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Religious and educational books

File includes Historical and Miscellaneous Questions for the Use of Young People, and The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America.

Henry Mowatt fonds

  • AM136
  • Fonds
  • 1839-1940

The fonds consists of personal papers, 1846-1940, including family records, a family portrait album, personal letters, private business correspondence and records pertaining to investments and business ventures; extensive records of ship's specifications and tests, material that passed through Captain Mowatt's hands when he worked for the C.P.R., 1900-1918; photographs of C.P.R. steamships; official C.P.R. correspondence, 1892-1924; papers, 1919-1923, relating to Captain Mowatt's duties as Port Warden with the Department of Marine and Fisheries at Vancouver; and printed works, 1839-1911.

Mowatt, John Henry

Personal Papers

File includes notes and correspondence, newspaper articles by Mary Sedgwick Main, an article on Vancouver's industrial expansion and a mining report on Canadian consolidated claims.

Personal Papers

File includes letters of reference and correspondence relating to St. Stephen and the Main family. File also includes photographs.

[T.S.S.] 179-80-1 [#179, 180 & 181] : General arrangement

[T.S.S.] 179-80-1 [#179, 180 & 181] : General arrangement

Item is a copy of a ship plan for three unidentified ships made to the same hull design, most likely the original Empress of China, Empress of India and Empress of Asia, all built between 1890 and 1891. The drawing depicts a longitudinal section of the ship, as well as deck plans for the poop, promenade and forecastle decks; upper deck; main deck; and lower deck.

Naval Construction & Armaments Co.

SS Athenian

File contains correspondence re: chartering of ship by United States Department of War; R.M.S. Service.

C.P.R. general correspondence

File includes company regulations, Atlantic Service; watercolour drawings of chairs; and miscellaneous notes and reports re ships and shipping. The water color drawings of chairs are numbered as AM136.58 , AM136.59 , AM136.60 , AM136.61 .

Forward elevation

Forward elevation

Item is a ship plan for an unidentified boat. The drawing depicts three interior elevations.

[Specifications]

File includes twin screw triple expansion engines to indicate collectively 540 horses; twin screw triple expansion four crank engines for the Charlotte; and a twin screw general design for a passenger steamer.

Aft elevation

Aft elevation

Item is a ship plan for an unidentified boat. The drawing depicts three interior elevations.

Port and starboard elevations

Port and starboard elevations

Item is a ship plan for an unidentified boat. The drawing depicts two interior elevations, as well as a section through the toplight.

Plan of promenade deck companion way

Plan of promenade deck companion way

Item is a ship plan for an unidentified boat. The drawing depicts a floor plan, and partial reflected ceiling plan of the toplight. Annotated onto the sheet is a sketch section of the toplight.

Atlantic Steamers

File includes correspondence to H. Mowatt, C.P.R. in Liverpool, especially from Montreal C.P.R. office.

Inspection Reports

File includes inspection reports from John B. Cousins, Consulting Engineer and Marine Surveyor on the following C.P.R. ships: SS Monteagle, Monterey, Montezuma, Montfort, Montreal, Montrose, Mount Royal, and Mont Temple; and on the following tugs: African, Beaver, SS Lake Champlain, Lake Erie, Lake Manitoba, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, Montcalm, and Monmouth. File also includes financial records for winter and summer services, Bristol, London and Liverpool.

Proposed screw steamer

Proposed screw steamer

Item is a ship plan depicting the starboard profile and deck plans for the lower, main, spar and promenade decks. The drawing may be for either the SS Keewatin or SS Assiniboia, both built for CP's Great Lakes service by Fairfield.

Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

Proposed screw steamer

Proposed screw steamer

Item is a ship plan depicting the starboard profile of a steamship. The drawing may be for either the SS Keewatin or SS Assiniboia, as the profile is almost identical as that depicted in drawing 1972-637.63.

Lake Steamers

File includes correspondence and specifications re: construction of steamers for service in the Great Lakes, SS Assiniboia and SS Keewatin.

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