Footage of white robin.
Location of filming is unknown.
Includes: environmental issues; nature, wilderness and scenery; climate and weather; environmentalists; environmental organizations and businesses; parks and natural areas; wildlife management; habitat and species protection/recovery; conservation activities.
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Footage of white robin.
Location of filming is unknown.
File consists of records and textual material collected by Grant Hazelwood related to BC Provincial Museum wildlife reports. Includes correspondence, news releases, and reports. Highlights include:
File consists of records and textual material related to Northern BC wildlife corridors collected by Grant Hazelwood. Includes manuscripts, notes, and summary documents. Discusses the following wildlife corridors:
Also includes a 1972 photocopied document titled "Wildlife Oriented Sites within Corridor of Alaska Highway (Wildlife Sites Outside of H.S.S.A.'s).
File consists of records and textual material related to mammals (predominantly in British Columbia) collected by Grant Hazelwood. Highlights include:
File consists of records and textual material related to wildlife population collected by Grant Hazelwood. Includes journal reprints, reports, and leaflets. Highlights include:
Also includes a map:
File consists of records and textual material related to rare and endangered species (predominantly in British Columbia) collected by Grant Hazelwood. Highlights include:
Image depicts an aerial view of Williams Lake, B.C.
Image depicts an aerial view of Williams Lake, B.C.
File contains slides depicting places in the area around Williams Lake, Clinton, and the Fraser Canyon.
Image depicts the St. Joseph's Residential School in Williams Lake, B.C.
According to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Archives (https://archives.nctr.ca/Cariboo-Residential-School) :
"Cariboo (Williams Lake) Indian Residential School (IRS) was located southwest of Williams Lake on highway #97 approximately halfway between Quesnel and Kamloops in the BC interior. The IRS operated from 1891 - 1981 (90 years) and closed on June 30, 1981.
Other names identifying the residential school include Williams Lake Industrial School and St. Joseph’s Industrial School from 1891 - 1920; Cariboo Industrial School and Cariboo Indian Industrial School from 1920 - 1927; Cariboo Residential School and Cariboo Indian Residential School from 1923 - 1981; St. Joseph’s Mission School (1929 - 1981), St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School (1932 and 1935), and St. Joseph’s Residential School (1963 and 1969); Cariboo Student Residence and Cariboo Indian Student Residence from 1967 - 1981. The school was also frequently referred to as the Indian School at 150 Mile House because of its location.
The Government of Canada was responsible for funding the school, which was managed and operated by the Roman Catholic Church from July 1891 - March 31, 1969. From April 1, 1969 - June 1981, the federal government managed and operated the IRS. In 1962, an agreement was signed between Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada represented by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Indianescom (Oblate Indian and Eskimo Commission) for the management and operation of the Cariboo IRS.
No information regarding which grades were taught at the IRS exists.
Students were from the following bands: Alexandria, Alexis Creek, Alkali Lake, Anaham, Anderson Lake, Ashcroft, Bonaparte, Bridge River, Canim Lake, Canoe Creek, Clinton, Coldwater, Cowichan, Dog Creek, Euchinico, Fountain, High Bar, Kamloops, Kluskus Lake (Kluxkux Lake), Kuklinko, Lake Babine, Lillooet, Little Shuswap, Moricetown, Mount Currie, Natzoo, Nazko, Nemiah Valley, North Thompson, Pavillion, Pemberton, Quesnel, Redstone, Riske Creek, Seton Lake, Skwah, Soda Creek, Squamish, Stone (Stoney), Taodistan, Toosey, Ulkatcho (Ulgatcho), and Williams Lake. "was opened was opened by Roman Catholic missionaries in 1891. In 1902 nine boys ran away from the school, one of them dying of exposure. In 1920, nine boys ate poisonous water hemlock in what parents believed to be a response to discipline at the school. One of these boys died. The school closed in 1981. In the 1980s and 1990s two former staff members pled guilty to charges of sexually abusing students in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1998, a former principal apologized to a former student and school employee who had charged him with a series of sex offences. "
Image depicts the cableway in Willow River, B.C.
Image depicts the cableway, stretching over a river, in Willow River, B.C.
Image depicts the cableway in Willow River, B.C.
Image depicts a group of people somewhere in Willow River, B.C. The man in the plaid shirt and beige cap is identified on the slide as being Lloyd Edwards.
Image depicts the Willow River General Store. Map coordinates 54°04'23.7"N 122°28'26.9"W
File consists of a photocopy of a Canadian Journal of Zoology by Swales et al. entitled "Winter Habitat Preference of Juvenile Salmonids in Two Interior Rivers in British Columbia".
Railroad track, utility poles, field, small building and background hills are visible in image.
Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “Looking out of our classroom window up the street.” According to the donor, the car stuck in the snow belonged to his colleague, Bob White.
