White, Derryll. Burnaby; Museum Curator.
- MS-0725
- File
- 1977
Historical study of Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotive 42, Emory ("Old Curly").
White, Derryll. Burnaby; Museum Curator.
Historical study of Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotive 42, Emory ("Old Curly").
Three British Columbia postcards
The file consists of 3 coloured postcards showing the following scenes: Mount Stephen House, Field, B.C.; Glacier Hotel from track, Glacier, B.C., Canada, on line of C.P.R.; and Down Cascade Cañon, Cascade City, B.C. [J-01260], Canadian Pacific Railway. They were printed by various publishers between 1900 and 1914.
Biographies of employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia Lake and River Service
Biographies of employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia Lake and River Service; St. Andrews By-The-Lake Church, Willow Point, by Evelyn N. Applewhaite, 1938 (Kootenay Manuscript Series #1); John Adam Watson of Watson, B.C. (Kootenay Manuscript Series #3).
The C.P.R.'s capacity and investment strategy in Roger's Pass, B.C., 1882-1916 / Gary George Backler
The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Gary George Backler. It is called "The C.P.R.'s capacity and investment strategy in Roger's Pass, B.C., 1882-1916." xii, 419 leaves: illus., tables. Thesis (M.Sc.), University of British Columbia, 1981. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 414-419. Canadian theses on microfiche, 54960.
British Columbia : of their doings their by one of them
The item is a large, illustrated volume titled "British Columbia: of their doings there by one of them" by Frederick D. Williams. The volume contains a manuscript account of a journey from London, England to Vancouver B.C. and back between August 28 and October 6, 1897. Williams landed in New York and travelled by train through Chicago and Spokane to Nelson where he and his party took the Kootenay Lake steamer to Kaslo and the train to Sandon and then on up to Nakusp and Revelstoke, Kamloops and Vancouver.
The volume has been illustrated by glued in photographs, magazine prints, maps, menus, passenger lists and programs.
Memorandum of Agreement re: Old Cariboo Road
The file consists of a signed agreement from 1928 between the Province represented by the Minister of Public Works and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPR). The agreement sets out compensation to be paid by the CPR for each level crossing on the Old Cariboo Road between Haig and Spences Bridge that would be eliminated by the construction of the new provincial highway.
The agreement is accompanied by a photocopied letter from 1963 from the Office of the Attorney-General to the Chief Engineer of the Dept. of Highways instructing them to keep the agreement in their active files.
British Columbia. Dept. of Public Works