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History of the Quest Club
2001.1.077 · Item · 1999
Part of NBCA Document and Ephemera Collection

This 75th anniversary history of the Quest Club presented by Margaret Moffat and Joan Grainger at a celebratory luncheon held at Esther's Inn on October 12th, 1999 was gleaned from the History of the Quest Club prepared by Joy McMillan and Joan Grainger in 1984 for the 60th Anniversary of the Quest Club, and from Minutes of the Quest Club meetings up to 1999.

The Quest Club was started by six Prince George women who quested for more information in all fields of knowledge.

2023.5 · Fonds · 1976-2008

Fonds consists of maps, plans, and drawings collected by faculty in the UNBC School of Planning and Sustainability. The majority of these maps reflect the planning history of the City of Prince George and include large format, hand-drawn plans created by the City Planning Department from the 1970s and 1980s. Maps from City of Prince George Official Community Plans are also included.

Maps, plans, and drawings
2023.5.1 · Series · 1976-2020
Part of UNBC School of Planning and Sustainability fonds

Series consists of maps, plans, and drawings collected by faculty in the UNBC School of Planning and Sustainability. The majority of these maps reflect the planning history of the City of Prince George and include large format, hand-drawn plans created by the City Planning Department from the 1970s and 1980s. Maps from City of Prince George Official Community Plans are also included.

2023.10.1 · Item · July 1952
Part of Torajiro Sasaki Collection

This 16mm film of Eagle Lake Sawmills was produced by Torajiro Sasaki in July 1952, likely commissioned or with permission from the sawmill owners, the Spurs. The film depicts logging and sawmilling operations at the Eagle Lake Sawmill, as well as shots of the bunkhouses, exterior shots of the mill, and the beehive burner. Employees of the mill are shown at work. In 1952, Eagle Lake Sawmill used both machinery and horses in their operations.

Sasaki, Torajiro
Torajiro Sasaki Collection
2023.10 · Collection · July 1952

This 16mm film of Eagle Lake Sawmills was produced by Torajiro Sasaki in July 1952, likely commissioned or with permission from the sawmill owners, the Spurs. The film depicts logging and sawmilling operations at the Eagle Lake Sawmill, as well as shots of the bunkhouses, exterior shots of the mill, and the beehive burner. Employees of the mill are shown at work. In 1952, Eagle Lake Sawmill used both machinery and horses in their operations.

Sasaki, Torajiro
Prince George
2000.23.1.086 · File · 1960-1994
Part of Audrey Smedley L'Heureux fonds

File consists of material relating to Prince George, British Columbia. Materials include a newspaper, calendars, newspaper, pamphlet, map, newsletters, booklet, postcards, photograph reproductions, and articles. Highlights include:

