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Big Bend Gold Mines
This source is an advertisement targeted towards miners, promoting a government subsidised transport links from San Francisco to Victoria and New Westminster. The advert says that there is a ‘splendid Government Wagon Road’ from Yale to Savana Ferry.…
British Columbia Mission
This account of the travel experiences of the missionaries provide us with detailed insights into the areas they travelled. Details regarding the price of various services and goods, transportation costs and the general make up of cities and scenery…
British Columbia railway belt
The source is a map showing the railway belt across British Columbia.
The map contains a coloured key showing the different areas of the land. For example, Indian reserves, forest reserves and parks and most significantly the land disposed of by…
The map contains a coloured key showing the different areas of the land. For example, Indian reserves, forest reserves and parks and most significantly the land disposed of by…
Canadian Pacific Railway arrival of the first through train at the seaboard of British Columbia
This photograph shows the arrival of the first through train to British Columbia from Canadian Pacific Railway to port moody, and many men surrounding C.P.R. locomotive 371. This photograph shows the fanfare and attention that was given to advances…
Chinamen washing for Gold near Northbend
The dry plate image, which is creased and is fading, still tells us enough about the Chinese immigrants who were transported on the trains, working to find gold through traditional means of washing for gold. Due to the efforts of the Canadian…
Chisel
This object is a chisel, most likely used by labourers during the Gold Rush Era, and in the development of the railway network in California. Chisels were digging tools which helped to shape the metal railway tracks that were gradually laid across…
Correspondence relative to the Canadian Pacific Railway
Due to British Columbia agreeing to build transport links as per the agreement to join the Canadian confederation, this book of papers contain the context surrounding the “pacific scandal”. A scandal which saw a bribery of the first government of…
CP Rail news (Canadian Pacific Railway Company)
Public Relations & Advertising
The source is a CP Rail newspaper that consists of news, information and achievements of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The newspaper features sections such as ‘Special projects’, ‘Changes in format to the newspaper’ and ‘Railway people in the…
The newspaper features sections such as ‘Special projects’, ‘Changes in format to the newspaper’ and ‘Railway people in the…
Crowds at C.P.R. wharf viewing the arrival of the first train in Vancouver
The B&W glass negative photo depicts the arrival of the first train, Engine NO.374, to arrive in Vancouver in 1887. The use of dry plate gelatin matches the similar photos taken during the same period and furthermore the crease on the edge of the…
Engraving of a pack train en route to a mining camp
The source is a reproduction of an engraving (by an unknown engraver) of a design by Charles Nahl, a prolific illustrator of the Californian gold rush. At the start of the gold rush Nahl was an artist working in New York. He travelled to San…