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A tour through Canada from Nova Scotia to Vancouver Island

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

Published Date: 1884

Call Number: 02.4 C16g Pam

Responsibility: reprinted from the columns of the Canadian Gazette, London, England

Published Date: 1884

Physical Description: viii, 72p. : ill

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway

Accession Number: 20500

Call Number: 02.4 C16g Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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The Canadian Pacific Railway

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

Published Date: [1888?]

Call Number: 02.5 C16 Pam

Published Date: [1888?]

Physical Description: 4p. : ill

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

Subjects: Banff National Park

Accession Number: 19500

Call Number: 02.5 C16 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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The Dominion illustrated : a Canadian pictorial weekly

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

Published Date: 1888-1891

Publisher: Montreal, Sabiston Lithographic and Pub. Co. [etc.]

Call Number: P Newspaper oversize

Publisher: Montreal, Sabiston Lithographic and Pub. Co. [etc.]

Published Date: 1888-1891

Physical Description: 7 v. : ill., ports

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Notman, William & Son; Politics

Notes: v. 1-7, no. 182; July 7, 1888-Dec. 26, 1891

Call Number: P Newspaper oversize

Collection: Archives Library

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Lecture slides

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Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Scope & Content: Transparencies are hand-coloured and black and white lantern slides, mostly copied from prints from a lecture on the early history of Banff town development and Canadian Pacific Railway hotels, including the Banff Springs Hotel, Lake Louise Chalet and Glacier House

Date Range: 1883-1912

Reference Code: V527 / PS 1 - 229 to 261

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide; Transparency

Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M79 / V527

Series: II.A. Photographs: lantern slides

Sous-Fonds: V527

Reference Code: V527 / PS 1 - 229 to 261

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide; Transparency

Date Range: 1883-1912

Physical Description: 33 photographs : transparencies; glass

Scope & Content: Transparencies are hand-coloured and black and white lantern slides, mostly copied from prints from a lecture on the early history of Banff town development and Canadian Pacific Railway hotels, including the Banff Springs Hotel, Lake Louise Chalet and Glacier House

Finding Aid: Copy prints are available for reference use

Location (Copy): Reference prints are available

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: LIST OF LANTERN SLIDES - V527 / PS 1 :; #229 - [George Stewart's log building at Siding 29]; #230 - [McCardell with the first "hotel" at the Cave and Basin, 1883]; #231 - [General store at Siding 29 / Bingham]; #232 - [Man with cow on Banff Avenue, 1886]; #233 - [Man with cow on Banff Avenue, 1886] - hand-coloured; #234 - [NWMP at police barracks in Banff]; #235 - [Group of people in front of Moulton Park Theatre]; #236 - [Bathhouse at Upper Hot Springs]; #237 - [Log bath house at Upper Hot Springs]; #238 - [Early bathers in basin pool at Cave and Basin]; #239 - [Early Banff from Beaver Street]; #240 - Banff Hotel and the mountain drive from Summit Mt. [view from Tunnel Mountain by Mary Schaffer]; #241 - [Jim Brewster with tally-ho in Banff Springs Hotel courtyard]; #242 - Hotel & Hermit fr. Glacier Trail. Snow. 9/20/95; #243 - [Early chalet at Lake Louise / Trueman & Caple]; #244 - Lady Aberdeen at Chalet sketching Lake Louise, Rockies, CPR, Oct 18/94; #245 - [Banff Springs Hotel, construction of center tower, ca.1912]; #246 - [Swimmers at Cave and Basin]; #247 - Winter bathing at the hot srings; #248 - [Early Banff Ave.]; #249 - [Group in front of unidentified Banff building]; #250 - [D.C. Baynes; Banff school class, ]; #251 - [View of Banff in winter from rooftop, looking towards Mt. Norquay]; #252 - [View of Banff in winter from rooftop, looking towards Mount Rundle]; #253 - [Banff Livery with sleighs in front]; #254 - [Banff Springs Hotel]; #255 - [Banff Springs Hotel and Bow Valley]; #256 - [Unidentified Indigenous man on Banff Ave.]; #257 - [Two Unidentified Indigenous people on horseback at Banff Indian Days camp near Cascade Mountain]; #258 - [Curling on backwater of Bow River]; #259 - Cutting ice on Bow River at Banff; #260 - Upper Hot Springs [in winter]; #261 - Tobogganing at Banff

