Finding Aid
Tourism and Travel collection. – 1878-1987. – 42 cm of textual records and graphic material. – 6 oversize items. – 2 photographs.
First Accrual. – 1891-1981. – 10 cm of textual records. – 3 oversize items.
Box 1
Tourist destinations; includes pamphlets and leaflets
Canada
F.1 “Canada”. Pamphlet by Canadian Pacific Railway to encourage immigration, 1922 or shortly thereafter.
F.2 Alberta, Banff. “Highland Gathering Banff, 1928; “Banff, Kootenay and Yoho Nationals Parks”, 1934
F.3 Manitoba, Winnipeg. “Winnipeg Manitoba”, 1891
F.4 New Brunswick. “Fish and Hunt in New Brunswick Canada”, 1937; “Scenic New Brunswick Canada”, 1937
F.5 New Brunswick, Fredericton. “Fredericton, New Brunswick’s Capital City”, n .d. but after World War I and before World War II
F.6 Newfoundland: “Newfoundland, Britain’s Oldest Colony – Canada’s Newest Province”, 1947; “Province of Newfoundland”, 1957; A.B. Perlin, “The Newfoundland Story”, 1959
F.7 Nova Scotia. “Vacation Days in Nova Scotia, the Land of Evangeline”, 1915; “Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition, Halifax”, 1928
F.8 Ontario. “Your Vacation in Ontario: Canada’s Premier Province”, 1920; “Ontario Invites You to the Lakeland Playgrounds of Canada”, 1950s
F.9 Ontario, Georgian Bay. “The Georgian Bay and the Thirty Thousand Islands”, 1920s; “Wyn-sea-ona”, Honey Harbour, 1915?; “H.M. Schooner ‘Nancy’”, Wasaga Beach, after 1927
F.10 Ontario, Lake Erie. “Don’t Miss Crystal Beach”, n.d.
F.11 Ontario, Toronto: Canadian National Exhibition, two souvenir programmes, 1925? and 1950, featuring Danny Kaye.
F.12 Ontario, various places: North Bay to Cochrane along the Northern Ontario Railway; Moose Factory; Ottawa, 1967, Stratford (tent theatre); Brantford, 1920
F.13 Quebec, Gaspé Peninsula: “Romantic Quebec Gasp é Peninsula”
F.14 Yukon,Whitehorse: “Whitehorse … Hub of the Yukon”, 1930
Tourist maps:
F.15 Nova Scotia, 1951
F.16 Ontario, Ottawa, 1950s, 1967 and n.d.
F.17 Ontario, Toronto, 1960s; includes a subway map from 1981
F.18 Quebec, Montreal, 1940s
F.19 Quebec, Quebec City, 1950s
Tourist Transportation (time-tables, etc):
F.20 Air: Trans-Canada Airlines, 1961; BOAC decals
F.21 Bus: Canada Coach Lines, 1960; Colonial Coach Lines, 1962; Rocky Mountain Tours, n.d.
F.22 Ships: Canadian Steamship Lines, 1941, n.d., also a souvenir song book; Canadian Pacific, 1962
F.23 Train: Canadian Pacific menus from Kicking Horse River and Mount Eisenhower
Oversize:
Canadian Pacific:
“The Orient. Canadian Pacific”. Silk screen on hardboard signed “Fraser”. Drawing of a man pulling a woman in a rickshaw. This may be the artwork for a poster.
“Canadien Pacifique Vacances en Empress … vers l’Europe”. Image of the Empress de Britain leaving Quebec City. Date: between 1956 and 1959. In 1960 the ship was mainly used for cruises. Poster
Canadian National:
“Canadian National’s ‘Prince George’”. Illustration of the ship by H.W. Louisby (?). 1947. Display card.
Second Accrual. 1878-1987. 16 cm of textual records. 2 photographs.
