Geographic Features

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  • Includes both natural and artificial features
  • Physical landscape, built landscape
  • Urban and industrial landscapes
  • Topography
  • Site plans
  • Boundaries, districts, reserves, parks, sanctuaries, towns, etc.
  • NOTE: Mainly but not exclusively pertaining to photographic and cartographic records
  • SEE ALSO: Land, Settlement and Immigration

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          Alta Lake
          2020.08.84 · Item · [between 1913 and 1923]
          Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a couple in a row boat (likely the same couple depicted in image 2020.08.59) near Alta Lake shore docks and buildings. A rail line and a railway water tower are visible in the background. The water tank is a typical PGE 25,000 gallon water tank. The station would be a little over 400 feet south of the tank and is hidden by the stand of trees.

          Anderson Lake
          2012.13.1.82.15 · Item · July 1980
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a view of Anderson Lake near Seton Portage, B.C. A vehicle on a mountain road is also visible.

          Another Train
          2012.13.1.100.14 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts another train on the White Pass railway along a forested mountain side.

          2000.1.1.3.24.03 · Item · [ca. 1955]
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Photograph depicts snow-plowed road lined with trees, valley and mountain in background. Believed to have been taken from vehicle. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Approach to Quartz Rock Creek".

          2006.20.9.28 · Item · ca. 1954
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Postcard featuring a photograph of a photograph of the arrival of the first stage coach at the Hotel Northern in South Fort George, BC on 19 October 1911. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph reads: “Arrival of first stage at So. Ft. George B.C. Oct. 19, 1911. 28” Printed caption on the recto of the postcard reads: “First stage coach Prince George, B.C.” Handwritten annotation in pen on verso of postcard reads: “Mrs. C. Morris, Box 925, Penticton, BC. Thurs. 6pm, Dear Mother. Arr. Safely, good trip (bad pen!) Lovely weather. Hope all are well. Bia (?) Mary & Ed”

          Arthur Holland Album
          2014.10.1 · Series · 1907-1920
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Series consists of a photograph album from A. H. Holland, a British Columbia Land Surveyor, that was created while working in the Central Interior, the Cariboo, the Chilcotin and southeast British Columbia. This album visually documents steamboat, stagecoach and horse travel in British Columbia and some First Nation village sites. It also captures preparatory survey work and dawn of the age of rail travel.

          2014.10 · Collection · 1907-1920

          Collection consists of a photograph album from A. H. Holland, a British Columbia Land Surveyor, that was created while working in the Central Interior, the Cariboo, the Chilcotin and southeast British Columbia. This album visually documents steamboat, stagecoach and horse travel in British Columbia and also captures the prepatory work and dawn of the age of rail travel.

          Holland, Arthur H.
          2008.27.3 · File · 1935-1997
          Part of Knox McCusker Collection

          File consists of the following items:

          • "Mac" by D.L. Surveyor
          • "Knox (Mac) McCusker: Dominion Land Surveyor" by E.L. Rutherford, V.C. Brink, R.S. Silver and M.Z. (Smokey) Neighbour
          • Excerpts from Men and Meridians by Don W. Thomson
          • Article re: Knox McCusker written on the occasion of his death (April 14, 1955)
          • "McKusker (sic) to open up Blueberry Mountain Area" (Alaska Highway News, June 8, 1950)
          • "McCusker was surveyor, big game guide….also rancher and trail blazer"
          • "Knox Freeman McCusker" written on the occasion of his death (The Canadian Surveyor, July 1955)
          • "Veteran Surveyor - Alaska Highway Stories"
          • Memories of Knox McCusker by his oldest niece Betty (McCusker) Rutherford
          • "Veteran Surveyor prefers horses for long bush treks" by Eric Young (Edmonton Journal)
          • Eulogy for Knox McCusker read by Stanley D. Seif at Burch Presbyterian Church in Fort St. John, B.C.
          • Eulogy for Gwendolyn Dorothy McCusker (July 1997)
          • "Tropical Valley No Myth: amazing story of woman who lived there" by Thomas A. Wayling (Vancouver Sun)
          • Photocopy of section of map: "Topographical sketch map showing route traversed by the Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition 1934 through the Rocky Mountains" (by Frank Swannell, March 27, 1935)
          • Memories of Knox McCusker by Bill McCusker, his oldest nephew
          • "There is always a reason; destiny made it a date. The corridor of the Alcan didn’t just happen" (Fort St. John publication)
          • Article on Knox McCusker (ALS News, Winter 1983)
          2008.27.5 · File · 1928-1955
          Part of Knox McCusker Collection

          File consists of the following articles and speeches written by Knox McCusker:

          • "Reminiscences of Knox McCusker" (63 typewritten pages)
          • "Back and Beyond the Peace" by K.McCusker (taken from the Toronto Star Weekly Saturday May 5, 1928) – retyped
          • "The Alaska Highway" by Knox F. McCusker, D.L.S. (The Canadian Surveyor, July 1943)-photocopy
          • Mr. McCusker's speech (5 pages)
          • “Tropical Valleys of B.C.” (4 pages)
          • "The president has called me an old old surveyor…" speech written by K. McCusker
          • "In the early days of my career in the Surveying profession…" written by K. McCusker
          Atlin - A Dock
          2012.13.1.98.31 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a dock on the shore of Atlin Lake, as well as a building that may have once been a hospital. The slide is simply labelled "hospital."

          Atlin - Nurses' Residence
          2012.13.1.98.21 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a building which once served as the residence for two nurses in Atlin, B.C. A sign in front of the house reads: "Grateful Atlinites built this house in 1902 for their first missionary nurses, Helen Bone and Elizabeth Mitchell, who came here in 1899 and lived in a crude shack while valiantly and humanely caring for sick and dying pioneers."

          Atlin - the Tarahne
          2012.13.1.98.29 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a boat named "the Tarahne," which is located in Atlin, B.C. Atlin Lake and Mountain are visible in the background.

          Atlin - the Tarahne
          2012.13.1.98.32 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a boat named "the Tarahne," which is located in Atlin, B.C. Atlin Lake and Mountain are visible in the background.

          Atlin Lake?
          2012.13.1.98.46 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts what is possibly Atlin Lake, with numerous mountains in the distance and Atlin Mountain visible on the right of the image.

          Atlin Lake
          2012.13.1.98.14 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts Atlin Lake as well as a small section of Atlin, B.C. The mountain is possibly Atlin Mountain.