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Annotation on recto: "Ingenika River 1930"; annotation on verso: "Ingenika River 1930". Photo depicts five survey crewmen pullng a fully loaded boat and a dog along the Ingenika River.

Annotation on recto: "Breaking log jam, 1930; Log jamb [sic] Ingenika River 1930".

Annotation on recto: "Finlay River...Fort Grahame, Oct 1/1930"

Annotation on recto: "Upper Ingenika"

One unidentified man holds the reins while two other unidentified men secure a load on top of a packhorse.

Photograph depicts snow cover along the uppermost slope of a mountain range.

Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing along a snowy ridgeline (?) leading up to a mountain peak. Annotation on verso: "Stalk Peak. West Kitchener. Laht."

Annotation on verso: "Oct. 26/29". Photo depicts a sailboat being pulled along a river by another boat. Large striated mountains visible along the shoreline.

Photo depicts a man standing beside a floatplane from Western Canadian Airways Ltd. Winnipeg, G-CASQ at dock; while another man sits inside a scow that is also at dock.

Annotation on recto: "Ingenika River 3 miles below Perry Creek".

Annotation on recto: "Ingenika River 1930. Ingenika Mine Freighting Boat" Photo depicts three men standing along the shoreline watching an Ingenika Mine freighting boat being poling along the Ingenika River.

Photo depicts a man and two boys standing along the shores of the Peace River. Annotation on verso: "Peace ' North Pine' (?) Oct 27/29"

Annotation on verso: "Log jam Ingenika"; annotation on recto: "Ingenika River 1930. Clearing boat passage...; Log jam Ingenika" Photo depicts two surveymen clearing a log jam in the river.

Annotation on recto: "Ingenika River 1930. Log jamb [sic] 3 miles below Perry Creek".

Annotation on recto: "Aero. Signal 1930". Photo depicts three men and three pack dogs seated at the top of a signal marker.

Annotation on recto: "Ingenika Mines boat, 6200lbs, Jne [sic] 23/1930; Ernie Wheeler". Photo depicts two men poling a freighting boat along the river.

Photo depicts a perspective of river rapids taken from a sloping rocky shoreline.

Annotation on recto partially obscured by damage to emulsion: "1930...Write (?) Creek"

Two men and two pack dogs stand in a clearing. A tall coniferous tree and a tent are visible in the background.

Annotation on recto: "Porcupine".

Two men in leather fringed jackets and cowboys hats waiting with cups in hand while a third man tries to open a bottle with a spur. Annotation on verso: "What Mackenzie would call a regale, Steppi, Powers, Ramsey".

Annotation on verso: "Fort Grahame mail boat at 20 mile". Photo depicts a mailboat pulling along side another boat along a rocky shoreline. Two men, a woman and a child are on board while one man and two dogs are on the shore.

Annotation on recto: "Finlay River". Photo depicts two men poling a cargo laden boat away from shore while another man sits in the boat and a dog is stands on the rocky shoreline.

Caption: Who would have believed it!! I hope your sister isn't worrying about you. Item is a photograph of a bearded survey crewman standing with axe in hand next to a rocky cairn.

Two unidentified men aboard a loaded canoe poling their way through the Finlay Rapids. Annotation on verso: "Finlay Rapids"; annotation on recto: "Finlay Rapids 1929".

Landscape perspective of Mt. Selwyn from across a river near Finlay Junction. Annotation on recto: "Mt.Selwyn"; annotation on verso: "Mt. Selwyn; Mt.Selwyn May 31 / 1793; near Finlay Junction".

Annotation on verso: "Rocky Mountain Canyon, Peace River above Johnson Creek. It must have been here where Mackenzie abandoned the river and commenced portaging; above where Mackenzie noted cool - ; (near mine here)?"

Caption: Pork and beans may do for mere mortals but goats and beans is the food of the gods. Item is a photograph of two dead goats laying side by side in the snow; a rifle has been placed between them.

Caption: Weary Willies, Duti Valley. Frank(left) and self (Jim Mackenzie? -right)identified. Item is a photograph of two men standing in a forested area with packsacks on their backs.

Caption: Sourdoughs. Light and flaky, brown and tasty; hotcakes that never go cold. Self (Jim Mackenzie? - left) and Bob, or J.R.C. Hewitt, B.C.L.S. Item is a photograph of two men seated by a campfire. One man is holding a cup of coffee, while the other is cooking hotcakes on a pan.

Caption: Arctic-Pacific divide; To the Pacific (written on left side of photo); To the Arctic (writtn on the right side of the photo); Timber-line valley, lovely open country to live and travel in.

Caption: Weary Willies, Duti Valley. Bob (left) and self (Jim Mackenzie? -right)identified. Item is a photograph of two survey crewmen standing amongst fallen trees with packsacks on their backs.

Unidentified man wearing leather fringed coat, fur chaps and a cowboy hat sitting on horseback beside a boat launch.

Caption: Left by snow-slides. Item is a photograph of two survey crewmen standing amidst the devastation left by snow-slides.

Caption: Duti Creek. Note the heavy vegetation. Trees mostly spruce.

Caption: Jack and the Beanstalk. Cache in a dead tree. Not one of our caches was touched by an animal, not even by squirrels or mice. Item is a photograph of a man securing a cache in a dead tree.

Caption: Time exposure. St. Lawrence and his Grid. The stools Bob made out of his head; he must be thinking up an arm-chair. Item is a photograph of two men each with a foot on a hand-made stool, standing by the cook tent.

Caption: The actors aren't poseing.

Caption: Bridge of Sighs, Black Creek. The water being rather fst, deep and black for wading, we feld the tree across. Bob and self (Jim Mackenzie?) identified. Item is a photograph of two men laden with packsacks, traversing a fallen log across a creek.

Caption: An evening caste [sic]. Kitchener Lake. Item is a photograph of a man fishing on a raft in the middle of Kitchener Lake.

Caption: Rafting Tzahny Lake, groundhop country. Stuck on the mud; glacial silt, we have more picturesque names for it. Half hour earlier Bob's pole stuck at the bottom and he left the raft for a good bath. Item is a photograph of two survey crewman poling a raft laden with supplies away from a mud flat.

Item is a photograph of two men standing by a stone cairn, each with packsacks on their backs. One man points while the other man looks in the direction being pointed to.

Caption: Left by snow-slides. Another word you great unshaved. Some animal had dened up here last winter. Item is a photograph of one man sitting atop a pile of tree debris left by snow-slides, while another looks up at him from below.

Caption: Left by snow-slides. There are many of these in Duti Valley. Item is a photograph surveying the devastation left by snow-slides.

Caption: Mt. McConachie named in honour of my pilot. F.C. Swannell, B.C.L.S., D.L.S., Instrument: Wild Theodolite reading to seconds. Frank on the job its self. Wall is for wind break, then we use the stones for the cairn. It's a toque not a night cap.

Caption: Robin Hood, or is it Sir Walter Raleigh. Item is a photograph of a survey crewman standing next to a tent in his long underwear, wearing a hat and holding a pipe. Clothes are drying on a log beside him that is being used to prop up the tent.

Caption: Cache Meadows on the summit Kubicek Pass, 13th July. The razor edge in the centre is Mt. Kubicek, in honour of Frank's pilot. The dumps are seperate being provisions for different months. Item is a photograph of two men standing in a patch of snow within a valley; Mt. Kubicek is visible in the background. Bob and self (Jim McKenzie?) identified.