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Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

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Part Of: Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of visual and texual material pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway and its holdings. Visual material conists of two series. Series I: lantern slides, Series II: prints. Textual material consists of two series. Series I: organizational records, Series II: the 1942 film "Canadian…

Date Range: [ca.1900-1950]

Reference Code: M584 / V782

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Transparency; Lantern slide; Print; Organization record; Textual record

Part Of: Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M584 / V782

Sous-Fonds: V782

Accession Number: 303, 304, 625, 1471, 1086, 1544, 3288, 3502, 6740, 7071, 2014.8366, 2021.18

Reference Code: M584 / V782

GMD: Photograph; Transparency; Lantern slide; Print; Organization record; Textual record

Date Range: [ca.1900-1950]

Physical Description: 69 b&w lantern slides, 5 cm of textual records, ca. 309 prints : b&w ; 27.9 x 20.3 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of visual and texual material pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway and its holdings. Visual material conists of two series. Series I: lantern slides, Series II: prints. Textual material consists of two series. Series I: organizational records, Series II: the 1942 film "Canadian Pacific" screenplay and associated documents. Visual material includes black and white lantern slides and black and white prints depicting various scenes pertaining to travelling on the Canadian Pacific Railway and depict dining rooms, scnes involving trains and mountains, farming scenes and fields, people in train cars, various cities and towns, figures in natural landscapes, horses and horseback riding, mountains, waterfalls, skiing, ships, CP hotels, and other grand buildings [across Canada] such as Notre Dame Cathedral in Montreal. Textual material includes paper reports [some compiled by Canadian Pacific Hotels Architectural Engineer Ed Steel] detailing various construction and/or renovation projects for hotels, lodges, tea houses, bugalow camps, huts, and backcountry lodges throughout the Canadian Rockies as well as records pertaining to CP hotels in the Canadian Rockies, and the screenplay for "Canadian Pacific."

Notes: Slides were stored in rectangular wood box with leather handle on top, and metal handle at one end. White label that says “Lyon & Turnbull 432 04 February 2009” on lid of the box. Old, peeling, and stained label on top under handle, illegible. Faded, peeling labels on front, some words legible: “from the Canadian Pacific…” 2 stained and water damaged labels detached from box appear to be English shipping labels.“10” stamped in black on both ends of box. Stamped in black on rear of box: “Canadian Pacific Rly Co. 62 to 65 Charing Cross, London, S.W. 1. “3” engraved on upper rim of box. Box is divided into 3 sections with removable wood separators, small pieces of felt line 2 sections of the box.

Name Access: Canadian Pacific Railway

Subject Access: Buildings; Buildings and facilities; Camps; Construction; Environment; Huts; Tourism; Trains; Transportation

Geographic Access: Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Yoho National Park; Glacier; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: Language is English

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Content Details: Prints and some textual records absorbed from old records V121 and M48. Lantern slides donated to the Whyte Museum by Dr. William and Mrs. Wynn Bensen. The slides were purchased by the Bensens from Lyon and Turnbull in Scotland.

Processing Status: Processed

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Auto tours in the Canadian Rockies

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1932

Author: Canadian Pacific Railway

Publisher: Canadian Pacific

Call Number: 02.6 C16a Pam

Author: Canadian Pacific Railway

Publisher: Canadian Pacific

Published Date: 1932

Physical Description: map

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Accession Number: 7913

Call Number: 02.6 C16a Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Banff, Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1937

Author: Canadian Pacific Railway

Call Number: 08.5 B22bl Pam

Author: Canadian Pacific Railway

Published Date: 1937

Physical Description: 18p. : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Emerald Lake; Hotels

Accession Number: 20500

Call Number: 08.5 B22bl Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian Rockies and the Pacific Coast

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1939

Author: Canadian Pacific Railway

Call Number: 02.6 C16pc 1939 Pam

Author: Canadian Pacific Railway

Published Date: 1939

Physical Description: 20p. : ill., maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Panorama of Canadian Rockies attached to back cover ; Profile of rail line gives altitudes

Accession Number: 23500

Call Number: 02.6 C16pc 1939 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Factors in railway and steamship operation

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1937

Author: Canadian Pacific Railway

Call Number: 08.5 C16fo

Author: Canadian Pacific Railway

Responsibility: assembled and edited by the General Publicity Department

Published Date: 1937

Physical Description: 218p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Rolling stock

Notes: Partial contents: Operating trains in the Rockies / H.C. Taylor; Field and the Big Hill / G.H. Soole; The section man [poem] / by Edna Jacques

Accession Number: 3569; Banff Library transfer

Call Number: 08.5 C16fo

Collection: Archives Library

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Promotional Lantern Slides

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Part Of: Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

Scope & Content: File contains slides showing various cities and towns, scenes of nature including waterfalls, mountains, and fields, figures on horseback, dining rooms, a map of Canada and the Canadian Pacific Railway, ships, trains among mountains, and grand buildings. File also includes labels from the original …

Date Range: [c. 1930]

Reference Code: V782 / I / PS - 1 to PS - 42

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph

42 images 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M584 / V782

Series: I : lantern slides

Sous-Fonds: V782

Accession Number: 2014.8366

Reference Code: V782 / I / PS - 1 to PS - 42

GMD: Photograph

Date Range: [c. 1930]

Physical Description: 42 photographs : b&w ; 8.2cm x 8.2cm

Scope & Content: File contains slides showing various cities and towns, scenes of nature including waterfalls, mountains, and fields, figures on horseback, dining rooms, a map of Canada and the Canadian Pacific Railway, ships, trains among mountains, and grand buildings. File also includes labels from the original storage box.