  • The Citizen, "Prince George Official Guide", [198-?] (magazine)
  • Brian Gardiner, M.P. Prince George-Bulkley Valley, "Calendar", 1993
  • The Citizen, "Happy Birthday Prince George 70 years: Look at us now!", March 6, 1985 (newspaper)
  • Prince George Town Centre Business Association, "Your Guide to Downtown Prince George", [198-?] (pamphlet)
  • Fraser Fort George Museum, "A Millar Addition Heritage Tour, Prince George, B.C.", [197-?] (pamphlet)
  • Prince George Railway Museum, "Self-Guided Tour", [199-?] (pamphlet)
  • Prince George Railway Museum, "On Track", 1983 (newsletter)
  • Boston Pizza, "The Official Prince George Tourist Street Map", [198-?] (map)
  • Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, "Conserving A Proud Heritage", 1983 (reproduction booklet)
  • Fort George Regional Museum, "Museum Mirror", Vol. 3 No. 2, 1987 (newsletter)
  • Fort George Regional Museum, "Museum Mirror", Vol. 3 No. 1, 1986 (newsletter)
  • Fort George Regional Museum, "Museum Mirror", Vol. 1 No. 1, 1985 (newsletter)
  • Fort George Regional Museum, "Fort George Railway", [198-?] (pamphlet)
  • QM Industries LTD, "People Producing Ideas and Equipment For Industry", [198-?] (booklet)
  • Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, "Prince George, B.C. 1978", [198-?] (booklet)
  • Greater Prince George Visitors and Convention Bureau, "Prince George British Columbia Canada", [197-?] (pamphlet)
  • Fort George Museum, "The Arrival of the Steel 70th Anniversary", 1984 (calendar)
  • Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, "Historic Huble Homestead, Prince George British Columbia", [199-?] (pamphlet)
  • Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, "Regional Parks", [198-?] (pamphlet)
  • Prince George Region Development Corporation, "Circle Tours in Prince George Area", 1996 (pamphlet)
  • The Citizen, "70 years: look at us now!", March 6, 1985 (newspaper)
  • Northern Hardware, "75 Years of Service in the Prince George Area", 1994 (magazine)
  • The Citizen, "Centennial 1871-1971", July 20, 1971 (newspaper)
  • Marie Nagel, "The 1984 Historical Calendar of Prince George", 1983 (calendar)
  • Prince George Public Library, "Local History of Prince George" 1984 (booklet)
  • Prince George Chamber of Commerce, "Prince George British Columbia", [198-?] (pamphlet)
  • Regional Development Commission, "Prince George B.C", 1975 (booklet)
  • Jessie Bond Sugden, "In the Shadow of the Cutbanks", 1985 (book)
  • Prince George Public Library, "Local History of Prince George", 1983 (pamphlet)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Bridge Construction Crossing Fraser River from East entering Prince George", [190?] (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Construction Days G.T.P. Railway", [190?] (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Construction work G.T.P railway bridge into Prince George", [between 1910 and 1914] (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "The court room at South Fort George, B.C", [190?] (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "B.C. Provincial Police - South Fort George, B.C, Showing the Constable's sitting-room", [190?] (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Interior of the CNR Station", [192-?] (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Prince George from G.T.P. Railway Yard", April 12, 1914 (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Railroad Construction at Prince George, B.C", 1914 (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "George Street Prince George", 1915 (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Indian Village at Fort George, B.C", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Arrival of the semi-weekly stage at Fort George, Mr. Al Young is the driver", 1912 (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Sports South Fort George", 1912 (photograph reproduction)
Photographs
2008.27.8 · File · [ca. 1930-1955]
Part of Knox McCusker Collection

Photographs within this file depict Knox McCusker on surveying treks and at his home. Photographs also document his headstone and the monument erected in his memory.

Knox McCusker Collection
2008.27 · Collection · 1909-2003

The Knox McCusker Collection consists primarily of photocopies of publications written by Mary Henry (1931-1935); annual reports; articles and papers written about Knox McCusker (1935-1997) as well as research materials pertaining to his life; articles and speeched written by Knox McCusker and general correspondence regarding surveying. Aside from these photocopies are some original records; namely: original correspondence between McCusker and G.G. Aitken (1934-1938); photographs (ca. 1930-1950); McCuskers 1909 certificate enabling him to be an Articled Pupil with the Dominion Land Surveyors; and an interview with McCusker conducted by J. Frank Willis (CBC, 1954).

McCusker, Knox
2008.27.7 · File · 1909, 1934, 1938
Part of Knox McCusker Collection

File consists of the following original items:

  • Letter to G.G. Aitken from K.F. McCusker (Jan. 9, 1934)
  • Letter to G.G. Aitken from K.F. McCusker (June 20, 1934)
  • Letter to G.G. Aitken from K.F. McCusker (May. 9, 1938)
  • Certificate no. 484 bestowed upon Knox Freeman McCusker enabling him to be admitted as an Articled Pupil with the Dominion Lands Surveyors. (Feb. 22, 1909)
General correspondence
2008.27.6 · File · 1931-1955
Part of Knox McCusker Collection

File consists of the following photocopied items:

  • Letter to Mrs. J. Norman Henry from G.G. Aitken, Chief Geographer (May 22, 1935)
  • Memorandum to Mr. F.H. Peters, Surveyor General (Topographical Survey of Canada) from R. W. Cautley, Acting Chief of Control Surveys (Dec. 17, 1931)
  • Letter to Mr. F.H. Peters, Surveyor General from F.C. Green, Surveyor General (June 22, 1932)
  • Letter to Mr. F.H. Peters, Surveyor General from Knox McCusker (Dec. 8, 1931)
  • Letter to Mr. F.H. Peters, Surveyor General from Knox McCusker (Dec. 2, 1931)
  • Letter to Mr. F.H. Peters, Surveyor General from Knox McCusker (Oct. 2, 1931)
  • Letter to unknown recipient from J. Norman Henry (Oct. 15, 1931)
  • Letter to K.F. McCusker from G.G.A. (G.G. Aitken?) Member on Geographic Board of Canada Representing B.C. (June 2, 1938)
  • Letter to unknown recipient from Gwen McCusker (Sept. 5, 1944)
  • Letter to Mrs. McCusker from Sgd. J. Clarke Williams on the occasion of the death of Knox McCusker (April 27, 1955)
2008.27.4 · File · 1998-2003
Part of Knox McCusker Collection

