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Fonds · [ca. 1885-1990]

The collection consists of photographs depicting railroad workers, equipment, facilities, and scenes primarily along Canadian Pacific Railway routes. The majority of photographs depict activities in the CPR Revelstoke Division, including images of train engines, stations, tunnels, accidents and derailments, slides, CPR employees and union activities, steamships and various scenes, including those of Revelstoke, Field, Golden, Glacier, Rogers Pass, Leanchoil, Albert Canyon, Kicking Horse Canyon and Stoney Creek.

Fonds · 1978-1993

The collection consists of sound recordings of: 1) interviews with retired CPR-Revelstoke Division employees (including Mickey and Mary Cummings, Archibald McQuilkan, Bud Mulholland, Alan Bennett Baird and Albert Threatfue, W. Harold Dixon, Lino Biollo, Victoria Maki, Jack Carten, Douglas Parker, and Walter Paffard and Lloyd Snowden); 2) interviews with old railroaders concerning roundhouses in B.C.; and, 3) radio interviews with Ernie Ottewell and Wilma Wood relating to activities of the Revelstoke Railway Museum. Collection also includes commercially-produced tapes on railway and museum themes.