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Collection consists of accumulated material relating to Northern and Central British Columbia. This material includes documents, subject files, unpublished grey literature, discrete textual records with limited provenance, and other ephemeral items.

File consists of two letters written by John McCormick to a friend describing his experiences in Barkerville and the gold mining conditions on Williams Creek.

File consists of:

• Barkerville Historical Park pamphlet (1961?)
• Postcard of St. Saviour's Church, Barkerville, "one of BC's oldest churches" (2 Aug. 1964)
• An informational booklet about St. Saviour's Church, Barkerville (2 Aug. 1964)
• Theatre Royal, Barkerville playbill (2 Nov. 1966)
• Theatre Royal, "The Legend of Fanny Bendixon" playbill (1983)
• Barkerville Schedule of Events (1983)

Item is a GTPR banquet menu. Printing on recto reads “Menu G.T.P.R. Banquet To Sir Charles Rivers Wilson and President Charles M. Hays of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company Given by The Prince Rupert Board of Trade at the Prince Rupert Inn Saturday, August 21st, 1909”.

Item is a printed seasonal greeting card. Includes a printed image of an Alaskan Highway view from Dawson Creek and an outline map of the Alaska Highway. Printed card inscription states "Major and Mrs. C.C. Clitheroe Rae Pauline and David Charles Send Greeting and Best Wishes for Christmas 1944 and the New Year 1945".

File consists of:

• 1961 Letter of appointment for Walter George Freshwater (1929-2014) to be Manager at the Queen Charlotte City branch of CIBC
• 1961 CIBC pamphlet for the Queen Charlotte City branch
• Queen Charlotte Islands Telephone Directory (15 April 1961)
• Queen Charlotte Islands Chamber of Commerce By-laws (ca. 1961)

File consists of:

• 1948 Canadian National Brochure, Alaska in ’48. Dimensions: [21 x 28 cm]
• 1948 Pamphlet brochure 5 Day Cruise to Ketchikan Alaska. Dimensions: [10 x 22 cm]
• 1948 CNR Grand Trunk Railway letter regarding cruise offerings. Dimensions: [20 x 28 cm]

Item is a rough draft of James Hackler's 1958 thesis, which was later entitled "Factors leading to social disorganization among the Carrier Indians at Lake Babine".

Stone Creek Hotel was a motel in Stoner, BC, located 23 miles south of Prince George. File consists of:

• 1962 Stone Creek Hotel calendar
• Correspondence from Roy and Lorraine Santics, owners of Stone Creek Hotel, to family members
• Photograph of Santics family
• Empty Stone Creek Hotel matchbook
• Stone Creek Lodge drink coaster
• Stone Creek Hotel ashtray
• Clipping ad for the Stone Creek Hotel
  Some of the items in this file contain imagery of vintage "pin-up girls".

Item is an programme for the Canadian Schools Curling Championship that occurred at the Prince George Coliseum in Prince George, BC between February 20-24, 1961.

Item is a 1967 annual report created by the First Memorial United Church in Vanderhoof.

File consists of music programs, brochures, and news clippings from performances in Prince George and Vanderhoof. Some of the concerts were organized by the Prince George and District Drama and Music Association, the Prince George Concert Association, the Prince George Concert Group, the Prince George Cantata Singers, Alaska Music Trail, Overture Concert Association, and the Nechako Community Arts Council.

Item is a promotional calendar for a long haul trucking company from Vanderhoof, BC called "Johnson Transfer". Calendar imagery is a print of an English setter dog.

Item is a brochure promoting the 150th anniversary of Fort St. James, BC. The brochure contains a history of Fort St. James.

Item is a BC Hydro brochure promoting hydroelectric power projects in the Peace River area. Includes information about the W.A.C. Bennett Dam, the Portage Mountain Generating Station, the Williston Lake reservoir, and employment statistics relating to the projects from 1968.

Item is an orange bumper sticker with the BC Hydro logo and the words "I HAVE SEEN THE PEACE POWER PROJECT".

Item is a brochure printed for the BC Centennial Caravan project from 1971 which included a number of promotional displays. The brochure has a handwritten annotation: "Vanderhoof, B.C. June 12, 1971".

Item is a course selection guide for Grade 8 courses at Cassiar Secondary School from 1983-1984.

File consists of digital scans of the following reports regarding indigenous land use:

• Archeo Tech Associates. "An Aboriginal Sustenance Impact Assessment of the Quesnel River Gold Development Project, near Quesnel, B.C.". Prepared for the Mine Review and Permitting Branch, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. December 1993.
• Archeo Tech Associates. "An Aboriginal Sustenance Impact Assessment of the Kemess South Gold-Copper Project: A Status Report". Prepared for El Condor Resources Ltd. September 1995.
• John Dewhirst and Archaeo Research Ltd. "Tsilhqot'in Use and Occupancy of the Xeni Gwet'in Claim Area, 1793-1864". Prepared for Chief Roger William, Xeni Gwet'in First Nation Government and Woodward & Company. 4 August 2005.

