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[Lord Strathcona driving the last C.P.R. spike]

Men identified: 1. Frank Brothers, 2. Major Rogers, 3. M.J. Haney, 4. Sir William Van Horne, 5. Sir Sanford Fleming, 6. Hon. Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona), the boy is Edward Mallandaine, 7. H.J. Cambie, 8. Mr. Miller, 9. John McTavish, 10. George R. Harris, 11. J.M. Egan, 12. James Ross, 13. Jimmy French, 14. Arthur Piers

Map of Manitoba, Kewaydin, British Columbia and North West Territory shewing the country traversed by the Canadian Pacific Railway

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."

Map of the municipalities of New Westminster City and District, British Columbia

Part contains a map of the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley from the Gulf of Georgia in the west to Harrison Lake in the east. Map shows locations of churches, schools, canneries, sawmills, brickyards, tanneries, woolen mills and hatcheries; existing and proposed railways; and roadways.

Map of the Province of British Columbia

Item is a a map of the province of British Columbia as well as parts of Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The map depicts the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway, including all the stations between Calgary and Vancouver. Also shown are the railways between Nanaimo and Victoria on Vancouver Island and between Edmonton and Calgary in Alberta

Map of Vancouver Unemployment and Relief [BC]

The map shows relief and elevations of Vancouver. It depicts streets, parks, and railways, and residential and industrial areas.
The annotations in black ink trace parts of the map: names, railways, and the coast line. The amendments also show Cases and Persons of Domiciled Residents in the Vancouver Area, in May 1934. The map also lists statistics of approximate Cases and Persons of Transient Families and Single Women, and Single Homeless Men.
Pensions and Compensation statistics are also compiled for: Mothers Pensions, Old Age Pensions, War Pensions, amd Workmen's Compensation as of the population of Vancouver in 1931.
The westernmost boundary of the map is Boundary Road and the easternmost boundary is the University of British Columbia while the northernmost is the Burrard Inlet and the southernmost is Sea Island and Lulu Island.

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