Processing Status: Processed

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Transportation

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Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Scope & Content: Transparencies are hand-coloured and black and white lantern slides pertaining to transportation: Canadian Pacific Railway, railway travel and ships, derived from various sources. Includes two transparencies by Mary Schaffer

Date Range: 1831-1885

Reference Code: V527 / PS 1 - 810 to 830

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide; Transparency

Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Series: II.A. Photographs: lantern slides

Reference Code: V527 / PS 1 - 810 to 830

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide; Transparency

Date Range: 1831-1885

Physical Description: 21 photographs : transparencies; glass

Scope & Content: Transparencies are hand-coloured and black and white lantern slides pertaining to transportation: Canadian Pacific Railway, railway travel and ships, derived from various sources. Includes two transparencies by Mary Schaffer

Finding Aid: Copy prints are available for reference use

Location (Copy): Reference prints are available

Title Source: Title based on contents of file.

Content Details: LIST OF LANTERN SLIDES - V527 / PS 1 :; #810 - Driving the Golden Spike, by Donald Smith; #on CPR, Nov. 7, 1885 / Notman; #811 - The first engine built by the Canadian Pacific Railway; #812 - Winnipeg in 1870; #813 - Quebec Bridge, Quebec; #814 - DeWitt Clinton and Train 1831 / Chas. Beseler; #815 - Canadian Pacific Railway, arrival of the first through train at the seaboard of British Columbia; #816 - [Group at driving of last spike on the CPR, Nov. 7, 1885]; #817 - [Unidentified locomotive]; #818 - Passengers boarding standard sleeper; #819 - Plowing thro. the snow, of the Selkirks & Glacier; #820 - [Passengers on platform beside Montreal and Boston railway car]; #821 - Wapta & Safety Switch; #822 - Red Sucker Tunnel, Lake Superior; #823 - [Map of Dominion of Canada]; #824 - [Unidentified railway tunnel]; #825 - Prospect Point Vancouver Steamer "Beaver"; #826 - [Unidentified ocean liner]; #827 - [Empress of Britain in lock of Panama Canal]; #828 - [Man padding pont] / E.B. Thompson; #829 - The ferry near Berthier, Que.; #830 - Forest fire

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Banff Lantern Slides

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Part Of: Archives General File Collection

Scope & Content: Series consists of 4 lantern slides. Slides are views of the Banff Hot Springs, Banff Avenue with Cascade Mountain, Devil's Lake, and the city of Calgary.

Date Range: [c. 1890]

Reference Code: V8 / 7919 / PS - 1 to PS - 4

Description Level: 3 / Series

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

4 images

Part Of: Archives General File Collection

Description Level: 3 / Series

Fonds Number: M8 / V8 / S8

Series: Accession Number : 7919

Sous-Fonds: V8

Accession Number: 7919

Reference Code: V8 / 7919 / PS - 1 to PS - 4

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [c. 1890]

Physical Description: 4 photographs : b&w slides ; 8.2 x 8.2 cm

Scope & Content: Series consists of 4 lantern slides. Slides are views of the Banff Hot Springs, Banff Avenue with Cascade Mountain, Devil's Lake, and the city of Calgary.

Subject Access: Lantern slide; Tourism

Geographic Access: Banff; Calgary; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Conservation: All slides were cleaned prior to scanning.