Photograph depicts village buildings along shore.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Massett in Winter dress."
Image depicts a river, possibly somewhere in the Wistaria Provincial Park.
Image depicts a river, possibly somewhere in the Wistaria Provincial Park.
Image depicts the old community hall located somewhere in the Wistaria Provincial Park.
File consists of records and textual material related to wolf (predominantly in British Columbia) collected by Grant Hazelwood. Highlights include:
Image depicts a woman on a boat, possibly on War Lake.
Image depicts a woman standing on a rocky shore somewhere on Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Woman stands in front of trimmed hedges and palm trees, tall buildings in background. Photograph speculated to depict Sarah Glassey in a warm location such as Los Angeles, California.
Unidentified woman holds pan in area speculated to be a mining location. Steel drums stand behind her, road and grassy hillside in background.
Image depicts an unidentified woman with a camera sitting on the bank of a river.
Image depicts an unknown woman with a camera. Nearby are the skeletal remains of an unknown animal. The location is the upper Fraser Canyon.
Subseries contains materials relating to Dr. Ainley's research on women in the fields of science and engineering. Ainley dedicated much of her career to this topic, which resulted in a number of publications. Subseries includes material relating to the submission and editing of Ainley's chapter, "Marriage and Scientific Work in Twentieth-Century Canada: the Berkeleys in Marine Biology and the Hoggs in Astronomy" in "Creative Couples in the Sciences" about the experiences of two scientific couples: Edith and Cyril Berkeley and Frank and Helen Hogg. Materials for this publication include correspondence, edited manuscripts, permissions form templates and a call and instructions for submissions. This subseries also includes research material for a review of Margaret Gillett and Ann Beer's book, "Our Own Agendas: Autobiographical Essays by Women Associated with McGill University," including notes, correspondence and short biographies of women from McGill University. Subseries also contains research on Canadian women in science including photocopied archival materials from various Canadian universities. This subseries also contains materials relating to Ainley's book, "Creating complicated lives: women and science at English-Canadian universities, 1880-1980" and Ainley's chapter, "Soaring to New Heights: Changes in the Life Course of Mabel McIntosh" in "Great Danes." Subseries consists of research relating to women in the Royal Society of Canada and on individual women scientists and engineers. Research materials consist of photocopies of published and archival research materials, correspondence, and applications for grans and ethics reviews. This subseries also contains approximately 80 overhead transparencies from presentations.
Three unidentified women lean over flowing stream in area speculated to be a mining location. Sluiceway appears to be visible in foreground.
Image depicts two snow sculptures near a wooden bridge on an ice rink, possibly during the Winter City Conference, in Prince George, B.C. Taken at the Prince George Civic Center. Map coordinates 53°54'45.6"N 122°44'59.6"W
Winter landscape scene featuring a man cleaning up a wood pile covered with snow (?). Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "ALL WINTER 1945 1946 Cleaning of the Wood Pile".
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Logging - Giscome B.C. Plank truck road - also road under construction showing sills & cribbing."
Photograph depicts wood planks piled on a dock with wood buildings built along the shoreline of the background.
Photograph depicts a wood planked building on pilings under construction in a forest clearing.
Image depicts the grade for the British Columbia Railway, which was formerly known as the Pacific Great Eastern until 1972. It is located somewhere near the Woodpecker Ranch in Woodpecker, B.C.
Image depicts the grade for the British Columbia Railway, which was formerly known as the Pacific Great Eastern until 1972. It is located somewhere near the Woodpecker Ranch in Woodpecker, B.C. There are two unknown individuals present in the image.
Image depicts a tree line in Woodpecker, B.C.
Image depicts a tree line in Woodpecker, B.C.
Image depicts a tree line in Woodpecker, B.C.
File consists of a photocopy of a Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (Vol. 45) article by Andrus et al. entitled "Woody Debris and Its Contribution to Pool Formation in a Coastal Stream 50 Years after Logging".
File contains slides depicting the Woolsey and Place Glaciers.
Image depicts two unknown individuals at the Woolsey Glacier.
Image depicts two unknown individuals at the Woolsey Glacier.
Image depicts a helicopter flying over the Woolsey Glacier.
Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Work crew eating in open at 10˚ below zero, evicted from Lunchroom, due to damage to, from falling rock." Men are shown sitting in snow. Various metal materials in foreground, snow-covered mountainside in background. It is believed that power lines are also visible in background.
Photograph depicts crusher buildings in left foreground, located west of mine on McDame Mountain. Southeast mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine on McDame Mountain. Blasthole drills and ore haulage trucks visible below in open pit and on switchback road.
Photograph depicts a Euclid ore haulage truck in foreground. Shovel and unidentified caterpillar machine can be seen in background.