Robert Stephenson 1850 signed Engineer’s Card, ex Wellburn
Robert Stephenson 1850 signed Engineer’s Card, ex Wellburn Lot 129 in our auction Saturday...
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Mar 15, 2022 | Documents, Gerald Wellburn, Highlights, Railways
Robert Stephenson 1850 signed Engineer’s Card, ex Wellburn Lot 129 in our auction Saturday...
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Victoria, V.I. Nov 1862 P.O. Paid Oval Stampless Cover, ex Wellburn Lot 74 in our auction Saturday...
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C.P.R. Engineer’s Office, New West, B.C. 4 Nov 1881 Smith letter Lot 116 in our auction...
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New Westminster, B.C. 28 Nov 1882 3-pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 87 in our auction...
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New Westminster, B.C. 18 Oct 1881 4-pg Marcus Smith Letter to wife Lot 85 in our auction Saturday...
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New Westminster 7 Oct 1881 2-pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 91 in our auction Saturday...
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New Westminster, B.C. 27 Sep 1881 4-pg Marcus Smith letter to wife Lot 70 in our auction Saturday...
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Camp at Fort Hope 16 Sep 1881 1pg Marcus Smith Letter to his wife Lot 81 in our auction Saturday...
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New Westminster 9 Sep 1881 Marcus Smith 2pg letter to his wife Lot 72 in our auction Saturday 18th...
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New Westminster, B.C. 28 Aug 1881 3pg Marcus Smith letter to wife Lot 65 in our auction Saturday...
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“..I hope he [Tom] now has time to improve himself and instead of reading trashy novels he will get some Harper’s standard publications. They are very cheap – his biographies are only 75 cents each – so that if he only got one or even two a month it would not hurt his pocket much – I suppose Arthur will be going back before you get this – I hope he will do as well this year as last – I suppose all the big girls are away from home and left you and Clarice alone – tell the sprat she must write to Papa –
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Camp on Fraser 8 Aug 1881 3pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 84 in our auction Saturday 27th...
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New Westminster B.C. 29 Jul 1881 Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 87 in our auction Saturday...
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July 19th,1881
My dear Wife
I have had a very hard month’s work surveying the Harbour of Port Moody and adjacent grounds for the western terminus of the C.P.R. It is surrounded by high hills wooded with trees of enormous size. Many of them fallen and with the rankest growth of underbrush-..
Nov 4, 2021 | British Columbia History, Collections, Exceptional, Highlights, Letters, Marcus Smith, Letters, Railways
Sold for $605, Port Moody, B.C. 26 June 1881 Marcus Smith 3-page letter to his wife
“The surveys are fairly commenced and I have been forced to do some very hard work- owing to the incompetency of the assistant Ailyn who has had very little experience and is naturally very dull & stupid- Gamsby is very little better. He has hitherto got on by always having good assistants but knows nothing himself- has no brains but for old woman’s gossip- has no instruments, never had any in his life nor does he care about the work- ..”
Oct 13, 2021 | Collections, Highlights, Letters, Marcus Smith, Letters, North West Territories, Railways
Shoal Lake N.W. Territories 1880
“My Dear Wife… We have had wretched weather for six weeks past especially the last month. High winds and cold with rain overhead and swamps the men are constantly soaked to the waist almost- Our tents are always dripping and everything is damp some of us are suffering from rheumatism, and my joints are stiff. But I am otherwise well- But my long journeys are over..”
Sep 30, 2021 | Canadian Provinces, Collections, Highlights, Letters, Marcus Smith, Letters, North West Territories, Railways
Rapid City, N.W.T. 7 Sep 1880 Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 29 in our auction Saturday 2nd...
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“..At the same time comes a telegram from Schreiber asking me to report to him at least once a fortnight and before work is commenced to submit all plans and profiles for the impr approval of the Govt. The Govt. being Mr. Schreiber- The first part is literally impossible and useless. The second implies that I am not to be trusted in designing the work- I shall take no notice of either excepting a simple acknowledgement of his telegram..”
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Winnipeg 6 June 1880 Marcus Smith 4 page letter to his wife Lot 23 in our auction Saturday 28th...
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Marcus > “.. I have positively refused to take instructions from Mr. Schreiber or Report to him the result may be that I shall be recalled and return home next week, or if not I shall simply go on with my work and ignore Schreiber altogether”
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C.P. Hotel Winnipeg 25 May 1880 2pg Marcus Smith Letter to Brophy Lot 41 in our auction Saturday...
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C.P.R. Manitoba District 8 July 1879 Marcus Smith Letter to his wife Lot 35 in our auction...
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Fort Ellice 16 July 1879 Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 31 in our auction Saturday 31st July...
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Elbows of the Little Sask. 9 Sp 1879 Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 25 in our auction...
