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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ISBN:9780978440619
ISBN:0978440617
Physical Description:print 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm.
Publisher:Paris, Ontario :Ralph Beaumont and Rod Clarke,2015.
Introduction to the Heckman collection -- Preface -- Canadian Pacific : an historical overview -- Canadian Pacific and place names of Canada -- Photography and the CPR -- J.W. Heckman : a brief biography -- About the photographs -- About the albums -- About the field books -- The Heckman photographs : Transcontinental Main Line : Eastern Canada -- Transcontinental Main Line : Western Canada - Fort William to Calgary -- Transcontinental Main Line : Western Canada - Calgary to Vancouver -- The Eastern corridor -- Early Ontario branch lines -- Crow's Nest route -- Eastern branch lines -- Later years albums : a geographic mix -- The black leather albums : Heckman's final photographs -- Leaving the CPR : an eventful career.
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