Photograph depicts an example of a CNR 'Buffet-Parlour' car #885 "Quesnel." It was built in 1929 and used mainly in the Montreal-Toronto area. The car was modernized in 1957 and then retired in 1974. It was installed by the Smithers Chamber of Commerce in 1975 and not connected to CNR trackage.
Item consists of 10 pages of handwritten instructions for opening a ranger station in Smithers and annual Forest Insect and Disease Survey, dated 1980. Instructions include: directions for travel to Smithers House (including a small hand-drawn map), the amenities, directions for further renovations, aerial surveys and sampling schedule and instructions, and descriptions of insect problems.
Photograph features Bob Bossin holding a bottle of his “Home Remedy for Nuclear War”. Photograph was a "promo shot" created to advertise his show "Bob Bossin's Home Remedy for Nucelar War" - one showing of which occured in Smithers, B.C. on 18 October 1986.
Photograph is located in the following file: "Bob Bossin's Home Remedy for Nucelar War Show, Smithers, October 18, 1986" which also contains newspaper clippings, a show program, correspondence, newsletters, catalogue and a poster pertaining to this show.
File consists of records created and accumulated by Gary Runka over the course of his consultancy work for Bulkley Valley Community Resources Board for the "Facilitation of Land and Resources Management Plan" project in Smithers. This file was numbered as G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. client file #401; that client number may be seen referenced elsewhere in the G. Gary Runka fonds. The Land Sense Ltd. client files generally include records such as correspondence, contracts, invoices, project reports, publications, ephemera, memoranda, maps or map excerpts, legal documents, meeting materials, clippings, and handwritten notes.
Includes the following:
- Bulkley Land and Resource Management Plan. Draft Implementation Strategy. Prepared by Chamberlin Consulting Group for Prince Rupert Interagency Management Committee. Smithers. 1999.
Photograph depicts the Smithers depot.
Photograph depicts an eastbound VIA Rail train in Smithers, BC
Photo the head of an eastbound VIA Rail passenger train in Smithers. Built in 1989 by GMD. One of a batch/class of 59.
File consists of records created and accumulated by Gary Runka over the course of his consultancy work for Bulkley Valley Community Resources Board for the "Bulkley Valley Community Resources Board Working Session" project in Smithers. This file was numbered as G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. client file #666; that client number may be seen referenced elsewhere in the G. Gary Runka fonds. The Land Sense Ltd. client files generally include records such as correspondence, contracts, invoices, project reports, publications, ephemera, memoranda, maps or map excerpts, legal documents, meeting materials, clippings, and handwritten notes.
Fonds consists of 1 copy of a typed transcript featuring Winnifred Emily Warner Russell (nee Large) being interviewed by her daughter Bev Christensen. Content of transcript includes the topics of nursing training in Vernon (1923-26) and nursing in Grace Hospital in Vancouver, and General Hospitals in Prince George, Prince Rupert, and Smithers up until 1957. No audio recording gifted.