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Canada's great highway : from the first stake to the last spike
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6353
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1924
- Author
- Secretan, J.H.E
- Publisher
- London : John Lane The Bodley Head
- Call Number
- 08.5 Se2
- Author
- Secretan, J.H.E
- Publisher
- London : John Lane The Bodley Head
- Published Date
- 1924
- Physical Description
- 252p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Accession Number
- 400
- 2926
- 3000
- Call Number
- 08.5 Se2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Abstract
- Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9780385698726
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
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- Archives Library
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Fifty thousand miles of sun
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3529
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1925
- Author
- Liddell, R. Scotland
- Publisher
- London : Cassell
- Call Number
- 02 L61
- Author
- Liddell, R. Scotland
- Publisher
- London : Cassell
- Published Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- xviii, 283p. : ill
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Includes index
- Accession Number
- 19500
- Call Number
- 02 L61
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The life and work of Sir William Van Horne
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6371
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1920
- Author
- Vaughan, Walter
- Publisher
- New York : Century
- Call Number
- 08.5 V31v
- Author
- Vaughan, Walter
- Publisher
- New York : Century
- Published Date
- 1920
- Physical Description
- xiii, 388p. : ill., ports., maps
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.5 V31v
- Collection
- Archives Library
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On the old trail
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3840
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1927
- Author
- Roberts, Morley
- Publisher
- London : Eveleigh, Nash & Grayson
- Call Number
- 02.5 R54t
- Author
- Roberts, Morley
- Publisher
- London : Eveleigh, Nash & Grayson
- Published Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- xiv, 242p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Index
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 02.5 R54t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Peeps at many lands : Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3633
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1924
- Author
- Bealby, J. T
- Publisher
- London : A. & C. Black
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Call Number
- 02.4 B36
- Author
- Bealby, J. T
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Publisher
- London : A. & C. Black
- Published Date
- 1924
- Physical Description
- vii, 87p. : ill., map
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Contains illustrations by Thomas Mower Martin
- Accession Number
- 20500
- Call Number
- 02.4 B36
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Rail life : a book of yarns
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6341
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1925
- Author
- Price, Alfred
- Publisher
- Toronto : Thomas Allen
- Call Number
- 08.5 P93
- Author
- Price, Alfred
- Publisher
- Toronto : Thomas Allen
- Published Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- 286p
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.5 P93
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Reminiscences of a raconteur : between the '40s and the '20s
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5174
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1921]
- Author
- Ham, George Henry
- Publisher
- Toronto : Musson
- Call Number
- 08.1 H17
- Author
- Ham, George Henry
- Publisher
- Toronto : Musson
- Published Date
- [1921]
- Physical Description
- xvi, 330p. : ill., ports., map
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.1 H17
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The soo line's famous trains to Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26213
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12t
- 08.5 G12t reference copy
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 90 pages ; 8 cm
- Subjects
- CP Rail
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Railway
- Railway routes
- Transportation
- History
- Abstract
- The Soo Line’s Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada–USA tourist trains. Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 1888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the Soo Line, providing entry into the lucrative US market and levelling the playing field for the CPR to face the onslaught of ferocious competition from James J. Hill, the infamous American railway baron. The “little railway that could” grew to attain giant-killer status, launching famous passenger trains from Minneapolis and St. Paul, meeting head-on the western expansion of the Great Northern Railway and viable, competitive routes to the Atlantic seaboard. Over the years, the Soo Line introduced thousands of Americans to Montreal and Quebec City, the famous Canadian Rockies resorts, and the city of Vancouver, the home port for CP’s Pacific steamship services. The Soo also successfully competed on the Spokane and Portland routes from Minneapolis to the Pacific Northwest. In 1923 the “Soo Mountaineer” was launched, becoming the most famous and longest “two-nation” train journey in North America. -- From publisher
- Contents
- Part 1: A brief history of the soo line -- 1. In the beginning -- 2. The birth of the railway -- 3. What a tangled web we weave -- 4. Westward ho through great northern's backyard -- 5. Wisconsin central, the final piece of the puzzle -- 6. Setting the stage, Canadian pacific steamship company and Canadian pacific hotels and resorts -- Part 2: Famous trains of the soo -- 7. The Atlantic limited -- 8. The soo Pacific express -- 9. The Manitoba express, the Winnipeg express, the winnipeger -- 10. The soo-Spokane-Portland train deluxe -- 11. The mountaineer -- 12. The mystique of the mountaineer -- 13. The depression and the dirty thirties -- 14. My mountaineer -- 15. 1962, triumph and tragedy -- 16. The end of an era.
