Sepia toned photograph of a group of men in the process of building a hotel at Beaver Mine in the Thunder Bay District of Ontario, Canada.

Black and white newspaper clipping of a photograph of the business center of Fort William. A streetcar can be seen travelling down the center of the busy street.

Black and white photograph of a Canada Pacific Railway bridge over the Nipigon river. The bridge can be seen with a train engine on top surrounded by railway workers both on the bridge and in its underbelly.

Black and white photograph of one of the first Canada Pacific Railway trains. Canada Pacific Railway was formed in 1881 and was Canada's first transcontinental railway providing service from eastern Canada to British Columbia. Text underneath…

Sepia-toned photograph of Canadian Bank of Commerce. The bank operated from a large brick building on the west side of Front and Princess Street. Staff outside the bank wearing winter clothing.

Black and white photograph of the front of Casa Loma in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Casa Loma (Spanish for Hill House) is a gothic revival style mansion that was created for financier Sir Henry Pellat in 1914. Currently serves as a house museum and…

Copy of Christmas, 1944 poem by James Morton (Canadian poet), Victoria, B.C. At bottom of poem is the last line from Robert Herrick poem "A Caution"

Sepia-toned photograph of the steamer, Clifford Sifton in ice on the Yukon River. The steamer is filled with passengers posing for the photograph on the upper and lower decks. The steamer is in the ice. Caption on image: "In the ice below Dawson".…

Sepia-toned photograph of coal train crossing a trestle. Captions on image: "Scene at Coal Mine near Dawson", "Goetzman Photo July 1902.

Sepia toned photograph of Col. S. W. Ray. Ray was a business man, banker and politician originally from Peterborough who became mayor of Port Arthur in 1911 serving until 1912.