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Photograph depicts Moran walking away from round entrance to long house, unidentified individual visible inside.

Photograph depicts the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, BC.

Photograph depicts the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, BC.

Photograph depicts the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, BC.

Photograph depicts Emil Bronlund, H. Witter, and rescue party alongside two canoes on sleds. A dog is harnessed to one of the sleds. The searching party consisted of E.H. Burden, C.H. Van Somer and Clarence Waldof from Prince George.

The following Prince George Citizen newspaper articles describe the incident:

“Searching Party Sets Out to Look for Emil Bronlund”
Prince George Citizen, April 21, 1932, p. 5

A searching party consisting of E.H. Burden, C.H. Van Somer and Clarence Waldof started out on Tuesday afternoon to look for Emil Bronlund, an engineer connected with the Consolidated Company who has been associated with a local syndicate in prospecting at the headwaters of the McLeod river. According to arrangements made Mr. Bronlund was to have arrived in Prince George last week, coming out by way of Fort McLeod, but in the absence of means of communication it was impossible to learn whether he started or whether he was detained in the vicinity of the area being prospected. Mr. Burden had the broadcasting station CKCD send out a message to J.E. McIntrye, in charge of the Hudson’s Bay post at McLeod, advising that Mr. Bronlund failed to arrive here, and suggesting a search if the missing man had passed the post.
The search party from the end will travel by canoe from Summit Lake to Davie Lake, from which point it will mush over the trail to McLeod. It may be several days before word is received from it.

“Emil Bronlund was held up by bad weather”
Prince George Citizen, April 28, 1932, p. 1

Emil Bronlund, whose delay on the trip from the headwaters of McLeod River occasioned his friends in this city much uneasiness, reached Prince George on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by E.H. Burden and Henry Waldof, who started out some days ago to search for him. Messrs. Burden and Waldof had difficult going. Summit Lake is still frozen, and it was necessary for them on Thursday morning to drag their canoe over four miles of ice until they could strike open water in the Crooked River. Davie Lake was also covered with ice, and they were dragging their canoe over this when they came upon Bronlund and Ham Witter, making their way south in the same tedious way, dragging their boat over the ice. Bronlund explained he had been held up at Fort McLeod on his way out as it was impossible to travel. There was about a foot of water on the ice, and the trail being close to the water level it would have been foolhardy to attempt to come through.
It was at McLeod that Bronlund fell in with Witter. The latter had been trapping in the Nation River section but had been taken ill. He was delirious and unable to eat, and his boys decided to bring him out as far as the fort, and having the patient strapped to a toboggan. Witter improved rapidly at the fort and when Bronlund started south on Wednesday morning he decided to accompany him. They had been on the trail two days when they met Burden and Waldof.
The local syndicate, with which Bronlund is associated, has made a number of locations on the headwaters of McLeod River, and is preparing to do further prospecting to determine more fully the probable values contained in the gravels.

Photograph depicts several mountains, including Bronlund mountain, from Two Brothers' peak.

Photograph depicts Emil Bronlund's crew on the shore of Sand Bay in front of a CF-AAM float plane. From left to right: Bob Niven, mechanic; Ken Dewar, pilot; Henry Giegerich, geologist.

Photograph depicts a mountain covered with sparse patches of snow (Two Brothers Peak).

Grassy area in foreground, trees and fence in background.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “House for Trudeau + Margaret, Q.C.I., Tlell”.

Photograph depicts buildings looking north of the Empress Hotel on Douglas Street in Victoria, BC. The Belmont is on the right and the Customs Building on the left.

Photograph depicts a view looking down on the Bulkley River, forested banks on both sides of the river, high mountains in the distance.

Photograph depicts a snow covered landscape covered with small trees, many of which are lacking branches.

Photograph depicts a snow covered cemetery with gravestones, tombstones, and monuments.

Photograph depicts a rustic log cabin, shed and garden fence near the edge of a lake. The surrounding landscape is low rolling hills.

