Canafornian's photos with the keyword: railway

POSTCARD Date: Posted August 9, 1907 from Darlingford, Man. to Mrs. D. L. Fraser in Old Orchard, Maine. Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified Notation: I just love the "feel" of this photograph.Nothing pretentious about the scene. As far as I can tell, it shows the railway depot/station on the north side of the tracks (right side of the image) and commercial buildings on the north side of Railway Avenue (left side of the image). The building on the extreme left is The Empire (Hotel?) The third building to the right of it, and above the white awning, there is a sign that appears to read "Wilsons Drug Store". Sadly, the signs on the other buildings are not quite legible. The note on the reverse reads; "Received your letter to-day, also one from Don. Am glad you are feeling better & that Bressie is well. Remind her she promised to write me a letter while I was away. Ella hasn't got back from (??) yet... What do you think of this for a town the cross is over Colemans store. Clarence came down Saturday and stayed till Wed. to see us. with love from Maud."

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Not Posted. Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified Notation: Note on reverse reads; "This is some of their best horses, but I say they had an awful bunch of horses. They had nearly 300 horses and they were all swell ones too."

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Not Posted. Publisher / Photographer: Gowen & Sutton Notation: Seen from the south side of Higgins Avenue, the Royal Alexandra Hotel is on the left and the C.P. R. Station is on the right.

POSTCARD Date: Posted March 16, 1927. Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified. Notation: One of the few early postcard images I have seen that prominently shows the railway yards that occupy what we now known as "The Forks". As a bonus, the St. Boniface Cathedral is readily visible across the river.

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Not Posted. Publisher / Photographer: Cleven Photo, 367 Main St., Winnipeg. Notation: Interesting angle, but certainly not much commotion at the station!

POSTCARD Date: Handwritten note is dated August 1915. Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified.

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Unposted Publisher: The T. Eaton Co. Ltd., Winnipeg #111 Notation: This Eaton card is significantly different in the design of the reverse side, and the way the company identifies itself. There is no printer mentioned and there is no evidence of a number on the front side. The "signature" colourization, however, is consistent with other Eaton cards.

POSTCARD Date: Posted November 28, 1904 from Shoal Lake to Mr. E. A. Cress in Minden City, Michigan. Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified Notation: Postcard is on "Classic" early Velox undivided back Private Post Card stock. As best as I can make it out, note on front reads: "Shoal Lake, Man Nov 27/4 Dear E.S. - Papers to bond(?), OK. Have Roosefelt on the wall in the office. Busy as a sailor these days. Hope you are having a good trade this Fall. This shows part of the elevator capacity here. Storage capacity of 165,000 bu (bushels). Also shows our home. Why don't you answer our letters. Bert" The station house is on the right. Given the nature and content of the note, I am assuming that Bert may have been the station master and that he (and his family?) may have resided in the station itself. The two identified elevators are Scott's Elevator and Northern Elevator Co. Ltd.

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Unposted. Likely published in 1905-06. Publisher / Photographer: L.J. De Nobele, Winnipeg #2

Date: Unposted Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified. Notation: The Northern Elevator Company, headquartered in Winnipeg, was already operating about 80 grain elevators in rural locations when, in 1895, it erected this 130' high, state-of-the-art grain cleaning elevator in Winnipeg.

Date: Posted June 8, 1913 Publisher / Photographer: Gibson Photo - Winnipeg. Card was sent to Mrs. J. Michell, Salvation Army Hdqts, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Sadly, most of the message has been damaged, but the last piece of it reads; "It must... to hear Capt. McGrath... that string of pearls. That was an unexpected treat, wasn't it? I heard the dear gentleman that lives downstairs in the block singing that very verse when I was drying dishes the other night. From your own little 17 yr. old girl B."

Date: Unposted. Publisher / Photographer: Lyall Commercial

Date: Unposted. Publisher / Photographer: novelty Mfg. & Art Co. Ltd. Montreal

Date: Postal strike appears to read 1910. Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified

Unposted. Publisher: Phillips & Wrinch, Toronto A nice view of the Canadian Pacific Railway Station at Hartney to the north of the tracks, with the grain elevators lined up to the south of the tracks, and the north side of the town itself in the right of the image.

Posted April 17, 1909 from Hartney to Mrs. George Ames in Elgin, MB. Publisher/Photographer: Unidentified. Image shows the rail line and siding for the grain elevators.

Unposted Publisher: Unidentified A diverse group of (presumed) passengers taking advantage of a photo opp with the street car poised between two impressive walls of snow. Note on reverse reads; "This will give you a small idea of the quantity of snow we had this winter." Nice to see children in the image as well - although the little girl up top seems less than pleased with her perch. Also of note, apparently there was more than one photographer at the scene - the woman on the left is clutching a camera of her own.