Photograph depicts the No. 1 Canadian Provost Corps riding in formation within camp compound. Two unidentified officers seen watching in the background. Stamped annotation on verso reads: "Negative No. 2043. [----] when reordering."
Photograph depicts two unidentified officers inspect the first row of motorcycle corps members. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "No. 1 Provost Coy, England 1940". Stamped annotation on verso reads: "[--]tive No. 5629. Please quote when reordering."
Photograph depicts seven men wearing full outdoor motorcycling gear and carrying rations, line up in a row listening to an unmounted man read orders. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "No. 1 Provost Coy, England 1940". Stamped annotation on verso reads: "Negative No. 1011. Please quote when reordering."
Interior photograph of a church. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Chapel, Indian school, Fraser Lake B.C.”
Exterior photograph of a residential school. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Industrial Indian school, Fraser Lake. B.C.
Exterior side view of a Catholic church built between 1876-1878 by Father George Blanchet. Handwritten annotation on verso in pencil reads: “Our Lady of Good Hope, Stuart Lake, Fort St. James, BC ”
Photograph depicts a woman, probably Nedra Jane Paul, wearing gumboots and a collared shirt with a buttoned sweater over top. She has dishes in her hand, and is standing in front of a barn and miscellaneous farm items. A dog is at her right.
Totem Lore. W. Nicholson. (souvenir pamphlet, ca. 1950)
Photograph depicts soldiers parading on a street in front of the Whitehorse Inn.
Photograph shows a soldier getting his hair cut in front of an army tent in Whitehorse, YT.
Photograph depicts a group of Whitehorse citizens watching a military parade in front of a Canadian Bank of Commerce.
Photograph depicts a tree house in an army camp in Whitehorse, YT.
Item is a photograph of soldiers marching past the Whitehorse Inn.
Photograph depicts a derailed Canadian Pacific train. Cars have rolled down and embankment. The boom of a crane is in the left upper corner of the photo.
Street view of a large crowd of veterans marching down a street in Prince Rupert. Printed annotation on recto reads: "3." Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Prince Rupert: Nov. 11. 1940. Main St."
Photograph depicts a formal portrait of a group photo of five men in uniform and one in a suit standing outside the British Columbia Police building. Typed annotation originally attached to photograph: “Photo with no cars, 6 peoples: Left to Right: unidentified; unidentified; Ralph Cave; R.P. Stone; unidentified; Jensen”
Photograph depicts two unidentified Corps officers working on a motorcycle, while three others look on. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "No. 1 Provost Coy, England 1940". Stamped annotation on verso reads: "Negative No. 5730. Please quote when reordering."
Photograph depicts two unidentified Canadian Provost Corps officers driving in a jeep labelled "79 Provost." Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "No. 1 Provost Coy, England 1940". Stamped annotation on verso reads: "Negative No. 7272. Please quote when reordering."
The Modern Growth of the Totem Pole on the Northwest Coast. Marius Barbeau. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1940. Signed by author, gift to W.E. Collison.
The pair stands on beach, Joyce leaning down in foreground (daughter of Bertha and Reverend W.E. Collison, and granddaughter of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison). Water and shoreline in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Joyce & Col. [Pragnell?] on North Beach QCIs (Old Massett)."
Photograph depicts two lines of soldiers standing at attention during a military parade in Whitehorse, YT.
Photograph depicts an army cadet camp in Whitehorse, YT. Cookhouse in background.
Photograph depicts steam locomotive 5141 on the tracks. Crew members appear to be filling the water tank.
Item is a photocopied version of F.S. McKinnon's "Spruce Regeneration in British Columbia" reprinted from The Forestry Chronicle, 1940, Vol. 16 Supplementary issue.
Photograph depicts a bulldozer convoy pulling empty flats through a forested landscape.
Topographic map depicts communities, bodies of water, transport routes, parks, game reserves, posts, ports, radio stations, power sites (figures in horse power), steamship routes (distance in nautical miles), and precipitation. Mineral resources summarized locally in red ink.