Photograph depicts two men standing near two horses in front of a tall log cache in a forested environment.

Photograph depicts a man standing beside a discovery vein along a rocky cliff. The location is believed to be the east side of Duncan Mountain, east of the north end of Thutade Lake, some 140 miles northeast of Stewart. The Cairn group of 12 mining claims was located by Cominco Ltd. in 1931.

Image depicts a campsite somewhere near Berg Lake.

Image depicts a group of individuals at camp somewhere in Mt. Robson Provincial Park.

Image depicts a camp and what is likely Mt. Robson in the background.

Image depicts a camp of people with Mt. Robson and the Berg Glacier in the background.

Image depicts a camp of people with Mt. Robson and the Berg Glacier in the background.

Photograph depicts canvas tents placed among the trees. The forest floor is littered with branches, wood smoke or fog disperses among the trees.

Photograph depicts looking down on several canvas tents set near a creek. A sparsely forested hillside in the background.

Photograph depicts roughly cleared land in the foreground, canvas tents and a wagon in the midground, lake and hills in the background.

Photograph depicts a view from the water looking at a camp with several canvas tents. Lily pads in the foreground, forest in the background.

Photograph depicts a view from the water looking toward a cluster of canvas tents set on the shores of Christina Lake.

Photograph depicts four men seated around a small camp in front of Copper Mountain. The location of the photograph is noted to be at Duck Creek at Copper Mountain; however, those names may no longer be in current use. Location is assumed to be approximately 55.979291, -125.208415 near what is currently named Wasi Peak.

Photograph depicts a cluster of canvas tents on the shores of an inland lake. Wood smoke from the camp disperses amongst the trees in the background. Lily pads dot the lake in the foreground.

Photograph depicts three tents set between a road and a fence. There is a power pole on the right, sparsely forested hills and rocky mountains in the background.

Photograph depicts two men standing beside a canvas tent. There are two tents to the left in the midground and sparsely forested hills and low mountains in the background.

Photograph depicts several canvas tents set in lush vegetation near dusk.

Photograph depicts canvas tents set near the banks of the Fraser River, sparse forest in the foreground, river in the middle ground and low forested hills in the background.

Photograph depicts several men posing for a photograph. Cooking utensils, fire pit and hitching posts in the foreground. Trees in the background.

Photograph depicts a view from the river looking at the river bank. There is a canvas tent with forest in the background.

Photograph depicts a view looking across a creek to a tarp erected on the opposite shore, trees in the background. Survey of 55th parallel.

Photograph depicts a view of a creek, trees and canvas tents on the opposite shore. Smoke is rising from a chimney installed in one of the tents. Survey of 55th parallel.

Photograph depicts a view looking across a large creek or small river. Several canvas tents are set up along the river bank. Wood smoke drifts toward the giant trees behind the camp.

Photograph depicts a view looking across a large creek or small river. Several canvas tents are set up along the river bank. Wood smoke drifts toward the giant trees behind the camp.

Photograph depicts several canvas tents set on rocky, newly cleared ground. Tall trees in the background, a creek on the right.

Photograph depicts a cluster of canvas tents on the edge of an alpine meadow.

Photograph depicts a cluster of tents on the edge of a meadow. Four or more people stand or sit amongst the tents. Smoke rises from a wood fire and drifts amongst the stub alpine trees in the background.

Photograph depicts two men seated around a campfire with a tent near the shore of Fredricksen Lake.

Photograph depicts a camp with three tents within a snowy forested landscape.

Photograph depicts four men preparing a camp site with tents and a fire for cooking. In the background a dense forest is visible.

Photograph depicts a camp site with two men preparing several tents situated on a grassy field.

Photograph depicts pack horses at rest at a camp site situated on a grassy field. In the background a forested environment is visible.

Photograph depicts pack horses resting at a camp site situated on a grassy field. In the background a forested environment is visible.