Collection consists of photographic depictions of the following subjects: World champion snowshoe runner Alfred G. Sykes (1867-1953) seated, wearing his sporting medals and displaying his trophies; Quebec Snowshoe Club, unveiling of Memorial Tablet by His Excellency the Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy, 25th October 1921;
Canadian championships of 1893, including J. Ness, G. Moffat, E. Outhet and A.G. Sykes; snowshoe convention, 1894; group portrait of a snowshoe club, ca. 1906, at Magog House, Sherbrooke, Quebec; group portrait of the Quebec snowshoe club "Le Voltigeur de Lévis", Loretteville, 1926; shade trees and flowers, public gardens, Halifax, N.S.; ox eye daisies near Pictou, N.S.; along the Miramichi River near Chatham, N.B.; twin bridges and Reversing Falls, St. John, N.B.; lower falls, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec; valley of the Bow River, Banff, Alta.; war canoe race, Ottawa, Ont.; government buildings from across the river, Ottawa, Ont.; dining room of the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, Quebec.; the natural breakwater, St. John's, Nfld.; Queen's Hotel, Owen Sound, Ont.; Indian Falls, Owen Sound, Ont.; Montreal Hunting Club, Quebec; the hunter's log cabin and ice fort, winter carnival, Quebec.; Queen's Park, Toronto, Ont.; ice bridge, Niagara, Ont.; Banff National Park; Mount Bonney and glacier; Bow River Falls, B.C.; Castle Mountain, B.C.; Mount Cheops, B.C.; Emerald Peaks, B.C.;
tunnel near field, B.C.; railroads along banks of the Fraser River; Goat River Canyon, B.C.; Mount Hector, B.C.; Inglesmaldie Mountain, B.C.; Kicking Horse Canyon and bridge; Mount Lefroy, B.C.; Old Cariboo Road bridge, B.C.; Mount Stephen, B.C.;
Thompson Canyon, B.C.; Mount Whyte, B.C.; Wind Mountain, B.C.; mountains and C.P.R. hotel at Field, B.C.; from the boat house, Banff, Alta.; garden channel, Georgian Bay, Ont.; the great loop along the C.P.R. line; New Brunswick country home; Severn River, Ont.; Bala Falls and Muskoka River, Ont.; on C.P.R., north shore, Lake Superior, Ont.; St. Andrew's Church, Toronto, Ontario. Photographs are by J.C. Parks, Thaddée Lebel, William B. Edwards, Chemin de fer national du Canada, Underwood & Underwood, Charles Bierstadt, James Esson, Edwards Brothers, James M. Davis, The View Company.
Collection also consists of a watercolour depicting the golf course at Jasper, ca. 1925, used as an illustration for the CNR. Work by Joseph Ernest Sampson, as well as a colour lithograph of the "48th Battalion Highlanders, Toronto", 1899, published by the Globe Printing Co. and printed by Toronto, Litho. Co. Work by Arthur H. Hider (1870-1952),
