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[R.M.S. Melita] [graphic material]

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Item

Date:

[192-?].

Reference:

R7237-0-4-E, Box number: B500-01

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

183469

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[R.M.S. Melita]
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Date(s):

[192-?].

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour.

Language of material:

English

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Item is a painting of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Line vessel R.M.S. Melita, by A. Harrison. The Melita was built in the United Kingdom by Harland and Wolff, and entered the service of Canadian Pacific in 1918.

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Canadian Pacific Steamship Line

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Canadian Pacific Steamship Line : The Canadian Pacific Steamship Line, formerly known as the Canadian Pacific Ocean Steamship Services, started its operations in 1887. Service was first provided to the Pacific (Vancouver to Asia), and then to the Atlantic, when it was launched under the title Canadian Pacific Atlantic Line. This service gained the public's favor rapidly, and it soon took over half of the mail subsidy from its main competitor, the Allan Line, which it absorbed in 1914-1915.

Two of the steamships servicing the Atlantic Line, the Empress of Britain, and the Empress of Ireland, were destined to tragic ends; the former, completed in 1906, sailed some forth years before it was destroyed in the course of World War II, and the latter, built in the same year (1906), collided with the Storstad (Norwegian collier), in 1914, and sank with two thirds of its passengers.

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General note:

Acquired by Canadian Postal Archives employee Ken R. Johnson at a flea market, 14 July 1990; then acquired by the Canadian Postal Archives, 18 February 1991.
The Melita is mentioned on pages 31 and 245 of Canadian Pacific: the story of the famous shipping line, a company history written by George Musk.

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Private

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118-080465-1
1990-248 DAP
90-061
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1990-248] B500-01

[Consultation 90 Open]

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No restrictions. Copyright: Unknown. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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