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File consists of two ornate holiday greeting cards produced by Canadian Forest Products, which provide a detailed history of the founding of Prince George in relation to the fur trade and the discovery of the site of Vancouver. Also includes a commemorative pictorial essay booklet by John M. Horton entitled "Re: Discovery' 92: An Exhibition of Marine Paintings and Historical Writings to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Voyage of Discovery by Capt. George Vancouver featuring the Marine Paintings of John M. Horton" (1992).

This reproduction of a BC Provincial Archives photograph is captioned: "Construction work - GTP railway bridge into Prince George. Townsite conditions harsh. Floating ice piling up a danger. Winter 1913-1914."

File consists of Audrey L'Heureux's correspondence relating to her writing career, as well as notes pertaining to future possible writing projects. Also includes photograph reproductions for Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trails to Rails":

• BC Provincial Archives, "First locomotive to pass in front of camp G.T.P.R. Track Layer ahead", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Track Layer from the pass arriving at Fort Fraser", 1918 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Track-layer in Petes cut", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, untitled photograph, [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, untitled photograph, [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Passing through the Fort George Canyon", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Fort Fraser, the finish of the half mile race between tract layer", 1914 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, untitled photograph, [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, untitled photograph, [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "The lunch on line is an everyday occurrence", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "The lunch on line is an everyday occurrence", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Yard by yard the G.T.P.R. is built from coast to coast", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Driving four mile Creek Bridge", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Driving Endako River bridge", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Steam shovel", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)

File consists of newspaper clippings and a newsletter consisting of information on crop circles. Includes a winter 1998 Prince George Art Gallery newsletter with a feature article entitled "Invision: Crop Circles and Creativity".

File consists of research material regarding David Douglas (25 June 1799 - 12 July 1834), a North American explorer and botanist best known as the namesake of the Douglas fir. Includes photocopied articles and photocopies of his correspondence from an archives.

The map depicts the distribution locations and transportation routes for the processing of mineral and petroleum in British Columbia.

File consists of research materials regarding Ducks Unlimited. Includes newspaper clippings and a booklet from the Ducks Unlimited Canada Vanderhoof Committee entitled "3nd Annual Banquet" (1987).

Photographic negative depicts a map titled "Early Days in Stewart".

File consists of a photocopied newspaper clipping (1934) and a newspaper article transcription (1930) regarding the economic depression in Prince George and northern BC in the 1930s.

File consists of material relating to Edward R. Gosnell. Gosnell was the first Provincial Librarian from 1893 to 1898 and also the first Provincial Archivist from 1908 to 1910. He wrote one of the earliest histories of British Columbia. Research materials include reproductions of photographs from BC Archives and reproductions of articles. Highlights include:

• Reproduction of photograph from BC Archives depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "Track layer laying steel from Kitselos to Hazelton", 1913
• Reproduction of photograph from BC Archives depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, [191-??]

The photo negative depicts two people talking in an office at the Provincial Archives.

This BC Provincial Archives photograph reproduction depicts five men carving a canoe close to Finlay River on September 18, 1913.

File consists of newspaper clippings, reports, agendas, booklets, articles, and a pamphlet regarding fisheries in British Columbia, particularly the impact of the Kemano Completion Project on the Nechako River and other tributaries. Highlights include:

• Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Public Meetings Concerning Kemano Completion, "Agenda", 1984 (reproduction)
• Reproduction of "Presentation by the Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council to a Public Meeting Called by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) on March 2 & 3, 1984 in Vanderhoof, British Columbia"
• Department of Fisheries and Oceans, "Towards a Fish Habitat Decision on the Kemano Completion Project A Discussion Paper", 1984 (booklet)
• Province of British Columbia, "Fraser River Estuary Study", [198-?] (pamphlet)

File consists of booklets, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and reports on fishing in British Columbia. Highlights include:

• Government of Canada, "Salmonid Enhancement", [after 1977] (pamphlet)
• Province of British Columbia, "Angling Data Northern British Columbia", 1976 (booklet)
• Sportguide Series Special Interest Supplement to TV Week Family Magazine, "The Salt Chucker", Vol. 2, 1978 (magazine)
• Government of Canada Fisheries and Oceans, "Where and When to See Salmon", 1998 (pamphlet)