Series 5 contains a photograph illustrating some of the people who live in St. Mary's Reserve.
Photograph depicts the Canadian Provost Corps in motorcycle formation. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "No. 1 Provost Coy, England 1940". Stamped annotation on verso reads: "[--]egative No. 727-1. Please quote when reordering."
Postcard featuring the Fort St. James HBC Post. Printed annotation on recto reads: "H.B.C. Post Ft. St. James."
Item is a promotional calendar for a long haul trucking company from Vanderhoof, BC called "Johnson Transfer". Calendar imagery is a print of an English setter dog.
File consists of social correspondence consisting of letters, postcards, wedding and party invitations, newspaper clippings, and map brochures.
Item is a photograph of the Princeton High School Cadet Corp in May 1941.
Subseries includes research material created and collected by Kent Sedgwick relating to land survey, development, and settlement in Prince George and British Columbia. Land surveys were conducted in British Columbia by surveyors George Dawson, the North Coast Land Company, Alfred R.C. Selwyn, and the Geological Survey of Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. James C. Anderson and engineer J. Gill conducted topographical surveys for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway on Fort George and the Indian Reserve. Surveyors and land plot companies developed the land for sale to promote settlement in the area. Also includes materials regarding the continued development of the City of Prince George throughout the 20th century. The files primarily consist of newspaper clippings, research notes, and photocopied documents.
Photograph depicts piles of stacked logs awaiting processing near Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts the Peden Hill sawmill, after the mill was rebuilt after the first mill burnt down in 1941. The first mill was operated by steam; the second mill was powered by a diesel-powered motor.
File consists of WWII military service ephemera, including a German language book for service personnel, a certificate of registration for firearms, and a discharge letter.
The Fyfe Lake Sawmill series consists of administrative, financial, and operational records created by Fyfe Lake Sawmills. The series includes labour, logging, sale, and order records. Also comprises correspondence between Fyfe Lake Fir and a number of individuals, organizations and companies. Records created by the Northern Interior Lumberman’s Association, equipment manuals, and instructional publications that were collected and used by Fyfe Lake are also included.
Fyfe Lake SawmillSubseries contains publications pertaining to or used by forestry industries in Canada.
Photograph depicts the lumber yard at Peden Hill sawmill, likely after the fire that burnt down the first mill at that location.
Photograph depicts workers cutting timber with a lomen planer at Peden Hill sawmill.
File consists of photographic prints of Bertha Schenk with Jim Sargent and two additional negatives depicting a woman on a tree trunk and children playing.
File consists of Bertha Schenk's records from her time with the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Includes Schenk's birth certificate, will, enrolment notice, requisitions, certificate of service, correspondence, newspaper clippings, a "Clothing and Equipment Statement", travel permit, letter of release from service, record of army service, a "Statement of War Gratuity", correspondence about the history of CWAC, bank record book, and her "Canadian Army Officer's Record of Service".
Photograph depicts a lomen planer in operation at Peden Hill Sawmill lumber yard. Other workers and stacks of timber are nearby.
Series consists of records pertaining to Harry Coates work and training as a BC Forest Service Research Technician. Series includes documentation for various Sx trials and experimental plots (E.P.) Harry Coates worked on.
File consists of a "Operational Manual with Instructions to Forest Officers in Forest Protection" by the Province of British Columbia Department of Lands (Forest Branch) 1942. File includes letters, notices, and updates to the manual.
Item is a photograph of the grade 8 class at Princeton Junior High School taken in May of 1941 with their teacher Ray Williston.
File consists of "Manner of Life in Ireland" by Bridget Drugan, Feb.5, 1941 (original handwritten story and photocopy).
Photograph depicts Frederick Robert Surry (Brian Fawcett's maternal grandfather), Dorothy Stewart, and Vincent Surry.