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CPR
Landscape Paintings of Canadian Pacific Railway Company
One nice thing about working with Open Collections is that we can learn from our patrons. In a previous tweet, we shared a serigraph print in original frame with a plaque reading Lake Superior, Ontario, Canadian Pacific from the Chung Collection. A patron pointed out that it looks like a painting by the Group of […]
Advertisements for Canadian Pacific Steamships: Part II
The Chung Collection has thousands of photographs and related material on CPR steamships with a particular emphasis on the Empress class ships. Some of the related material includes pamphlets, menus, world cruise photograph albums, clippings, diaries, and correspondence from both passengers and employees of these vessels. In this two-part series, we will explore some advertisements […]
Explore Open Collections: BC Sessional Papers
Project update: Early next year, the Digitization Centre will make the second phase of the BC Sessional papers digitization project from years 1887 to 1911 available online for all to access. What are sessional papers? Sessional papers contain materials that document the political, historical, economic and cultural history of British Columbia. The sessional papers include […]