Tourist destinations; includes pamphlets and leaflets
F.24 Canada: Canadian Government Travel Bureau, Ottawa, Canada: Vacations Unlimited, 1953, includes col. illustrations
F.25 British Columbia: Capt. E. Lillie, comp., British Columbia Coast Guide 1937
F.26 British Columbia: Forest Branch, Department of Lands, British Columbia Timber, after 1916 and before 1928
F.27 British Columbia, Vancouver: George H. Raley, Our Totem Poles, 1937, signed by author. Re the totem poles in Vancouvers Stanley Park, includes b&w illustrations
F.28 British Columbia, Vancouver Island: Vancouver Island, British Columbia, a Thousand Miles of Wonderland, after 1925, with b&w illustrations
F.29 British Columbia, Victoria: 3 pamphlets all published by Coast Publishing Co. Each pamphlet has a different cover. They contain b&w photographic images content overlaps. 1940s?
F.30 Manitoba: Tourist and Convention Bureau of Winnipeg and Manitoba, Enjoy Manitoba, ca.1930-1934; col. cover
F.31 Manitoba, Winnipeg: Greater Winnipeg Red River Day, 8 Sept. 1957, illustrated.
Box 2
F.1 Nova Scotia: Beauties of Nova Scotia, 1896; illustrated
F.2 Nova Scotia: Bureau of Information, Department of Highways, Nova Scotia: Canadas Ocean Playground; cover col. illustration of a beach scene, the Bluenose by R. Turner is on the back cover
F.3 Ontario, Toronto: CN Tower decal, 1973
F.4 Ontario, Toronto: Street Guide, 1930
F.5 Ontario, Toronto: Prehistoric animal exhibit at the ROM, b&w photograph by Ont. Dept. of Travel and Publicity
F.6 Ontario, Trent Canal: Reference and Guide Book, 1911, illustrated.
F.7 Quebec: Snow and Sunshine in la province de Québec; illustrated, 1950s?
F.8 Quebec, Gatineau: Spend your Vacation
in the Famous Gatineau Pontiac, Lievre Districts, May 1934, illustrated
F.9 Quebec, Montreal: Montreal Tourist and Convention Bureau, Montreal Canada Province of Quebec Tours, map inside is dated August 1925
F.10 Quebec, Quebec City: Sightseeing Boat Trips on the St. Lawrence on board M/V Roseline and Duc dOrleans, 2 leaflets, n.d.
F.11 Saskatchewan: Prince Albert National Park, with a foreword by Prime Minister Mackenzie King. The Park was established in 1927; this pamphlet was published shortly thereafter
Transportation
F.12 Air: BOAC 1962-63 schedule; Montreal to Bermuda and various Caribbean Islands, 1 page
F.13 Air: Trans Canada Air Lines schedule, 28 Oct. 1962, 1 page
F.14 Air: Wardair Inflight Fun, produced by the CBC for Wardair, 1987
F.15 Bus: Tobacco Curers Going to Canada, Greyhound Bus Lines schedule
F.16 Municipal: Hamilton Street Railway transfer
F.17-8 Municipal: Toronto TTC tickets and transfers; transfers dated July 904
F.19 Rail: Boston & Maine Railroad, ticket to Montreal via Rutland, Vermont; stamped 1878 in Fitchburg, Mass.
F.20 Rail: CNR schedule, 30 April 1933
F.21 Rail: CN Railways magazine, Jan. 1936 issue
F.22 Rail: CN, menu, Regina, Sask. to Churchill, Manitoba, 1 August 1955
F.23 Rail: Montreal and Southern Counties, local time card, 28 June 1913
F.24 Ships: Canada Steamship Lines, Great Lakes Division, Niagara to the Sea, 1920 schedule
F.25 Ships: Canadian National, cocktails, etc. menu, late 1920s?
F.26 Ships: Canadian National, p.c. of R.M.S. Lady Drake reproduced from a painting by Wrigg, 1955
F.27 Ships: Canadian Pacific, S.S. Montreal, voyage from Montreal to Naples 22 June 1922 passenger list; illustrated by a ship on the St. Lawrence. Also an announcement to passengers
F.28 Ships: Canadian Pacific, Montlaurier, leaflet of deck diagrams, March 1923
F.29 Ships: Canadian Pacific, Empress of France, voyage from Hamburg to Quebec with stops in Southampton and Cherbourg, 19 August 1926, second class passenger list; illustrated by the Chateau Frontenac, Hotel Vancouver and the ship. A passenger has plotted the trip across the Atlantic on the track chart
F.30 Ships: Canadian Pacific, Belgium Old and New, 1930. Pamphlet on Belgium, urging travel by CP.
