Sub-series consists of topical files pertaining the railways and the Canadian Pacific Railway, 45 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) :
A1 : early photographs of the Canadian Pacific Railway (M300/C1/1)
A2 : CPR Times, biographical sketch (M300/C1/2)
A3 : Royal Tour 1939 (M300/C1/3)
A4 : early CPR cards and menus and old timetables (M300/C1/4)
A4a : early CPR and Canadian National Railway timetables (M300/C1/5)
A5 : last CPR passenger timecard and first Via Rail timetable, 1977 (M300/C1/6)
A6 : early CPR hotel brochures that include Morant photographs (M300/C1/7)
A7 : Alaska cruise mementos (M300/C1/8)
A8 : Empress of Canada and Empress of England menu cards, 1967 (M300/C1/9)
A10 : information on narrow gauge locomotive wreck, Canadian Pacific Railway, near Cathedral Mountain, Yoho (M300/C1/10)
A11 : Connaught and Spiral Tunnels (M300/C1/11)
A12 : early blueprint of Stony Creek Bridge near Glacier, BC (M300/C1/12)
A13 : the Lethbridge viaduct, Alberta (M300/C1/13)
A14 : early line diversions at Field and Revelstoke, BC (M300/C1/14)
A15 : underground rivers in the Glacier, BC area (M300/C1/15)
A16 : early railway advertising brochures (M300/C1/16,17,18)
A16a early across Canada CP brochures re Canadian Pacific Railway (M300/C1/19)
A17 : Edison movie Company 1910 films (M300/C1/20)
A18 : Railroading and the supernatural (M300/C1/21)
A19 : "The Big Railway", a British publication using Morant photographs (M300/C1/22)
A21 : CP Telegraph blanks and stationery (M300/C1/23)
A22 : information on air brakes re the Big Hill at Field, BC (M300/C1/24)
A23 : early CPR passes (M300/C1/25)
A24 : CP Centennial 1981 (M300/C1/26)
A25 : CPR hotel menu cards (M300/C1/27,28)
A26 : Centennial CP special issue (M300/C1/29)
A27 : photograph by R. H. Trueman (M300/C1/30)
A28 : CP Centennial picnic album (M300/C1/31)
A29 : report on the origin of the Palliser Hotel chandeliers (M300/C1/32)
A30 : the wreck of a day-liner on Calgary-Edmonton branch line (M300/C1/33)
A31 : brochures from the Canadian Rockies (M300/C1/34)
A32 : CP hotel brochures from the eastern region (M300/C1/35)
A33 : CP hotel brochures from the western region (M300/C1/36)
A34 : early brochures re Alaska (M300/C1/37)
A35 : CP Airlines brochures (M300/C1/38)
A36 : early ski brochures and Trail Rider of the Canadian Rockies bulletins (M300/C1/39)
A38 : Jack Peach on mountain railroading (M300/C1/40)
A39 : agricultural research at the Strathmore CP farm (M300/C1/41)
A39a : Jack Peach discussing silk trains (M300/C1/42)
A40 : technical data re cataracts and Gimbel Clinic (M300/C1/43)
A41 : reproduction of "Rogers Pass Herald", 1981 (M300/C1/44)
A42 : early government brochure on the Icefield Highway (M300/C1/45)
A43 : early VIA Rail memorabilia (M300/C1/46)
A44 : Canadian Pacific Railway poster of a steam locomotive featuring original gouache artwork by Peter Ewart (M300/C1/47)
A45 : Old Chateau Frontenac luncheon menu card, 1956 (M300/C1/48)
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
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)
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
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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…
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
Sub-series consists of records relating to the McDougall and McKenzie families and include correspondence, articles, essays, biographies, research notes, a family Bible, hand drawn maps, genealogy charts, one Voicewriter disk; materials pertaining to the McDougall Memorial Service, June 8, 1975. A…
Sub-series consists of records relating to the McDougall and McKenzie families and include correspondence, articles, essays, biographies, research notes, a family Bible, hand drawn maps, genealogy charts, one Voicewriter disk; materials pertaining to the McDougall Memorial Service, June 8, 1975. Also included in this subseries are materials related to the McKenzie-McDougall Family Reunion of October 10, 1993.
