Exploration, Discovery and Travel

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  • Travel or exploration for personal, geographical, scientific or mapping reasons
  • Expeditions, exploration, adventure, prospecting, guiding
  • Individuals and groups involved in exploration or travel (eg. explorers, adventurers, prospectors, guides, outfitters)
  • Expedition planning, reports and accounts
  • Personal travels for discovery and education (eg. travel diaries)
  • Early contact with First Nations
  • SEE ALSO: Land, Settlement and Immigration

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          1217 Archival description results for Exploration, Discovery and Travel

          Slim Williams and Dog Team
          2006.20.9.7 · Item · 1933
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts Slim Williams and four members of his dog team in the centre of the image, with a group of men, women and children standing behind him looking towards the camera. Handwritten annotation along bottom of photograph reads: "'Slim' Williams and Dog Team From Alaska to Chicago 1933". It is believed this photograph was taken in Hazelton, BC. and documents Slim Williams on his way to the Chicago Fair.

          Snow Sounding
          2012.13.1.121.02 · Item · 1967
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts an unidentified individual setting up some sort of pole in the snow for a process the slide labels as "snow sounding." The location is uncertain.

          Stagecoach at Clinton
          2014.10.1.236 · Item · 1912
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts a stage coach with a team of horses harnessed to it. The stagecoach driver sits on the front bench, sitting beside the coach driver are; a woman with a small child and a man. There is a building in the background.

          Stake on Bare Ice
          2012.13.1.121.03 · Item · 1968
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts an unidentified individual standing next to a marker and a stake at an uncertain location.

          Survey crew
          2011.13.62 · Item · ca.1910-ca.1930
          Part of Parker photograph collection

          Photograph is a printed postcard of a group of unidentified men and a dog in front of a rustic building.

          Survey crew
          2011.13.64 · Item · ca.1910-ca.1930
          Part of Parker photograph collection

          Photograph is a printed postcard of a group of unidentified men and a dog in front of a rustic building possibly near Stewart B.C.

          Survey Equipment
          2012.13.1.121.06 · Item · [1968?]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts objects, including a flag pole, that the slide labels as "survey equipment." The slide also places it as a "Peyto icefall," on the Peyto Galcier in the Banff National Park in Alberta, B.C.

          Survey of Prince George
          2012.13.2.02.29 · File · 1990
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the survey of Prince George. Includes material on survey plans, lots in Prince George, original town planning, subdivision plans, and Kent Sedgwick's handwritten notes on surveying and town planning in Prince George. File primarily includes photopied maps depicting town lots and planning in Prince George. Includes: "RE: Title Search for Fairgrounds" typescript letter from Kent Sedgwick to Dr. Dick Rowe (26 Apr. 1990) and "Map showing South Fort George, Fort George (Central) and the additions surveyed in 1910 or later" reproduced map from the Fort George Tribune newspaper.

          2000.23.1.097.02 · Item · [19-?]
          Part of Audrey Smedley L'Heureux fonds

          This BC Provincial Archives photograph reproduction photograph depicts two surveyors in the Omineca region. The photograph caption notes: "copied fr. Swannell Diary MSS 392 (Volume 3)".