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Heckman’s Canadian Pacific by Ralph Beaumont A photographic Journey Hard Cover
Heckmans Canadian Pacific by Ralph Beaumont A photographic Journey
Hard Cover
328 pages
Copyright 2015
Contents
Foreword8
Introduction to the Heckman Collection10
Preface12
Canadian Pacific : An Historical Overview15
Canadian Pacific and Place Names of Canada17
Photography and the CPR19
Early photography along the CPR
The purpose of Heckman 's photos: His Engineering Department remit
J. W. Heckman: A Brief Biography22
Family, education and first employment
Heckman joins the CPR
About the Photographs28
Heckman on-site: A primitive camera on the landscape
Getting around on the CPR: An intimate view of the Railway
Planning a photographic journey
People of the CPR
About the Albums39
Geographic organization of the Albums
Three numbering systems
Album content and photo captioning
About the Field Books43
Heckman 's CPR journeys
The Heckman Photographs
Transcontinental Main Line: Eastern Canada52
Saint John, Montreal, Ottawa, Port Arthur
Transcontinental Main Line: Western Canada - Fort William to Calgary96
Fort William, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary
Transcontinental Main Line: Western Canada - Calgary to Vancouver114
Calgary, Field, Revelstoke, Kamloops, Vancouver
The Eastern Corridor172
Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Windsor, Ottawa
Early Ontario Branch Lines214
Owen Sound, Teeswater, Mt. Forest, Wingham, Elora
Crow's Nest Route223
Lethbridge, Cranbrook, Nelson, Midway
Eastern Branch Lines243
Fredericton, St. Andrews, Newport, Sault Ste. Marie
Later Years Albums: A Geographic Mix258
Esquimalt & Nanaimo, Toronto-Sudbury, Later Ontario Branch Lines, Edmundston,
Calgary-Macleod, Dominion Atlantic
The Black Leather Albums: Heckman's Final Photographs297
More Quebec & Ontario Branch Lines, Toronto-London,
Lake Ontario Shore Line
Leaving the CPR: An Eventful Career314
Index of Maps316
Acknowledgements317
Bibliography 320
Index 324
ON THE BACK COVER:
Joseph William Heckman's career as photographer with the Canadian Pacific Railway, from 1898 to 1915, coincided with an important period in the railway's consolidation and development. More than 4,000 prints from his glass plate photographic images were mounted in large format Albums, to serve as an internal Engineering Department working record. Transferred to the CPR Corporate Archives in the early 1970s, the collection now forms one of the most comprehensive pictorial records of the railway's coast-to-coast operations. Together with Heckman's meticulous Field Book notes, it provides an intimate view of the Canadian Pacific Railway as it spanned the breadth of Canada a century ago.
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