File consists of eight newspaper clippings, seven of which are a series of articles on the findings of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition, with the eighth being a photograph of the Expedition’s winter quarters in Etah, Greenland. Five of the articles were written by the expedition leader, Mr. Noel Humphreys and the other two were written by members of the Expedition, Mr. Moore and Mr. Haig-Thomas. The articles were originally published in the “Times” of London but the clippings appear to be from the “New Zealand Herald”.

File consists of items found within the book "Placer Mining in British Columbia" (1931), which now resides in our Special Collections:

• Photograph depicting a creek within a extensive mountain range. Handwritten annotation in upper right corner reads: “Cassiar Yukon Properties Quartz Creek” and an arrow pointing downwards towards a creek (2 copies)
• Photograph depicting rocky valley. Handwritten annotation along top and bottom of recto reads: “600’ Channel; Wing Pit”
• Telegram from A.J. Marion to Joseph T. Mandy sent from Telegraph Creek, BC, on May 17 (1968?) re: mining start dates in Dease lake, Lower Post and McDames
• 6 scraps of paper with handwritten mining notes
• “Mining in focus” by Bruce Ramsey, 1968 handwritten notes

File consists of information about each Royal Bank of Canada branch in Northern BC. Includes history of branch opening/closing dates, past managers for each branch, and the address of the branch.

Consists of copies of lot plans, a blueprint of the townsite of Port Essington, and an article on Port Essington from the 15 November 1984 edition of the Prince Rupert Daily News.

"Port Essington: A Town Remembered" consists of copies of 4 black & white photographs of Port Essington, taken in October 1984 by Nancy Robertson, and published on page 13 of the 15 November 1984 edition of The Daily News, Prince Rupert's newspaper. The page caption reads as follows : "Port Essington : a town remembered - These photos are from an aging Port Essington taken in the fall month of October by photographer Nancy Robertson. Once a thriving community, Port Essington stands derelict at a Skeena estuary with only occasional visitors."

Plan of Port Essington consists of an architectural plan for the townsite of Port Essington compiled from plans in Land Registry and described as Composite Plan 537 (originally deposited October 17th 1893). Depicts Skeena River, Hocsal River, individual lots and streets, the B.C. Fishing and Packing Co. Ltd., a graveyard, and the Anglo British Columbia Packing Co.

Consists of a black & white copy of an artwork depicting a street of Port Essington. Two identifiable buildings along the street are the Hotel Essington and a church.

Consists of 2 overlapping legal-size copies depicting the plans for Lot 7392 in Port Essington.

Consists of 3 legal-size copies of drawings of and a surveyor's report on Lot 7392. Includes drawings of lot, and a note reading : "This is a foreshore Lot in front of Part of Lot 45, Village of Port Essington"

Consists of 9 legal-size copies of documents related to the surveying and preemption of land at Port Essington by Robert Cunningham.

Item is two photocopied chapters from Gwen Abram's biographical manuscript entitled "Bone to Soup: A Memoir by Gwen Abram". The chapters are titled "Wood and Snow: Adventures in Prince George; Walls Come Tumbling Down" and "Fun at College: Prince George college sit-in".

Item is a White Pass & Yukon Route pamphlet from 1971. Shows illustrated route map and fares.

Item is a Canadian Pacific Railway document with a "Passenger trains line up of No. 2 & No. 12 - In & Out" from 6 October 1970. Includes names and codes of train cars.

Item is a Canadian Pacific Railway "CP Rail" pamphlet for ferry services in British Columbia for the following locations: Vancouver, Nanaimo, Seattle, Victoria, and Port Angeles. Also advertises an "Alaska cruise" on the Princess Patricia from Vancouver to Skagway, with stops at Prince Rupert, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, and Bartlett Cove.

Item is the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Time Table 92. Includes interleaved Bulletin No. 201 notifying employees of the new timetable.

Item is the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Passenger Time Table 76A. Includes an illustrated route map.

Item is a document that describes the scenic route of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway and amenities and services along the way. The document may be a script that was read aloud to passengers or it may be draft language for use in promotional material.

Consists of a certificate of appointment of Louis Dixon of Telegraph Creek as Justice of the Peace.

Item is a 1968 Tourist Edition of the Prince George Progress newspaper. Includes "Mr. P.G. Welcomes You to Prince George" full page advertisement from the Prince George Chamber of Commerce, as well as features on various tourist attractions in Northern and Central BC.

Item is a single-page mimeographed list of free miners' licenses dating from May 31st, 1928.

File includes:

• Memorandum to Stuart S. Holland, 14 Nov. 1941
• Newspaper clipping re: Boulder Creek, ca. Jan. 1939
• Correspondence from Barrington Transportation Company to Stuart Holland, 1 May 1939
• Notes regarding amounts of gold and silver on Wheaton Creek (Boulder Creek)