- ISBN
- 9781771606714
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Copy 1 signed by author
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12t
- 08.5 G12t reference copy
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Teachers' trails in Canada : an illustrated review of the Canadian tour of the British Educationists' Party, July-September 1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3715
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1925
- Publisher
- London : J.M. Dent
- Call Number
- 02.4 T22
- Publisher
- London : J.M. Dent
- Published Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- xxxi, 183p. : ill., ports., maps
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Accession Number
- 18500
- Call Number
- 02.4 T22
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Through the Canadian Pacific Rockies : a series of views illustrating the chief points of interest and the glorious mountain scenery seen in a journey through the Rocky and Selkirk Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24921
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1920?]
- Author
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Publisher
- Toronto and Montreal : Southam Press Limited
- Call Number
- 02.6 C16thr PAM O.S
- Responsibility
- Canadian Pacific Railway News Service
- Publisher
- Toronto and Montreal : Southam Press Limited
- Published Date
- [1920?]
- Physical Description
- [26] leaves : chiefly illustrations (some color)
- Subjects
- Travel
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Rockies
- Art
- Tourism
- Abstract
- Pertains to areas of interest along the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rocky Mountains via unattributed photographs.
- Contents
- The Gap
- The Three Sisters, Canmore, ALTA.
- Banff, Showing Bow River Bridge
- Banff Springs Hotel and Bow River Valley
- The Swimming Pool, Banff
- Mount Assiniboine
- Indian Days at Banff
- Lake Minnewanka, near Banff
- On the Bow River, Banff
- Castle Mountain
- Lakes in the Clouds
- The Giant Steps, Paradise Valley
- Lake Louise
- The Great Divide
- Moraine Lake and Valley of the Ten Peaks
- Paradise Valley
- Cathedral Mountain
- Spiral Tunnels, Field, B.C.
- Mount Stephen and Field, B.C.
- Twin Falls and the Yoho Valley
- Emerald Lake
- Mount Chancellor, Leanchoil
- Mount Sir Donald, near Glacier, B.C.
- Hell's Gate, Fraser Canyon, B.C.
- Descriptive Index
- Accession Number
- 7889
- Call Number
- 02.6 C16thr PAM O.S
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- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- paper; lacquer; paint
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0124
- Description
- A rectangular black lacquer box with a box-type lid decorated with a stylized tree, mountain, and boat design in gold paint.
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- paper; lacquer; paint
- Dimensions
- 2.0 x 4.5 x 7.0 cm
- Description
- A rectangular black lacquer box with a box-type lid decorated with a stylized tree, mountain, and boat design in gold paint.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0124
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- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- wood; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0128
- Description
- A round wooden container with a fitted flat lid with a knob handle. The lid and sides are covered with tooled leather and decorated with a fleur de lis and triangle design. A sticker inside reads “Garantiert Handarbeit, Kunsthandwerklich, Westarbeit 6693”.
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- wood; skin
- Dimensions
- 5.0 cm
- Description
- A round wooden container with a fitted flat lid with a knob handle. The lid and sides are covered with tooled leather and decorated with a fleur de lis and triangle design. A sticker inside reads “Garantiert Handarbeit, Kunsthandwerklich, Westarbeit 6693”.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- crafts
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0128
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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- wood; paint
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0129
- Description
- A rectangular wooden box with a lid. The lid has a carved and painted likeness of a duck as a handle.