File consists of research materials regarding forestry in British Columbia. Includes newspaper clippings, booklets, pamphlets, correspondence, photocopied articles, and a proposal on land and resource management of Vanderhoof. Highlights include:

• Vanderhoof Forest District, "Vanderhoof Land and Resource Management Plan: Summary", 1997 (booklet)
• MacMillan Bloedel, "How the forest grows...", 1975 (booklet)
• MacMillan Bloedel, "Enjoying the forest...", 1974 (booklet)
• B.C. Business Magazine, "Forestry in B.C. The Winter Years", 1981 (booklet)
• Province of British Columbia Ministry of Forests, "Integrated Resource Management", [198-?]
• Province of British Columbia Ministry of Forests, "Reforestation: more than 7 seedlings planted every second", 1992 (booklet)
• The Shared Resource, "Our Forests" Vol. 2, 1993 (booklet)
• Plateau Forest Products Ltd., "2000 Forest Development Plan: 2000-2005 Beetle Management", Dec. 1999 (map)

This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "#80977 - Fort Fraser, B.C. - c 1914." Photograph depicts the Fort Fraser general store.

File consists of collected research materials regarding Fort Fraser, Fraser Lake, Engen, Endako, and the Endako mine. Includes a Provincial bulletin, postcard, histories of Fort Fraser, correspondence, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings, articles, and an advertisement for Fort Fraser. Highlights include:

• Province of British Columbia Lands Service, "The Fort Fraser-Fort George Bulletin Area", 1967 (booklet)
• Postcard of Fraser Lake, [198-?]
• Don & Sue Rudland, "Welcome to Historic Fort Fraser", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Christero Communications, "Rose Prince of the Carrier Nation", [198-?] (pamphlet)

File consists of research material collected on the history of Fort George including a Provincial bulletin, newspaper clippings, pamphlet, and reproductions of articles and images. Highlights include:

• Robert Arthur Williams, Province of British Columbia Lands Service, "The Fort Fraser- Fort George Bulletin Area", No.7. 1973 (bulletin)
• Fort George Park, "Fraser-Fort George Museum", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• W.J. MacAllan, "The Moving of the Fort George Indians", Cariboo & Northwest Digest, Summer 1948 (photocopied article)
• Nellie R. Campbell, "When Steel Came to Prince George", Cariboo & Northern B.C. Digest, Summer 1947
• Fraser Fort-George Museum, "Museum Mirror", Vol. 2 No. 1, 1986

File consists of a typed index to the Fort George Herald for 1910 through 1916.

File consists of collected research materials regarding the settlement of Fort St. James. Materials include booklets, postcards, pamphlets, maps, an information placemat, newspaper clippings, a newsletter, and reproductions of a map, articles, and images. Highlights include:

• Parks Canada, "Fort St. James National Historic Park", 1981 (booklet)
• "Fort St. James National Historic Park", [197-?] (postcard)
• Chamber of Commerce, "Fort St. James", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• "Fort St. James, B.C., Canada Chundoo Motor Inn", [197-?] (postcard)
• Parks Canada, "Fort St. James National Historic Park", 1985 (pamphlet)
• Parks Canada, "National & Historic Parks Guide", 1985 (pamphlet)
• Parks Canada, "Fort St. James National Historic Park", 1977 (pamphlet)
• Environment Canada Lands Directorate, "Soil Capability for Agriculture, Fort St. James", 1974 (map)
• Fort St. James, "Murray Ridge Ski Hill", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Illustration from Provincial Archives of British Columbia, "Fort St. James, Mount Murray in the distant background", [192-?] (print photograph reproduction)
• Illustration from Provincial Archives of British Columbia, "Fort St. James Pageant, heft to the right, Norman Mathews in costume of Clark at old post, Sir George Simpson as Chief factor, CH. French; AC Murray as C.F. Arch, McDonald', 1928 (print photograph reproduction)
• Illustration from Provincial Archives of British Columbia, "Fort St. James-Celebrations-Dominion Day: Tug-of-war-Fort St. James", July 29,1911 (print photograph reproduction)
• Illustration from Provincial Archives of British Columbia, "Indian Village at Fort St. James-Stuart Lake", 1913 (print photograph reproduction)
• Caledonia Inns, "The History of New Caledonia Established 1806", [198-??] (placemat)
• National Historics, "Fort St. James", Vol.1 1999 (newsletter)

This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "Fort St. James Pageant 1928. (Left to Right) - Norman Mathews in costume of clerk at old post, Sir George Simpson as (Chief Factor, CH. French); AC Murray (as C.F. Arch. McDonald)".