Title Source: Title based on contents of series

Processing Status: Processed

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Geological map of the Cascade Coal Basin

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

Published Date: Topo survey: 1889-90

Call Number: C7-1.1(b)

Published Date: Topo survey: 1889-90

Scale: 1 mile - 1 inch

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

Subjects: Cascade Coal Basin; Alberta

Notes: Sheet #2. Cascade River No. 931; To illustrate Report by D.B. Dowling

Accession Number: 3120 (Copy 2)

Call Number: C7-1.1(b)

Collection: Archives Library

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Geological and Nat. Historical Survey

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

Published Date: 1886

Publisher: Burland Lithographic Co., Montreal

Call Number: C7-1.4

Publisher: Burland Lithographic Co., Montreal

Published Date: 1886

Scale: 2 miles to 1 inch

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

Subjects: Rocky Mountains

Notes: Cross section in the vicinity of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: C7-1.4

Collection: Archives Library

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A surface geology map of New Brunswick

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

Published Date: 1888-9

Call Number: C7-6.1(c)

Published Date: 1888-9

Scale: 4 miles to 1 inch

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

Subjects: New Brunswick - Geological

Notes: Part N, No. 1 1/4 sheet 1, N.E.; Accompanies 03.1/G29ar Annual Report, 1888-9; To illustrate Reports by Messrs Bailey, Mathew and Ells, 1871-79

Accession Number: 7000

Call Number: C7-6.1(c)

Collection: Archives Library

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Part N. Surface Geology, Southern New Brunswick, No. 1, 1/4 Sheet 1, S.W.

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

Published Date: 1888-89

Call Number: C7-6.1(d)

Published Date: 1888-89

Scale: 4 miles to 1 inch

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

Subjects: New Brunswick - Geological

Notes: Accompanies 03.1/G29 ar/Annual Report, 1888-89

Accession Number: 7000

Call Number: C7-6.1(d)

Collection: Archives Library

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Geological maps

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

Published Date: 1885

Publisher: Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada

Call Number: C7-6.19

Publisher: Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada

Published Date: 1885

Scale: 1:506,880

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

Subjects: Cypress Hills, Wood Mountain and Adjacent Country

Notes: (a) Geological and Topographical; (b) Surface Character

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: C7-6.19

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian Pacific Railway : Banff and British Columbia

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

Published Date: 1888

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Call Number: 02.6 Il6c PAM O.S.

Responsibility: Sketches by Melton Prior

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Published Date: 1888

Physical Description: 125 pages

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

Subjects: Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Hot springs; Hotels; Sanitarium Hotel; Banff; Glacier House

Abstract: Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Banff and Mount Stephen including railway access and hotels, hotsprings, sanitarium with associated sketches.

Notes: In The Illustrated London News, Vol. XCIII, No. 2588, Saturday, November 24, 1888, pp. 613 - 614

Accession Number: 7864

Call Number: 02.6 Il6c PAM O.S.

Collection: Archives Library

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With ice-axe and camera in the Rocky Mountains

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

Published Date: 1889

Publisher: The Graphic

Call Number: 02.6 G75w PAM O.S.

Responsibility: Rev. W. Spotswood Green (sketches); Rev. H. Swanzy (photographs)

Publisher: The Graphic

Published Date: 1889

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Glacier House; Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Lake Louise; Lake Louise District; Selkirk Mountains; Selkirk Range

Abstract: Pertains to Glacier House and a paper read at the Royal Geographical Society by Rev. W. Spotswood Green who traversed the Selkirks accompanied by Rev. H. Swanzy in 1889 with accompanying photographs/sketches of Beaver Creek, snow shed, Glacier House kitchen staff, aftermath of a snow slide, Mount Bonney, Lower Columbia Lake, goats, Mount Lefroy and Lake Louise, and an avalanche.

Notes: In The Graphic, October 19, 1889, pp. 484 - 486

Accession Number: 7830

Call Number: 02.6 G75w PAM O.S.

Collection: Archives Library

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The Canadian Pacific Railway

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

Published Date: 1888

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Call Number: 02.6 Il6t PAM O.S.

Responsibility: Sketches by Melton Prior

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Published Date: 1888

Physical Description: 125 pages

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

Subjects: Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Banff; Glacier House

Abstract: Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Pacific Railway as per Melton Prior who travelled from Montreal to Vancouver on the train and provided a review of the journey which includes sketches of Sir Donald, Great Glacier, Glacier Hotel, Hermit Range, Mount Carroll, Stony Creek Bridge and the interior of a colonial sleeping car.