F.31 Ships: Canadian Pacific, Empress of Australia, voyage from Quebec to Cherboug, 4 July 1928, passenger list of the thirteenth annual visit of teachers from Canada to Great Britain, France and Italy. Also a magazine cutting illustration of the ship.
F.32 Ships: Canadian Pacific, Alaska, 1931. Pamphlet on trips to Alaska on the PC princess steamships
F.33 Ships: Canadian Pacific, third class dinner menu, 14 August 1936; illustrated with a ship
F.34 Ships: Canadian Pacific, Victoria and Vancouver Island, 1957, princess routes
F.35 Ships: Canadian Pacific, Alaska Daily Bulletin, B.C. coast steamship service from Vancouver to Skagway, n.d.
F.36 Ships: Canadian Pacific, blank letter card, n.d.
F.37 Ships: Cunard Line, R.M.S. Umbria, voyage from New York and Boston to Liverpool, 24 March 1906, second cabin passenger list
F.38 Ships: Cunard Line, Embarkation notice and envelope, 1954
F.39 Ships: Cunard Line, R.M.S. Franconia, lunch menu, 22 June 1954; illustrated by Anne Fallow a sea nymph on a shell drawn by 2 sea horses
F.40 Ships: Cunard Line, R.M.S. Saxonia, b&w photograph of members of the RCMP Musical Ride with their commander, Insp. Joseph G.C. Downey, returning from the U.K. The Saxonia was launched in Feb.1954 and renamed in 1962.
F.41 Ships: Cunard Line, R.M.S. Iveria, blank p.c., n.d. illustration is of the ship
F.42 Ships: Dominion Transportation Ltd., Owen Sound Transportation Ltd., S.S. Manitoulin and S.S. Caribou, summer 1938 Great Lakes cruises
F.43 Ships: Northumberland Ferries Ltd., 1946 schedule between Wood Island PEI and Caribou, N.S.; M.V. Lord Selkirk col. p.c., 1968
F.44 Ships: Red Star Line, illustrated menu cards for the S.S. Zeeland, Sept.-Oct. 1914, some with personal messages
F.45 Ships: Yarmouth Line timetable, 1900
Oversize (not boxed)
Display card:
Canadian National Railways and Dominion Atlantic Railway, sailing schedule between Yarmouth N.S. and Boston on the S.S. Yarmouth and the S.S. Evangeline, summer of 1935, schedule and fares; illustrated with an image of one of the ships
Calendar:
Great Northern Railway, calendar for January 1931; illustrated with a reproduction of an image by Winold Reiss of a Blackfeet Indian child, Alex Eagle Plume Glacier National Park
Posters:
-Air France, col. drawing by Lucien Boucher of Air France jets circling the globe, superimposed against the star formations of the zodiac. Ref. 4431/P/9-53
-Lufthansa German Airlines, text and airplane in silhouette, black on yellow.
Third accrual. 1889-1968 16 cm of textual records and graphic material. 3 oversize items.
Box 3
Tourist destinations. Printed materials, includes pamphlets and leaflets
Canada
F.1 Canada: Canada Vacations Unlimited, Canadian Government Travel Bureau, 1953. Includes inserted leaflet Canada in Wintertime.
F.2 Canada: Canadas Mountain National Parks, National Parks Service, n.d.
F.3 Canada: Canadian Rockies All-Expense Tours, Canadian Pacific, 1937.
F.4 Canada, St. Lawrence River: View Album of Thousand Islands
A Series of Exclusive Views Printed in Real Photogravure, Toronto: Valentine-Black Co. Limited, n.d.
F.5 Canada/United States, Thousand Islands: Souvenir of the Thousand Islands; includes a short history and over one hundred illustrations, Grand Rapids, Michigan, James Bayne Co., n.d.
F.6 Canada/United States, St. Lawrence: All-Round Route and Panoramic Guide of the St. Lawrence, Toronto: Canada Railway News Company, Ltd, 1923; includes several fold out maps
F.7 Canada/United States, St. Lawrence Valley: The Wonderful St. Lawrence Valley, Ogdensburg, N.Y., n.d.
