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Canadian Mountain Scenery

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File

Date:

1886

Reference:

R214-2981-1-E, RG45, Box number: 2086

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5736050

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Natural Resources Canada fonds

Geological Survey of Canada sous-fonds

Geological Survey of Canada Photographs

Canadian Mountain Scenery
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Date(s):

1886

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 album (73 photographs) : albumen prints

Language of material:

English

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File consists of a leather bound album of photographs taken by Otto Klotz during his 1886 expedition to survey the land to either side of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) from the summit of the Rocky Mountains to Revelstoke. The construction of the CPR was one of the conditions for British Columbia joining Confederation in 1871, and the land to either side was transferred to the Dominion of Canada as a result. Koltz was assigned to make astronomical observations to determine the longitude of certain points in BC. Klotz took the photographs himself and wrote the captions in the album after his return. The photographs depict landscape views of southeastern British Columbia including: Mount Stephen, Mount Cathedral, Mount Field, Rogers Pass, and Wapta Range. Klotz arranged them in geographical order, instead of chronologically.

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Photographer: Klotz, Otto, 1852-1923

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Otto Klotz's diaries and other records can be found in the Otto Julius Klotz fonds R6645-0-4 (former archival reference number MG30). Volume 9 of his diaries describe this expedition in detail and give exact dates and context for individual photographs. He also describes the process of taking photographs, and developing the negatives afterwards.

Source:

Government

Former archival reference no.:

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RG45

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1970-088
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