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2002.12.24 · Item · 1987
Part of Bob Harkins fonds

Item consists of transcript of interview with writer, film maker, and guide outfitter Andy Russell conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding Russell's experiences with guiding in Northern Rockies. Russell also discusses his new work The Life of a River and discusses the environmental impact of hydro-electric development on rivers

Harkins, Bob
2002.12.17.2 · Item · c.1970-c.1989
Part of Bob Harkins fonds

Item consists of transcript and tape summary of interview with trapper Hank Witter who discusses his life as a trapper in Northern BC. c.1920s-c.1960s.

Harkins, Bob
2002.12.3.2 · Item · c.1970 - c.1989
Part of Bob Harkins fonds

Item consists of transcript of interview with writer and guide outfitter Jack Boudreau conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding Boudreau's experiences with grizzly bears. Boudreau also discusses other guide outfitters and hunters from Northern British Columbia.

Harkins, Bob
2002.12.27.2 · Item · c.1970-c.1989
Part of Bob Harkins fonds

Item consists of transcript of interviews with various guests including Bob Crosby, manager of the Simon Fraser Hotel; Sammy Labadiere (sp?); and Prince George resident Chuck Williams discussing the re-enactment of the Simon Fraser voyage down the Fraser River in 1958.

Harkins, Bob
Drying sugar
2014.10.1.104 · Item · 1910
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts a tarp spread out on the grass, two men sit nearby the tarp. There is a canvas tent in the background with a man standing beside it. Behind the tent is a low hill with a fence bordering the top of the hill. There are blankets drying on the fence.

2014.10.1.112 · Item · 1910
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts a man bathing himself while standing in a small metal tub. Photograph description in album notes this as "His 'Semi Annual'" [bath]. On the left is a log structure, presumably a cache building. A large clearing surrounds the building and bathing man. There is a forest and bluff in the background. Possibly located near Giscome Portage.

2002.1 · Collection · 1887-1999

The Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Society Collection consists primarily of textual, photographic, and cartographic records related to the regional developments of the railway industry in Northern BC. A predominant portion of the collection is made up of material from the Canadian National Railway; other railways represented include the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, the British Columbia Railway (BC Rail), the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the Grand Trunk Railway, the Intercolonial Railway, and the Okanagan Express. Significant geographical areas covered include Prince George, the Peace River Region, Terrace, Bulkley Valley, Hazelton and Prince Rupert.

The forestry industry is represented in the collection with operational and financial records from Fyfe Lake Sawmill Ltd., which operated southwest of Prince George in the 1950s.

The collection has been organized into series according to creator, each of which also has been arranged to subseries, file and item level, where applicable. This collection consists of eight series, as follows:

1) Canadian National Railway
2) Grand Trunk Railway
3) Pacific Great Eastern Railway
4) British Columbia Railway (BC Rail)
5) Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)
6) Intercolonial Railway
7) Fyfe Lake Sawmill ltd.
8) PGRFM
9) Photographs

2009.5.4.60 · Item · May 1981
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Julian Fry reminisces on his early life and acquaintances in Prince George during his work along the Blackwater Road in the early 1920's. Some notable references include: Blackwater Road, C.F.S. Baldy Hughes, Bill Comstock, Tom Cornell, Duncan MacKenzie, Ernest Levesque, [?] Hathaway, [?] Nelson, Ed and Julia Erickson, Blackwater Telegraph Station, Everett Vandenburg, and [?] Mackenzie.