F.8 Eastern Canada: Canada the New Homeland, Canadian Government Information Bureau, 1928
F.9 Eastern Canada: James Hannay, The Story of Acadia (Kentville, Nova Scotia: Dominion Atlantic Railway,[190-?]
F.10 Western Canada: Angling Regulations in Western Canada, Canadian Government Travel Bureau, 1954.
F.11 Alberta: The Alberta Vacation Cruise, Alberta Government, March, 1942.
F.12 New Brunswick: Auto Guide, issued by Provincial Department of Public Works, Fredericton, N.B., 1914.
F.13 New Brunswick: official government map, 1934.
F.14 Nova Scotia: Canadas Ocean Playground, 1937.
F.15 Nova Scotia: Wedgeport, Nova Scotia: Tuna Angling Capital of the World, 1953.
F.15A Ontario, Essex County: The Sun Parlor of Canada, road map, 1935-36
F.16 Ontario, Haliburton: The Haliburton Highlands: The Best Location for your Vacation, 1955.
F.17 Ontario, Kenora: Souvenir View Book of Kenora Lake of the Woods, a Dominion Series View Book, Toronto: Photogelantine Engraving Co., [193-?]
F.18 Ontario, Muskoka: Preview of a Vacation in Muskoka and Algonquin Park Canada, [193-], folds out into a map.
F.19 Ontario, Muskoka: Huntsville and Lake of Bays, Summer Winter Vacationland, Huntsville Chamber of Commerce, [196-?]. Includes map in centre page. n.d.
F.20 Ontario, Muskoka: Muskokas Unique Floating Museum, Segwun Steamboat Museum, display card. Note: the Segwun was in dry dock from 1958 to 1972.
F.21 Ontario, Niagara Falls: Whirlpool Rapids Incline, envelope illustrated with a view of the rapids and the American and British flags, n.d. [after 1883, the year that Capt. Webb lost his life and before 1934 when the incline was damaged by fire]
F.22 Ontario, Port Bruce: Orendaga Camp, n.d..
F.23 Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie: This is Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce, 1952.
F.24 Ontario, Toronto: Royal York Hotel, a Canadian Pacific hotel. Illustration of hotel on front cover. A list of all the hotels in the chain is on the back cover. Inside is an Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation Dinner Programme and Menu, Wednesday, December 28th, 1938.
F.25 Ontario, Wasaga Beach: Dixie Inn, [192-?]
F.26 Ontario: Our Vacation in Ontario publicity comic book, Department of Travel and Publicity, [195-?]
F.27 Quebec: Quebec the Good Roads Province, Provincial Tourist Bureau Department of Highways and Mines, January 1930.
F.28 Quebec: Historic Quebec, Canadian National to Everywhere in Canada, [194-], illustrated cover; includes fold-out map of places that could be reached on Canadian National Railways.
F.29 Saskatchewan, Saskatoon: Around Town: Shopping, Entertainment and Dining in Saskatoon, July 1968.
International:
F.30 Hong Kong: China Mail Pictorial of Hong Kong, Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., photographs by Francis Wu, [ca.1948], annotated by user.
F.31 Mediterranean: La Semaine Sainte à Jérusalem: Premier Pèlerinage Officiel des Canadiens en Terre-Sainte, itinerary and guide book for the first official Canadian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Montréal: Thos Cook & fils, 1922.
F.32 New York, Alexandria Bay: 1000 Islands Bridge, Scenic Skyway between United States and Canada, decal
F.33 South Africa: South African Tours
Hunting, Shooting, Motoring, South African Big Games Tours, printed in Johannesburg, [192-]
F.34 South Africa: This is South Africa, poster (folded and torn), issued by South African Government Information Office, [195-?]; the population is given as 10,730,000 (white and coloured).
F.35 Syria: Syria U.A.R. [United Arab Republic]: text in English with col. images [1958-1961]
Transportation:
F.36 Air/Ship: Northwest Orient Airlines and American President Lines, Orient Sea-Air Cruises, on the S.S. President Wilson and the S.S. President Cleveland. Note: both ships were described as new, Americas Finest Postwar Luxury Liners both were launched in 1947.