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Fort Carleton, Sk. 10 Au 1879 Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 23 in our auction Saturday 17th...
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Realized $605 in our auction 10th July 2021, Marcus Smith 1878 to his wife “..any motive to act dishonestly or underhand in a great national question- he [Fleming] took the sneaking course of finding out what the Govt. wanted and acted accordingly- ignoring me altogether, and keeping me in the dark as to what he was reporting even up to the last moment both in regard to the work to be done and the assistants to be appointed &.c-..”
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Dawson, N.W.T. 30 Mar 1899 2c Cover & 3c single on Robinson page Lot 108 in this week’s...
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Marcus Smith, Prince Arthur’s landing Lake Superior July 28th1878, “My dear Wife…..Love to all the children”
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Lake Superior 8th August 1878 “..I am very anxious about what will be the best course to take after my Mr. Fleming returns. I do not see how I can work under him with any satisfaction when I know the underhand way in which he is influencing the engineering staff against me. Besides the whole management is in such a muddle- Contracts costing half as much again as they were estimated at the letting-..”
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Realized $526 in our auction Saturday 19th June 2021 Blackwater 45 miles N.W. of Quesnelle-Sept. 23rd,1875 “My Dear Wife…yourself and children would be far better in Victoria then anywhere in Canada and the climate is far superior- and living is always getting cheaper and so will all conveniences when the work commences as there will be a large influx of people of all condition..”
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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY SURVEY.
Salmon House Dean River Sept 4th. 1875,
My dear wife, I have just walked from the head of the Dean channel, through the Cascade mountains to this point where horses have been sent to meet us- I am in excellent health. This last walk has done me as much good as that in the spring did me harm- The weather is fine and cool
May 28, 2021 | British Columbia History, Documents, Highlights, Letters, Marcus Smith, Letters, Railways
C.P.R. Survey Western Division Victoria 22 Au 1875 4 pg Smith Letter Lot 87 in our auction...
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“Camp near Tatla Lake, Sunday July 4th, 1875 My dear Wife, I start tomorrow early and...
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Sold for $2,600 Lot 82 in our auction Saturday 15th May 2021 1875 Marcus Smith letter to wife Anne from Soda Creek B.C. describes the start of journey to survey route across Coast mountains to Bute. Inlet, on Canadian Pacific Railway Survey headed notepaper
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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAYOFFICE OF THE ENGINEER-IN-CHIEFFeb 1st(4pm) 1875My dear WifeI sent a...
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Ottawa Jan. 30th, 1875, My dear Annie, if you could come up with the children on Thursday morning and go with me- It is a full dress affair -dress should not be black but anything else would do, it is only for five minutes to walk past and bow…
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Ottawa Jan. 8th, 1875 “I had the honor of dining with the Premier and Mrs. Mackenzie yesterday evening…”
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I could get through easily and give a decided Report if I were Chief Engineer-but with Mr. Flemings perpetual alterations and non committals combined with the political forces in the back ground I expect to have a hard time of it- I have a good mind to give in my Report pure and simple and not submit to any alterations and let them suppress it altogether if they think fit…I am weary weary and long for rest. I have been travelling every day and many nights since I left you in May..So excuse my writing more, it is late and I am tired travelled 60 miles today in an open wagon- thermometer to zero.
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I got back from my long trip north and within the limits of civilization a few days ago and received a great pile of letters, among others, yours of sept. 25th (with Tom’s and Eloise’s likeness enclosed) in which you tell me you have got them both to school- I am glad Eloise went to Miss Dupont’s I think she will do well-
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The hard work on this vast [BC] line is wearing me down and I shall get no thanks for it- these cussed policies are a disgrace and will bring ruin to the country- I only wish I were at the Cape now-They have found gold in large nuggets everybody is leaving Capetown
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Fort George, on the Upper Fraser Oct 7th,1874
My dear wife
I have come down by canoe from Francois lake about 140 miles west of this and am so far on my way back to Victoria. I intended to go down the Fraser by canoe to Quesnelle about 100 miles below this which I should have made in two days…
Mar 10, 2021 | British Columbia History, Highlights, Letters, Marcus Smith, Letters, Railways
Victoria, B.C. 11 May 1874 2.5 pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 83 in our auction Saturday...
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Hope Station, B.C. RF D 1906 1c Card & CPR Postcard ex Wellburn Lot 89 in our auction Saturday...
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Royal Hotel, Hamilton 26 Apr 1874 4-sided Marcus Smith letter home Lot 22 in our auction Saturday...
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Lot 21 in our auction Saturday 6th February 2021 My dear Wife I have received your note of the...
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Sold for $2,640 in our auction of Saturday 30th January 2021Lot 26 Ottawa 17 Jan 1874 content rich...
