This sub-series consists of photographs created or maintained by the Canadian National Railway Public Relations Department. There is a diverse range of subject material covering over a time-frame of over a century.
There are a very large number of photographs of ships from Canada Steam Ship Lines and CN, showing transportation through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway, ocean liners from various companies including Cunard and Allan Lines on visit or traveling to Europe and Caribbean during 1960s through 1970s.
There are also a number of photographs showing the exteriors and interiors of various CN hotels.
Vol. 15816 consists of a file containing colour photographs showing various aspects of Winnipeg's Fort Garry Hotel, such as the restaurant, bar, concert hall, dining room, hotel suite, and bedrooms. Also in this volume are 2 files consisting of colour photographs dining rooms, bedrooms and furniture at Nova Scotian Hotel, Halifax, N.S., 1955 and 1973. Also there are colour photographs of various ships A-S.
Vol. 15817 consists of black and white photographs of ships, filed by ship name, A to R. Here are the following ship names:
File 1: Acadia Albatros, Alcoway, Arkadia, Arcadia, Auguste Shulte, Athabaskan, Alaunia, Algosea, Atlantic Splendour, Apolon, Aqua Train, Andros Fortune, Anna Odland, Alexander T. Wood, Arosa Sun, Ardgarry, Artic, Atlantic John Park, Ahern Trader, Atlantic Causeway, John B. Aird, Ascania, Alert, Alcobay, Acadia Thunderbird, Aime Gaudreau, Alka, Aranya, Arosia, Aameda, Araucano, Aragona, Avalon, Allvin (submarine), Ambrose Shea, Alice Bolten, Royal Air Mail Steam Ship Asia, Albatross, Algocen, Americo Vespucci, Artic, Alexander Mackenzie, Atlantic Prelude, Amstel Hoek, Atlantic Cinderella, Algonquin, Annapolis (Destroyer), Akita Maru, Athenic, Axel Johnson, Acawa Canyon, Atlantic, Alcantara, Arabella, Alaskan Mail, CP Ambassador, Athabaskan, Avon Forest, Aristandros, Arsene Simard, Arosia
File 2: B.X., Babor, Baffin, P.S. Barge No. 1, Beira, Battory, Stefan Batory, Bluenose, Bruno, Balkan, British Petroleum, British Destiny, Baskerville, Bernier Sorel, Brot, Babor, Beaverelm, Beeverdell, Baie St.Paul, Black Bass, Beaverfir, Belisk, Beaverpine, Blanaholm, Beaver, Beaverhelm, Beaveroak, Beavercliffe Hall, Beaver Glen, Beavercove, Beaverford, Beaver Lodge, Bergensfjord, Bapeerless, Bartlett, Berkersheim, Belita, Blue Peter II, Black Bay, Sir Robert Bond, Britannia, Brandal, Booker Venture, Bruickerhoff, Belovodsk, Bowdoin, British Lancer, Bullwinkle, Byklefjell, Bayshell, Berge King, B.A. Peerless, Brasil, Blue Crest, RCMP Blue Heron, Buckingham
file 3: Cabot, Canadian Ambassador, Canadian Olympic, Canada Maru, Canada Maritime-Sailing Boat Ramsgate, CP Discover, Canberra, Conrado Benitez, Carinthia, Cape Howe, Clifford Maersk, Cetra Columbia, Cellana, Catamaran, N.R. Crump, Callifornia Getty, Canso Canal, Cartiercliffe Hill, Cast Beaver, Cape Friels, Catalina, Catol Lake, Castor, Chimo, Cecilie Mersk, Coralsea, Carmania, Caronia, Clary Foran, Canadoc, Cosmic, Coastal Carrier, Christian, Ciudad de Maracaïbo, City of Pretoria, Czantoria, Copsewood, Calgadoc, Ciniscliffe Hall, Clifford J. Rogers, Caroline Smith, Creuse Dunkerque, Cayuga, Correze, Caspian Sea, Cairndhu, Commodore, Caribou, Caribou Reefer, Courtenay Bay, Chaudière, Chesley A. Crosbie, Cape Breton Miner, Coral Sea, Canadian Pionneer, Cacouna, Cap San Augustin, City of Montreal, Crescent, Cumberland of Nanaimo, James Caruthers, Carpenter, Cowichan Yarder, Carl Schmedeman, Cape Mira, City of Victoria, Confederation, Clarkforth