F.37 Bus: Trailways, II, no. IV, Jan.-Feb., 1937; travel on the National Trailways system in the United States.
F.38 Ferry: Alaska Schedule, April-September 30, 1967.
F.39 Rail: Canadian Pacific, Westward Seeing Canada from Canadian Pacific Scenic Domes. Both the Canadian and the Dominion are listed; the Canadian was the older train; the Dominion did not start service until 1955.
F.40 Rail: Canadian Pacific, Where to go in Canada, includes map of Canadian Pacific lines, 1947?
F.41 Ship: Canadian Pacific Steamship Lines, S.S Empress of Britain illustration on cover; inside is a list of passengers travelling with the Canadian Overseas Educational League on board the S.S. Empress of Australia, 30 June 1937; also includes a dinner menu. A list of all the hotels in the chain is on the back cover.
F.42 Ship: Canada Steamship Lines, SS Richelieu, 1961 Cruises through Historical French Canada, highlights and itinerary.
F.43 Ship: Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, French Mail Steamer La Champagne, cabin passenger list, New York to Havre, 23 March 1889; handwritten notes pasted on.
F.44 Ship: Donaldson Atlantic Line, T.S.S. Athenia, 2 luncheon menus, July 24 and 30, 1938; illustrations are scenes in Scotland.
F.45 Ship: Cunard Line, 4 col. postcards: R.M.S Antonia, R.M.S Scythia (posted), Alaunia (posted), Franconia, one of the cards is dated 1938
F.46 Ship: Cunard Line, R.M.S Samaria, list of passengers, first class, 1 September 1954; with col. illustration pasted in, also contains passenger list competition game.
Ship: Cunard Line, R.M.S Scythia, list of passengers, tourist, 9 June 1954; with col. illustration pasted in.
F.47 Ship: Cunard Line, R.M.S Samaria, first class, programme of events, 5 September 1954; who wrote it quiz insert.
Ship: Cunard Line, R.M.S Samaria, first class, programme of events, 8 September 1954.
F.48 Ship: Cunard Line, R.M.S Scythia, race card, n.d.
F.49 Ship: Cunard Line, menus:
R.M.S. Ascania:
Luncheon menu, Sunday, September 11, 1938; illustration of eighteenth century ship
Dinner menu, Wednesday, September 14, 1938; illustration of coronation chair.
R.M.S. Scythia:
Luncheon menu, Thursday, June 10, 1954; illustration Buckingham Palace.
Farewell dinner menu, Wednesday, June 16, 1954; illustration of ship.
R.M.S. "Samaria:
The menus covers have a variety of illustrations, the ship itself is on the 8 September menu.
Luncheon menu, Thursday, September 2, 1954.
Dinner menu, Thursday, September 2, 1954.
Dinner menu, Friday, September 3, 1954.
Luncheon menu, Saturday, September 4, 1954.
Dinner menu, Sunday, September 5, 1954.
Luncheon menu, Monday, September 6, 1954.
Dinner menu, Monday, September 6, 1954.
Dinner menu, Tuesday, September 7, 1954.
Diner au Revoir menu, Wednesday, September 8, 1954.
F.50 Ship: Cunard White Star Line, Anchor-Donaldson, Canadian Service, Cabin Class, Tourist Class ships, March 1935, pamphlet.
Ship: Cunard White Star, Canadian Service, Cabin Class, Tourist Class ships, June 1936, pamphlet.
Ship: Cunard White Star, Canadian Service, Third Class to England, Scotland, Ireland, France, March 1935, pamphlete.
F.51 Ship: Cunard White Star, picture of street lamp on outside, blank inside, n.d.
F.52 Ship: Red Star Line Antwerpen, 6 (3 col., 3 b&w) postcards, three were posted, one in 1914
F.53 Ship: Red Star Line Antwerpen-New York, S.S. Zeeland, postcard/ menu, luncheon, first class, Thursday, October 1, 1914.
Oversize (not boxed)
Canadian Pacific Railway, Save Money, Buy Round Trip Tickets, red and white poster, no. P-1889.
Souvenir of Callander Canada, felt pennant, with illustration of the Dionne Quintuplets, [1934 or after]
Windermere Regatta and Garden Party, poster, August 10, 1967.
