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New Westminster 19 Sep 1882 3pg Marcus Smith Letter to his wife

Mar 10, 2022 | Collections, Highlights, Marcus Smith, Letters

New Westminster 19 Sep 1882 3pg Marcus Smith Letter to his wife Lot 103 in our auction Saturday...

Camp on Fraser 8 Aug 1881 3pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife

Nov 25, 2021 | Collections, Highlights, Letters, Marcus Smith, Letters, Railways

Camp on Fraser 8 Aug 1881 3pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 84 in our auction Saturday 27th...

New Westminster, B.C. 19 Jul 1881 6-pg Marcus Smith Letter home

Nov 11, 2021 | Collections, Highlights, Letters, Marcus Smith, Letters, Railways

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-..

Toronto 23 May 1881 Marcus Smith 2-pg Letter to his wife

Oct 22, 2021 | Collections, Highlights, Letters, Marcus Smith, Letters

Toronto May 23rd. 1881

My dear Wife

I spent the evening at Williams’ yesterday where I met Arthur, Mr. & Miss Helmcken- all well Meggie looks delicate Arthur grown like a young elephant..

Shoal Lake, N.W.T. 27 Sep 1880 Marcus Smith 2 pg letter to his wife

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..”

Camp on Bird Tail River 1 Oct 1880 Marcus Smith Letter to his wife

Oct 7, 2021 | Collections, Highlights, Letters, Manitoba, Marcus Smith, Letters

“.. [Schreiber] conducts himself to others like a navie or subcontractor’s foreman- He is entirely off his head with his new dignity However he has completely exposed his ignorance not only of the Country but of his profession and if I am driven to it I could expose him thoroughly

Winnipeg 6 June 1880 Marcus Smith 4 page letter to his wife

Aug 24, 2021 | British Columbia History, Collections, Highlights, Letters, Marcus Smith, Letters, Railways

Winnipeg 6 June 1880 Marcus Smith 4 page letter to his wife Lot 23 in our auction Saturday 28th...

Fort Ellice 16 July 1879 Marcus Smith letter to his wife

Jul 30, 2021 | British Columbia History, Collections, Highlights, Letters, Marcus Smith, Letters, Railways

Fort Ellice 16 July 1879 Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 31 in our auction Saturday 31st July...

Victoria, B.C. 26 March 1873 Marcus Smith 4 sides letter to his wife

Jul 24, 2020 | British Columbia History, Highlights, Railways

Victoria, B.C. 26 March 1873 Marcus Smith 4 sides letter to his wife Lot 77 in our auction...

Victoria, V.I. 27 Feb 1873 4-sides Marcus Smith letter to his wife

Jul 9, 2020 | British Columbia History, Highlights, Railways

Victoria, V.I. 27 Feb 1873 4-sides Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 90 in our auction Saturday...

Victoria, B.C. 26 Dec 1872 4-page Marcus Smith Letter to his wife

Jun 13, 2020 | Canada History, Highlights, Railways

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”