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Series consists of 545 photographs of the Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.), thought to be taken by Richard or Hannah Maynard. In 1880-1881, Richard Maynard was hired to document the construction of the C.P.R. but photos within this series may have been taken at later dates or by other photographers. Images depict trains ("rolling stock"); views of locations along the construction route, including rivers, bridges, and mountains; tracks and construction in progress; wrecks following accidents; snowsheds; and portraits of workers.

This series contains extracts from volumes in C.O. 537 series [supplementary correspondence]. The records consist mainly of despatches to and from the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Governor-General of Canada and senior British military officers. The majority of the records were originally classified as "Secret" or "Confidential." Records pertain to all parts of Canada, but include substantial British Columbia-related material. San Juan Island dispute, B.C.'s entry into Confederation, trans-Pacific steamship services, coastal defence, and the Bering Sea sealing negotiations are but some of the issues documented in this series.

This series contains correspondence between Amor De Cosmos, as Special Agent to London, and others, respecting the Petition of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, to the Queen, on the subject of the Canadian Pacific Railway from March 22nd 1881 to August 31st 1881. The series includes a printed copy of B.C. legislature's petition to the Queen, along with a manuscript copy of the Canadian Pacific Railway memorandum on "Vancouver Island Railway," December 1881. De Cosmos' map showing CPR terminus at Port Moody, alienated railway land on Vancouver Island, proposed ferry routes, etc. were transferred to PABC Library & Maps Division under accession M889117.

The series consists of photocopies of three letters and a written "sketch" sent to friends and a brother in England. Hargreaves arrived in Victoria from England on July 2, 1862. The letter of Sept. 1, 1862 describes his first attempt to reach the Cariboo, from which he turned back, his work as a survey assistant in the Cowichan district, and his reaction to the articles written by Donald Fraser, the London TIMES correspondent. The second letter, Jan. 9, 1865, describes a trip to Cariboo in 1863 and the third item is a "sketch of a trip I made in the winter of 1875" describing a CPR exploratory survey in the Chilcotin. The final item, a letter of Feb 6, 1878, continues the account of his survey work in 1875, describing work in the Salmon (Kimsquit) River Valley at the head of Dean Channel, and in the Kemano River.

Series consists of correspondence between H.A.F. McLeod, resident engineer for the Canadian government, C.P.R. contract 62, Drynoch, B.C., and S.P. Tuck, division engineer for Andrew Onderdonk, about construction of line. Also contains specifications, statement of work done by Peter Quina and a diagram of Onderdonk contracts made by the donor, H.A. Price.

This series contains certificates granted with the object of facilitating registration of title to a portion of Crown lands granted to the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway Company and the Kaslo and Slocan Railway Company (2 vols.), 1901-1904. It includes notices from the Deputy Minister of Lands certifying grants, 1920, 1937, 1941, and 1952.

Canadian Pacific Railway Form B Delivery Book listing freight (weight only) and charges for freight delivered to Granby Smelter station, 1904.

Diaries, 1890-1914, 1917, 1919-1922, 1924-1926, 1928-1952 (entries from April 16, 1913 - February 27, 1914 made by Mrs. Pack); scrapbooks, 1897-1918 (4 vols.), containing tickets, programmes, etc., connected with trip to Europe in 1911; sheet music and programmes from religious concerts, tags from World War I tag days, chocolate and tobacco cards; summons for jury duty, 1912.

George Pack was a house decorator who lived in Victoria.

Records include diaries, with some entries made by Mrs. Pack; scrapbooks, 1897-1918 (4 vols.), containing tickets, programmes, etc., connected with trip to Europe in 1911, sheet music and programmes from religious concerts, tags from World War I tag days, chocolate and tobacco cards; and summons for jury duty, 1912.

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Correspondence, 1905, Robert (Robin) W. Dunsmuir to James J. Hill soliciting financial aid to purchase the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway from James Dunsmuir thereby preventing the purchase of the railway by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

Photocopy presented by David Wilkie, Victoria, 1976. Original in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Series consists of a letterpress copy book containing Tuck's private outgoing correspondence from Cape Breton, St. Johns, New Brunswick and British Columbia concerning the Intercolonial Railway, St. Peter's Canal (Cape Breton) and the construction of the Fraser Canyon section of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Malcolm McLeod was a barrister and writer.