File consists of reproduced newspaper clippings and articles on the history of forts in British Columbia. Includes a 1982 Parks Canada booklet entitled "Historic, Guide to Canada's National Historic Parks".

File consists of material relating to Frank Cyril Swannell, a surveyor of British Columbia. Materials include a magazine, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photograph reproductions, journal articles, and journal notes compiled by Audrey L'Heureux. Highlights include:

• Swannell, F.C, "Report on Topographical Surveys in Omineca District", 1912 (reproduced journal article)
• Corporation of Land Surveyors, "The Link", Vol.1 No.2 , 1977 (magazine)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Exploring Surveyors Making Canoe Finlay River", 1913 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Surveying Omineca Exploration", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)

File consists of research materials on the Fraser River such as newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reports on Fraser River management programs. Highlights include:

• Fraser Basin Management Board, "What People in the Communities Told Us: A Report on the Open House Discussions", 1993 (booklet)
• Fraser Basin Management Board, "What Basin-Wide Stakeholders Told Us: A Summary of the Presentations", 1993 (booklet)
• Fraser Basin Management Board, "Sustainability Together", 1993 (booklet)
• Environment Canada, "Fraser River Action Plan 1992-93, Progress Report", 1992 (booklet)
• The Mighty Fraser River, "Portraying its Scenic Beauty and Rugged Canyons", 1976 (booklet)

This photograph of a photograph [poor reproduction] depicts the B.X. sternwheeler on the Fraser River at South Fort George.

File consists of material collected on Frederick William Knewstubb. Frederick William Knewstubb, who first foresaw the possibility of the Kenney Dam/Nechako Reservoir project, which was carried out by the Aluminium Company of Canada (ALCAN). Knewstubb joined the Water Rights Branch as a draughtsman in 1911, became a hydrological engineer in 1926, and was Chief Hydrologic Engineer for the Water Rights Branch at the time of his death, 16 December 1937. Materials includes reproductions of articles, and correspondence.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital copyright and photograph information from Audrey L'Heureux's book series "Trail to Rails". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of collected research materials for Audrey Smedley-L'Heureux's book draft for "From Trail to Rail", as well as reproductions of articles and maps. Materials include chapters of "Trail to Rail, Surveys and Gold 1862-1904 Fort George, Fort St. James, Fort Fraser", reproductions of journal articles, photographs, and correspondence. Highlights include:

• Photograph reproduction, "A Hudson's Bay Steamer Engaged in The Skeena River Traffic at Hazelton", [192-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "Fort George, Fraser River", [192-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "Approaching the Main Range of The Rocky Mountains", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "In the Swamp Near Jasper Lake", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "Quaint Cantilever Bridge of Timber, built by the Indians across the gorge of the Bulkley River near Hazelton", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "A Shack Among the Trees on the Skeena River", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "The Most Majestic of Canadian Mountains", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "Telkwa", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "A Settler's Cabin Near Tsinkut Lake, in the Nechaco [Nechako] Valley", [189?]
• Photograph reproduction, "How One Has To Travel Up the Fraser River", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "The Eternal Quest", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "Mr. J. W. Millan's Ranch At Stoney Creek", [191-?]

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of photographs from Audrey L'Heureux's manuscript for publication entitled "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins, 1905-1914". The following photographs are reproductions from the BC Provincial Archives:

• BC Provincial Archives, "Hudson's Bay Co. Post at Fort St. James (Stuart Lake)", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Fort St. James, Hudson Bay Boat at Fort St. James area", 1909 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Grading Prince George Railway Yards Marion Steam Shovel and Mules", 1913 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Hudson's Bay Co Building Fort George B.C", 1911 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Prince George, B.C. from the foot of Victoria St., looking Southeast", April 12, 1914 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Northern Hotel at South Fort George Note the water on the street", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Another town mile 129 BC", 1913 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "H.B. Co. Post at Fort Fraser (Fraser Lake) with barley field in the foreground", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Fort Fraser, B.C.", 1914 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Mr. Olds as he entered British Columbia to locate 100 miles ahead of steel at Endako", February, 1913 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "S.S Chileatin and the S.S. at Stuart lake", 1913 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Showing Track layer Arriving from the east making the last connection G.T.P.P Ft. Fraser", 1914 (photograph reproduction)

Data could not be migrated.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904".

