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 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"