File consists of the following materials:

  • Letter to Vernon C. Brink from the National Archives of Canada re: Knox McCusker holdings (March 1, 1999)
  • Photocopy of article: "Living Landscapes: Exploring the wilds of northeaster BC" by Ross Peck and Brian Apland
  • Some materials for an article on Knox McCusker, D.L.S.
  • Material about the life of Knox Freeman McCusker
  • Letter to Mrs. Rutherford (Oct. 5, 1999) re: access to interview of Knox McCusker by Frank Willis
  • Accession information print-out re: interview of Knox McCusker by Frank Willis in 1954
  • National Archives of Canada accession information print-out re: Dominion Land Surveyor Diaries, 1881-1930
  • Mary Henry / Knox McCusker "Team" (April 19, 1998)
  • Letter to Mrs. Rutherford from George Ungar re: background information on Knox McCusker
2008.27.5 · File · 1928-1955
Part of Knox McCusker Collection

File consists of the following articles and speeches written by Knox McCusker:

  • "Reminiscences of Knox McCusker" (63 typewritten pages)
  • "Back and Beyond the Peace" by K.McCusker (taken from the Toronto Star Weekly Saturday May 5, 1928) – retyped
  • "The Alaska Highway" by Knox F. McCusker, D.L.S. (The Canadian Surveyor, July 1943)-photocopy
  • Mr. McCusker's speech (5 pages)
  • “Tropical Valleys of B.C.” (4 pages)
  • "The president has called me an old old surveyor…" speech written by K. McCusker
  • "In the early days of my career in the Surveying profession…" written by K. McCusker
2008.27.3 · File · 1935-1997
Part of Knox McCusker Collection

File consists of the following items:

  • "Mac" by D.L. Surveyor
  • "Knox (Mac) McCusker: Dominion Land Surveyor" by E.L. Rutherford, V.C. Brink, R.S. Silver and M.Z. (Smokey) Neighbour
  • Excerpts from Men and Meridians by Don W. Thomson
  • Article re: Knox McCusker written on the occasion of his death (April 14, 1955)
  • "McKusker (sic) to open up Blueberry Mountain Area" (Alaska Highway News, June 8, 1950)
  • "McCusker was surveyor, big game guide….also rancher and trail blazer"
  • "Knox Freeman McCusker" written on the occasion of his death (The Canadian Surveyor, July 1955)
  • "Veteran Surveyor - Alaska Highway Stories"
  • Memories of Knox McCusker by his oldest niece Betty (McCusker) Rutherford
  • "Veteran Surveyor prefers horses for long bush treks" by Eric Young (Edmonton Journal)
  • Eulogy for Knox McCusker read by Stanley D. Seif at Burch Presbyterian Church in Fort St. John, B.C.
  • Eulogy for Gwendolyn Dorothy McCusker (July 1997)
  • "Tropical Valley No Myth: amazing story of woman who lived there" by Thomas A. Wayling (Vancouver Sun)
  • Photocopy of section of map: "Topographical sketch map showing route traversed by the Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition 1934 through the Rocky Mountains" (by Frank Swannell, March 27, 1935)
  • Memories of Knox McCusker by Bill McCusker, his oldest nephew
  • "There is always a reason; destiny made it a date. The corridor of the Alcan didn’t just happen" (Fort St. John publication)
  • Article on Knox McCusker (ALS News, Winter 1983)
2008.27.1 · File · 1930-1999
Part of Knox McCusker Collection

File consists of the following photocopied articles:

  • "Collecting Plants Beyond the Frontier in Northern British Columbia" by Mary Gibson Henry
  • "Exploring and Plant Collecting in Northern British Columbia" (1933) by Mary Gibson Henry
  • "A Thousand Miles Exploring on Horseback in Northern British Columbia" (1935) by Mary Gibson Henry
"Notable Surveys"
2008.27.1.12 · Item · [1999?]
Part of Knox McCusker Collection

Item consists of a summary document entitled "Notable Surveys" by Mrs. W.K. Rutherford, V.C. Brink, R.S. Silver, and M.Z. ("Smokey") Neighbour. The document summarizes Knox McCusker's notable surveys. This article may have been put together by the authors for, or in conjunction with, a submission to a historical serial publication.

