A tourist guide book for Alberta and B.C. "with maps of highways, showing mileage and selected hotels, restaurants, camps, garages, and merchants along each separate map." Includes history of some locations, photographs, and advertising for relevant businesses.
Travels LimitedA travel guide to western North America by the Standard Oil Company of California. It covers the western states from the Pacific coast and goes as far east as Nebraska and Texas, and also includes British Columbia. The first page has been removed, but it would have read: "Welcome to the West. Joaquin Miller, famous Western poet, once wrote that eyes were made for this land. Wherever you drive across its length and breadth you find endless scenery that lives in the memory...sweeping plains, silvery deserts, majestic forests and mountains, haunting lakes and streams. And, at its farthest Western reaches, the moving beauty of the Pacific Ocean and its matchless shoreline. This booklet can furnish only a brief glimpse into the treasure of color and drama that lies ahead, but we hope you will find it an interesting, helpful traveling companion. Have a wonderful trip!" The verso is a colourized photograph captioned "Bear Tooth Mountains, Montana - Wyoming."
Standard Oil Company of CaliforniaA booklet with in-depth information regarding farming and homesteading opportunities in Western Canada, "the Granary of the British Empire," published by the Canadian Pacific Railway Department of Natural Resources. It covers Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia and contains photographs of geographical features and agricultural functions. A large fold-out map is tipped-in after the last page and shows "system of land survey and lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company."
Canadian Pacific RailwaySubseries contains photographs and a lithograph of British Columbia and the Rocky Mountains, though locations of photographs are largely unidentified . Photographs were likely either taken or collected by Pocock during his travels through British Columbia. Subseries is arranged according to the order that photographs were processed.
Photograph of two unidentified men, one of which is riding a horse away from the camera, at unknown location.
Photograph of 4 eggs in nest. Writing on reverse reads "Richardson Sandpiper nest."
Files contains images of locations in Alberta and British Columbia from Pocock and Cecil's journey in 1913. Places are identified on the postcards and photographs either by Pocock's handwriting or by printed description. File is arranged chronologically according to order of location visited.
Photograph of four Caucasian men standing in stable door. Writing on reverse reads "3rd from left is Bob, an old cowboy at Big John's Stable, Vernon."
Photograph of a man standing in front of bushes and fences. Writing on reverse reads "Jon Ollerhead of Vernon".
Pocock, RogerPhotograph of two unidentified men dressed in hunting gear. One of them holds a rifle. There is a dog sitting in front of them. Writing on reverse reads "no 10; British Columbians in shooting kit".
Pocock, RogerStereoscopic photograph of an unidentified man in winter garb and snowshoes standing in a snowy clearing and holding a rifle as it to shoot it.
Subseries documents the journey of Pocock and Randle Cecil. Randle Cecil (1889 - 1917) was son of Lord Rupert Ernest William Gascoyne-Cecil, Bishop of Exeter, and in early 1913 Lord Gascoyne-Cecil asked Pocock to act as a guide and chaperon to Randle during an exploration of the Pacific North-West. They traveled mostly by horseback from Calgary, AB, to Red Bluff, CA, over the later half of 1913. Subseries contains photographs and postcards of the locations they visited, and perhaps intended to visit, as well as some people they met (mostly unidentified). It is arranged chronologically into three files: Images from unknown locations, Images from Alberta and British Columbia, and Images from Washington to California.
Files contains images of unknown locations from Pocock and Cecil's journey. Most are likely places in British Columbia. File is arranged according to the order in which records were processed.
Photographs of a clearing in front of forested area. Writing on reverse of one reads "God's Garden; BC; [Globe flower?]. lilies".
Photograph of man holding a trophy bear by the snout with a smaller bear lying at the feet of the first bear. Writing on reverse reads "[Mr?] Silvertip + [Miss] Silvertip".
Pocock, RogerPhotograph of an unknown lake with train tracks running along it. Likely in British Columbia.
Photograph of the sternwheel steamer, Klahowya, at a dock. Writing on reverse reads "Steamer; [legging me not to short?]; head of Colombia R. (River)".
Pocock, RogerPhotograph of an unknown man standing in the foreground of a forested, mountainous terrain. There is a log cabin on the left side of the photo. Writing on reverse reads "The trapper at Earl Grey's cabins; Toby Creek; Selkirks. Looking up Wells Pass".
Photograph of the town Edgewood, BC, as viewed from the water. Town identified from sign over the dock.
Photograph of two unidentified men, one holding rope and the other running beside a horse, at an unknown location.
Photograph overlooking Windermere Lake. Writing on reverse reads "Lake Windermere".
Photograph of Randle Cecil sitting in pool of water. Writing on back reads "Cedil in hot springs; Fairmount; Source of Columbia".
Photograph of bridge over river in forested area. Writing on reverse reads "Park Bridge where the [porkies?] ate our reins. Hamill Creek, Selkirks".
An immigration enticement publication issued by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company that includes information on "farming, mining, lumbering, ranching, and fruit growing" in the province of British Columbia. A fold-out map is tipped in before the first page "showing the lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway" in southern B.C. and Alberta, and includes some of northern Washington and Montana. Another map printed on the inside of the front cover shows the C.P.R. across Canada, and another closer view of the area around Ottawa, Ontario showing "Eastern lines and connections," dated February 2, 1905. The name C. Green is handwritten on the top of both front and back covers, as well as on page 5 and dated September 4, 1908.
Canadian Pacific RailwayPhotograph of a group of unidentified men posing for a picture outside a large wooden building. Writing on reverse reads "Bunk Ho; [Cnk?] Mine; S [Fnk?]; Kaslco [Cr?]".
Pocock, RogerStereoscopic photograph of unidentified man sitting in front of a shack with a rifle across his lap.
Photograph overlooking an unknown lake likely in British Columbia.
Negatives of a various scenes including man standing in front of a canvas tent in a forested area, Randle Cecil at a picnic, men in front of a log cabin, and man sitting between trees. Two negatives and photographic prints in this series. The envelope is from the Photographic Centre of the Associated Screen News Limited in Montreal. Writing on it reads "Mail prints only; Miss Violette Freeman; [Churchwent?]; Bromeswell Heath; Woodbridge; Surrey, England"; "charge & hold [negs?] for Col. H.R.F. Steele; 456 [Pine?]"; and "OGOPOGO / Picutres".
Photograph overlooking Lake Windermere. Writing on reverse reads "Lake Windermere from [Mrs?] Adam's shack".
Photograph of two men and several dogs sitting on steps in front of a building. Writing on reverse reads "S L Cox[?], L W Hay & Dogs. Empire Ranch; OK Ldg. B.C.; 16/8/13".
Pocock, Roger