Photograph depicts a large group of people, primarily men, seated at a series of three tables in a decorated dining hall. Annotation on recto: "Air Survey Division Luncheon Christmas 1967".
Photograph depicts a group of men at Kinaskan Lake. A.H. Phipps is the man standing ninth in from the right; he worked as a draughtsman for Gerry Andrews in the government's surveying division. Gerry Smedley Andrews is next to last on the right.
Photograph depicts a young boy and a man, both with poles in hand, standing on a supply laden raft while it is still pulled up on a lakeshore.
File contains nine driver’s licenses 1936 – 1970, an identification certificate issued by the Department of National Defense, Assessment Notice 1972 for taxation, a document presented by Deputy Minister of National Defense promoting A. H. Phipps to a higher rank, a reference letter dated 16 January 1941, and a document related to a house construction and a signature-book presented to him for his retirement from the B.C. Civil Services.
Caption: Cache Meadows on the summit Kubicek Pass, 13th July. The razor edge in the centre is Mt. Kubicek, in honour of Frank's pilot. The dumps are seperate being provisions for different months. Item is a photograph of two men standing in a patch of snow within a valley; Mt. Kubicek is visible in the background. Bob and self (Jim McKenzie?) identified.
Caption: Travels of a mush-hound during part of 1935. Sunset on ice, two days fromt he mouth of the St. Lawrence, 17th April. Sorry I cannot give you the moon on the ice.
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 "I-57382" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Annotation on verso: "One of the five caterpillar trucks on Bedeaux Expedition in Pouce Coupe, B.C."
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.
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. Original annotation on photograph recto: "River boats on the Peace River". However, this annotation is likely incorrect; if this photograph does depict Pete Toy's bar, the location of the photograph is actually the Finlay River. There may be an error in the original annotation. Also annotated on the back of this print is the code "B-04444" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Annotation on verso: "French flag flown in honour of the Bedaux Expedition upon its arriveal at Pouce Coupe, B.C. 16/7/34".
Annotation on recto: "I-33253" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Annotation on recto: "I-57381" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Annotation on recto: "I-57383" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Annotation on recto: "C-08435" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Annotation on recto: "I-33251" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Annotation on recto: "I-33252" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives. Annotation on recto: "Leaving Westergaard Ranch. Halfway River".
Annotation on recto: "F. Swannell, Josephine & G.F. Hart in Bedeaux's camp. Gundy, B.C."
Annotation on recto: "Repair work in Bedeaux Camp at Gundy, B.C." Photograph depicts three men and one woman working on a vehicle.
Annotation on recto: "Bedeaux party saying au revoir outside Hart home at Pouce Coup" Photograph of seven men and women standing beside a loaded vehicle parked in front of a house. Charles Bedeaux if third from the right.
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.
Annotation on recto: "I-57369" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives. Photograph depicts three men standing at the side of a muddy, deeply rutted mountain path while another man tries to drive a Citroen half-track.
Annotation on recto: "ginibo (?) muck (?) near Athabasca".
Annotation on recto: "I-57366" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Annotation on verso: "Bedeaux's Party leaving Hart Hotel and Pouce Coupe, B.C. for North"
Annotation on recto: "Repair work on trucks on Bedeaux Party at Gundy, B.C."
Annotation on recto: "Bedeaux's Party camped at Gundy, B.C." Photograph depicts tents men standing amongst tents and supplies.
Annotation on recto: "I-57373" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Annotation on recto: "I-57372" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives. Annotation on recto: "Local Indians watch the fun".
Annotation on recto: "C-08433" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Annotation on recto: "Bedeaux in camp at Gundy, B.C." Photograph depicts a man (Charles Bedaux?) standing amongst tents and a car.
Annotation on recto: "I-33249" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives. Annotation on recto: "Heavy going on soft ground".
Annotation on recto: "C-08431" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Annotation on verso: "Pouce Coupe, B.C."
Item consists of a typewritten report together with three earlier complete or partial drafts of this report “A. H. Phipps Memoirs of Charles E. Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition 1934” along with original notebook which includes 11 pages of handwritten notes about the expedition.
Annotation on recto: "I-57370" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Series consists of two maps: one related to the traveled route of the surveyors of the Bedaux Sub-Artic Expedition in 1934; and the other related to a goldmine and a hotel in Africa.
Item is a preliminary plan showing traveled route of the Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition in 1934.
File contains a preliminary plan showing traveled route of the Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition in 1934, two newspaper articles from 1935 and 1990, a manuscript “Diary of the Charles E. Bedaux Tractor Expedition from Edmonton to Telegraph Creek 1934”, a typewritten report together with three earlier complete or partial drafts of this report “A. H. Phipps Memoirs of Charles E. Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition 1934”, a notebook which includes 11 pages of handwritten notes about the expedition, an invitation card for reunion of the personnel of the Bedaux Expedition held in 6 September 1964, and a funeral notice of Monsieur Clovis Balourdet, the mechanic of the expedition.
File contains three correspondences related to Bedaux Company in South Africa, six employee reports written by A. H. Phipps, a copy of Bedaux Weekly Analysis, a map from “Goldfields Hotel” in Petersburg, South Africa, a booklet “Bedaux Measures of Labor”, and a medical certificate with A. H. Phipps’ photograph.
Caption: The riff-ruff of Swannells' Party. J.R.M., Thorne Forrest, F. Jorgenson, A.H. Phipps, J.O. Davids, Mutt, Mrs. Forfars, Fort St. James, F.C. Swannell
Item is a group photograph taken in front of Forfars Hotel in Fort St. James.
Caption: Thorne and Frank. Item is a photograph of Thorne and Frank posing next to a tree that is inscribed with the names of members of Swannell's 1913 survey team: "1913. F.C. Swannell, A.H. Phipps, J. Davidon, J. Duncan, C. Pinker, F. Jorgensen, J. Mackenzie, W.H. Forrest, Oct-10-1931 B.C. Govt."