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archival descriptions
Abbott family fonds
CA CVAN CVA 256 · Fonds · 1885-[ca. 1901]

The fonds consists of the Abbott family photograph album showing various scenes pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway and its official events; various British Columbia scenes and Vancouver streetscapes; and an album prepared by Edwards Brothers showing scenes around British Columbia, primarily views of Vancouver, Rossland and Sandon.

Abbott, Harry (family)
A.I. McLean fonds
CA BCA E/C/M22 · Fonds · 1877

The fonds consists of McLean's survey book for a survey near Edmonton.

McLean, A.I.
Alexander Cassidy fonds
CA RRM A1993-95 · Fonds · 1937-1962

The fonds consists of certificates, correspondence, train pass, notebooks, and photographs. Most records relate to Cassidy's work for the CPR.

Cassidy, Alexander
Andrew J. Onderdonk fonds
CA BCA 98401-6 · Fonds · [ca. 1881]

The fonds consists of photographs depicting the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Pacific Section, including views of landscapes, tunnels, structures, and portraits of the Onderdonk family, business associates, and friends.

Onderdonk, Andrew J.
Ashdown Green fonds
CA BCA MS-0437 · Fonds · 1865-1874

The fonds consists of Green's diaries relating to survey work for the Canadian Pacific Railway and a survey of Saltspring Island.

Green, Ashdown
Bruno Collia fonds
CA RRM A1993-105 · Fonds · 1935-1972

The fonds consists of work-related diaries, correspondence, long service passes, CP credit card, medical card, and union card. Fonds includes photographs of CPR work gangs, plows, and work camps.

Collia, Bruno
CA UBCSP BC 1291 · Fonds · [ca. 1900]

The collection consists of photographs of scenery, hotels, railway bridges, and tunnels pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Cariboo maps collection
UVICSP SC277 · Collection · 1887

The collection consists of a plan showing the different routes connecting the Canadian Pacific Railway with the mining district of the Cariboo. Title on map: "Plan Shewing the different routes connecting the CPR with the Mining District of Cariboo by Proposed Railway." [1887]. Scale: 20,000 feet equals 1 inch. Higgins Lith. Co. The Colonist Victoria, B.C.

Cates family fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 61 · Fonds · 1877-1958

The fonds consists of a letterbook, ship's papers and photographs concerning the activities of Charles H. Cates and Sons Limited, as well as the autobiography of Captain C.H. Cates and manuscripts on family, maritime and Indian subjects by Captain Charles Warren Cates (1899-1960). The fonds also includes the letters (1877-1883) of Donald Stewart of New Westminster concerning the building of the CPR.

Cates (family)
CA BCA E/C/H19A · Fonds · [Photocopied 194-?]

The fonds consists of Hanington's letterbook.

Hanington, C.F.
C.H. Gamsby fonds
CA BCA MS-0751 · Fonds · 1881

The fonds consists of a diary of Canadian Pacific Railway surveys of Port Moody and Fraser Valley. [Also available on microfilm.]

Gamsby, C.H.
Dan Koronko collection
CA RRM A1993-63;A1993-79 · Fonds · 1911-1921, 1951-1956

The collection consists of various records of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers (Revelstoke), including receipts and notepads, and records of Walter and Dorothy Koronko, J. Waugh, and others including correspondence, and CPR employee cards. Collection also includes slides of various railroad engines, scenery, etc.

Daniel Wishart Mainguy fonds
CA BCA MS-2057 · Fonds · 1863-1884

The fonds consists of journals describing Daniel Mainguy's travels, his life at Chemainus and his work on the Canadian Pacific Railway. [Also available on microfilm.]

Mainguy, Daniel Wishart
David Davies fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 455 · Fonds · 1965-1975

The fonds consists of Davies' working papers and notes for his article "English Bay Branch, C.P.R., Vancouver", and his proposal for a forestry museum "Woodsmoot".

Davies, David L.
CA RRM A1993-116 · Fonds · [ca. 1900-195-]

The collection consists of photographs of train wrecks, snowplows, and Canadian Pacific Railway workers.

Doug Parkinson fonds
CA RRM A1993-59;A1993-91 · Fonds · 1965-1989

The fonds consists of employee timebooks, cheque stubs, union correspondence, general correspondence, accident reports, CP reports, train consists, ephemera, CP Rail bulletins, work-related diagram books, cartoons, examination certificates, and trainman's trip ticket books.

Parkinson, Doug
Douglas Parker fonds
CA RRM A1992-08 · Fonds · 1927, [ca. 1949], [ca. 1962-1988]

The fonds consists of railroad operational manuals, work orders, CPR-related correspondence, and seniority lists. Fonds includes retirement letters, newspapers and clippings, and ephemera.

Parker, Douglas
E. Gerrard fonds
Fonds · [19--]

The fonds consists of photographs largely of Canadian Pacific ships and clippings and ephemera relating to Canadian Pacific maritime activities.

Gerrard, E.
Edmund Duchesnay fonds
CA BCA MS-0051 · Fonds · 1897

The fonds consists of a diary (1897) kept by Duchesnay while examining the Stikine River and the country between Telegraph Creek and Teslin Lake for the proposed Canadian-Yukon railway.

Duchesnay, Edmund, d. 1901
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
Fonds · 1924-1928

The collection consists of correspondence, legal documents, statements, clippings and an accident report concerning the CPR Farron Train Explosion of 1924, in which Peter Verigin, a prominent Doukhobor leader, was killed.

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).

Fred Watson fonds
CA RRM A1993-145 · Fonds · [ca. 193-?]-1968

The fonds consists of a trip ticket book, time book, telegram, train orders, memorabilia from the first "Canadian" run. Photographs depict Fred Watson, Arrowhead, and the Field YMCA.

Watson, Fred
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