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Photograph depicts Frank Swannell's party posed to the left of a CF-AAM float plane on a dock at Takla Landing.

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 three men pulling boats over the frozen Red Rock Lake.

Photograph depicts H. Witter pulling a canoe with a sled-dog over the frozen McLeod Lake.

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

Photograph depicts a man (H. Porter) gold panning in the river in front of a tent in a forested area.

Photograph depicts three dogs pulling a loaded sled being steered by a man over a flat, snow-covered environment with a forested area in the distance.

Photograph depicts Emil Bronlund in the second seat of G-CYYG De Havilland D.H. 60 Moth aircraft at the Edmonton Airport. This plane was operated by the Edmonton Aero Club.

Photograph depicts Jewitt's CF-ABM Fairchild 71 aircraft and a group of men surrounding a Detroit News aircraft NR-32-M, both located at Edmonton Airport.

Photograph depicts an exterior view of a hangar at the Edmonton Airport surrounded by four airplanes and three automobiles.

Photograph depicts six men posed in front of a bush plane in an airplane hangar at the Edmonton Airport.

Photograph depicts a snow-covered rock formation on the north side of Sentinl Peak

Photograph depicts a CF-AAM float plane stopped after a forced landing on Sustut Lake in front of Sentinel Peak.

Photograph depicts snow-capped mountain ranges with heavily forested area at the base of the mountains.

Photograph depicts two men near their CF-AAM float plane on Thutade Lake in Sand Bay in front of their Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Ltd. (CMS) camp site.

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 Bob Niven, Ken Dewar,and Henry Giegerich standing in their Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Ltd. (CMS) camp at Sand Bay near Thutade Lake. Food cache visible at centre.

Photograph depicts a small caribou herd stopped in a snow covered clearing beside a forest a Drybrough Mountain.

Photograph depicts a forested area in front of the base of the north side of Drybrough Mountain.

Photograph depicts the rocky cliffs of the Sturdee River Canyon with a low mountain range in the background.

Photograph depicts a man steering a wooden raft loaded with two bag through a shallow section of Finlay River that runs along a forested shoreline.

Photograph depicts a wide view of Sustut Lake from the west with a heavily forested area on both sides of the lake with a snow-covered mountain range in the background.

Photograph depicts Sustut Lake with forested shoreline on the far edge of the lake and a snow-covered mountain range in the background.

Photograph depicts a shoreline with long grass and trees located along Sustut Lake with a snow-covered mountain range in the background.

Photograph depicts a man (Emil Bronlund) holding up a dead wolf standing in a grass covered landscape in front of a tree with a mountain in the far-right background.

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

Photograph depicts the south view of Fredricksen Lake with mountain ranges depicted in the background.

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

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

Photograph depicts Two Brothers Lake set within a forested environment with a mountain range visible in the background.

Photograph depicts two men standing in front of and CF-AAM aircraft in front of a lake with a forested mountain range in the background.

Photograph depicts a man resting in a canoe near the right shore of a river leading through a forested environment with a mountain range visible in the background.

Photograph depicts a man stopped with a canoe on the shore of a river located on an inlet in front of a forested area with two mountains visible in the background.

Photograph depicts a man stopped with a canoe on the shore of a river located near McClair Creek. Several mountains are visible from the background of the image.

Photograph depicts a man stopped with a canoe on the shore of a river located near Moosehorn Creek. Several mountains are visible from the background of the image.

Photograph depicts a wide waterfall (Finlay Falls) seen through a tree covered landscape.

Photograph depicts a wide waterfall (Finlay Falls) located above Thutade Lake with a forest in the background.

Photograph depicts a grass covered plateau overlooking a lake at the base of a snow covered mountain range.

Photograph depicts a valley with sparse patches of snow in front of the McCorkell mountain range.

Photograph depicts a view of Duncan Creek in front of a snow covered valley (Rusty Basin) with a mountain range visible in the background.

Photograph depicts a view of a snow covered valley (Rusty Basin) with a mountain range visible in the background.

Photograph depicts Henry Cleburn Giegerich resting at Rusty Basin to the east of Duncan Lake. In the background of the image there is a snow-covered mountain.

Photograph depicts a view of of the tree-covered slope with Duncan Lake below.

Photograph depicts a view of the southeast slope of Duncan Mountain near Thutade Lake.

Photograph depicts a view of the snow-covered north slope of Duncan Mountain near Thutade Lake.

Photograph depicts a view of the south slope of Duncan Mountain near Thutade Lake.

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.

Photograph depicts a group portrait of Frank Swannell's and Emil Bronlund's crews surrounded by camping supplies, dogs, and a horse along the shore of Thutade Lake. Skook Davidson is in the back row in front of the horse. Frank Swannell is in the front row 3rd from left, petting a dog.

Photograph depicts four men moving camping supplies on a wooden raft on the shore of Thutade Lake.

Photograph depicts Henry Cleburn Giegerich and Emil Bronlund with Swannell's party posed in front of Jack Duncan's cabin near Thutade Lake.