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People and Mountains
2012.13.1.56.36 · Item · 1973
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a man talking to a group of hikers, with what is possibly Mt. Robson and the Robson Glacier in the background.

Packing horses
2014.10.1.010 · Item · 1907
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts a group of horses in process of being loaded with packs. Four or more men attend. There is a canvas tent, open fire and more people in the background.

Pack Train in High Country
2006.25.1.01 · Item · April 1963
Part of Al Elsey Moving Images Collection

Footage of a pack train in the high country, which is likely an upper valley of the mountain foothills. Probable locations of this footage include Holt homestead, Rainbow Mountains or Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.

2006.25.1.62 · Item · [between 1961 - 1967]
Part of Al Elsey Moving Images Collection

Footage of large animal, most likely a moose, along a steep bank. Two men and their pack horse traveling along an open landscape, a close shot of their campfire at night, then footage of them preparing for a journey early in the morning. Also a view of a herd of caribou, the men traveling in a pack train over a stream and through upper valleys of the mountains, various sunset shots, a lake full of birds feeding, and finally the men packing the horses with killed game meat, most likely caribou.

The location of the filming is most likely the Rainbow Mountains.