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Topical files, numbered – group B

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Nicholas Morant fonds
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of topical files pertaining to Nick Morant, including articles, calendars, letters, notebook; also to a variety of other topics. Consists of 13 files
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 49 to 61
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
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Nicholas Morant fonds
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
Series
II.C. Professional records : topical files
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 49 to 61
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Physical Description
ca.15 cm of textual records
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of topical files pertaining to Nick Morant, including articles, calendars, letters, notebook; also to a variety of other topics. Consists of 13 files
Title Source
Title based on contents of sub-series. Most file titles are an abbreviated version of Morant's original title. Some file titles were supplied at the time of monetary appraisal
Content Details
LIST OF FILES (M300 / C1 / 49 to 61) :
B5 : Old English composition exercise book, Nick Morant, University School, 1928 (M300/C1/49)
B9 : Old letters . . . Lowell Thomas, exchange of government letters, exchange of Readers Digest art ed, etc (M300/C1/50)
B10 : "Winnipeg Free Press" calendar (M300/C1/51)
B11 : articles about Nicholas Morant (M300/C1/52)
B11a : two issues of "Liberty Magazine" that contain an article about Nicholas Morant (M300/C1/53)
B12 : Crest Collection (M300/C1/54)
B14 : miscellaneous material (M300/C1/55)
B15 : Redcliff Automobile Manufacturing plant (M300/C1/56)
B16 : CP Empress ship passenger list 1911 (M300/C1/57)
B17 : issue of "Canadian Photography" with biography of Morant (M300/C1/58)
B18 : issue of "Studio Light" with biography of Morant (M300/C1/59)
B19 : lecture and music schedule (M300/C1/60)
B20 : issue of "Western Living" with biography of Morant (M300/C1/61)
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Topical files, numbered – group C

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Nicholas Morant fonds
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of 12 topical files on a wide variety of topics. Includes files of clippings, newspapers, articles, newspaper columns by Nick Morant, and other material
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 62 to 73
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
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Description Level
4 / Sub-series
Fonds Number
M300
Series
II.C. Professional records : topical files
Sous-Fonds
M300
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 62 to 73
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Physical Description
10 cm of textual records
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of 12 topical files on a wide variety of topics. Includes files of clippings, newspapers, articles, newspaper columns by Nick Morant, and other material
Title Source
Title based on contents of sub-series. Most file titles are an abbreviated version of Morant's original title. Some file titles were supplied at the time of monetary appraisal
Content Details
LIST OF FILES (M300 / C1 / 62 to 73)
C1 : clippings re grizzly attack (M300/C1/62)
C2 Saturday Snapshots : "Saturday Snapshots" was Nicholas Morant's column in the "Winnipeg Free Press" (M300/C1/63)
C3 : clippings from "Courier" (M300/C1/64)
C4 : early clippings (M300/C1/65)
C5 : early newspapers (M300/C1/66)
C6 : "Morley First Nation Millionaires" re income from gas reserves (M300/C1/67)
C7 : destruction of Challenger space shuttle (M300/C1/68)
C9 : Royal Scot locomotive (M300/C1/69)
C10 : the Grand Staircase of the Manitoba Legislature (M300/C1/70)
C11 : "Kamloops Views" (M300/C1/71)
C12 : early railway copies (M300/C1/72)
C13 : article on Canadian farewell to Crump (M300/C1/73)
