Records within this fonds relate to the functions of the Canadian National Railways’ operation in Smithers, B.C. Records include directories, blueprints, forms, timetables, maps, booklets, and Amateur Athletic Association treasurer records.
The Canadian National Railways was created by the Canadian government in 1918. The company amalgamated several Canadian railways that had become bankrupt, including the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway which Smithers was established on. The Smithers station transferred over to the Canadian National Railways after 1922.
Scope and Content
Records within this fonds relate to the functions of the Canadian National Railways’ operation in Smithers, B.C. Records include directories, blueprints, forms, timetables, maps, booklets, and Amateur Athletic Association treasurer records.
Series includes records created that are considered ephemera, including a box of souvenir photographs, four tourist’s maps and three booklets that mention the Bulkley Valley.
All items in this series were donated by Kerry Geunter to the Archives at different dates: 2009.67 (November 23, 2009), 2009.69 (December 7, 2009), 2010.2 (January 5, 2010), 2010.8 (February 23, 2010) and 2010.9 (March 17, 2010).
Scope and Content
Series includes records created that are considered ephemera, including a box of souvenir photographs, four tourist’s maps and three booklets that mention the Bulkley Valley.
Series includes one long site plan of the Smithers Railway Station, three architectural drawings of the Endako Railway Station, one map showing fishing and hunting grounds reached by Canadian National Railways in Central British Columbia, and proposed floor plans and plot for a repeater station.
All 2020.35 items were found in collections and accessioned in late August/early September 2020.
Scope and Content
Series includes one long site plan of the Smithers Railway Station, three architectural drawings of the Endako Railway Station, one map showing fishing and hunting grounds reached by Canadian National Railways in Central British Columbia, and proposed floor plans and plot for a repeater station.
Item is a booklet that contains blank timetables for railway employees, advertisements for businesses from Prince Rupert, Terrace, Smithers, Burns Lake, Revelstoke, Cranbrook, Jasper and Prince George, and a seniority list of conductors for the Canadian National Railways Mountain Region.
Item is a booklet that contains blank timetables for railway employees, advertisements for businesses from Prince Rupert, Terrace, Smithers, Burns Lake, Revelstoke, Cranbrook, Jasper and Prince George, and a seniority list of conductors for the Canadian National Railways Mountain Region.
Long, photocopied site map of the Smithers railway station as it appeared in the 1920s. Created by W.H. Tobey, Resident Engineer, and M.A. Burbank, Division Engineer, of Canadian National Railways, Western Region, B.C. Dist. Smithers Div. Telkwa Sub.
Donor information unknown. Map was kept on top of the map cabinet in the vault for an unknown period of time and left unaccessioned during the 2016-2018 archival reorganization. It was finally accessioned in early September 2020.
Scope and Content
Long, photocopied site map of the Smithers railway station as it appeared in the 1920s. Created by W.H. Tobey, Resident Engineer, and M.A. Burbank, Division Engineer, of Canadian National Railways, Western Region, B.C. Dist. Smithers Div. Telkwa Sub.
Three architectural drawings (floor plans and elevations) of the Endako railway station. Prepared by the Office of the Engineer of Buildings in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Donor information unknown. Map was kept on top of the map cabinet in the vault for an unknown period of time and left unaccessioned during the 2016-2018 archival reorganization. It was finally accessioned in early September 2020.
Scope and Content
Three architectural drawings (floor plans and elevations) of the Endako railway station. Prepared by the Office of the Engineer of Buildings in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Series includes records created under the Telecommunications Department of the CN Railways. Records include directory panels and a telegraph message pad.
In 1915, the Great North West Telegraph Company, facing bankruptcy, was acquired by the Canadian Northern Railway’s telegraph company. After the amalgamation of the company into the Canadian National (CN) Railways in 1921, its telegraph company was renamed the Canadian National Telegraph Company. The Company co-operated with its rival Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway Telegraph, sharing telegraph networks and co-founding a teleprinter system in 1957. In 1967, the two services merged into Canadian National-Canadian Pacific (CNCP) Telecommunications. CN Railways sold its share of the company to CP Railways in 1984.
Scope and Content
Series includes records created under the Telecommunications Department of the CN Railways. Records include directory panels and a telegraph message pad.
