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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          4134 Archival description results for Geographic Features

          4134 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
          Stikine River
          2000.23.1.095 · File · 1976-1980
          Part of Audrey Smedley L'Heureux fonds

          File consists of material relating to the Stikine River, predominantly consisting of newspaper clippings. Includes a photocopied 1976 annotated bibliography by Thomas Buri entitled "Of the Stikine River Country and its People".

          2012.13.2.20.01 · File · 1980, 2002-2004
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to Strathnaver, BC. Also includes maps depicting Cottonwood River and Hixon areas of the Cariboo Land District (1972 and 1980).

          Stream
          2012.13.1.100.07 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a stream somewhere along the White Pass railway.

          Stream
          2012.13.1.84.01 · Item · 1994
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a downhill stream somewhere in the area surrounding Stewart, B.C.

          Street in Giscome - After
          2012.13.1.87.094 · Item · [between 1980 and 2000]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a street in Giscome. The store was previously located on the left. The church is in the background. Map coordinates 54°04'18.5"N 122°21'57.7"W

          Street in Giscome - Before
          2012.13.1.87.093 · Item · [between 1980 and 2000]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a street in Giscome B.C. The Giscome Store is located on the left side of the image with the church in the background. Map coordinates 54°04'18.5"N 122°21'57.7"W

          2009.5.3.51 · Item · [ca. 1910]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts four men and small cart standing in street, lines of log buildings on either side. Tents can be seen at end of left side of street. First building on left is larger, with the sign "STOPPING PLACE". Trees cross midground, mountains stand in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Tete Jaune Cache. B.C."

          2011.3.3.104 · Item · [ca. 1909-1930]
          Part of North Coast & Central BC Postcard Collection

          Street view down Centre Street in Prince Rupert, BC. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Centre Street, Prince Rupert, B.C. 1664." Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Minnie sent a parcel to you by express to-day- some things you left behind you. I hope you and Bertie had a good trip up. Florrie and the children will leave on the morning train. All are pretty well and send their love to you. Harrie." Postcard is addressed to: "Miss M.V. Beattie Enderby, B.C." Verso is affixed with a two cent Canadian stamp. Postmarkson recto and verso are illegible.

          Strip Mining, 1970
          2000.1.1.3.15.26 · Item · June 1970
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Photograph depicts benches from strip mining operations at the Cassiar mine. Haul trucks and equipment believed to be used for explosive purposes can be seen in mine. Shop and mountain range visible in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Cassiar, BC / June 1970 / by Tom Kiefer". Image consists of three photographic prints adhered together to form one comprehensive panoramic.

          Stuart Lake Sheet
          2008.2.1.22 · Item · 1 August 1940
          Part of Northern BC Cartographic Collection

          Colour-coded topographic map depicting lands surveyed as alienated, available for purchase or lease under Land Act, or reserved. Depicts land district boundaries, land recording divisions, provincial forest boundaries, HBC posts, triangulation stations, telephone lines, communities, bodies of water, and transport routes.

          Sunset
          2012.13.1.93.03 · Item · 1978
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a view of a sunset at an uncertain location, possibly in the Peace River Region.