MS consists of correspondence, manuscripts and notes relating to the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company in Oregon, the Northwest Territories and the selection of a route for the Canadian Pacific Railway accumulated by McLeod in his attempt to secure recognition of the value of the information on the west provided to the Canadian government, CPR, etc., by his father, John McLeod, and himself; includes letters from fur traders, information on the McLeod family, manuscripts by M. McLeod on the Hudson's Bay Company's territories and the location of the CPR. Also includes correspondence with Ranald Macdonald, who taught English in Japan, 1848-1849; reminiscences and Japanese glossaries by Macdonald, manuscripts by McLeod entitled "Japan, story of adventure of Ranald Macdonald."

Correspondence; scrapbooks; reminiscences; speeches, a genealogy of the Mallandaine family; and minutes of the Rugby Football Club Committee of the James Bay Athletic Association 1892-1893. Edward Mallandaine Junior was born in Victoria in July 1867, the first child of architect Edward Mallandaine and his wife Louisa (nee Townsend). Edward Mallandaine Senior had been born in Singapore on 10 August 1827 (the son of John Mallandaine and Mary Smith) and had resided in Singapore, London, Paris, Melbourne, Wolverhampton, San Francisco and Portland before coming to Victoria in 1858. He married Louisa Townsend (born 24 September 1831), daughter of Thomas and Harriet Townsend (nee Willis) on 1 September 1866. Louisa Townsend had come to Victoria in 1863 on board the bride ship Tynemouth. They had five children: Edward, Frederick (born 24 August 1868, drowned at Victoria 11 November 1895), Louisa (born 21 December 1869, married W.E.H. Corson in December 1889), Harriet (born 14 October 1872, married September 1907) and Charles (born 20 May 1875, died November 1940). Edward Mallandaine Senior died on 5 April 1905 and Louisa Mallandaine died in 1925. In 1885, the 17 year old Edward Mallandaine (having graduated from Portland High School) left Victoria to fight when news came through of the Riel Rebellion. He travelled to New Westminster, thence to Port Moody and on to Golden where news came that the rebellion had been put down and the troops from eastern Canada were going home. Disgruntled, he began for home and at Craigellachie on 7 November 1885 he witnessed the driving home of the last spike in the Canadian Pacific Railway by Lord Strathcona. He then took up a brief job as a pony express rider, the first in a varied career which included railway surveyor, architect, forestry and irrigation expert, business executive, soldier and magistrate. Mallandaine founded the town of Creston after he had become associated with F.G. Little while they were engaged in a railway survey from Bonners Ferry to Kootenay Lake. In 1898 when the Canadian Pacific Railway put through the Columbia and Western Railway, they presented a half share in the townsite to the Canadian Pacific Railway. Later Mallandaine associated with Colonel J.S. Dennis, who was Calgary Commissioner for the Canadian Pacific Railway, became a land agent for the Company in the Kootenay district and also had charge of tie and timber limits and the location and operation of tie camps and mills. He had his office in Cranbrook, reporting to Dennis at Calgary. He also put in the irrigation project at Invermere and subsequently was very active in the promotion of the Creston reclamation project, which has reclaimed thousands of fertile acres from the Columbia River flats. Mallandaine had been in the Canadian Militia from 1885-1934. When World War I broke out he was a reserve officer of the 5th Regiment Garrison Artillery, Victoria and went on active service as Colonel of the Kootenay Regiment. Later he served with the Canadian Forestry Corps. After the war he left his railway job to devote himself to the growth of the Creston area. He was the driving force in having Creston incorporated, formed the first hospital in 1930 (he had already previously formed the Creston Board of Trade in 1908), the Creston Canadian Legion Branch in 1919, the Knights of Pythias in 1928 and the Creston Rod and Gun Club. He was Creston's first postmaster, Justice of the Peace, coroner and school trustee. He was also a successful farmer, operated the Goat Mountain Water Works until the plant was sold to Creston about 1940 and was in the real estate and fire insurance business. Colonel Mallandaine was Reeve of Creston from 1936-1947. Mallandaine married Jean Ramsey of Nanaimo in 1904. His wife died in 1944 and they had had no children. He died in August 1949. MS-2565 consists of correspondence on a variety of subjects; scrapbooks, including two containing a newspaper column entitled Reminiscing written by Mallandaine (1939-1940); reminiscences about such subjects as his marriage, the day he “set Victoria's Harbour on fire,” foundation of Creston, his attendance at the last spike ceremony in 1885, Eagle Pass, etc; speeches given to the Kiwanis Club of Creston and on Remembrance Day 1922; and a genealogy of the Mallandaine family ordered by William Arthur Mallandaine of Johannesburg in 1897. This unit also contains the minutes of the Rugby Football Club Committee of the James Bay Athletic Association (1892-1893). Edward Mallandaine was Secretary of the Ruby Football Club and the book also contains notes, a log and some sketches presumably by Mallandaine. Source: MS Finding Aids Finding aid: file list.

