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History / Biographical: Harvey was born in Calgary and died in Victoria. Harvey received degrees at the University of Alberta, mathematics and physics (BSc. I Hon.50) and at the University of British Columbia, applied mathematics (MA 52) and experimental physics (PhD 56). His post doctoral fellowship took him to Cambridge University from where he returned to become a professor at the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, and an adjunct professor of the University of Victoria. At the University of Calgary he played leadership roles in TUCFA, academic pensions, salary negotiator, was an elected member of the Board of Governors, and received an induction into the Order of the University of Calgary. He was a founding member of Calgary CPAWS, and member and chair of Science Advisory Committee of the ECA which lead him to be a proponent for climate change long before it was fashionable. In his community he was President and played a leadership role in the Bankview redevelopment plan. He photographed and documented the graves of God's Acre Military Cemetery for Veteran's Affairs Canada, and was the compiler and editor of the 2014 edition of the Veterans Cemetery. He worked tirelessly for parks particularly in the creation of Nose Hill Park.

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs of Harvey Buckmaster hiking and camping in the Canadian Rockies

Biographical Source Notes: https://calgaryherald.remembering.ca/obituary/harvey-a-buckmaster-1071729801

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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

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

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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