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Official tour over Grand Trunk Lines including Grand Trunk Railway System and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

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Date:

August-September 1909.

Reference:

R11301-3-1-E, Volume number: 1

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5125853

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Grand Trunk Pacific Railway album fonds

Official tour over Grand Trunk Lines including Grand Trunk Railway System and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
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Date(s):

August-September 1909.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

United States

Extent:

145 photographs (1 album) : b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Album consists of photographs documenting the Official tour of Sir C. Rivers Wilson, G.C.M.G, C.B., president of Grand Trunk Railway System and Mr. Chas. M. Hays, president Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR), directors, and officials over Grand Trunk Railway lines August and September 1909. GTPR's visit of cities include: St. Paul, St. Clair Tunnel Power House, Port Huron, Minnesota; Battle Creek, Michigan; Medora, Dickenson, North Dakota; Paradise, Silesia, Thompson Falls, Montana; Yakima Valley, Spokane, Seattle, Washington; Stratford, Sarnia, Fort William, Sault Ste. Marie, Port Hope, Ontario; Victoria, Indian villages at Alert Bay, Prince Rupert, Skeena River, Ashcroft, Vancouver, Revelstoke, Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia.; Edmonton, Wainwright, Alberta; Qu'Appelle Valley, Biggar, Punnichy, Saskatoon, Earl, Portage La Prairie, Assiniboine Valley, Melville, Sask.; Lazare, Rivers, Winnipeg, Manitoba. The album also includes seven photographs of 'Namgis First Nation people and monumental poles (also known as totem poles) at Alert Bay, British Columbia, and a teepee (possibly Plains Cree) at Punnichy, Manitoba (formerly Saskatchewan). Gordon's Indian Residential School was located near Punnichy and it was the last residential school to close in 1996.

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MSS2657

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Physical description note:

This album of 78 pages is red leather bound in golden letters on the cover and has the inscription "Mr. E.J. Chamberlin".

Custodial history:

The inscription on the cover suggests the book was given to Mr. Edward Joseph Chamberlin, later president of the Grand Trunk Railway.

Source:

Private
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Credit: name of photographer / Library and Archives Canada / Grand Trunk Pacific Railway album fonds / copy negative number ; Copyright: Expired ; Restrictions on use: Nil.

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