File consists of a floppy disk with digitized chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of photographs from Audrey L'Heureux's manuscript for publication entitled "Trail to Rail: Surveys and Gold, 1862-1904". The following photographs are reproductions from the BC Provincial Archives:

• BC Provincial Archives, "Stoney Creek Charlie", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Terraces near Blackwater Bridge", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Kenton daughter Bessie, Egra Evans, Charlie McKinnon with whiskers", 1882 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Old Rupert Town", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "J.C. white during Western Union Telegraph Expedition", 1865 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Unknown", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Raft", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Unknown Cottage", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Fredrick Whymber", 1864 (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Mary Quaw, Mile Six Mary Fraser River", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Mary Quaw, Mile Six Mary Fraser River", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "S.C White During western telegraph expedition", 1865 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "S.C White During western telegraph expedition", 1865 (photograph reproduction)

File consists of collected research materials regarding genealogy. Materials include pamphlets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings. Highlights include:

• The British Columbia Genealogical Society Newsletter, 1979-1981
• The British Columbia Genealogical Society, "Information", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• The Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ, "In a Granite Mountain", 1973 (pamphlet)
• BC Provincial Archives of Alberta, "Sources of Genealogical Information at the BC Provincial Archives of Alberta 1978", No. 8, 1978 (information leaflet)
• The British Columbia Genealogical Society, "Tracing Ancestors In British Columbia", 1986 (pamphlet)
• The British Columbia Genealogy Quarterly, 1979-1980
• John J. Newman, "Cemetery Transcribing: preparations and procedures", 1971 (leaflet)
• Logan Utah, "The New Year Brings New and Exciting Things!", 1979 (booklet)

File consists of material regarding George Mercer Dawson who in 1875 joined the Geological Survey of Canada. His survey of BC strongly influenced government decisions on the proposed route of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Dawson was a charter Royal Society of Canada member (1882) and by 1883 was the assistant director of the Geological Survey of Canada. Includes reproductions of reports written by Dawson, articles, and research materials.

This reproduction of a BC Provincial Archives photograph is captioned "George Street - Prince George, B.C. January 26th, 1915." The King George Hotel is depicted in the photograph.

File consists of material relating to George Williams, a Prince George pioneer and author. File includes reproductions of records and journal articles.

File consists of information gathered on Gerald (Gerry) Smedley Andrews, Surveyor General of the Province of British Columbia and Director of Mapping and Provincial Boundaries Commissioner. File contains greeting cards, correspondence, articles written by both Audrey L'Heureux and Gerry Andrews, a booklet on land surveying, and reproductions from the G. Smedley Andrews collection at BC Archives. Correspondence includes letters to and from L'Heureux and her publisher Northern B.C. Book Publishing as well as letters between L'Heureux and Gerry Andrews. Highlights include:

• Reproduction of G.S. Andrews' article "Surveys and Mapping in British Columbia Resources Development", 1954 (article)
• G.S. Andrews, "The Land Surveying Profession in British Columbia", 1955 (booklet)
• Reproduction of article by Gerry Andrews in The Victoria Naturalist 46 (3) entitled "My Bear", 1989 (article)
• G. Smedley Andrews, "Metis Outpost", 1985 (promotional pamphlet)
• Reproduction of paper by G. Smedley Andrews entitled "The Makings of a Surveyor General", 1989 (document)
• Dave Robinson and Mike Hocking, "The Monkman Pass and Trail: A Brief History", 1982 (book)
• G.S. Andrews, "Professional Land Surveyors of British Columbia: Cumulative Nominal Roll, 4th Edition", 1978 (booklet).
  File also includes a photograph reprint of "Trout Lake Johnny" from the collection of the uncle of G.S. Andrews.