{"id":5309,"date":"2015-12-27T18:19:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T22:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2016-01-21T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:11:32","slug":"heckmans-canadian-pacific-a-photographic-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/heckmans-canadian-pacific-a-photographic-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Heckman&#8217;s Canadian Pacific: A Photographic Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HeckmanCPR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5308\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HeckmanCPR-sm.jpg\" alt=\"HeckmanCPR-sm\" width=\"158\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, January\u00a020, 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ralph Beaumont: Heckman&#8217;s Canadian Pacific\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author Ralph Beaumont takes us on a photographic journey into the visual history of this country&#8217;s first transcontinental railroad, in his new book on the CPR&#8217;s pioneering photographer.<\/p>\n<p>From 1898 to 1915, Joseph William Heckman traveled from coast to coast photographing every aspect of the CPR: main lines, branch lines, stations, bridges, steamships, hotels, and those people who made this vast organization run.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Beaumont\u2019s detailed description of each striking photo\u00a0provides\u00a0its\u00a0context\u00a0and delves\u00a0into the railway\u2019s rich history. The book displays 380 photographs (mostly never before published), taken from CPR&#8217;s Archive of \u00a04,000 plus\u00a0Heckman views. Each photograph is printed from the original large format glass plate negative.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss this opportunity for a unique glimpse into the expansion of the\u00a0CPR, and Canada itself, around the turn of the\u00a020th\u00a0century.<\/p>\n<p>The public is welcome. \u00a0Go to our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?page_id=34\">Programs<\/a>\u00a0page for times and directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, January\u00a020, 2016 Ralph Beaumont: Heckman&#8217;s Canadian Pacific\u00a0 Author Ralph Beaumont takes us on a photographic journey into the visual history of this country&#8217;s first transcontinental railroad, in his new book on the CPR&#8217;s pioneering photographer. From &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/heckmans-canadian-pacific-a-photographic-journey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[397,231,437,439,58,5,438,440,4],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program","tag-book","tag-canada","tag-cpr","tag-heckman","tag-history","tag-photographer","tag-railway","tag-ralph-beaumont","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}