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Search Term |
CPR |
Number of Object records |
2 |
Number of Photo records |
21 |
Number of Archive records |
5 |
Number of Library records |
3 |
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2003.002.57 - C.P. Rail engine 8530
A photo of a train car. "C.P. Rail Deisel Works Yard- PoCo" is written on the front. "1981 23 Feb" and "Columbian Photo by Peter Battistoni" are stamped on the back. Commercial Hotel in background.
Record Type: Photo
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2015.009.1 - Painting
Oil on canvas. Black wood frame, no glazing. Dimensions: 86 x 70.5 cm Painting depicts the departure of men on a CPR coach train from Westminster Junction Station to serve in WWI. Train is maroon and reads Canadian Pacific along the top of the train. Men look out from train; one holds British flag and another reaches out to a friend/family member. People of all ages and walks of life are at station to say farewell; there are children, upper cl...
Record Type: Object
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2022.012.43 - Elks Membership Photo
Believed to be members of CPR Car Department from 1955-1960 in Elks Hall. Back row (left to right) are George Gow, Fred Reid, Joe Orr, Harold Holmes, and Norm Houghton. Front row (left to right) are Reg Keeton, Bill Jouhey (SP?), "Cocky" Granholt, John Hawsen (SP?), and Morven Reid. In the centre, behind the men, is an elk head nailed to the wall.
Record Type: Photo
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2023.005.4 - Comic
Comic drawn by pencil, two scenes on one side, one scene on backside. Side with two scenes includes one above with a portrait of a police officer holding up a gun and one below with Bob Hope and Ray Bossley addressing a group of people with one labeled Wingrove and another Pin Sign Bush in the CPR rail yard. Ray Bossley reads from a paper: "'Gentlemen it is regretting to observe that impacts for this quarter have increased - all concerned must ta...
Record Type: Archive
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2023.005.5 - Comic
Two scenes drawn in pencil on one side of paper. Upper scene consists of two men standing in front of a locomotive with number 5787 on the front and a cart labelled Canadian Pacific Railway with wheat pouring onto the ground. Above the scene, one of the men calls: "OK VIC""COME AND GET IT THEN WE'LL SLUFF THIS IN THE RIP ON THE WAY HOME!!" Below, the scene is labelled "IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS". Lower scene shows a man directing five tracks of railro...
Record Type: Archive
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2023.022.1 - CP Coquitlam Yard Sign
Photographic Kodachrome slide of Canadian Pacific Railway Coquitlam Yard sign. Sign reads: "Switch to Saftey with CP Rail Coquitlam Yard" Slide marked with date and name "J. M. Seidl" - believed to be photographer.
Record Type: Photo
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2023.FIC.113 - Note
Letter from the City of Port Coquitlam remarking on the Coquitlam River flood on October 27th- 29th 1921 and the damage done to the CPR bridge. Temporary trestle completed on Nov. 3rd 1921, and temporary trestle for traffic completed on November 15th, 1921.
Record Type: Archive
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2023.FIC.135
Half built CPR bridge across a rive. "New CPR bridge, Port Coquitlam" written on the bottom. Written on the back "The old CPR Bridge was moved north to be used as the traffic bridge. It was floated on barges a span at a time."
Record Type: Photo
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2023.FIC.138
lumber yard in the foreground with the Pitt River temporary train bridge in the background and a train crossing the river while a new cpr bridge in being built on the right side. On the back is written "New Train Bridge under construction CPR"
Record Type: Photo
