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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
Fonds · 1868-1993

The collection consists of photographs of the South Okanagan and Similkameen regions pertaining to lake transport, railway construction and workers, rail lines of the Kettle Valley Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, pioneers, early buildings, schools, ranching, the fruit industry, logging and sawmills, social activities, the militia and armed forces, sports teams, mining communities and Royal visits.

Peter Mayert fonds
CA RRM A1992-38 · Fonds · 1968-1976

The fonds consists of CPR train orders, waybills, union receipt book, statements of earning, and other railroad-related records.

Mayert, Peter
Reginald Tomlinson fonds
CA BCA MS-0946;97811-14 · Fonds · 1908-1910, 1949

The fonds consists of builders specifications (1949) for the SS Princess Marguerite, a description of Princess fleet vessels of the Canadian Pacific Railway, timetables and photographs of Reginald Tomlinson.

Tomlinson, Reginald
Fonds · [ca. 1885-1990]

The collection consists of photographs depicting railroad workers, equipment, facilities, and scenes primarily along Canadian Pacific Railway routes. The majority of photographs depict activities in the CPR Revelstoke Division, including images of train engines, stations, tunnels, accidents and derailments, slides, CPR employees and union activities, steamships and various scenes, including those of Revelstoke, Field, Golden, Glacier, Rogers Pass, Leanchoil, Albert Canyon, Kicking Horse Canyon and Stoney Creek.

Samuel Greer fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 17 · Fonds · 1886-1893

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 for sale to Dugal MacKenzie of Port Moody in 1886 of Lot 9, Block 3 of his land south of False Creek.

Greer, Samuel
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 979 · Fonds · [Photocopied 1987]

The fonds consists of correspondence, articles written by Bury, and photographs by Bury pertaining to the Russian Revlution.

Bury, George, Sir
CA BCA MS-0323 · Fonds · [Photocopied 1973]

The fonds consists of appointments, correspondence, subject files and a diary.

Kilpatrick, Thomas O., d. 1939
Vernon Denton fonds
CA BCA MS-2614 · Fonds · 1806-1808, 1852-1943

The fonds consists of Denton's correspondence relating primarily to Simon Fraser, copies of Simon Fraser's 1806 and 1808 journals, notes on the fur trade, the Gold Rush, the building of the CPR, and other significant historical events.

Denton, Vernon
W.A. Wood fonds
Fonds · 1885-1887

The fonds consists of correspondence sent and received by W.A. Wood with Henry MacLeod and J.M. Trutch while directing work on the B.C. Section of the Canadian Pacific Rail line.

Wood, W.A.
CA RRM A1995-15 · Fonds · 1939

The collection consists of photographs of CPR Engines No. 1310 and 1961, crew of Royal Pilot Train (1939), and a flipped engine.

CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1108;CVA 689 · Fonds · 1895-1989

The fonds consists of the records of the Yip family, including those of Yip Sang, and of Yip Sang Ltd. and its predecessor, the Wing Sang Company. The fonds includes financial records (mainly account books, remittance stubs, receipts and invoices), correspondence, published material kept by the family, and Yip family photographs, including views of the business, Chinese organizations, and schools.

Yip (family)