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

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          Cheakamus River
          2014.10.1.145 · Item · 1911
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts three men standing in front of a log cabin. Two men hold fishing rods and each of these men hold a freshly caught fish. The third man stand to the side with a loaded back pack. Two men smoke pipes.

          Chasm, BC
          2020.05.47 · Item · 1936
          Part of Gordon Wyness Album

          Photograph depicts "The Chasm" or "The Painted Chasm", located 11 miles north of Clinton, adjacent to the route of the Cariboo Road. In 1940, four years after this photograph was taken, Chasm Provincial Park was created in 1940 to preserve and promote the Painted Chasm feature, a gorge created from melting glacial waters eroding a lava plateau over a 10 million year span.

          Chasm Wall
          2012.13.1.50.127 · Item · 1981
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the wall of a chasm full of trees at an unknown location.

          Chasm
          2020.05.48 · Item · 1936
          Part of Gordon Wyness Album

          Photograph depicts "The Chasm" or "The Painted Chasm", located 11 miles north of Clinton, adjacent to the route of the Cariboo Road. In 1940, four years after this photograph was taken, Chasm Provincial Park was created in 1940 to preserve and promote the Painted Chasm feature, a gorge created from melting glacial waters eroding a lava plateau over a 10 million year span.

          Chasm
          2012.13.1.50.126 · Item · 1981
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a chasm full of trees at an unknown location.

          Chasm
          2012.13.1.50.128 · Item · 1981
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a chasm full of trees at an unknown location.

          2009.6.1.580 · Item · July 1996
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Left to right: Deborah Poff, Dennis Macknak, Charles Jago, an unidentified woman, Iona Campagnolo, an unidentified man, Ellen Facey, and an unidentified woman. Unknown man stands on lower deck in foreground. Mountains visible in background. Photograph taken during the Chancellor's 1996 regional tour through Atlin and Whitehorse; see also items 2009.6.1.578 - 2009.6.1.581.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "#3 Chancellor's Tour".

          2009.6.1.581 · Item · July 1996
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Left to right: Deborah Poff, Dennis Macknak, Charles Jago, an unidentified woman, Iona Campagnolo, Ellen Facey, Nick Petraryszak, an unidentified man, and an unidentified woman. Unknown man stands on lower deck in foreground. Mountains visible in background. Photograph taken during the Chancellor's 1996 regional tour through Atlin and Whitehorse; see also items 2009.6.1.578 - 2009.6.1.580.

          2009.6.1.554 · Item · [1992?]
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Handwritten notation affixed to verso reads: "Iona w/ Lee Morrison (late) director of First Nations Centre at that time. Soda Creek / net fishing for elders".

          Photograph was taken during the chancellor's tour of Xats'ull Heritage Village, Soda Creek First Nation, Williams Lake, B.C.

          2009.6.1.556 · Item · [1992?]
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Unidentified women stands in centre background with arm raised, and a young girl sits on post in foreground. Photograph was taken during the chancellor's tour of Xats'ull Heritage Village, Soda Creek First Nation, Williams Lake, B.C.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "UNBC 1992".

          Central Interior Natives
          2012.13.1.009 · Subseries · [between 1976 and 2003]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File contains slides that reproduce historical photographs of Indigenous peoples of Central Interior, as well as maps.

          2012.13.2.09.04 · File · 1986-2004
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to bibliographic references about the central interior of British Columbia. Includes: "Pioneers of the Central Interior" pamphlet from the Prince George Public Library (Nov. 1986) and "Manitoba Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs" typescript letter from Shirlee Anne Smith to Frank Leonard (9 May 1980).

          Central Fort George townsite
          2012.13.2.03.02 · File · 1993-2011
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of clippings, notes, and reproductions relating to the Central Fort George townsite. File predominantly includes Kent Sedgwick's handwritten notes regarding land plots and development of Central Fort George. Includes: a map depicting Canadian National Railway plans along Hammond Street and the Fraser River (1936) and "Central Fort George lots" map depicting lot plans for the Central Fort George townsite (reproduced 1990).

          Central British Columbia Map
          2000.23.1.070.01 · Item · 1929
          Part of Audrey Smedley L'Heureux fonds

          Map depicts central British Columbia including Prince George, Queen Charlotte Island, Prince of Wales Island, Prince Rupert, and describes what these areas are known for.

          Central British Columbia
          2008.2.1.21 · Item · 1 May 1940
          Part of Northern BC Cartographic Collection

          Topographic map depicts communities, bodies of water, transport routes, parks, game reserves, posts, ports, radio stations, power sites (figures in horse power), steamship routes (distance in nautical miles), and precipitation. Mineral resources summarized locally in red ink.

          Central BC resource surveys
          2012.13.2.02.26 · File · 2002-2005
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to historical and contemporary natural resource surveys in British Columbia. Includes material on oil discovery, farming conditions, timber stands, the Alaskan Highway, and railway development. File predominantly consists of search results from the University of Northern British Columbia library, College of New Caledonia library, and Prince George Public Library regarding British Columbia's natural resource surveying.

          2011.3.2.09 · Item · 1913
          Part of North Coast & Central BC Postcard Collection

          Printed annotation on recto reads: “Central Avenue Fort George B.C. Copyright Canada June 25th 1913”. Handwritten annotation in ink on recto reads: “Hotel Fort George; Pool room; Men’s furnishing; General store; Bank Vancouver; Telephone office; Temperance House; Trust-company; Grand stand & fair grounds; Hospital; Ware house and general store.” Cancelled 1 cent Canadian stamp on verso is dated: "Fort George BC Jul 14 13". Handwritten message in ink on verso is addressed to Mr. Chas H Wilson 94 Gould St Toronto: "Fort George. B.C> Box 65, July 13/ 13. Dear Father, This is a 'bird's eye view' of our main street - ha! ha! some class alright. We live right behind the bakery lunch room on the right hand side of the picture, on 1st avenue, some people eh? Will be moving to Cassiar Ave soon. How are all the folks. Mae is writing. Peace. M."

          Census areas
          2012.13.2.01.05 · File · 1981-2011
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of clippings, notes, and reproductions relating to the census boundaries across Canada. Also includes a map entitled "Canada: Federal Electoral Districts - 1987".

          Cemetery
          2012.13.1.78.21 · Item · 1982
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts an individual crouching in an old cemetery located somewhere in the coastal forest on Haida Gwaii, B.C.