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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 Indian Days posters

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 14 colour and b&w oversized promotional posters and information boards for Banff Indian Days celebrations, promoted by Canadian Pacific. Posters largely feature identified and unidentified Indigenous people, notably Chief Spotted Eagle and Blind Eagle. Art medium includes oil pain…

Date Range: [ca. 1930-1950]; 1936; 1937; 1949

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3 / 1 - 14

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Poster; Drawing; Published record

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: I.D.3. Personal and professional : Organizations

Sous-Fonds: I. Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3 / 1 - 14

GMD: Textual record; Poster; Drawing; Published record

Responsibility: Published and artwork attributed to Ernie Kehr, W.L. Kihn, G.H.W. Ashley, Crag & Canyon Press, Palenske, Canadian Pacific and Multi Color Poster

Date Range: [ca. 1930-1950]; 1936; 1937; 1949

Physical Description: 14 posters : colour and b&w ; 35 x 56 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of 14 colour and b&w oversized promotional posters and information boards for Banff Indian Days celebrations, promoted by Canadian Pacific. Posters largely feature identified and unidentified Indigenous people, notably Chief Spotted Eagle and Blind Eagle. Art medium includes oil paint process mounted on cardboard made in Canada and distributed by Exhibits Branch Canadian Pacific, lithographic prints, and a mounted drawing attributed to Palenske. Some have annotations or stamps on the back.

Notes: Possibly unassociated shipping packing material addressed to Norman Luxton at the Trading Post from E.A. Kehr found in box - this has not been assigned a number. D3-10, a lithographic promotional material from 1936 has an identical design to LUX / II / F1 / 47, an Indian Days poster from 1928 Items LUX / I / D3 / 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 were originally associated with LUX / I / D3a / 6, which contains brochures and a flyer from Banff Indian Days LUX / I / D3 / 8, Palenske may have potentionally used photograph LUX / I / D3a / PA-26 as reference

Material Details: Some posters have foldable cardboard stand at back to place upright on surface, adhesives, and perhaps mounting additives.

Name Access: Luxton, Norman; Kehr, Ernie; Palenske, Reinhold H.; Canadian Pacific Railway

Subject Access: Activities; Advertising; Community events; Banff Indian Days; Indigenous Peoples; Tourism

Geographic Access: Banff; Alberta; Banff National Park

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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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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Description of the country between Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean on the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway

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

Published Date: 1876

Author: Canadian Pacific Railway

Call Number: 08.5 C16d

Author: Canadian Pacific Railway

Published Date: 1876

Physical Description: xxxix, 143p

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

Subjects: Passes; Surveys

Notes: Indexes

Accession Number: 211

Call Number: 08.5 C16d

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