2023.2.2.9 · Subseries · 2000-2002
Part of Dr. Paul Sanborn fonds

With support from the Muskwa-Kechika Trust Fund as a Seed Grant, Dr. Paul Sanborn carried out a pilot study of soils in relation to prescribed burning in the Northern Rocky Mountains, in collaboration with Perry Grilz, then a Range Officer in the Ministry of Forests. Sanborn and Grilz conducted 3 days of field work in July 2001. Sanborn wanted to test the utility of plant-derived opal (phytoliths) as a soil indicator of vegetation history, in the hope of distinguishing natural grasslands from those created by anthropogenic burning.

2023.2.2.8 · Subseries · 2003-2014
Part of Dr. Paul Sanborn fonds

The Kluane Lake area of SW Yukon was a continuing focus of Dr. Paul Sanborn's research for more than a decade, and generated several productive collaborations. Key themes included biological soil crusts in boreal grasslands, and interactions between aeolian sediment deposition, slope processes, and fire in boreal grassland and forest soils.

Research results appeared in these publications:
Marsh, J., Nouvet, S., Sanborn, P., and Coxson, D. 2006. Composition and function of biological soil crust communities along topographic gradients in grasslands of central interior British Columbia (Chilcotin) and southwestern Yukon (Kluane). Canadian Journal of Botany 84: 717-736. https://doi.org/10.1139/b06-026

Pautler, B.G., Reichart, G.-J., Sanborn, P.T., Simpson, M.J., and Weijers, J.W.H. 2014. Comparison of soil derived tetraether membrane lipid distributions and plant-wax δD compositions for reconstruction of Canadian Arctic temperatures. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 404: 78-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.03.038

Sanborn, P. and A.J.T. Jull. 2010. Loess, bioturbation, fire, and pedogenesis in a boreal forest – grassland mosaic, Yukon Territory, Canada. 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Soil Solutions for a Changing World 1 – 6 August 2010, Brisbane, Australia. http://www.iuss.org/19th%20WCSS/Symposium/pdf/0120.pdf

The 2003 field work with Darwyn Coxson was a pilot study to assess the types and distribution of biological soil crusts in boreal grasslands in the Kluane Lake area. Eight sites were visited at which the team sampled the crust and the uppermost A horizon immediately underneath it. Note that site numbers Y03-03, -04, -05, -06, -07, -09, -10 and -12 were indicated as sites 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 12 in Table 1 of Marsh et al. (2006). Additional crust sampling was conducted at two additional sites (“Peninsula”, “Silver City”) in 2004; details of sampling methods and site locations are in Marsh et al. (2006).

Results from 2009 field work were presented in Sanborn and Jull (2010), along with soil charcoal radiocarbon dates from 2003-2008 sampling which were used to reconstruct fire history in the Kluane Lake area. The 2003 (a single site at Silver City), 2004, and 2008 field work consisted of a reconnaissance of grassland and forest sites across a range of aspects and slope positions in order to recover buried soil charcoal.

Research reference material
2023.2.1 · Series · 1976-2016
Part of Dr. Paul Sanborn fonds

Series consists of reference material collected by Dr. Paul Sanborn, including field trip guidebooks, resource inventory documents, collected sources for various areas of research, and proceedings and abstracts for conferences and workshops.

2023.2.2.6 · Subseries · 1983-2010
Part of Dr. Paul Sanborn fonds

During the 1980s, Agriculture Canada pedologists Scott Smith (retired from Summerland Research Station, formerly based in Whitehorse) and Charles Tarnocai (retired from Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa) had a large field program which addressed the trends in soil development in the central Yukon. Across this region, particularly between Whitehorse and Dawson City, the land surfaces and surficial deposits vary greatly in age due to the differing extents of glaciations over the past ~2 million years.

