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Caption: "Ride him- Cowboy!" (He didn't) (Dean River Exploration -'22). Item is a photograph of an unidentified man riding a bucking horse.

Caption: Repairing the "J.C. Bruce" after striking a rock off Ragged Islands near Lund - May 24, 1922. Item is a photograph of two men working on the hull of a boat propped up on a rocky shore.

Two men in leather fringed jackets and cowboys hats waiting with cups in hand while a third man tries to open a bottle with a spur. Annotation on verso: "What Mackenzie would call a regale, Steppi, Powers, Ramsey".

Caption: "Frank Swannel [sic], Al Phipps on the Peace, 1928"

Item is a photograph of a woman (B.D. Hodsdon?) standing in a row boat holding a fish.

Item is a photograph of two men (one being B.W. Hodsdon?)and a woman (B.D. Hodsdon?) standing next to a surveying transit.

Unidentified man wearing leather fringed coat, fur chaps and a cowboy hat sitting on horseback beside a boat launch.

Two unidentified men aboard a loaded canoe poling their way through the Finlay Rapids. Annotation on verso: "Finlay Rapids"; annotation on recto: "Finlay Rapids 1929".

Caption: On board the Duchess of York, 1929. J.R.M., Rev. Mal M. MacDonald (Wee Free) and sister M. MacDonald. Item is a photograph of J.R.M. and his relatives aboard the Duchess of York.

Item is a photograph of a house and its large garden.

Annotation on verso: "Oct. 26/29". Photo depicts a sailboat being pulled along a river by another boat. Large striated mountains visible along the shoreline.

Photo depicts a man and two boys standing along the shores of the Peace River. Annotation on verso: "Peace ' North Pine' (?) Oct 27/29"

Annotation on recto: "Ingenika River 1930. Ingenika Mine Freighting Boat" Photo depicts three men standing along the shoreline watching an Ingenika Mine freighting boat being poling along the Ingenika River.

Annotation on recto: "Upper Ingenika River 1930"

Annotation on verso: "Log jam Ingenika"; annotation on recto: "Ingenika River 1930. Clearing boat passage...; Log jam Ingenika" Photo depicts two surveymen clearing a log jam in the river.

Annotation on recto: "Ingenika River 1930. Log jamb [sic] 3 miles below Perry Creek".

Annotation on recto: "Aero. Signal 1930". Photo depicts three men and three pack dogs seated at the top of a signal marker.

Annotation on recto: "Hudson Bay Post, Fort Graham, B.C." Photo depicts four men standing outside the Hudson Bay Post Office door"

Annotation on recto: "Ingenika River 1930"; annotation on verso: "Ingenika River 1930". Photo depicts five survey crewmen pullng a fully loaded boat and a dog along the Ingenika River.

Annotation on recto: "Breaking log jam, 1930; Log jamb [sic] Ingenika River 1930".

Annotation on recto partially obscured by damage to emulsion: "1930...Write (?) Creek"

Caption: "Getting ready to leave MacLeod Lake, 6:30am, 22nd May 1930"

Item is a photograph Jack Adams and Dey beside a railway at Ingenika Mine.

Annotation on recto: "Ingenika Mines boat, 6200lbs, Jne [sic] 23/1930; Ernie Wheeler". Photo depicts two men poling a freighting boat along the river.

Item is a photograph of a survey crew poling down Crooked River with all their equipment on two boats.

Caption: "A river station"

Item is a photograph of a survey crew lining a boat in the Ingenika River.

Item is a photograph of a survey crew lining a boat in the Ingenika River.

Item is a photograph of a five survey crewmen lining their boats in the Ingenika River. A.H. Phipps is on the right-front side of the boat.

Annotation on recto: "Finlay River...Fort Grahame, Oct 1/1930"

Item is a photograph of A.H. Phipps driving his convertible car.

Item is a photograph of the Gulf Islands in the distance and a forested slope in the foreground.

Item is a photograph of a forest fire at Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island.

Item is a photograph of an ocean view from the Malahat Highway on Vancouver Island.

Item is a photograph of a steamship cruising the ocean waters off Victoria, Vancouver Island.

Annotation on recto: "Camp at Thutade L.". Photograph depicts survey campsite complete with packhorses and cook tent; float plane (CF-AAM) visible in background.

Caption: Kitchener Lake - July - Thorne, Frank, J.R.M., Al, Fred. Item is a photograph of Thorne, J.R.M., All Phipps, Fred and Frank by an overturned canoe.

Annotation on recto: "Group at Thutade Lake, July 1931". Photograph depicts survey crew gathered around the cook tent and fire. A log cabin is visible in the background.

Item is a photograph of a Thorne, Fred and Jack standing with six pack horses in the snow.

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."

Caption: Fred & Al. Here we cross Franks footsteps of 1913, Omineca River. Item is a photograph of Fred and Al holding their rifles and 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."

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.

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.

Item is a preliminary plan showing traveled route of the Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition in 1934.

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.