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Ottawa 7 Jan 1874 4-sided Marcus Smith Letter to wife mentions B.C. Lot 21 in our auction Saturday...
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Victoria, B.C. 11 Sep 1873 Marcus Smith 4-sides Letter to his wife Lot 84 in our auction Saturday...
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Realized $698 in our auction Saturday 29th August 2020Lot 80, Victoria, B.C. 25 July 1873 Marcus...
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Victoria, B.C. 26 Jn 1873 Marcus Smith letter to his wife mentions ‘Howe Sound’ Lot 80...
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Lot 30 in our auction Saturday 15th August 2020 Intercolonial Railway Ottawa 4 June 1873 Marcus...
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Lot 23 in our auction Saturday 8th August 2020Canadian Pacific Railway Ottawa 3 Jn 1873 Marcus...
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Canadian Pacific Railway 5 May 1873 6 sides Marcus Smith Letter Lot 26 in our auction Saturday...
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Victoria, B.C. 26 March 1873 Marcus Smith 4 sides letter to his wife Lot 77 in our auction...
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Victoria, B.C. 11 March 1873 Marcus Smith 4 sides letter to his wifeLot 94 in our auction Saturday...
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Victoria, V.I. 27 Feb 1873 4-sides Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 90 in our auction Saturday...
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Victoria, B.C. 10 Feb 1873 3 sides Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 87 in our auction Saturday...
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Railway pioneer Marcus Smith writes to his wife from Victoria B.C. “As the newspapers are so careful in chronicaling my movements I need say no more than that I have been working my way lately down the east side of Vancouver island from Seymour narrows to Esquimalt some 160 miles”
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Realized $1,430 in Auction #1264 6th June 2020 Lot 90 Victoria, B.C. 12 Jan 1873 4 sides Marcus...
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Victoria 8 Dec 1872 6-pg Marcus Smith letter to his wifeLot 89 in our auction Saturday 30th May...
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Victoria 5 Dec 1872 2-page 4-sided Marcus Smith Letter to his wifeLot 90 in our auction Saturday...
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Victoria, B.C. 11 Oct 1872 Marcus Smith 2-page Letter to his wife. Mentions meeting up with...
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150 Mile House, B.C. 1872 Marcus Smith Letter to his wife describing his early surveys for the...
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1872 Marcus Smith letter from 150 Mile House “if I succeed in getting through this will be immortalized and have my name to the pass forever”
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Soda Creek Fraser River, B.C. 2 Sep 1872 Marcus Smith Letter to wife Lot 96 in our auction of...
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My Dear Annie.. Soda Creek Fraser River, B.C. 2 Sep 1872 Marcus Smith Letter to wife Lot 96 in our...
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Intercolonial Railway 28 Mar 1872 Marcus Smith 2-pg Letter to his wifeLot 21 in our auction 11th...
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Marcus Smith 1869 letter complaining about lost letters mailed on Inman Steamship vessels.”I...
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Harry Abbott signed 1887 C.P.R. completion Supreme Court document Lot 83 in our auction Saturday...
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rcus Smith was a Railroad pioneer and became Acting Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Lot 17 is his appointment as District Engineer by Intercolonial Railway Lot 17 in our Auction Saturday 8th June 2019
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Marcus Smith was an early Railway-Engineer in Canada and his letters relate the Railway life of a Chief Engineer. This is a 2 page letter written in 1860 Hamilton to his wife. Lot 23 in our auction February 16th Saturday #bchistory #railroadhistory
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Marcus Smith was an early Railway-Engineer in Canada and his letters relate the Railway life of a Chief Engineer. This is a 12 page letter written in Ontario 1859 to his wife. Lot 26 in our auction February 9th Saturday #bchistory #railroadhistory
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Capetown 18 Oct 1860 Marcus Smith 4-page letter to his Cdn wife Lot 121 in our 2nd February 2019...
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Marcus Smith was an early Railway-Engineer in Canada, He became acting Chief Engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway. “I do not desire any encomiums. I have simply tried to do my work faithfully and well.” His letters and reports appear from the early days of Railway feature in All Nations auctions.
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Marcus Smith 20 Sep 1861 3-sided Capetown Letter to his wife Anne, the daughter of a cousin of Sir...
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Marcus Smith 1861 4-sided letter w/ two addenda to his wife (3 pcs) Lot 88 in our Auction 7th July 2018 Sold for $220. #marcussmith #bcsurveyor #canadianrailways #bchistory
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Marcus Smith 20 Feb 1861 4-page letter to his wife from Cape of Good Hope Lot 113 in our 9th June...
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1841/42 Somerset House Capt. Dawson/Marcus Smith Letter (2 copies) Lot 136 in our Auction of 12th...
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