This work built on a pioneering study from the previous decade:
Foscolos, A.E., N.W. Rutter, and O.L. Hughes. 1977. The use of pedological studies in interpreting the Quaternary history of central Yukon Territory. Bulletin 271. Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa. 48 p. https://doi.org/10.4095/103066

Tarnocai and Smith presented their results in two publications:
C. A. S. Smith, C. Tarnocai, and O. L. Hughes. 1986. Pedological investigations of Pleistocene glacial drift surfaces in the central Yukon. Géographie physique et Quaternaire, 40 (1): 29–37. https://doi.org/10.7202/032620ar
Tarnocai, C. and C. A. S. Smith. 1989. Micromorphology and development of some central Yukon paleosols, Canada. Geoderma 45 (2): 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7061(89)90047-5

Tarnocai and Smith shared the unpublished data and soil samples from this work with Dr. Paul Sanborn, and this resulted in a student project published as:
Daviel, E., P. Sanborn, C. Tarnocai, and C.A.A. Smith. 2011.Clay mineralogy and chemical properties of argillic horizons in central Yukon paleosols. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 91: 83-93. https://doi.org/10.4141/cjss10067

2023.2.2.5 · Subseries · 1991-2023, predominant 2004
Part of Dr. Paul Sanborn fonds

The Lost Chicken Mine, a placer gold mine in eastern Alaska, approximately 120 km west of Dawson City, Yukon, is an important fossil locality for the late Pliocene (approximately 2.5 – 3.0 million years ago). A comprehensive account of the stratigraphy and paleontology of this site was given by:
Matthews, J.V., Jr., J.A. Westgate, L. Ovenden, L.D. Carter, and T. Fouch. 2003. Stratigraphy, fossils, and age of sediments at the upper pit of the Lost Chicken gold mine: new information on the late Pliocene environment of east central Alaska. Quaternary Research 60: 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00087-5

Dr. Paul Sanborn visited the site on July 20, 2004, as part of a group led by Duane Froese (Professor, University of Alberta). The group concentrated on a single exposure (~ 2 m thick) straddling the Lost Chicken tephra, a volcanic ash bed (2.9 ± 0.4 myr) which is a major stratigraphic marker at the site. Sanborn described, photographed, and sampled this exposure, and obtained a basic set of characterization data. Intact samples were collected but thin sections were never produced.

2023.2.2.4 · Subseries · 2004-2005
Part of Dr. Paul Sanborn fonds

The eastern flank of the Mackenzie Mountains has a complex history of multiple glaciations by both the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets, recorded in thick sequences of glacial sediments that were documented at 3 locations (Katherine Creek, Little Bear River, Inlin Brook) by:
Duk-Rodkin, A., R.W. Barendregt, C. Tarnocai, and F.M. Phillips. 1996. Late Tertiary to late Quaternary record in the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada: stratigraphy, paleosols, paleomagnetism, and chlorine-36. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33 (6): 875-895. https://doi.org/10.1139/e96-066

Of the 3 sites, the exposure on Inlin Brook, a tributary of the Keele River, was the least well-documented, so in summer 2004 Dr. Paul Sanborn joined a field party of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) based at Tulita, NWT, and was given helicopter support to visit Inlin Brook (August 5-8). A brief visit was also made to the Little Bear River site.

On August 9-10, Sanborn joined Alejandra Duk-Rodkin (GSC) and Rene Barendregt (U Lethbridge) in helicopter-assisted field work at sites in the Franklin Mountains and elsewhere east of the Mackenzie River.

2023.2.2.3 · Subseries · 2004-2006
Part of Dr. Paul Sanborn fonds

As part of a multidisciplinary team led by Grant Zazula (then a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University; later a palaeontologist with the Government of Yukon) and Duane Froese (Professor, University of Alberta), Dr. Paul Sanborn examined a set of buried paleosols (fossil soils) preserved in frozen sediments exposed by placer mining in the spring of 2004.

The findings were published in:
Zazula, G.D., D.G. Froese, S.A. Elias, S. Kuzmina, C. La Farge, A.V. Reyes, P.T. Sanborn, C.E. Schweger, C.A.S. Smith, and R.W. Mathewes. 2006. Vegetation buried under Dawson tephra (25,300 14C yr BP) and locally diverse late Pleistocene paleoenvironments of Goldbottom Creek, Yukon, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 242: 253–286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.005