Caption: "Monument at Prince George, B.C. to Mackenzie's voyage, post on the Fraser in 1790 on his way to the Pacific."
Caption: "Main cabin of a trapper on the Crooked River. Note clearing around buildings, also cache upon stilts"
Caption: "The Parsnip River where where [sic] we met it on leaving the pack"
Caption: "The sun sets on 1st day of great adventure. Northward bound!"
Caption: "Indian cabins, MacLeod Lake. First Hudson Bay Port west of the Rockies"
Caption: "The Road to the North. A cut bank on the Parsnip"
Series consists of five files which are related to surveying experiences in northern BC from 1931 and 1934, personal documents belonging to Phipps and his wife Dorothy Summer Phipps, and documents from the time when Phipps was working in South Africa.
Caption: "Getting ready to leave MacLeod Lake, 6:30am, 22nd May 1930"
Types of materials comprising this collection include: 2 journals, 2 newspaper articles, personal documents, 398 photographs, 2 plans, 2 autograph books, 2 wallets. Textual Series includes 1 diary and partial drafts of diary entitled "Diary of the Charles E. Bedaux Tractor Expedition from Edmonton to Telegraph Creek 1934" and a notebook by A.H. Phipps entitled "A.H. Phipps Memoirs of the Charles E. Bedaux Sub-Artic Expedition of 1934". Reports have been digitized and are accessible on the Archives Digital Collections website.
Phipps, Alfred Hugh