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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          165 Archival description results for Geographic Features

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          2006.20.9.29 · Item · ca. 1918
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Handwritten annotation on recto of postcard reads: “Were there’s a will there’s a way, 5th Street, Prince Rupert, B.C., F. Button photo Pr. Rupert. No. 514.” Handwritten annotation in pen on verso of postcard reads: “Miss Belding, 33 Marlbro Avenue, Hull Yorkshire, England. S.S. Prince George. Dec. 1918. Dear Bertha, This is a street in the centre of the town Prince Rupert. There is a capacity list of passengers on board. The boat is registered to hold 384. We left at midnight and exped to arrive in Vancouver tomorrow at 3:30 pm. Love from Edie.”

          2008.2.1.15 · Item · 1929
          Part of Northern BC Cartographic Collection

          Colour-coded map depicting surveyed lands respectively open and closed to preemption. Depicts land recording divisions, land district boundaries, government reserves, communities, bodies of water, and transport routes. Includes topographical inset.

          2009.10 · Collection · 1921-1933

          The Fred Jeffery Collection consists of three photograph albums comprising a total of 303 b&w photographs all dating from ca.1924-1933. The subject matter of these images consist primarily of the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, machinery, boats) on the Nass River and North Pacific Coast. Notable are the photographs depicting indigenous (Nisga'a) people and places and Chinese and Japanese cannery workers. Identified canneries featured in these photographs include: Mill Bay Cannery, Namu Cannery, Klemtu Cannery, Shushartie Bay Cannery, Balmoral Cannery, North Pacific Cannery, Nass Harbour Cannery, Port Essington Cannery, Kitwanga Cannery, Port Nelson Cannery, Alert Bay Cannery, Dominion Cannery and ABC Co. Cannery. Photographs also include images of the Canadian Pacific Railway in both Vancouver and Sicamous, BC., as well as, images of the Legislative Assembly buildings in Victoria, the 1924 Special Service Squadron ships in Vancouver, early construction of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and town overviews of Yokohama, Japan (pre WWII).

          Jeffery, Fred
          2009.6.1.115 · Item · 3 January 1975
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Photograph depicts a forested mountain, the bottom half of which has been logged and terraced; beneath the mountain is a railroad track and parked vehickes including a schoolbus and two dumptrucks.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Fairview Sodturning, Prince Rupert, 1/3/75”.

          Photographs
          2000.16.2 · Series · 1906-1908
          Part of Prince Rupert Empire collection

          Series consists of nine photographs of Prince Rupert scenery, buildings, residents and surrounding area. Includes image of totem and dugout canoe.

          Prince Rupert
          2012.13.1.077 · Subseries · [between 1979 and 1980]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File contains slides depicting places in and around Prince Rupert, B.C.

          2012.13.1.78.25 · Item · 1982
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts numerous boats docked by the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Association from the deck of a ferry, possibly as it's leaving Prince Rupert, most likely for Haida Gwaii.

          Grain Elevator and Dock
          2012.13.1.77.35 · Item · 1980
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a large vessel docked at a grain elevator and two smaller boats at a dock in the foreground somewhere in Prince Rupert, B.C.

          Boathouse?
          2012.13.1.77.15 · Item · Aug. 1979
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a boat docked inside what appears to be a type of boathouse, possibly located in Metlakatla near Prince Rupert, B.C.

          Star Capella
          2012.13.1.77.14 · Item · Aug. 1979
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a large vessel docked in Prince Rupert, B.C. The name on its side is "Star Capella." The slide itself is labelled "superport."