- AM40
- Fonds
- 1886
The fonds consists of Leask's diary, which includes personal expense accounts and references to the daily progress of the surveying.
Leask, John
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The fonds consists of Leask's diary, which includes personal expense accounts and references to the daily progress of the surveying.
Leask, John
Lord Strathcona, a biography of Donald Alexander Smith.
Lords of the line : the men who built the CPR.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item is a map showing the extent of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (C.P.R.) in Canada in 1883. Map shows boundaries, roads, trails, telegraph lines, towns, rivers, lakes and mountainous terrain in British Columbia, the North West Territory (Alberta, Athabasca, Saskatchewan, Assiniboia), Manitoba and Kewaydin, as well as some of Ontario and Western Quebec. Map is folded inside a book titled "North West Territory, Canada."
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
File consists of newspaper clippings related to Clark W. McBain, Land Agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
File consists of newspaper clippings related to Gerrard Louis McCrea, assistant superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Vancouver.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific.
Ocean to ocean : Sandford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872.
Picturesque Vancouver, British Columbia
File is a souvenir photograph album showing images of C.P.R. railway lines and terminus building, First Nations people and totem poles, Stanley Park, views of the city and landscape including Mount Baker, Capilano River, Hastings Mill, Hastings Street, Granville Street, buildings including schools, Vancouver Club, "topical residences" of downtown homes, and churches, as well as images of the S.S. Princess Victoria and the S.S. Empress of India.
Plan of a portion of the water front of Vancouver city
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item is a tracing of a map showing the Vancouver waterfront between Granville and Carrall streets. The original map contains a number of attestations which have been traced: by W.C. Van Horne (Mar. 11, 1886); H.J. Cambie, Engineer in charge (Feb. 22, 1886); T. Trudeau, Deputy Minister of Railways (31 Mar. 1886); and Land Registry office (12 May 1886). The Tracing was made from a copy submitted as an appendix to an affadvit May 28, 1891.
Rails & killer snows : the saga of Rogers Pass.
Report in reference to the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Report of progress on the explorations and surveys up to January, 1874.
The fonds consists of miscellaneous court records, 1887 - 1893, relating to Greer's fight with the CPR over title to some land at Kitsilano, including a map showing his house, barn and fences in relation to the CPR right-of-way. Also included is an agreement of sale to Dugal MacKenzie of Port Moody in 1886 of Lot 9, Block 3 of his land south of False Creek.
Greer, Samuel
Sockeye Limited, first C.P.R. train circa 1904, Vancouver to Steveston
Part of Major Matthews collection
File consists of drawn map by Terry Slack of the CPR Gardens Kerrisdale based on information provided by Ozzie Plumbley, a short story titled 'A day in the life of a logging crew on the Cutthroat Creek Skid' by Terry Slack, and photograph print out of Terry Slack holding a fish on the Fraser River.
The Canadian Pacific's Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway : the CPR steam years, 1905-1949.
The CPR : a century of corporate welfare.
The CPR west : the iron road and the making of a nation.
The CPR's English Bay Branch : the intended terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway?
The romance of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Spiral Tunnels and the big hill : a Canadian railway adventure
The story of a dark plot; or, tyranny on the frontier
The story of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The story of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Trail of iron : the CPR and the birth of the west, 1880-1930.
Vancouver live : Centennial highlights
Item is a videocassette containing twelve clips of ‘Centennial Highlights’, broadcast on VU13’s ‘Vancouver Live’. Each short segment is on a different subject and presented by a different presenter.
00:00-01:47, Clip 1: ‘Intro - 100 yrs old’ (Presenter: Laurier LaPierre)
01:53-03:15, Clip 2: ‘Van Horne - Railway Terminus’ (Presenter: Douglas Miller)
03:16-04:46, Clip 3: ‘The Big Fire’ (Presenter: Bob Spence)
04:53-06:15, Clip 4: ‘9 O’Clock Gun’ (Presenter: Rick Forchuk)
06:18-07:37, Clip 5: ‘First City Council & City Hall’ (Presenter: David Kincaid)
07:39-09:13, Clip 6: ‘Joe Fortes’ (Presenter: Linden Soles)
09:19-11:05, Clip 7: ‘”Komagata Maru”’ (Presenter: Doriana Temolo)
11:08-12:30, Clip 8: ‘(Same as #2, different Host)’ (See Clip 2)
12:33-13:55, Clip 9: ‘Troops leave Vancouver to Fight’ (Presenter: Ted Friend)
13:56-15:33, Clip 10: ‘Orpheum Theatre’ (Presenter: Wayne Cox)
15:36-17:22, Clip 11: ‘Lions Gate Bridge’ (Presenter: Maria LeRose)
17:27-19:04, Clip 12: ‘Pier D burns’ (Presenter: Chris Hebb)
Clip 8 is the same as Clip 2, including the presenter, contrary to the supplied information in the clip title.
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