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Item consists of one bound album measuring 41 x 55 cm. It contains 95 miscellaneous plans of the BC Railway Belt, west of the 5th meridian. Maps were created by the Dominion Lands Office between ca. 1903-1922. Individual maps range in dimensions and substrate material. Several have been annotated with colour and pencil. Received dates are stamped on most maps, noting the Dominion Lands Office branches of either Revelstoke or Kamloops. Maps show a variety of features such as rivers, lakes, mountain ranges, forest types, park reserves, Canadian Pacific Railway lines, legal subdivision numbers, and names of homesteaders.

Maps are arranged by range (Ranges 15-29) and township or range, township, and quadrant, based on surveys conducted by numerous surveyors between 1885-1919. Maps from 1920 and earlier were approved and confirmed by the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, Surveyor General, Édouard-Gaston Deville. Maps from 1921 were approved and confirmed for the Surveyor General by Thomas Shanks.

Item consists of one bound volume measuring 30 x 79 cm. It contains 11 blueprints of varying dimensions and one map of the Fraser River and Burrard Inlet, as surveyed by Captn G.H. Richards and the officers of H.M.S. Plumper in 1859-1860. Each plan/map is numbered using white, paper labels adhered in the top right corner. Pages have been bound with the front cover at the back. Handwritten inscriptions repeat an abridged version of the title on the back cover. "Martin -J" is also written on front cover.

Blueprints include: (1) Plan of the town of Granville, Burrard Inlet, BC, drawn by J.B. Launders at the Lands and Works Office, Victoria, March 1870; (2) Subdivision of Lot 541 Group I, New Westminster District, 1886; (3) Canadian Pacific Railway Plan of foreshore at Vancouver, 1893; (4) Canadian Pacific Railway Plan of foreshore at Vancouver, Burrard Inlet, 1886; (5) C.P.R. Vancouver waterfront plan showing filling completed to Feb 23rd 1904; (6) Plan shewing intended improvements on Vancouver waterfront, [1899]; (7) Plan of the town of Granville, Burrard Inlet, BC, drawn by J.B. Launders at the Lands and Works Office, Victoria, March 1870; (8) C.P.R. Vancouver waterfront plan showing filling completed to Feb 23rd 1904; (9) Plan showing head line of proposed piers and other improvements by the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. at Vancouver B.C., 1903; (10) Plan of Vancouver Front showing wharf head line, 1903; and (11) [False Creek and Burrard Inlet, 1904].

Item consists of one bound album measuring 41 x 55 cm. It contains maps of the Railway Belt of BC in 1907 prepared by James White, F.R.G.S., Geographer, under the direction of R.E. Young, D.L.S., Superintendent of Railway and Swamp Lands for the Dominion Department of the Interior. Each map depicts trails; trails surveyed; post offices; railway stations; range numbers; township numbers; homesteads patented and homesteads entered for and unpatented; sales, special grants, mining land sales; lands disposed of by provincial government; forest reserves and parks; timber berths; and (First Nation) reserves. Each also includes a diagram "shewing subdivision of townships".

The special edition maps "showing lands disposed of" include: Port Moody and Yale sheet (west of sixth and seventh meridians), Kamloops and Lytton sheet (west of sixth and seventh meridians), Sicamous sheet (west of sixth meridian), and Donald sheet (west of fifth meridian).

The series consists of technical drawings and plans created by the Canadian Pacific Railway between 1907 and 1971. The drawings include blueprints, whiteprints and photostats and depict bridges, tunnels, culverts, water tanks, equipment sheds, cars and crossings, section houses and others railway requirements.

Shows roads, railways, trails and tourist accommodations. On verso: [Canada and the United States, showing rail lines].

Shows streets and surveyed lots.

Shows streets and surveyed lots. Locations of buildings, etc., noted in ms., with a key in Archer Martin's handwriting. Canadian Pacific Railway emblem in upper left corner.

Item consists of one bound album measuring 43 x 45 cm. It contains 57 township plans compiled in 1917 based on surveys conducted by numerous surveyors between 1861-1915. The plans range slightly in dimensions and show a variety of features such as Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) right of way, patented and unpatented homesteads, roads and trails, rivers and lakes, telegraph lines, [First Nation] reserves, lots, timber cover, and topography.

Maps include townships 14, 17, 20, 21, and 24 east of the Coast Meridian. Maps west of the Sixth Meridian are arranged by township (3, 5-21) and range (21-30). All maps were approved and confirmed by the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, Surveyor General, Édouard-Gaston Deville between 1904 and 1916.