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- wood; paint
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 9.0 x 14.0 cm
- Description
- A rectangular wooden box with a lid. The lid has a carved and painted likeness of a duck as a handle.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0129
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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- wood; paint
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0130
- Description
- A rectangular wooden box with a hinged lid. The box and lid have shaped edges painted gold and the sides are painted green. There is green, red and gold decoration on the lid. The paint is worn and scratched.
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- wood; paint
- Dimensions
- 4.2 x 11.5 x 17.0 cm
- Description
- A rectangular wooden box with a hinged lid. The box and lid have shaped edges painted gold and the sides are painted green. There is green, red and gold decoration on the lid. The paint is worn and scratched.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0130
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- Date
- 1925 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0153
- Description
- A small, lidded basket made with natural coloured fibre with dyed grasses forming word "Jamaica" on the side, and there is a foliage decoration on the lid. There is minor fibre loss on the lid.
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1925 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 6.7 cm
- Description
- A small, lidded basket made with natural coloured fibre with dyed grasses forming word "Jamaica" on the side, and there is a foliage decoration on the lid. There is minor fibre loss on the lid.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- crafts
- souvenirs
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0153
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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- metal; stone
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0196
- Description
- A small, cylindrical, lidded brass box, flat-bottomed, with a flush fitting, slightly domed lid which has a flange fitting into the straight, vertical wall of the box. Both box wall and lid have chips of turquoise set into enamel and polished flush with the surface. The dome of the lid is bare bras…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- metal; stone
- Dimensions
- 2.0 x 3.7 cm
- Description
- A small, cylindrical, lidded brass box, flat-bottomed, with a flush fitting, slightly domed lid which has a flange fitting into the straight, vertical wall of the box. Both box wall and lid have chips of turquoise set into enamel and polished flush with the surface. The dome of the lid is bare brass in the rough configuration of a posy.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0196
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- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0200
- Description
- A lathe-turned round-dish, flat-bottomed box with a domed, lapping lid which fits flushly over a flange on the box body. Box and lid are painted a boxcar red and decorated with designs of circles and flowers, varnish over paint has oxidized. Interior of box has been painted a dark green.
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 6.3 x 13.0 cm
- Description
- A lathe-turned round-dish, flat-bottomed box with a domed, lapping lid which fits flushly over a flange on the box body. Box and lid are painted a boxcar red and decorated with designs of circles and flowers, varnish over paint has oxidized. Interior of box has been painted a dark green.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0200
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- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0202
- Description
- A rectangular lidded box, hand-carved from soft marble-talc, which is black with white streaks in it. The box and its base are fluted on all exposed surfaces, and the top, but not the sides, of the lid is similarly fluted. The lid is a flat slab which fits flushly into/onto the box. Interior of box…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 4.3 x 6.2 x 8.6 cm
- Description
- A rectangular lidded box, hand-carved from soft marble-talc, which is black with white streaks in it. The box and its base are fluted on all exposed surfaces, and the top, but not the sides, of the lid is similarly fluted. The lid is a flat slab which fits flushly into/onto the box. Interior of box is somewhat roughly carved and finished.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0202
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- Date
- 1920 – 1935
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0210
- Description
- A long rectangular lidded box made of very light wood. The detached lid fits over a flange flush. The box is decorated with gold floral patterns defined in black, on the lid top is a stylized lion walking left in a black ground. Base and interior are painted glossy black. Sticker on the base reads …
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1920 – 1935
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 6.7 x 10.1 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- A long rectangular lidded box made of very light wood. The detached lid fits over a flange flush. The box is decorated with gold floral patterns defined in black, on the lid top is a stylized lion walking left in a black ground. Base and interior are painted glossy black. Sticker on the base reads “Made in Burma” and another partial sticker reads “ . . . . wone New York Chicago”
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0210
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