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2001.1.050 · File · 1911-1917
Part of NBCA Document and Ephemera Collection

File consists of documents recording the founding, funding, explorations, and investments of the pioneering Queen Charlotte Islands General Development Company, Ltd. (London, England). Includes approximately 150 pages of manuscript and the following items of interest:

  • "Memorandum and Articles of Association, London, 1911
  • Notice of First General Meeting, 1912
  • First and later minutes of meetings in Victoria, BC and elsewhere
  • Extensive correspondence with their representatives in the Queen Charlotte Islands including mining surveyors
  • Reports from Queen Charlotte Islands from their representatives at Cumshewa, Skidegate, and Alliford Bay
  • Records regarding all aspects of financing the company
    Most of the items date from 1912-1913, providing a very detailed account of the founding and aspirations of the company, and revealing the difficulties in doing business in the remote Queen Charlotte Islands. Also notably includes correspondence and reports from Henry Collison.
Holts Ranch
2014.10.1.151 · Item · 1911
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts a cluster of log buildings with fences and corrals. A field in the foreground, trees and low hills in the distance. On the road from Quesnell to Fraser Lake 1911.

Logging, Newport, BC
2020.08.21 · Item · [between 1911 and 1914]
Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts the unloading of logs from rail cars into the Mamquam River Blind Channel in Squamish (then Newport). The valley bottom around Squamish was logged from Mamquam River north to across the Cheakamus River before the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.

View of Seton Lake area
2020.08.77 · Item · [between 1911 and 1915]
Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a view of Seton Lake and the surrounding area, including the Pacific Great Eastern railway line. The railway grade is visible at left. Also visible is the Seton Lake fish hatchery at the east end of the lake and its employee boarding house, superintendent's cottage, and weir at the head of what was then referred to as "Lake Creek". The road seen in the centre foreground travelled from Lillooet to Seton Lake then to Golden Cache Mine.

Snow slide in Stewart, BC
2011.13.35 · Item · 7 July 1911
Part of Parker photograph collection

Street view photograph of two individuals watching the snow slide down one of the mountains surrounding Stewart, BC. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Snow Slide Stewart B.C. July 7/11."

2011.13.54 · Item · 9 August 1911
Part of Parker photograph collection

Side perspective photograph of a crowd of people gathered around a Portland Canal Short Line Railroad train, presumably either leaving or arriving Printed annotation on recto reads: "Bitter Creek BC Aug 9 1911."

2016.5.2 · Series · 1911-2019
Part of Harry Coates fonds

Series consists of materials reflecting Harry Coates life-long dedication and activism for sustainable forest management. Series also reflects Harry Coates' interest in forest history; series includes old forest industry records collected by Harry Coates including a timber sales ledger and timber license.