Canada (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2826 Collections and/or Records:
Item
A Vancouver Island, B.C. poultry farm, 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30695A/7
Scope and Contents
246 x 199 mm. Showing chickens in a coop with corrugated iron shed behind.
Dates:
1912
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
A Vancouver Island coal mine, South Wellington, B.C. Canada, 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30695A/12
Scope and Contents
245 x 198 mm. Showing a party of visitors (unidentified) underground in a coal mine, with a face of coal behind them and wooden supporting props above.
Dates:
1912
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
A Vancouver Island farmhouse, B.C. Canada, 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30695A/3
Scope and Contents
246 x 197 mm. Showing a stone farmhouse set among trees with cows grazing in a field in the foreground.
Dates:
1912
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
A view of the city of Quebec in New France in America, 1880 - 1920
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII/26
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
A Wheatfield in Western Canada, 1919
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/42
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A limp-bound book, number 36 of a numbered edition of 100, containing photogravure plates and coloured illustrations by various artists. Each page is preceded by a sheet containing the title and description; in most cases only the title is given in the typescript catalogue. Unless otherwise stated, the illustrations are full-page sepia photogravure, approximately 225 x 175 mm; the half-page coloured illustrations are c.125 x 85 mm.The title page reads 'His Royal Highness the Prince...
Dates:
1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Above Murray Bay, 1952-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/293
Scope and Contents
125 x 80 mm. General view of the landscape, a lake in the middle ground and mountains in the background.
Dates:
1952-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Above the Falls], 1885
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/103
Scope and Contents
237 x 188 mm. A view from upriver looking towards the falls. In the centre of the picture is a string of small islands, connected by a footbridge, beyond which lie the falls.
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
New Zealand and America
Item
Above the Falls of Niagara, 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062D/9
Scope and Contents
133 x 78mm. A view looking between trees towards the rapids above Niagara Falls.
Dates:
1912
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Abridged abstract report of the works on the line of the Rideau Canal showing [amount] of sums expended and amount when completed, 1830
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/4/1
Scope and Contents
A 508 x 356 mm tabular sheet recording the sums expended upon constructing the 25 sections of the canal between 21 Sept. 1826 and 25 Mar. 1830, and a projection of the total cost of completing the project in 1831. It is signed by Lieutenant Colonel John Bly, the engineer who superintended the construction of the canal.
Dates:
1830
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
These items are stored in the RCS Plan Chest.
Item
Acadia University, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3126
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Wolfville, N.S. The ladies building.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Acadia University, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3127
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Wolfville, N.S. The Academy and to the far right the ladies building. This is a degree conferring University.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Acadian owl; saw - whet owl (plate XXVII), 1876
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062H/27
Scope and Contents
102 x 140 mm.
Dates:
1876
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Across the Great lakes, 1919
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/30
Scope and Contents
Coloured, half page, by G.F. Gillespie.
Dates:
1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Africa, Heligoland, Canada, 1829 - 1858
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/6
Scope and Contents
Frome's original sketches of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, numbers 187, 189-91 and 196 were sold to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, in 1975. Photographs of these sketches are stored at RCMS 40/3/15-19. Glass plates which had been made from several of Frome’s drawings of the Rideau Canal (missing when the collection arrived in Cambridge) have been reproduced on Cambridge Digital Library as Y3062T.
Dates:
1829 - 1858
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
After the battle; Paunching a stag, 1899 - 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061A/49
Scope and Contents
201 x 151 mm. Showing three men eviscerating a dead caribou.
Dates:
1899 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
A.H. Fisher in snowkit, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/2845
Scope and Contents
Above the Darwen Shoots.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
A.H.F. on the Illecilliwait [i.e. Illecillewaet] Glacier, 1908-08 - 1908-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2212
Scope and Contents
Standing on side of a crevasse : view looking up towards the Serac on the top.
Dates:
1908-08 - 1908-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
A.H.F. on the Illecilliwait [i.e. Illecillewaet] Glacier, 1908-08 - 1908-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2213
Scope and Contents
Standing on side of a crevasse : view looking up towards the Serac on the top.
Dates:
1908-08 - 1908-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
A.H.F. stream driving at Shellcamp Lake, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3075
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 3012-3188 (originally there were 159). Added numbers are: 3164A, 3165A; spoiled: 3143-3149; not used: 3022, 3024, 3046-3048, 3094, 3097, 3129, 3133, 3139, 3140, 3153 and 3182; missing: 3172. Subjects covered in this album are:Canada: Royal Canadian Regiment Halifax; Halifax; Lunenberg; Bridgewater; Springfield; Muscauna Lake; Frog Lake; Shellcamp: lumbering; copy of photographs of natural gas explosion, Sarnie, 1902;...
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
A.H.F. stream driving at Shellcamp Lake, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3076
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 3012-3188 (originally there were 159). Added numbers are: 3164A, 3165A; spoiled: 3143-3149; not used: 3022, 3024, 3046-3048, 3094, 3097, 3129, 3133, 3139, 3140, 3153 and 3182; missing: 3172. Subjects covered in this album are:Canada: Royal Canadian Regiment Halifax; Halifax; Lunenberg; Bridgewater; Springfield; Muscauna Lake; Frog Lake; Shellcamp: lumbering; copy of photographs of natural gas explosion, Sarnie, 1902;...
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
A.H.F. under the ice : Wapta Glacier, 1908-08 - 1908-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2202
Scope and Contents
Landscape format.
Dates:
1908-08 - 1908-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Albert canyon, 1919
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/88
Scope and Contents
125 x 225 mm.
Dates:
1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Albert Canyon Station, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2719
Scope and Contents
Two miles from Albert Canyon.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-sub-class
[Alberta], 1928-10-16 - 1928-10-21
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/257-289
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.
Dates:
1928-10-16 - 1928-10-21
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-Series
Alberta and British Columbia, 1900
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Canada/139-149
Scope and Contents
Monochrome postcards published by the Novelty Manufacturing and Art Co. Ltd., Montreal (139-142) and the Heliotype Co. Ltd., Ottawa (143-149).
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).