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Topical files, numbered – group D

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Nicholas Morant fonds
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of 14 topical files on a variety of topics. Files include drawings, brochures, clippings, newspapers, articles, viewbooks, items containing photographs by Nick Morant, and other material
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 74 to 87
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
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Nicholas Morant fonds
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
Series
II.C. Professional records : topical files
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 74 to 87
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Physical Description
ca.15 cm of textual records
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of 14 topical files on a variety of topics. Files include drawings, brochures, clippings, newspapers, articles, viewbooks, items containing photographs by Nick Morant, and other material
Title Source
Title based on contents of sub-series. Most file titles are an abbreviated version of Morant's original title. Some file titles were supplied at the time of monetary appraisal
Content Details
LIST OF FILES (M300 / C1 / 74 to 87 ) :
D1 : High class printing of European brochures (M300/C1/74)
D2 : Harmon viewbooks, some with Morant photographs (M300/C1/75)
D4 : Swiss mountain locomotive drawings (M300/C1/76)
D5 : "Confederation and Canadian Pacific" brochure, 1927 (M300/C1/77)
D6 : "Waggon Road to North" re Caribou road (M300/C1/78)
D7 : Great CP Exhibition (M300/C1/79)
D8 : Canadian Pacific Railway Community Train brochures (M300/C1/80)
D9 : biographical material on Carl Rungius (M300/C1/81)
D10 : illuminated address to Morant, 1937 (M300/C1/82)
D11 : Winnipeg calendar, 1936, with photographs by Morant (M300/C1/83)
D12 : Wapta Lake Bungalow Camp (M300/C1/84)
D13 : miscellaneous clippings (M300/C1/85)
D14 : proof sheets of "Reader's Digest" covers by Morant (M300/C1/86)
D15 : "Walhachin Story" (M300/C1/87)
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Topical files, numbered – group H

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Nicholas Morant fonds
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of 7 topical files on a variety of topics. Files include notes, articles and biographic information
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 88 to 94
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
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Nicholas Morant fonds
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
Series
II.C. Professional records : topical files
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 88 to 94
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Physical Description
5 cm of textual records (7 files)
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of 7 topical files on a variety of topics. Files include notes, articles and biographic information
Title Source
Title based on contents of sub-series. Most file titles are an abbreviated version of Morant's original title. Some file titles were supplied at the time of monetary appraisal
Content Details
LIST OF FILES (M300 / C1 / 88 to 94) :
H1 : notes from an early RNWMP ledger re Fort Steele (M300/C1/88)
H2 : early radio literature (M300/C1/89)
H3 : pertain to Martin Itjen of Skagway, Alaska (M300/C1/90)
H4 : Joe Smith, the "Castle Mountain hermit" (M300/C1/91)
H5 : biographical information on Jim Brewster (M300/C1/92)
H6 : articles on 1950 flood from the "Winnipeg Free Press" (M300/C1/93)
H7 : head-on collision at Hinton, 1986 (M300/C1/94)
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Topical files, numbered – group P

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Nicholas Morant fonds
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of 7 topical files on a variety of topics. Files include photographs, Christmas cards, story and other material
