Collection search - Pacific Great Eastern Railway Lands Survey of Resources [graphic material; cartographic material]

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Pacific Great Eastern Railway Lands Survey of Resources [graphic material; cartographic material]

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Sub-series

Date:

1929-1930.

Reference:

R231-3640-7-E

Type of material:

Photographs, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5102201

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Canadian National Railway Company fonds

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Pacific Great Eastern Railway Lands Survey of Resources
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Sub-series includes:

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

1929-1930.

Place of creation:

British Columbia

Extent:

x photographs:
x cartographic material:

Language of material:

English

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Canadian National Railway records [multiple media]

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This sub-series consists of 3 large albums containing numerous photographs and maps relating to the joint survey of resources (CNR, Canadian Pacific Railway, and Govt. of British Columbia) for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (in northern Alberta and British Columbia).

The Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) was incorporated on February 27, 1912, to build a line from Vancouver north to a connection with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) at Prince George. Although independent from the GTP, the PGE had agreed that the GTP, whose western terminus was at the remote northern port of Prince Rupert, could use their line to gain access to Vancouver. It existed mainly to connect logging and mining operations in the British Columbia Interior with the coastal town of Squamish, where resources could then be transported by sea. The BC government still intended for the railway to reach Prince George, but the resources to do so were not available, especially during the Great Depression and World War II. The unfortunate state of the railway caused it to be given nicknames such as "Province's Great Expense," "Prince George Eventually," "Past God's Endurance," "Please Go Easy,"and "Puff, Grunt and Expire."

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2018-00250-3
RG30
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