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archival descriptions
George A. Keefer fonds
CA BCA E/C/K24 · Fonds · 1881-1884

The fonds consists of copies of outward telegrams of George A. Keefer pertaining to progress reports on railway construction.

Keefer, George A.
George Hargreaves fonds
CA BCA MS-0443;MS-2533 · Fonds · 1862-1878

The fonds consists of George Hargreaves' diary, survey notes relating to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and a "sketch" sent to friends in England.

Hargreaves, George, d. 1910
George Meldrum fonds
Fonds · 1948-1959

The fonds consists of photographs relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Kettle Valley Railway of derailments, rock and snowslides, and train crewmen.

Meldrum, George
Edouard Deville fonds
CA BCA 98604-11 · Fonds · 1886

The fonds consists of albumen prints of the CPR line from Port Arthur to Victoria.

Deville, Edouard
Fred Rear collection
CA RRM A1993-64;A1992-29 · Fonds · 1935-1949

The collection consists of photographs of various steam engines, CPR workers, the Spiral Tunnels, and the Leanchoil Station. Collection includes clearance papers (1948, 1949).

Harris family fonds
CA BCA MS-2789;E/B/H242;E/B/H24;E/D/H24;19009-007;98206-90 · Fonds · 1834-1913

The fonds consists of correspondence of the Harris family, principally that of Martha and Dennis Harris, memoirs, journals, business records of Dennis Harris and family memorabilia. Fonds includes records relating to Sir James Douglas and the diary of Martha Harris (with annotations by Douglas). Fonds also includes a survey book of Dennis Harris for a CPR survey at an undetermined location.

Harris (family)
Fonds · 1887-1992

The collection consists of 1887 to 1992 photographs of Oliver and area, including the two former gold mining towns of Camp McKinney and Fairview These images depict schools and classes, social and sporting activities, rodeos, parades, picnics, dances, ranches, logging, mining, irrigation system and workers of the Southern Okanagan Lands Project, fruit industry, tobacco growing, the Canadian Pacific Railway trains and station, local scenes, and early residents and buildings.

Peter Mayert fonds
CA RRM A1992-38 · Fonds · 1968-1976

The fonds consists of CPR train orders, waybills, union receipt book, statements of earning, and other railroad-related records.

Mayert, Peter
Fonds · 1891-1985

The fonds consists of minutes, statements of accounts, financial ledgers, correspondence, membership lists, banking records, promotional material, and reference files pertaining to the activities of the Kamloops Railway Museum Society, and a collection of archival material and reference material (including published items) acquired by the society, including records of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railway and of railway workers' unions. Fonds includes photographs collected by the museum society of trains and railway equipment and of scenes of railroad activity in the Kamloops area.

Kamloops Railway Museum Society
Reginald Tomlinson fonds
CA BCA MS-0946;97811-14 · Fonds · 1908-1910, 1949

The fonds consists of builders specifications (1949) for the SS Princess Marguerite, a description of Princess fleet vessels of the Canadian Pacific Railway, timetables and photographs of Reginald Tomlinson.

Tomlinson, Reginald
Lew Patrick fonds
CA RRM A1994-04 · Fonds · 1885-1911

The fonds consists of photographs of CPR workers and engines and a letter of commendation (1911).

Patrick, Lew
Malcolm McLeod fonds
CA BCA MS-1249 · Fonds · 1823-1899

The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts and notes relating to the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company, the North West Territories and the selection of a route for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

McLeod, Malcolm
CA BCA MS-0748;MS-1496 · Fonds · [Microfilmed 1969]

The fonds consists of a family register and diary, records (including diaries) relating to Canadian Pacific Railway exploration and construction, a letter book, various memoranda, diary extracts and biographical notes.

Smith, Marcus
John J. Porter fonds
Fonds · 1887-1891

Fonds consists of 1 bound volume comprising the personal diary of John J. Porter, a labourer for the Canadian Pacific Railway, working largely between Field and Revelstoke.

Porter, John J.
John Leask fonds : 1886
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 40 · Fonds · [Photocopied 1971]

The fonds consists of Leask's diary.

Leask, John
CA BCA MS-0323 · Fonds · [Photocopied 1973]

The fonds consists of appointments, correspondence, subject files and a diary.

Kilpatrick, Thomas O., d. 1939
W.A. Wood fonds
Fonds · 1885-1887

The fonds consists of correspondence sent and received by W.A. Wood with Henry MacLeod and J.M. Trutch while directing work on the B.C. Section of the Canadian Pacific Rail line.

Wood, W.A.
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 979 · Fonds · [Photocopied 1987]

The fonds consists of correspondence, articles written by Bury, and photographs by Bury pertaining to the Russian Revlution.

Bury, George, Sir