Rail pass booklet
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- OBJECT TYPE
- YEAR
- DATE
- 1923–1929
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2023.0044.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Ontario Commercial Travellers Association
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- An artifact comprised of leather and rag paper elements/Un objet fait avec du matériel en cuir et 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
- 13.5 cm
- Width
- 7.8 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Railway Transportation
- Category
- Services
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Ontario Travellers
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1923-1929
- Canada
-
This certificate booklet belonged to Kenneth P. McDonald who was an executive officer of the company. He was president of Kenneth McDonald & Sons from 1935 to 1956 and president of the Canadian Seed Trade Association in 1943-44. Ce carnet repli de certificat d'accréditation appartenais à Kenneth P. McDonald qui était le président de Kenneth McDonald et Fils de 1935 à 1956. Il était aussi président de l'Association des vendeurs de semences du Canada entre 1943 et 1944. - Function
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This small leather-bound booklet provided the bearer, as a travelling salesperson, discounts on rail, steamboat travel, and hotel accommodation. Ce petit carnet en cuir permettait au voyageur de commerce d'obtenir des rabais sur des chambres d'hôtel, un voyage de bateau à vapeur et le transport ferroviaire. - Technical
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This leather-bound notebook with K.P. McDonald’s signatures, annotations, and date-stamps, (including a CPR stamp) tracks his movements as the company’s executive officer during his duties as the company’s travelling salesman. Ce carnet en cuir à des notes, signatures et des étampes pour souligner les mouvements de K. P. McDonald pendant son travail comme voyageur de commerce et président de la compagnie Kenneth McDonald et Fils. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- On the front of the cover/Sur le devant du couvercle:"OTA", Inside the front cover/À l'intérieur du couvercle:"Cancellation is the penalty for/loaning this certificate, and for/failure to present same when/puchasing Ticket, and when/Tendering Ticket to Conductor./PLACE RAILWAY/TICKET HERE".
- Missing
- Appears complete/L'objet a toutes les pièces.
- Finish
- A leather booklet with gold lettering on the front cover that represents the Ontario Travellers’ Association. The same gold lettering is also visible on the inside of the front cover. Seven rail passes made of white rag paper are contained inside the booklet. The passes are written in black, red, blue, green and purple ink depending on the year. Stamps and signatures are also visible inside the booklet. Un carnet en cuir qui a du lettrage en or sur le couvercle pour représenter L'Association canadienne des professionnels de la vente. Le même lettrage en or peut être retrouvé à l'intérieur du couvercle. Sept passes de rail faits en papier de chiffon peuvent être retrouvés à l'intérieur de carnet. Les passes sont écrites en encre noire, rouge, bleu, verte et mauve dépendant de l'année de la passe. Des étampes et des signatures sont aussi visibles sur chaque passe.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Ontario Commercial Travellers Association, Rail pass booklet, between 1923–1929, Artifact no. 2023.0044, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2023.0044.001/
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