file 4: 5 de Septiembre, Duke of York, Fairmik, Reel Fisher (tug), Fort Chambly, Fort Churchill, Crusader, David E. Day, Fort Erie, Fort William, Fraser, Gatineau, Rose J. Gordon, Hudson, Island Yarder, Ile-aux-Coudres, Roy A. Jodrey, Kerel Doorman, Kragcholm, Kootenay, Kube Maru, Liberty Island, J.M. McGiffin, Mackenzie, W.L. Mackenzie, Magnificent, Man Hattau, Replica of Jean, first Allan Line to Canada, Marwhal, Mayflower (replica), Micmac, Northland Prince, Nordic Vi, James Norris, Newbrundoc, Newbrunswicker, Newfoundland (ferry), Nicolet, Norman McLeod Rogers, Monarch, Nelson River (tug), New Quebec, S.T. Eugenia Niarchos, Spyros Niarchos, Nipigon, Nootka, Nordic Hawk, Norisle, North American, Northland, Nortland Prince, Northern Ranger, Northern Star, Nopal Verde, North Voyageur, Nova Gorica, Novaport, Objbwa, Oceanic, Odensholm, Ontario, W.H. Orbell, Oriana, Owen, Olympia, Orient Trader, Orion Arendal, Ornefjell, Okanagan Valley, Pacific Guardian, Hon. Paul Martin, Prins of Williem George Frederick, Palaemon, Pandora, Patrick Henry, Pickle (Schooner), Port Colborne, Paul Revere, Prestonian, Prinses Irene, President Jackson, Paterson, Pic River., Pioneer Main, Plain View (Hydrofoil), Preserver, Primero de Mayo, Pacific Princess, Pacific Stronghold, Point Valiant, Princess of Acadia, Pique, E.E. Prince, Princess Magriet, Prince Rupert, Princess Patricia, Pacific Prince, Princess of Vancouver, Princess Marguerite, Princess Mary (in fire), Princess Norah, Princess of Nanaimo, Princess Helene, Princess Irene, Provider, President Roosevelt, C.G.S. Parry, Patrick Henry, Prima Vista, Paul Lorenz Russ, M.T. Pennyfair, Pavlovo, Primo, Ponce de Leon, Provo Wallis, Quadra, Qu'Appelle, Quebec (steamer), Quebécois, Queen Anna Maria, Queen of Bermuda, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mary, Queen of Prince Rupert, Quetico, Quetzaltenango
file 5: Rafaello, Raila Dan, Ralph Misener, Radium Dew, Ramore Head, Ranchi, Rally, W. Harold Rea, Red Barge, Redfish, Regent Liverpool, Resolute, Restigouche, Richelieu, Rimouski, G.W. Rogers (tug), Roberval, Rockcliffe Hall, Roma, Roosevelt (Destroyer), Rotterdam, Royalton, Royal Viking Star, Ryndam
ships, filed by ship name, S-Y. Here are the following ship names:
file 1: St.Clair, St.Croix, Saguenay, Salvage Monarch, Sambro, Samhanger, Santa Rose, Santona, Sargodha, Sarnia, Saskatchewan, Savannah, Saxonia, Senneville, T.G. Shaughnessy, K.W. Scully, Scott Misener, Seaspan Commodore, Sea Sounder, Seaway Queen, Seaboard Star, Sedco, Seven Seas, Shalom, Shanghai, Sieur Damours, Leon Simard, Ludger Simard, Simcoe, Silverbriar, Simon Fraser, Skua, St.Croix, Solinen, Soodoc, Sophocles, South American, Springdale, The St.Joseph Islander, Stadacona, Stalemdam, Starniadoc, Statstraad, Stella Maris, Stockholm, Stureholm, Sylvania, Staberg, Star of the East (clipper), States, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, South American Trader, Sudbury II, Sunbreeze, Sunpolynesia, Sunray, Silver Isle, Sorlandet, Straits Logger, Sunkirk, Sunima, Sunwalker, Svanefjell, J.M. Swain, Swivel, Sylvania
file 2: Tadoussac, Tagaytay, Takeshima Maru, Takis V, Tarantau, Taskall, Terra Nova, Teeswood, Theresie, Thessaly, Thorbjorg, Thora Dan-Esbjers, Thyra Thorn, Thorsgaard, Thomas Maersk, Tillia Gorthon, Tina Onassis, Toltec, Transamerica, Transcanada, Transmichigan, Trans St.Laurent, Transvaal Castle, Travetal, Tricape, Tsawwassen, Tupper, Turbulent, Tyee Shell, Unicorn, Valeria, W.C. Van Horne, Vancouver, Vanguard, Vaxholm, Velutina, Verdol, Verna Clausen, Veslefjell, Vesthav, City of Victoria, Victoria, Vidal, Vilja, Vikara, Vivita, Volumnia, Vretaholn, Walter E. Foster, Westcliffe Hall, Weissenberg, Western Reefer, Weybridge, Whitefish Bay, William Patterson, William Rest, Windboats, Windsor Castle, Yankcanuk, Zama Maru, Zawrat. Also, aerial views of port of New York, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Hamilton, Toronto, New Westminster, Colborne, Port Arthur, Rotterdam, Lakehead Harbour, Prescot and Montreal Elevators.
