wintorbos' photos with the keyword: cpr

Number 13 in the De Nobele series, showing the brand new (and still not quite finished) Canadian Pacific Railway station on Higgins Avenue in Winnipeg. This was mailed on June 12, 1906 to Miss H. Butcher, 31 Ballingdon Rd., Clapham Com., London S. W. England without a message.

Unused postcard, divided back and numbered 201347 without publisher identification. The C.P.R. may have sponsored this.

Valentine & Sons card no. 101,374, showing the Royal Alexandra Hotel and the C.P.R. station from Main and Higgins. Interestingly, at lower right it is signed by Eugene Haberer, who was apparently a Montreal artist and/or engraver at the time. This image may have been prepared in advance of the hotel's opening (early 1906?). It is difficult to tell whether it was done on the basis of an actual photograph or not. The buildings in the background (on the left) appear to me to be figments of the imagination (and of course there is the usual faked street life -- cars, carriages, streetcars, etc.) Would be interesting to know more about this one. The identical image is used in the Clubb/Tom Jones postcard, but the right edge is trimmed off of that one and the remaining first few letters of the Eug. Haberer signature appear to have been deliberately effaced.