The series consists a survey of resources of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway lands undertaken by the Government of British Columbia, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the Canadian National Railways. The contents include maps, drawings and photographs.

Specifications and correspondence concerning residential and commercial structures designed by James; Loring P. Rixford's 1913 specifications for the proposed East Wing of the Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital; specifications, plans, notebooks, committee meetings, etc. concerning the East Wing of the Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital designed by James and constructed during the 1920s. Percy Leonard James, AIBC, AIC, FRAIC, RAIC, was born in England where he began his architectural career and specialized in the design of hospitals and infirmaries. In 1908, James moved to Victoria and practiced until the outbreak of hostilities in August, 1914 when he returned to England to join the Army. Upon completion of his military service overseas, James returned to Victoria and resumed his architectural practice which he continued until his retirement in 1954. James died on January 3rd, 1970, at the age of 91, in Victoria. The architectural papers of James span the years 1913-1940 and have been arranged in four series: I Residential Arranged alphabetically by the name of the architect's client, this group of papers consists of specifications and correspondence concerning residential structures, alterations and additions designed by James. II Commercial Arranged alphabetically by the name of the structure, or the name of the company concerned, this group consists of specifications, correspondence, etc. regarding commercial structures designed by James. III Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital: Loring P. Rixford's specifications Loring P. Rixford's 1913 specifications for the proposed new East Wing of the hospital. IV Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital: Percy Leonard James This group of papers consists of specifications, plans, notebooks, committee minutes, etc. concerning the East Wing of the hospital designed by James and constructed during the 1920's. Original photographs have been removed from the collection and transferred to Visual Records and accessioned as 198109-003. Some sketches and plans have been removed and replaced by photocopies. Originals may be found in map accession M856029, registration numbers 14970-14978. (see list at the end of this finding aid).

This series consists of incoming and outgoing general correspondence files, 1912-1953, concerning railways operating in British Columbia. Includes extensive correspondence files on the Westminster Bridge (the Fraser River railway bridge at New Westminster); the British Columbia Electric Railway; correspondence relating to common carriers and industrial railroads; legislation affecting the Railway Department, etc. Box 14, Files 1 to 28 are Minister of Railways: general [correspondence] and Box 14, Files 29 to 38 are miscellany.

This series consists of records of the Railway Department, 1904-1952. Records include agreements regarding running rights over Fraser River bridge at New Westminster; certificate regarding the amalgamation of the Howe Sound and Northern Railway and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway; contract for PGER locomotives; and leases for land and equipment.

The series consists of record books from criminal cases from Supreme and County courts in Vancouver, 1905 to 1950. Volumes 1-4 are in the format of a record book. Volumes 5-13 are cause books. Also included in volume 1 is a list of Special Constables appointed under the Railway Act for the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Vancouver and Lulu Island Railway, and the Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway, 1908-1914 and an account of money received and disbursements from Speedy Trials for October and November 1906.

The series consists of applications, certificates of appointment, oaths, certificates of dismissal and indexes for Special Constables under the Railway Act filed at the Vancouver Court Registry between 1903 and 1996. Appointments were made by a Vancouver Police Magistrate or a Vancouver Stipendiary Magistrate (or Deputy) or the Chief Commissioner of Police for the Dominion of Canada on the recommendation of member of the Department of Investigation for the railway company. Certificates of dismissal were issued by the Superintendent or an Inspector of the Department of Investigation of the railway company. This collection has records for the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Canadian National Railway, the Great Northern Railway and Via Rail Canada.

This series contains records relating to the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Belt and the Canadian Pacific Railway terminus at Burrard Inlet. The records consist of correspondence, memoranda and other records from the Lands Department. Central files are extracted and filed separately (see f.1 for a list of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo files). These includes correspondence and plans of government reserves at Burrard Inlet and indenture of grant to British Columbia and Vancouver Island Spar Lumber and Sawmill Co., 1860-1866; these materials were filed separately as they pertained to lands comprising the Canadian Pacific Railway terminus at Coal Harbour.

