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Canadian National Railway fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2143
  • Fonds
  • 1959-1990

The fonds consists of a 1986 letter from J.G. Cote regarding the Canadian Northern Railway; material regarding the Northern Alberta Railways Company and the McKeen gasoline cars; a record of CNR yard leases in Athabasca from 1946 to 1986l; and photocopies of articles from The Hub Newspaper in Westlock, dated 1980-1990, concerning closing the rail line from Legal to Athabasca. One map shows the condensed plan and profile (rail bed elevations) of the Athabasca Subdivision of the Canadian National Railway from Morinville (mile 20.29) to Athabasca (mile 93.1) in 1976. It was originally drawn in 1938. A terrain map is part of it. The other map, dated 1959, shows only the rail bed elevations from Athabasca to NAR Junction in Edmonton.

Canadian Northern Railway

Jasper Yellowhead Historical Society Lucerne Photograph Collection

  • JAS jas-2533
  • Collection
  • 1915-1950, predominant 1915-1924

The collection consists of photographs of the town of Lucerne, BC and it's residents. Many of the photographs pertain to the Canadian Northern Railway with views of; the rail yard, railroad station, roundhouse, water tower and employees. Also included are views of; the school, church groups, harvesting ice and baseball. The collection also consists of photos of the road west of Jasper which later became the Yellowhead Highway. One view is of the ruins of a Japanese Internment Camp.

Jasper Yellowhead Historical Society, collector