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 95 to 101
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
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Description Level
4 / Sub-series
Series
II.C. Professional records : topical files
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 95 to 101
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Physical Description
10 cm of textual records
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of 7 topical files on a variety of topics. Files include photographs, Christmas cards, story and other material
Title Source
Title based on contents of sub-series. Most file titles are an abbreviated version of Morant's original title. Some file titles were supplied at the time of monetary appraisal
Content Details
LIST OF FILES (M300 / C1 / 95 to 101) :
P4 : George Ross photographic collection (M300/C1/95)
P5 : George Ross photographic collection (M300/C1/96)
P12 : Charles & Mrs : Woods (M300/C1/97)
P15 : Clarence Tillenius Christmas cards (M300/C1/98)
P16 : BC government donation receipt form re Morant's father's Democrat [buggy] (M300/C1/99)
P17 : railway view known as "Morant curve" (M300/C1/100)
P18 : Crippen murder story (M300/C1/101)
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Topical files, numbered – group R

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Part Of
Nicholas Morant fonds
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of 28 topical files on a variety of formats and topics, including railways and personalitites
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 102 to 129
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
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Description Level
4 / Sub-series
Fonds Number
M300
Series
II.C. Professional records : topical files
Sous-Fonds
M300
Reference Code
M300 / C1 / 102 to 129
Date Range
[ca.1930-ca.1980]
Physical Description
ca.35 cm of textual records
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of 28 topical files on a variety of formats and topics, including railways and personalitites
Title Source
Title based on contents of sub-series. Most file titles are an abbreviated version of Morant's original title. Some file titles were supplied at the time of monetary appraisal
Content Details
LIST OF FILES (M300 / C1 / 102 to 129) :
R2 : plans for Swiss houses (M300/C1/102)
R4 : information on early typewriters (M300/C1/103)
R5 : scripts and correspondence for Greenland TV commercial assignment (M300/C1/104)
R6 : parts catalogue for a Judson gas engine (M300/C1/105)
R7 : 5900 Selkirk locomotives (M300/C1/106)
R8 : early reference re CP hotels (M300/C1/107)
R9 : "Strom's Wrangler" (M300/C1/108)
R10 : clippings re Bankhead and Silver City (M300/C1/109)
R11 : Rocky Mountain surveys by Mankin (M300/C1/110)
R12 : information re Glacier avalanche (M300/C1/111)
R13 : early advertising letters (M300/C1/112)
R14 : historic pullman cars (M300/C1/113)
R15 : Regina music box (M300/C1/114)
R16 : reference material re Banff (M300/C1/115)
R19 : sternwheelers in British Columbia (M300/C1/116)
R20 : Connaught Tunnel (M300/C1/117)
R21 : Connaught Tunnel (M300/C1/118)
R22 : Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (M300/C1/119)
R23 : Peter and Catherine Whyte (M300/C1/120)
R25 : clipping re history of Associated Screen News (M300/C1/121)
R26 : Langdon Kihn - celebrated Indigenous painter (M300/C1/122)
R28 : photogravures by Nicholas Morant from "Star Weekly" (M300/C1/123)
R29 : Tiffany glass (M300/C1/124)
R30 : issue of "VIA Destinations" with story on Morant (M300/C1/125)
R31 : Railroading and the supernatural series by Morant (M300/C1/126)
R32 : the White Pass & Yukon Railway (M300/C1/127)
R33 : biography of Grey Owl (M300/C1/128)
R34 : article on Peter and Catharine Whyte (M300/C1/129)
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Personal photographs

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Nicholas Morant fonds
