Series consists of CPR Crowsnest Pass branch line, taken by Steele and Co., Winnipeg, Man.; CPR mainline along the Fraser River, B.C.; canal construction at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.; C.P.R. promotional and documentary photographs covering the railway, highway, hotel, and resort activities, facilities, and services of the C.P.R. between 1941-1961 in Canada; King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in a democrat, Banff, Alta., 1939; skiing in the Laurentians and maple sugaring, photographs taken by R. Clouthier, CPR Photo Division; lumbering in New Brunswick; visit of Ramsay McDonald; CP Officials on tour; Maple Sugar Bush, Knowlton and Durham, Que.; lumbering, Cains River, N.B.; placer goldmining, Atkin, B.C.; ice cutting, Hudson, Que.; nickel mining; parades and CP exhibitions in Windsor Station, Montreal, Que.; Marconi radio display in 1937 Exhibition Train; radio equipment.
Series consists of depictions of Canadian military and civilian activities in Canada during the war years including: Quebec Conference; RCAF flying schools at St. John's, N.B., Lorrette, Que., and Victoria Beach, Edmonton, Alta.; recruiting parades; Cote Units; RCN ships, men and activities; production of armaments including tanks, marine engines and naval guns; Air Raid Patrol Units; Forest Fire Patrol; Red Cross Blood donor clinics in operation; war production in Canadian Pacific shops; industrial plants at Copper Cliff, Ont.; Quebec Asbestos Corp.; Thetford Mines and Shawinigan Falls, Que.; Algoma and Windsor, Ont.; Raymond and Redcliff; Alta; NS Gypson Plant; whaling off Vancouver Island, B.C.
Series includes photographs of presidents and chairmen of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; portraits of Sir William Van Horne, Lord Shaughnessy, Sir Edward Beatty, D.C. Coleman, W.M. Neal, W.A. Mather, George A. Walker, and Robert A. Emerson; Royal tours of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught; Prince of Wales; George V1, 1939.
Series also includes a photo album that shows construction/maintenance work on the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Belleville Subdivision and Havelock Subdivision in the area around Perth, Ontario. Photo album also includes some shots of people in military attire, likely during World War I. More specifically, 154 photos showing railway construction, a survey gang, hunting, family, farm, nursing sisters, Valcartier camp, someone at what looks to be the CPR station in Perth, Ontario plus a number of miscellaneous photos. This is located in volume 8.
Series also includes reproductions of vintage Canadian Pacific posters: "Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada" designed by Peter Ewart; "Travel the Canadian, the scenic dome route across Canada, Canadian Pacific" designed by Roger Couillard; "Chateau Lake Louise, Canadian Pacific Rockies"; "Canadian Pacific, Banff in the Canadian Rockies" designed by James Bisset Crockart; "Canadian Pacific, Beautiful Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies" designed by Kenneth Denton Shoesmith; "Banff Springs Hotel in the Canadian Rockies, a Canadian Pacific Hotel"