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      Black and white clipping from souvenir booklet. Presentation of flowers to Queen Elizabeth and King George VI by Joyce Evans during visit to Port Arthur on May 23, 1939.

      This item is a car decal that includes the original protective sleeve.

      Colour postcard featuring a winter scene of Lake Superior and the Sleeping Giant. The back of the postcard reads "Welcome the Giant: The majestic sight of the Sleeping Giant with one of four Welcome Islands in the foreground. The lighthouse was manned and cared for until 1986, although it was …

      Colour postcard of a painting of the Prince Arthur Hotel, located in Port Arthur. The postcard was produced by the Photogelatine Engraving Co. Ltd.

      A Linde photo of a railroad gang "striking rails" on the Trans Continental Railway in the early 1900s. J.D. McArthur Co. was the contractor for this section of the railroad.

      A Linde photograph of Webster's work on the Trans Continental Railway near Dryden. The image shows rock being dumped to build up the ballast for the rails.

      Photograph of early railroad construction with workers standing for a group photograph in front of a rock cut.

      Photograph showing a group of railroad construction workers standing together with their work horses.

      Note on bottom of image reads: "Anderson J. Camp - Dagera"

      Photograph showing a group of railroad construction workers.

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      Black and white photograph of a group of railroad construction workers.

      Photograph of rock pile used for early railroad construction.

      A railroad construction worker standing with his work horses.

      Black and white photograph of a group of railroad construction workers posing in front of a rock cut.

      Black and white photograph of a group of railroad construction workers posing in front of a rock cut.

      The construction camp of Cunningham & Nelson in the area somewhere between Rat Portage and the Manitoba border. Quite often camps were named after the construction company or foreman of the work gangs.

      An area of rock cut with the work gang looking over the completed section of track. Work along the area between Rat Portage and Dryden, as illustrated in this photo, was done manually without the aid of machinery to haul the rocks into position for the laying of track.

      This image shows a construction gang with horse and boom used to remove rocks that had been cleared by dynamite on a contract for the Trans Continental Railway (early 1900s). Horses and make-shift booms indicate the manual effort required to make this set of tracks a reality for Northwestern Ontario.

      After the completion of the culvert a group of workers pose for a photo of their completed task.