This series contains reports by the Assistant Timber Inspector at Nelson on timber cut and royalties payable by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Doukhobor Society.

The series consists of scrapbooks and subject files created by Earl Marsh together with original records, primarily from the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, the British Columbia Coast Steamship Service (BCCSS), and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Created predominantly from 1900 to 1975, the records document the history of these companies and maritime history in general for British Columbia, Washington State, and Alaska.

The series consists of records about the following companies: Canadian Pacific Navigation Company; the BCCSS; the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; British Columbia Lake and River Service; Canadian Pacific Steamships Limited; Canadian National Steamship Company; Union Steamship Company of British Columbia; Washington State Ferries; Puget Sound Navigation Company; Black Ball Ferries Ltd.; Black Ball Transport Inc.; British Columbia Ferry Corporation; and Alaska Steamship Company.

Marsh maintained some of the records in scrapbooks dedicated to particular subjects. He also kept subject files which had titles and contents similar to scrapbooks. Scrapbooks and subject files about the BCCSS were typically arranged in rough alphabetical order. Additionally, Marsh kept records from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and its subsidiaries in binders. These records, as well as scrapbooks that were not about the BCCSS, were grouped according to subject. All materials were arranged according to documentary form. For example, all of Marsh’s scrapbooks were kept separate from his subject files.

The scrapbooks and subject files assembled by Marsh include, but are not limited to, the following documentary forms: photographs; BCCSS financial records, correspondence, and reports; promotional materials for ships and cruises; newspaper and magazine clippings; ticket stubs from ships; sale agreements for ships; engineers’ reports; and insurance adjusters’ reports. Other Canadian Pacific Railway Company documents include, but are not limited to, contracts, financial records, annual directors’ reports, staff records, engineers’ reports, insurance adjusters’ reports, passenger lists, rate and schedule announcements, menus, employee newsletters, and ship schedules.

This series makes up the majority of the records in the collection.

Marsh gathered the bulk of the records between 1964 and 1973.

BC Archives has retained all records in the series with the exception of duplicates of menus, a file of newspaper trivia clippings, and six sexually explicit, photocopied comics.

Stanley Howard Frame (1878-1973) was a surveyor who worked as a District Hydrometric Engineer for the Department of the Interior in Alberta, as Assistant Engineer, Irrigation Block in Alberta, and as a hydraulic engineer at the B.C. Water Rights Branch (1928-1947).

Diaries, 1916-1972, covering Frame's work as District Hydrometric Engineer, for the Dept. of the Interior, Cardston and McLeod districts, Alberta, 1916-1918; as Assistant Engineer, Irrigation Block, Brooks, Alberta for the CPR Dept. of Natural Resources, 1918-1928; and as hydraulic engineer, British Columbia Water Rights Branch, 1928-1947. The diaries also covers his life in Victoria to 1972. Memoirs, 1903-1913 of work as Grand Trunk Pacific engineer, Prairies, Prince Rupert and Calgary. A genealogical and historical record of some pioneer families of Nova Scotia and New England. Dance and conference programmes.

The series consists primarily of technical drawings of ships and shipping infrastructure owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, British Columbia Coast Steamship Service (BCCSS), Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, Canadian National Steamship Company, Canadian Pacific Steamship Ltd., and Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company.

Technical drawings depict decks, accommodation areas, rigging, dining saloons, cabins, ship sections, and machinery such as propeller shafts.

The majority of the drawings were created by the BCCSS. Marsh organized these drawings in 27 rolls. Each roll contained multiple drawings and was dedicated to a single ship or a select group of ships.

The single map in the series depicts Newcastle Island, where the Canadian Pacific Railway Company built a resort in the 1930s.

The construction specifications, dating from 1920, are for BCCSS ship Princess Louise II.

The records were donated directly to BC Archives by Earl Marsh in 1988.

BC Archives has retained all records in the series.

Correspondence relating mainly to Simon Fraser and an atlas produced by Denton; notes and a typed manuscript relating to Simon Fraser, plus several copies of Fraser's 1806 and 1808 journals and letters 1806-1807. There are notes on the fur trade, early Vancouver Island, the Cariboo gold rush, Sir James Douglas, confederation and the Canadian Pacific Railway; and on Louis Riel and the Metis rebellions.