Title Source
Title based on contents of sub-series
Content Details
LIST OF FILES (LUX / II / B4 - 279 to 302 ) :
* f 279 - 1 cm Annie McDougall correspondence, 1873-1927
* f 280 - 1.5 cm David McDougall correspondence, 1875-1906
* f 281 - 1 cm David McDougall - Legal and Financial, 1873-1932
* f 282 - 1 cm David McDougall - blank letterhead; post card showing the McDougall Block, Calgary; book of Shakespeare's writing; copy of David McDougall's Certificate of Membership in the Southern Alberta Pioneers' and Old Timers' Association, 1865 (original in oversize storage); wedding invitation of Georgiana Elizabeth McDougall and Norman K. Luxton,1904; grocery list for Tom Wilson, McDougall Register, June 2 1888
* f 283 - 2 items, letter from Calgary Brewing & Malting Co. Limited to David L. McDougall, 1960 and 29th Annual Old Time Range Men's Dinner Menu, 1960
* f 284 - 2 - 3 1/2" floppy disks; 15 pp (printed from floppy disks) of biographical material on Kenneth MacKenzie, Rev. George M. and Elizabeth (Chantler) McDougall, letter from Eleanor Luxton to Robert McKenzie, David and Annie McDougall, Frederick and Jean Graham, Frederick Montgomery Graham, Christmas letter from Eleanor Luxton, 1994.
* f 285 - 2 research notebooks, McDougall family research
* f 286 - 3 cm research notes and notebook; index to Annie McDougall book
* f 287 - 1 cm Annie McDougall research
* f 288 - 1.5 cm McDougall research
* f 289 - 3 cm McDougall research
* f 290 - 1.5 cm McDougall research
* f 291 - 2 cm McDougall family research
* f 292 - 2 cm McDougall family research
* f 293 - 2 cm McDougall family research includes hand drawn maps, biographical material and correspondence related to Kenneth McKenzie family
* f 294 - 0.3 cm McDougall family research; Hall-MacKenzie[sic] Lineage and family trees
* f 295 - 1 item, biographical material related to Libby McDougall Young
* f 296 - 2 VHS videocassettes, McKenzie-McDougall Family Reunion, October 10,1993
* f 297 - 10 colour photographs (with identifications), McKenzie-McDougall Family Reunion, October 10, 1993
* f 298 - 4 items: 1 guest register, 1 invitation, 1 program of events, 1 mailing list of invitees, McKenzie-McDougall Family Reunion, October 10, 1993
* f 299 - 2 audiocassettes: McDougall Memorial Service, June 8, 1975
* f 300 - 1 Edison Voicewriter disk: [No.18 McDougall?]
* f 301 - 14 pp: 1 manuscript "Memories of Mrs. David McDougall" written by Norman K. Luxton
* f 302 - 12 items: 1 Bible, annotated, belonging to Annie McDougall; 5 photographs: prints, b&w; 3 pp notes; 1 newspaper obituary for Carling (Photographs and notes were inserted into the pages. 2 pp copies of photographs as photographs are fading and )
Records in this sub-series consist of collected material including historical material on the Central United Church of Calgary, the Indian Act, Norman Luxton, written plays, poems, sheet music for "Where the Rockies Meet the Sky", collected speeches.
Records in this sub-series consist of collected material including historical material on the Central United Church of Calgary, the Indian Act, Norman Luxton, written plays, poems, sheet music for "Where the Rockies Meet the Sky", collected speeches.
File consists of telegrams to John Brewster from Pat's commanding officer regarding Pat's airplane accident and returning of documents; letters from Canadian and British medical staff, hospitals, health and welfare offices and national defence departments regarding Pat's war history, disabilities a…
2 cm of textual records. -- 6 photographs : prints, copy negative, postcard
Scope & Content
File consists of telegrams to John Brewster from Pat's commanding officer regarding Pat's airplane accident and returning of documents; letters from Canadian and British medical staff, hospitals, health and welfare offices and national defence departments regarding Pat's war history, disabilities and claim for compensation; letters to Jim Cromwell regarding recruitment in United states Airforce; certificates regarding birth, education, military aeronautics, dispersal, discharge; maintenance and flight schedules and ephemera regarding World War I. Annotated by Pat Brewster. Photographs, 1917, 1931, 1980 pertain to Pat Brewster's military career, includes "The Hoodoos", also Pat Brewster's airplane crash and his nurse Lila Morrison
Letters and cards are to Kay Russell, to Kay and Andy Russell and to the Russell family from numerous friends and acquaintances. Also includes one titled file "Sympathy cards etc.", 1959, re the death of Harold Russell, father of Andy Russell; 1 cm.
II.B. Personal and family correspondence series : general
Reference Code
M63 / II.B. - [
Date Range
1933-1983
Physical Description
ca.30 cm of textual records
Scope & Content
Letters and cards are to Kay Russell, to Kay and Andy Russell and to the Russell family from numerous friends and acquaintances. Also includes one titled file "Sympathy cards etc.", 1959, re the death of Harold Russell, father of Andy Russell; 1 cm.
Notes
Only greeting cards containing messages were retained