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of prints, mainly collected by Nick Morant, and photograph albums created by Morant when a young man. List of contents: * Photograph album, 1926-1927, 60 prints. Pertains to landscape and development in Kamloops area, Morant home and travels. Includes small prints and panorama…
Date Range
[before 1998]
Reference Code
V500 / E / 1 to 4 (PA)
V500 / E / PD 1 to 3
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
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Album
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Nicholas Morant fonds
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
Fonds Number
M300 / S20 / V500
Series
III.A. Personal and family records : Nick and Willie Morant
Sous-Fonds
V500
Reference Code
V500 / E / 1 to 4 (PA)
V500 / E / PD 1 to 3
GMD
Album
Print
Date Range
[before 1998]
Physical Description
3 cm of photographs : prints. -- 3 photograph albums (ca.120 prints)
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of prints, mainly collected by Nick Morant, and photograph albums created by Morant when a young man. List of contents:
* Photograph album, 1926-1927, 60 prints. Pertains to landscape and development in Kamloops area, Morant home and travels. Includes small prints and panoramas with captions (V500 / E / PD - 1)
* Photograph album, 1928, 37 prints. Pertains to University School, Victoria campus, activities and friends in Victoria. Includes small to medium prints with captions (V500 / E / PD - 2)
* Photograph album, ca.1930?, 22 prints. Pertains to Kamloops and area?, no identifications (V500 / E / PD - 3)
* Nick Morant with family and friends, before 1998, ca.72 prints (V500 / E / 1, 2 PA)
* Flowers, before 1998, ca.30 prints (V500 / E / 3 PA)
* Other prints, before 1998, 5 prints. Consists primarily of photographs of Nick, including one with Bruno Engler. Original enclosure was titled "Photo of files Rick Anderson Aug 98" (V500 / E / 4 PA)
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Title based on contents of sub-series
Processing Status
Processed
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Postcards, greeting cards and ephemera collection

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Nicholas Morant fonds
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of postcards, greeting cards and ephemera collected by Nick Morant. Ephemera includes notes and lists, ration cards, blank notecards and stationery, cigarette cards, attendance cards, photographs, clippings, labels, silk samples, curiosities,$1 and 25 cent bills, other publishe…
Date Range
ca.1900-[ca.1990]
Reference Code
M300 / C3 / 1 to 104
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
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Description Level
4 / Sub-series
Fonds Number
M300
Series
II.C. Professional records : topical files
Sous-Fonds
M300
Reference Code
M300 / C3 / 1 to 104
Date Range
ca.1900-[ca.1990]
Physical Description
ca.50 cm of print material
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of postcards, greeting cards and ephemera collected by Nick Morant. Ephemera includes notes and lists, ration cards, blank notecards and stationery, cigarette cards, attendance cards, photographs, clippings, labels, silk samples, curiosities,$1 and 25 cent bills, other published items
Material is mainly in files numbered 1 to 102 by Morant (missing: #10, 29, 44, 45, 53, 88). Also includes one un-numbered file and 10 cm of postcards not in files
Title Source
Title based on contents of s-s-series
Content Details
LIST OF FILES (M300/C3 / 1 to 104) :
1. Old time cards: C.P. steamers, B.C.C.S., Great Lakes, lakes boats (.5 cm)
2. Gowen Sutton miniatures: Vancouver Hotel, Vancouver City
3. Old time cards: Old C.P.R. hotels: Banff Springs, Digby Pines, Empress Hotel, Chateau Frontenac, Sicamous Hotel - see also 78 (.5 cm)
4. Old time cards: Lake Superior, Fort William, Ontario (.5 cm)
5. Old time cards: Vancouver, Totems at Duncan, Siwash Rock, Toronto Union, Nova Scotia ships, Montreal, Malahat Drive (.5 cm)
