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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".

Caption: As the river eats into the banks, the trees fall into the water and collect at points lower down, accumulating in great tangled masses. In the end with the silt of the flood periods make dams and so throw the river on a new course.

Item is a panoramic photograph of the Ingenika Valley.

Item is a panoramic photograph of Ingenika Valley.

Item is a panoramic photograph of Ingenika Valley.

Item is a photograph of Skookum Davidson holding kneeling down to give Mabel's head a scratch.

Item is a photograph of Skookum Davidson kneeling in between two pack dogs.

Item is a photograph of two survey crewmen carving out a dug-out canoe.

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: Shorty (6'4") going down the plaging towards Pass Lake. Trapper in B.C. Item is a photograph of Shorty trekking through snowy terrain with three pack dogs following along behind. A mountain is visible in the background.

Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing up within the cockpit of a floatplane at dock and reaching over towards the wing (?).

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.

Annotation on recto: "I-33250" which denotes a photograph in the collection of the BC Archives. Photograph depicts a Citroen half-track descending Cameron Hill in the Peace River district.

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

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

Caption: Our Cook: caribou horns; in the velvet. Item is a photograph of Fred using a set of caribou horns and a rifle to plow a small plot of land.

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.

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

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.

Item is a photograph of a pack horse train traversing across a meadow.

Item is a landscape photograph taken across Kitchener Lake.

Annotation on recto: "I-33253" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.

Caption: Taking water contents of the snow on the hills for Ocean Falls water supply. Item is a photograph of four men taking a water content measurement on a snowy slope.

Caption: Taking water contents of the snow on the hills for Ocean Falls water supply. Item is a photograph of four men taking a water content measurement on a snowy slope.

Three unidentified men pose for a photo with six loaded packhorses against a winter backdrop.

Annotation on recto: "I-57370" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.

Photograph depicts the supply laden canoes of the Bedaux expedition at Pete Toy's bar, taken during the Bedeaux Canadian Sub-Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1934. This photograph was originally attributed to a location on the Peace River; however, this is likely incorrect. If this photograph does depict Pete Toy's bar, the location of the photograph is actually the Finlay River. Annotated on the back of this print is the code "B-04443" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.

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".

Caption: Monument in Dean Channel to mark the spot where Mackenzie turned back. The first man to cross North America from Atlantic to Pacific. Item is a photograph of an obelisk on a rocky outcrop.

Caption: Monument in Dean Channel to mark the spot where Mackenzie turned back. The first man to cross North America from Atlantic to Pacific. Item is a photograph of an obelisk on a rocky outcrop.

Caption: "Monument at Prince George, B.C. to Mackenzie's voyage, post on the Fraser in 1790 on his way to the Pacific."

Caption: "Cow moose"

Item is a photograph of First Nations men, women and children standing around surveying equipment situated outside a dwelling. One native women is looking through the equipment.

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 recto: "Mountain Goat".

Item is a photograph of J.R.M. kneeling in front of a cairn surveying station beside two pack dogs.

Item is a photograph of Mrs. Charlie Weir sitting on the steps of a house with a baby on her lap and her son by her side.

Item is a photograph of a survey crewmman sitting on a rocky ledge by a waterfall.

Item is a photograph featuring two survey crewmen by a waterfall.

Item is a photograph of vegetation.

Item is a photograph of vegetation.

Caption: Ocean Falls after a snow shower. Taken from Don and Bessie's home.

Caption: Salt Chuck (Sea) in the foreground. The plant on the right with the booms of the logs ready for the sawmill. The town-site on the left, Link Lake in the background.

Caption: Log shoot in the foreground; the streets are made of wood; paper machine rooms on the left.

Caption: On board the Duchess of York, 1929. J.R.M., Rev. Mal M. MacDonald (Wee Free) and sister M. MacDonald. Item is a photograph of J.R.M. and his relatives aboard the Duchess of York.