Pass, rail
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- OBJECT TYPE
- YEAR
- DATE
- 1928
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.1516.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- No.M 2058
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- An artifact comprised of rag paper elements/Un objet fait avec du matériel en papier de chiffon.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 6.0 cm
- Width
- 10.5 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Railway Transportation
- Category
- Archives
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- CP
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- January 1st-1928 to December 31st 1928
- Canada
-
This pass was one of twenty-seven issued to Mr. Lucien Brazeau and his wife to travel on the CP rail lines of Canada. Mr. Brazeau was a was an agent of CP Rail from 1928 and 1978 and thus served the company for fifty years. Cette carte de chemin de fer était utilisée par M. Lucien Brazeau et sa femme pour voyager sur les chemins de fer en opération avec CP Rail entre 1928 et 1978 respectivement. M. Brazeau était un agent de CP Rail pour plus de 50 ans. - Function
-
Used to inform rail employees that the bearer has the right to ride free on the train as per the specifications on the pass. Cette carte de chemin de fer était utilisée pour informer les employées de CP Rail que la personne qui possédais le billet pouvait monter à bord gratuitement. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- The front of the pass reads in part/Le devant de la carte de chemin de fer lit en partie:"CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY/NO.M2058/PASS MRS.L.BRAZEAU/ACCOUNT WIFE OF OPERATOR/BETWEEN Vankleek Hill & Ottawa./ 1928", The back of the rail pass reads/L'arrière de la carte de chemin de fer lis:"This pass is not transferable and may be cancelled/ at any time, and the person using it assumes all risk/ of accident or damage to person or property, whether/ caused by the negligence of the company's servants/ or otherwise. The person to whom this pass is issued/ is not prohibited by law from receiving free transpor-/tation and will lawfully use the same/ Mrs. L. Brazeau (signature)/this pass will not be honoured unless signed by the person whose name appears hereon.".
- Missing
- None apparent/L'objet a toutes ces pièces.
- Finish
- A light green coloured paper pass that has a black border with the name of each month below it. The train ticket number and the year are printed in red ink. The specification of the pass in printed in blue ink. The pass has three holes punched into it along its frame. One in the proper top left corner is in the shape of an “H”. The hole in the bottom proper left corner is in the shape of the letter “I” and the one along the frame on the proper left border is in the shape of possibly the letter “P”. The back of the pass has a handwritten signature in black ink on a dotted line below a paragraph of printed black lettering. Une carte de chemin de fer qui est fait en papier de couleur verte pale avec une bordure noire qui a le nom de chaque mois écrit en dessous. Le numéro du billet ainsi que l'année que le billet est imprimé et inscrit en encre rouge. Les autres spécifications de la carte sont écrites en encre bleue. La passe a trois trous sur son bandeau. Un trou est en forme de la lettre “H” et il est visible sur le coin du bon côté gauche de l'artefact. Le coin du bas du même bord a un trou qui prennent la forme de la lettre “I” et le dernier trois est visible sur la largeur du bon côté droit et il prend possiblement la forme de la lettre “P”. Le dos de la carte a de l'écriture à la main pour une signature en encre noire qui est visible au-dessus d'une ligne pointillée. En haut de la signature il y a un paragraphe en lettrage noire.
- Decoration
- N/A
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