Photograph depicts a man (H. Porter) gold panning in the river in front of a tent in a forested area.
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 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 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 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 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 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 Two Brothers Lake set within a forested environment with a mountain range visible in the background.
Photograph depicts the south view of Fredricksen Lake with mountain ranges depicted in the background.
Item is a preliminary plan showing traveled route of the Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition in 1934.
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.
Image depicts a marker for aerial photography at an uncertain location. The slide labels it as "Elizabeth Station."
Image depicts an unidentified individual setting up some sort of pole in the snow for a process the slide labels as "snow sounding." The location is uncertain.
Image depicts an unidentified individual standing next to a marker and a stake at an uncertain location.
Image depicts objects, including a flag pole, that the slide labels as "survey equipment." The slide also places it as a "Peyto icefall," on the Peyto Galcier in the Banff National Park in Alberta, B.C.
Image depicts an unidentified individual drilling into the ice.
Item is a photograph of a road sign in North Dakota stating the distance to Ray and Williston.
Image depicts a group of unidentified individuals walking along a crevasse filled ridge somewhere in the vicinity of Smithers, B.C. The slide also labels it as a "drift ridge."
Item is a photograph of a brick tower with scaffolding around it.
Item is a photograph of a woman carrying a basket on her head in front of a construction site.
Item is a photograph of boats docked on the shore behind piles of grain or straw.
Item is a photograph of a fishing boat with the net deployed with other boats and people on shore.
Item is a photograph of rows of plants in a garden.
Item is a photograph of a river bend and the surrounding country taken from the air.
Item is a photograph of the Chittagong Research Institute buildings.
Item is a photograph of a boat under construction.
Item is a photograph of lumber piled along a commercial street.
Item is a photograph of a man operating a piece of wood cutting machinery.
Item is a photograph of a bicycle repair shop.
Item is a photograph of a sail boat hauling logs.
Image depicts two men on the hiking trail near Mt. Robson.
Image depicts a large number of felled trees, and an unknown individual standing on the path.
Image depicts a group of people on the rocky bank of a river somewhere near Mt. Robson.
Image depicts a group of people hiking up a glacier, possibly the Robson Glacier.
Image depicts a group of people standing on a hill, with what is possibly Mt. Robson in the background.
Image depicts a group of unknown individuals with a mountain in the background.
Image depicts a group of hikers somewhere in the Mt. Robson Provincial Park.
Image depicts a pair of hikers and a view of Mt. Robson Provincial Park.
Image depicts a view of Mt. Robson Provincial Park, with a group of hikers hiking up a mountain side in the foreground.
Item is a photograph of tress on a rock covered embankment taken from a moving vehicle.
Item is a photograph of people, mostly children looking at a helicopter in a field.
Item is a photo of men doing construction with wood.
Item is a photograph of two men swede sawing a log.
Item is a photograph of people climbing on top of a bus.
Item is a photograph of a forested area with man riding a elephant with two others nearby.
Item is a photograph of a forested area.
Item is a photograph of people in a boat on a river with another boat in the background.
Image depicts three men and a dog on the hiking trail near Mt. Robson.
Image depicts a camp of people with Mt. Robson and the Berg Glacier in the background.
Image depicts five unknown individuals somewhere near Mt. Robson.