the Cassiar gold rush which occurred in the late 19th century, prompting an influx of transportation, industry, and resource extraction in the northwest region of British Columbia known today as Cassiar County.
The records in the collection contain information relating to working and living conditions, business transactions, weather reports, and transportation; particularly that of the steamship industry.
Record types include receipts, advertisements, correspondence, legal affidavits, post cards, and newsletters.
Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung collection
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
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.
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.