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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.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-01-29 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Doug Abrahamson recalls Revelstoke at the turn of the century. His family came from Sweden, settled in Revelstoke and built and ran the Central Hotel. He describes the social life and customs in Upper Town and Lower Town, characters from the Revelstoke area and Big Bend region, the steamboat "Revelstoke", and trails in the area. Incidents around town. The local red light district; the various "houses" and their inhabitants. He also discusses the Rogers Pass slide of 1910, Illecillewaet, and the transfer of the CPR divisional point from Donald to Revelstoke.

CALL NUMBER: T0866:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. and Mrs. Bergenham discuss farmers; railroaders and con men in the Kootenays. John's father came to Canada in 1892; worked for the CPR; living conditions in Golden at the turn of the century; Walter Moberly was the CPR surveyor; Golden's fluctuating fortunes were dependant on lumber and the CPR; complaints about the highway and how it brings about the demise of the small family farm;er; he began to work for the CPR at age seventeen; then worked on construction of Connaught Tunnel. TRACK 2 Mr. Bergenham continues with more on the construction of the tunnel; description of the Roger's Pass line; varied discussion of railroading around Golden from 1900 to 1920; several anecdotes on smelter construction by fraudulent stock companies; preachers pushing shares from the pulpit; famous outlaws at Golden such as Bill Miner; and several more anecdotes.;

CALL NUMBER: T0866:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: More old timers in the area; "sporting houses" in Golden and Donald at the turn of the century; the naming of Golden. Then Mrs. Bergenham speaks. Then John's mother speaks. (She is 103 [101?]; years old and speaks in Swedish, and John Bergenham translates.) She came to Canada in 1893; hard times in Canada still better than hard times in Sweden where one could not hunt or fish. [TRACK 2: blank.]

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).

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Eve Parker came from England to Donald, BC in 1892. She describes her childhood in Donald, and the social life and customs of the community. She traveled throughout the province employed as a school teacher working in Field, White Water (Retallack), Illecillewaet, Hope, Trail and Revelstoke.

TRACK 2: Mrs. Parker continues the tape with recollections of her mountaineering expeditions in the Revelstoke region. Eva Lake is named for her. She discusses briefly the Rogers Pass Slide of 1910. Her husband, Mr. Philip Parker, continues this tape. He came from England to Revelstoke in 1906 and worked for the CPR as a machinist. He contributes his recollections of the community of Revelstoke, the 1910 slide in Rogers Pass, and other accidents on the railway.