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CNR tourist publications [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

1929-1959.

Reference:

R231-3927-5-E, RG30

Type of material:

Art, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5223854

Context of this record:

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Canadian National Railway Company fonds

Public Relations Department

CNR tourist publications
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Sub-series includes:

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Date(s):

1929-1959.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

3 m of textual records : ca. 1471 col. and b&w booklets.
ca. 1471 illustrations: cover art, col.

Language of material:

English
Accession:

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Miscellaneous records [textual record]

Canadian National Pacific Railway construction records, Prince Edward Island/Inter-Colonial Railway records, Canadian Northern Railway, land records and miscellaneous Canadian National Railway records [textual record]
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This sub-series consists of tourist marketing literature. The literature promoted various CNR services in Canada and abroad, including steamships and telegraphs. Included within these records are timetables, travel pamphlets and booklets (some with attached maps), menus, posters, Christmas and Easter cards, and postcards. Most tourist booklet covers, particularly from the 1920s and 1930s, are in colour and include stylized artwork, and many of the booklets contain black and white photographs of various scenic locations in Canada and elsewhere.

Related material for the 1920s and earlier can be found in the Museum Train Collection.

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General note:

Some of the tourist booklets have been digitized. Further efforts to make more of the collection available in electronic format are underway.
Further material can be found in accession 95-0916 WFRC. In the accession is Advertising and Promotional Material,1923 -1968.

It consists of copies of miscellaneous advertising and promotional material, presumably produced originally by the Advertising Department of Canadian National
Railways, compiled and maintained by the corporate Library for use as an informational resource and possibly for display purposes. Material includes promotional brochures, pamphlets and booklets on hunting, fishing, camping and canoeing trips offered by the CNR; CN hotels and lodges in Canada; small stand -up posters promoting passenger ship service to Alaska; travel accommodations on CN
passenger train service; sample menus, etc.
Subject heading:

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Canadian National Railways - marketing - advertising - branding

travel literature

promotional material

railway timetables
Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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1996-04082-0
1996-97/1083 GAD
1998-00385-X
95-0916 WFRC
RG30
RG30-V-A-9

Former archival reference no.:

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RG30
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG30] 14783--14804

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG30] 14783--14804

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R231] 17365

[Consultation 90 Open]

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