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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          2021.06 · Collection · 1930-1932

          Emil Bronlund was in 1927 hired by Consolidated Mining and Smelting Ltd. (later known as Cominco) to take on the company's mining exploration in northern British Columbia, a position he held for almost 25 years. Bronlund had a Leica camera and took photographs during his exploratory trips.

          This album of Bronlund's photographic negatives from 1930 to 1932 includes photographs of the following trips:

          • Trip to Osilinka River and Omineca River, July 1930
          • Copper Mountain on Duck Creek, July 1930
          • Wedge Creek, Sept. 1930
          • Finlay River, Finlay Forks, Parsnip River, and Crooked River, Oct. 1930
          • Prince George, Aug. 1930
          • Gola, Norway, Apr. 1931
          • Emil Bronlund and Frank Swannell survey crews at Thutade Lake, June 1931 and Sept. 1931
          • Cairn mining claim exploration for Consolidated Mining and Smelting Ltd., June-July 1931
          • Brothers Lake, Bronlund Peak, and Fredricksen Lake, July 1932
          • Sustut Lake, Sept.-Oct 1931
          • McLeod River trip, Mar.-Apr. 1932
          Bronlund, Emil
          2012.13.2.02.50 · File · 2004-2011
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to encouraging settlement and immigration to Prince George. Includes material on Dutch settlement in Prince George; the Hornby Plan, a 1933 settlement plan by the Canadian National Railway to develop communities and stimulate business for the railway, particularly in Prince George; promoting Prince George for settlers; reserved land for veterans; and auction of lands to cover delinquent taxes in British Columbia.

          Father Adrien Morice
          2012.13.2.10.06 · File · 2001
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to Father Adrien Morice. Father Adrien Morice was a missionary and was ordained as a priest who came to British Columbia in 1880 to complete his ecclesiastical studies. After completing his schooling he was signed to the Williams Lake Mission where he worked closely with the Chilcotin peoples, learning their language and ministering. He continued to learn Chinook before moving to work at Stuart Lake with the Na'Kaztl'Tenneh Band in 1885, working with four divisions of the Carrier Tribes, the Alexandria, Quesnel, Blackwater, and Lhuskuz. Morice continued to use the Cree language and eventually published a monthly newspaper between 1881 and 1884 called "Tsettes Nahivelnik" (meaning "storyteller") using the Cree language. File primarily consists of handwritten notes by Kent Sedgwick regarding Father Adrien Morice and his work.

          Felled Trees
          2012.13.1.56.06 · Item · 1973
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a large number of felled trees, and an unknown individual standing on the path.

          2014.10.1.179 · Item · 1911
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts a cluster of buildings near Fraser Lake. A fence and grasses in the foreground. Original photo title: "Indian Village at Fraser Lake." First Nations communities with territories overlapping Fraser Lake include Nadleh Whut'en and Stellat'en Nations.

          2009.7.1.248 · Item · ca. 1880-1920
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Head on shot of steam engine traveling through a pass with mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: "First Passenger Engine to reach Prince Rupert." Annotation on recto reads: "First Passenger Engine at Prince Rupert." Photographer' stamp in bottom right corner of recto reads : "Allen Photo."

          Five boats breaking ice
          2014.10.1.138 · Item · 1910
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts five long canoes with several men attending. The canoes are traveling through a narrow strip of open water. The majority of the river is covered in ice. Forested trees are on the far river shore.

          Five boats breaking ice
          2014.10.1.139 · Item · 1910
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts five long canoes with several men attending. The canoes are traveling through a narrow strip of open water. The majority of the river is covered in ice. Forested trees are on the far river shore.

          2006.25.1.71 · Item · Nov. 1962
          Part of Al Elsey Moving Images Collection

          Footage of ducks on a lake and flying away, horses in a corral, a campsite, caribou in the high country of the mountains, probably the Rainbow Mountains, a campsite where men are packing horses and game kill and their journey home in pack train.

          Possible locations of filming include Anahim Lake, Chilcotin area, Holt Homestead, Rainbow Mountains, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, or Wells Gray Provincial Park.

          Fort Alexandria
          2012.13.2.19.07 · File · 2007-2010
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Fort Alexandria (later renamed Alexandria). Fort Alexandria was an HBC trading post, ferry site, and steamboat landing in the North Cariboo, 45 km south of Quesnel. File contains photographs depicting Fort Chilcotin, the landscape and buildings (Sept. 1983 and Aug. 2006).

          Fort George Canyon
          2012.13.2.03.05 · File · 1982-2007
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the Fort George Canyon. Includes: "City of Prince George" typescript letter from Kent Sedgwick to Mr. Ron Drane, Manager of Pine Centre (7 June 1984) and "Fort George Canyon Hiking Trail" pamphlet published by the Fraser-Fort George Regional Museum (July 1984). Also includes photographs depicting the Fort George Canyon and men hiking the trail (1985).