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archival descriptions
Harris family fonds
CA BCA MS-2789;E/B/H242;E/B/H24;E/D/H24;19009-007;98206-90 · Fonds · 1834-1913

The fonds consists of correspondence of the Harris family, principally that of Martha and Dennis Harris, memoirs, journals, business records of Dennis Harris and family memorabilia. Fonds includes records relating to Sir James Douglas and the diary of Martha Harris (with annotations by Douglas). Fonds also includes a survey book of Dennis Harris for a CPR survey at an undetermined location.

Harris (family)
J. Owen Ross fonds
CA RRM A1993-110;A1993-107 · Fonds · 1947-1982

The fonds consists of trip ticket books, accident reports, income tax records, watch rating cards, logbooks, statements of earnings, lodge dues receipts, and other work-related records. Fonds includes photographs of CPR crew of last Arrowhead line trip (1968), steam engines, Ross' coworkers, and his wife.

Ross, J. Owen
Jack Carten fonds
CA RRM A1993-122;A1992-27 · Fonds · 1981-1992

The fonds consists of receipts for train conductor sales, diagrams of shut-off valve locations on passenger cars, list of passenger car names, passenger train reports, long service pass, accident reports, train orders, correspondence, and copies of photographs of steamers.

Carten, Jack
James Sutherland fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 457 · Fonds · 1870-1939

The fonds consists of indentures, conveyances, and other legal documents relating to land transfers in Port Moody and New Westminster, 1870, 1879-1899. Many items deal with the Canadian Pacific Railway. There are also miscellaneous notes and notices relating to the National Silver Mines Limited, 1937-1939.

Sutherland, James J.
Jim McCauley fonds
CA RRM A1993-84 · Fonds · 1973-1993

The fonds consists of CPR watch rating cards, examination cards, and rail pass. Fonds includes photograph of McCauley and grandson in front of a Via train in Kamloops (1993).

McCauley, Jim
Joe Garner fonds
Fonds · 1920-1961, predominant 1945-1946

The fonds consists of records created and accumulated by ;Joe Garner predominantly in the course of his employment with the Canadian Pacific Railway. There are a few records relating to Mr. Garners interest in the C.P.R., and ephemera from the White Rock area, including the photography studio called Garners Studio where Mr. Garner worked along with two of his sons. Within the fonds there are six series: correspondence, menus, photographs, passes and cards, supply lists, and ephemera.

Garner, Joseph
John J. Porter fonds
Fonds · 1887-1891

Fonds consists of 1 bound volume comprising the personal diary of John J. Porter, a labourer for the Canadian Pacific Railway, working largely between Field and Revelstoke.

Porter, John J.
John Leask fonds : 1886
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 40 · Fonds · [Photocopied 1971]

The fonds consists of Leask's diary.

Leask, John
John Middleton fonds
CA RRM A1993-148 · Fonds · 1943-1947

The fonds consists of correspondence and related notes regarding the CPR and a photograph of engine No. 2860 at Revelstoke Station.

Middleton, John
Joseph Hunter fonds
CA BCA MS-0767 · Fonds · 1874-1934

The fonds consists of notes and sketches of exploration from Quesnel to Salmon River, a journal, letterbooks, diaries, correspondence regarding Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir), Canadian Pacific Railway and surveys.

Hunter, Joseph
Joseph Murphy fonds
CA RRM A1992-26 · Fonds · 1953, 1984

The fonds consists of long service passes, CPR train pass, and photographs (including those depicting a CPR crane name plate, a train wreck in the Fraser Canyon, and the "Jam Train").

Murphy, Joseph
Fonds · 1891-1985

The fonds consists of minutes, statements of accounts, financial ledgers, correspondence, membership lists, banking records, promotional material, and reference files pertaining to the activities of the Kamloops Railway Museum Society, and a collection of archival material and reference material (including published items) acquired by the society, including records of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railway and of railway workers' unions. Fonds includes photographs collected by the museum society of trains and railway equipment and of scenes of railroad activity in the Kamloops area.

Kamloops Railway Museum Society
Kay Anklovitch collection
CA RRM A1993-74 · Fonds · [ca. 1940]

The collection consists of a photograph of a CPR engine and of railway strikers. Collection includes three postcards (Mt. Stephen, Field) and various photocopies of photographs.

L.A. Hamilton fonds
CA CVAN 72-422 · Fonds · 1883-1885

The fonds consists of Hamilton's watercolours and drawings of Gastown and the Vancouver townsite prior to development by the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Hamilton, L.A., d. 1941
Lew Patrick fonds
CA RRM A1994-04 · Fonds · 1885-1911

The fonds consists of photographs of CPR workers and engines and a letter of commendation (1911).

Patrick, Lew
CA RRM A1993-56 · Fonds · [ca. 195-?]

The collection consists of photographs of the Baird slide "Illicillewaet" and CPR trainwreck and photographs of a train wreck west of Greeley.

CA RRM A1993-117 · Fonds · [ca. 1940-196-?]

The collection consists of publicity photographs taken by Nicholas Morant for the Canadian Pacific Railway, including those depicting "The Canadian", telegraph poles, Stoney Creek Bridge, and a variety of individuals.

Malcolm McLeod fonds
CA BCA MS-1249 · Fonds · 1823-1899

The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts and notes relating to the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company, the North West Territories and the selection of a route for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

McLeod, Malcolm
CA BCA MS-0748;MS-1496 · Fonds · [Microfilmed 1969]

The fonds consists of a family register and diary, records (including diaries) relating to Canadian Pacific Railway exploration and construction, a letter book, various memoranda, diary extracts and biographical notes.

Smith, Marcus
Michael K. Boberg fonds
CA RRM 1996-19 · Fonds · [ca. 1960-1995]

The fonds consists of photographs of railway stations and railway scenes across Canada, with information about the various sites where the stations were located.

Boberg, Michael Karl, d. 1996
Mike Wasylie fonds
CA RRM A1995-08;A1993-83 · Fonds · 1929-1942, 1954-1959, 1972

The fonds consists of correspondence, train dispatcher's record, logbooks, train orders, notebooks detailing weather conditions, scrapbook (including newsclippings and writeups on engines). Fonds includes of photographs of various engines, of the Illicillewaet slide (1935), and of a waterfall near Downie Station.

Wasylie, Mike
Ole Bjork fonds
CA RRM A1993-31 · Fonds · 1922-1954

The fonds consists of photographs of CPR scenes and activities including images of Coquihalla Pass, Endiver, Nelson, an experimental diesel engine, Notch Hill and Princeton. Fonds includes a photograph of Ole and Alice Bjork on a velocipede and laser copies of photographic images of Lord Revlestoke, the Royal Train in Revelstoke, and of CPR stations and yards.

Bjork, Ole
Fonds · 1887-1992

The collection consists of 1887 to 1992 photographs of Oliver and area, including the two former gold mining towns of Camp McKinney and Fairview These images depict schools and classes, social and sporting activities, rodeos, parades, picnics, dances, ranches, logging, mining, irrigation system and workers of the Southern Okanagan Lands Project, fruit industry, tobacco growing, the Canadian Pacific Railway trains and station, local scenes, and early residents and buildings.

CA RRM A1993-39 · Fonds · 1926-1954

The collection consists of photographs of various CPR engines in Calgary, Revelstoke, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Toronto, Medicine Hat and Crowsnest.

Patrick O'Farrell fonds
CA BCA E/D/Of2 · Fonds · 1900, 1912-1933

The fonds consists of O'Farrell's correspondence relating to his work with the CPR.

O'Farrell, Patrick