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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          1232 Archival description results for Exploration, Discovery and Travel

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          2014.10.1.006 · Item · 1907
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts a man standing on a high ladder pouring grain from a sack to a tarp below. Sacks of grain in the foreground, field and trees in the background. Note: Fort Fraser, BC was at one time also referred to as "Fraser's Lake" - the name of the Post Office within the Hudson Bay Company store.

          2009.6.1.136 · Item · May 1976
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “With the boss at Kivsta, Q.C.I.: May 1976, 13,000 yrs. carbondated habitation in the same location-- The real Charlottes and his counter culture protection in the rain, mist, moss and dense forest of the Haida”.

          2009.7.1.005 · Item · [ca. 1915]
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Photograph depicts the sons and daughters of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison sitting on the ground with food supplies at the top of a hill. Individuals believed to be (left to right): Arthur, Elsie, Herbert, Henry (in chef's hat), unknown, William, John Maxwell ('Max').

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Collison family on prospecting trip up Portland Canal."

          2009.7.1.004 · Item · [ca. 1915]
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Photograph depicts the sons and daughters of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison, and one unidentified man. Buildings can be seen on shore in background.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Collison family at camp (Portland Canal) Max, ?, Henry, Elsie, Arthur, Alice, Herbert".

          Coulee Dam
          2009.5.3.102 · Item · [ca 1930?]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts large bridge and dam over a wide river, industrial structures throughout. Hills on opposite shore in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Coulee Dam, This is were[sic] I went this fall. Wished you had of been with me."

          2012.13.1.124.06 · Item · 1972
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a group of unidentified individuals walking along a crevasse filled ridge somewhere in the vicinity of Smithers, B.C. The slide also labels it as a "drift ridge."

          2000.19.2.26 · Item · 29 Aug. 1927-26 Sept. 1927
          Part of Prentiss Gray Collection

          Photograph depicts a crew of eight men packing boxes for a trek at Hudson's Hope. In the background of the image a small log cabin in visible in front of a forested environment.

          Crops at Fraser's Lake
          2014.10.1.001 · Item · 1907
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts five men standing in a field of cut hay. Some men are holding scythes, buildings, forest and rolling hills in background. Note: Fort Fraser, BC was at one time also referred to as "Fraser's Lake" - the name of the Post Office within the Hudson Bay Company store.

          Crops at Fraser's Lake
          2014.10.1.004 · Item · 1907
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts 5 men in a field using scythes to cut grain. Note: Fort Fraser, BC was at one time also referred to as "Fraser's Lake" - the name of the Post Office within the Hudson Bay Company store.

          2009.6.1.495 · Item · November 1987
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Photograph is one of seven images orginally included within a diary dated 12-22 November 1987. Photos depict a day to day account of Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO) mission to establish whether or not a Canadian presence is justified in the fight against Apartheid and for the liberation of Namibia within a Soviet Sphere Socialist State. See also items 2009.6.1.490 - 2009.6.1.496.

          2009.6.1.496 · Item · November 1987
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Photograph is one of seven images orginally included within a diary dated 12-22 November 1987. Photos depict a day to day account of Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO) mission to establish whether or not a Canadian presence is justified in the fight against Apartheid and for the liberation of Namibia within a Soviet Sphere Socialist State. See also items 2009.6.1.490 - 2009.6.1.495.