Vol. 15818 also consists of a file of black and white photographs of various hotels, including interior photos of the Charlottetown Hotel, P.E.I., ca. 1920s, Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, ca. 1963, interior views of Le Café, the coffee shop off the main lobby, the main lounge, lofty lounge and the Beaver Club of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, ca. 1963, proposed drawings of Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Feb. 1947, Pictou Lodge, a series of photos on Fort Garry Hotel showing rooms and furniture before and after the fire.
Vol. 15818 also consists of miscellaneous black and white photos of various Canadian ports, Governor General Georges Vanier and Mrs. Vanier with P.E.I. Premier Walter Shaw, Charlottetown, ca. 1962-63; and panorama of the Second Annual Conference of Officers of the Traffic Department, J.E. Dalrymple presiding, CN, Toronto, Ont., 1924. Photo by Panoramic Camera.
Vol. 15819 consists of miscellaneous photos of rolling stock, locomotives, and stations, including:
Photos of CN cars, Grand Trunk (# 969) and Intercolonial (# 288) Locomotives;
Gilead Station, Ont., Canadian National "Western Region" Agents Association,
Saskatoon, Sask., 1936, Cumberland Valley Ry Dispatch Cars, 1894;
Eastern Steamship Lines and S.S. Yarmouth (Inside views), 1947;
Photos of early Railway lines in England;
Group photograph of General Committee of Adjustment Canadian Northern Railway System, ca. 1900;
Grand Trunk Railway employees, Stratford Shop, Aug., 1873;
Canadian Northern Station with employees on express cart, children sitting on platform and others, Somerset, Ont., 1921;
Portrait of N.J. MacMillan, President of CNR between 1967-1974. Photo taken by Yousuf Karsh in 1969;
photos of the Spiral Tunnels, B.C.;
Governor General Bessborough Banquet. Photo by Graswell, Charlottetown, P.E.I., ca 1920s;
Canadian National Railway Flyer, Super Continental passenger train between Montreal and Vancouver;
one album of CN personnel, Kamloops Division, B.C.
Vol. 15820 consists of an album entitled Across Canada "The National Way", ca. 1925, views across Canada. See lower level description MIKAN 5076622 for more details of the 45 photographs, including 12 digitized images from the album.
Vol. 15821 consists of various oversized photos, including First North American Conference on Apprenticeship, Balboa Park, San Diego, California, 1953; Two BL 5.5 - inch guns MK2 on MK2 carriage with trail legs opened and spades fitted the equipment ready for action (guns produced from 1941 to late 1970s). See also lower level description MIKAN 3409253 of Mile 255.00 on the line of Hudson Bay Railway and also MIKAN 5085591, of Somerset Station, Canadian Northern Railway, 1921.
Vol. 15822 consists of a large size photo of Canadian Western Fuel Co. Ferry Slip, ca. 1930s. Photo by F. Schwarze, Nanaïmo, B.C. See lower level description MIKAN 5081532 and also to view digitized image.
Volume 16608 consists of a photo album showing the Montreal offices of the Grand Trunk Railway.
Volume 16609 consists of a photo album called Scenes along the LInes of the Canadian National Railways.
