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Engineering career [textual record]

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Series

Date:

1838-1902.

Reference:

R7327-3-0-E, MG29-B6

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

107748

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Marcus Smith fonds

Engineering career
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Series includes:

30 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1838-1902.

Place of creation:

Various places

Extent:

30 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of extracts from different letterbooks for the period 1875-1886; public works contracts; a narrative of works constructed under Smith's supervision during the period 1838-1893; and material relating to the construction and operation of the Georgian Bay Canal for the period 1895-1901 (Vol. 9-11).

Smith's copies of earlier accounts and reports relating to surveys in British Columbia 1862-1874. Smith's list of his explorations and surveys n.d.; his Pacific Railway survey letterbook 1872-1874; memos relating to the Pacific Railway survey n.d., 1880 and letters to Sir John A. Macdonald 1880-1881. Printed tender documents for the CPR line from Emery's Bar to Port Moody BC, 1881, inspected by Smith for the government. Similar material prepared for the Chief Engineer of Government Railways for three railways in Nova Scotia 1886-1889. Smith's pamphlets, correspondence, memos and calculations for the Montreal, Ottawa & Georgian Bay Canal 1894-1898. Material on the proposed Trans-Canada Railway and Hudson's Bay and Pacific Railway 1894-1902. Smith's scrapbook containing press clippings about engineering and railways 1877-1894, 1925 (Vol. 14, 16).

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Private

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MG29-B6
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Textual records

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Volume [MG29 B 6]

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10--11;

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14;

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16;

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