6. Old time cards: Kamloops, Train along Main Street - see also 17, P-4 (.5 cm)
7. Byron Harmon: 20 pack set (1 cm)
8. Prairies: harvesting with tractor engines, old time cowboy, Canmore Opera House (1900) (.5 cm)
9. Old London cards: circa 1900 (.5 cm)
11. Old time cards: Coronation, violets, Xmas pc, etc., totems at Duncan (.5 cm)
12. Old U.S.:. R.R. pc's (.5 cm)
13. Swiss art (1 cm)
14. The travelling salesman: the typical travelling salesman of the early 1920s ....one Harry Spencer
15. Sample of Mourning writing paper: circa 1900 (1 cm)
16. Insects
17. Old time cards: railroad scenes (1.5 cm)
18. British Museum: locomotive exhibits (.5 cm)
19. Peru postcards (.5 cm)
20. Peruvian art (.5 cm)
21. Cats (.5 cm)
22. Swedish flower designs: to keep (1 cm)
23. Oriental cards
24. U.S. postcards: Desert, Oregon, etc. (.5 cm)
25. Tennant postcards
26. Christmas cards: European designs (.5 cm)
27. Xmas cards: Dwart's (2 cm)
28. Yoho Slide: Slide at Yoho, B.C., Aug. 9, 1925 re Seth Partridge Story - see 57-323 contains later accident (.5 cm)
30. Christmas cards: bird house, Swiss R.R.
31. World War II: ration cards, ARP (.5 cm)
32. Description of Christ: old religious tract
33. Old cigarette cards: 1945? (.5 cm)
34. Old time Xmas "gift" card
35. Old time school attendance card: old time (1890 or earlier) card given to schoolboy for "good attendance"
36. Indigenous letter
37. Old "dry goods" advertising: Silk samples
38. "Shin-Plaster": 25 cent bill
39. Micro-filmed bible: 1977
40. RR historic: free meal check given out by Stewards on dining cars to passengers whose train had been delayed in transit. I was travelling to pass over Canadian National tracks from Raith, Ontario, to Winnipeg, due to derailment of freight ahead of us
41. Nick's gall bladder
42. Old time aviation postcard
43. British postcards (.5 cm)
46. Some very old letters (1890?): no information available
47. Canoe etching by Palenske (.5 cm)
48. Animals etc.: Mr. ? (.5 cm)
49. Christmas transparencies: personal (.5 cm)
50. Old time photofinishing: envelopes
51. Peter Whtye Christmas cards (1.5 cm)
52. Beil Xmas cards (1.5 cm)
54. Art gallery postcards (1 cm)
55. Mexican art cards (1 cm)
56. Art cards
57. Marine art cards
58. Medical advertising cards: Nick Morant illustrations (.5 cm)
59. Rail roading cards (1 cm)
60. Xmas cards: from Bob Reck, Miriam Ellis, Hugh MacLennan, Soulsby's, Mrs. Joe Daem, miniature (.5 cm)
61. Baggage stickers: Alaska, Peru
62. Third Dimension: "moving picture" cards for kids 1965
63. Christmas cards on silk: from German Embassy (.5 cm)
64. Greenland (silk) postcard
65. Postcards: Taillon vaults, Quebec City (.5 cm)
66. Christmas cards (1 cm)
67. Cowboy (unidentified): Kamloops B.C. origin
68. Silverware reference materiel: also on rugs (.5 cm)
69. Humourous photo: men raising statue
70. Tim ffrench photo: etc.
71. Postcards: sternwheelers, S.S. Klondike, U.S. ship in Iowa - see also R- 19
72. Morant coat of arms: "Resurgam" I will rise again - negative filed P-69
73. Postcards: old CPR locomotive at Golden Mill
74. References to Wylde: portraits in house (.5 cm)
75. Wlyde - Morant family history references from "Burke's Peerage" etc. - see also 72, 74, 44, P-6, B-3, B-4, P-1
76. Postcards 1914-20: John Bull war card 1916, Thanksgiving & Hallow'en, "Telescope" card
77. R.R. Christmas cards: Fogg - Sawatsky, Morant (.5 cm)
78. Historic RR cards: Rocky Mountain area, Harmon printings, circa 1980 - see also 15
79. Old Banff postcards: see also 78. (1 cm)
80. C.P. stone bridges
81. Fascimile original: Life magazine 1883
82. Maude Lewis: Nova Scotian "primitive" artist
83. Extra: social security cards
84. Walter Phillips pictures: reference materiel relative to Phillips' pictures in this house
85. Frank Lloyd Wright: historic article concerning Banff Pavilion 1913
86. Exhibition listing of C.P.R. posters in Montreal collection
87. R.C.M.P. "Crime indexing" information sheets 1965 (1 cm)
89. "Notes from Willie" "Snapshots" from Willie's albums: stained glass window info, list of antiques
90. Old train orders: VIA #1 into Wpg, June 20, 1987 - see also 91 (.5 cm)
91. Old train orders: 1988 - see also 90 (.5 cm)
92. CPR Pavilion: Wembley Exhibition 1925, Dunc McMurray collection (1 cm)
93. Spiral Tunnel: "Mineview"
94. Daem miniature Christmas cards: Mrs. Mary Daem of Revelstoke B.C. 1970's - see also 60
95. Thimbles: historic references
96. Man on velocipide with dog: U.S. origin likely Pacific N.W. location (logging RR?)
97. Oldtime airmail stickers: Wartime era TCA stickers, Canadian Pacific airlines airmail stickers "Airmail Arrow" stickers (.5 cm)
98. Postcards: old time Calgary street scenes
99. Postcard: old Empress Rose Gardens
100. Old company envelope
101. "Last of the dollar bills" : 2 new ones in successive numbering!
102. "Hungry Wolf"
[103]. Some "nice" cards (.5 cm)
[104.] [Other postcards] (6 cm)
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