Photograph depicts a pack train of horses fording the Moberly River with a forested shoreline in the background.

Photograph depicts an unidentified crew man lounging on the ground drinking coffee while other crew members stand in the background.

Photograph depicts Carrol Paul (right) and Harry Snyder (left) sitting on the ground during a tea break. In the background is a forested area filled with coniferous trees.

Photograph depicts Harry Snyder sitting under a tent cleaning his rifle. In the background behind Snyder are several boxes and a man standing with his back to the camera.

Photograph depicts an unidentified man cooking food in several pots over a fire at a camp site. In the background several tents are visible in front of a forested environment.

Photograph depicts an unidentified man tending to food cooking in pots over a fire at a camp site.

Photograph depicts Harry Snyder sitting under a tent cleaning a rifle with two other rifles resting beside him.

Photograph depicts a pack horse team making its way across a area covered by fallen trees due to windfall.

Photograph depicts two men tending to a camp site with several tents and horses on a grassy field.

Photograph depicts a pack horse team slowly making their way across an area covered with windfall near Kinoosao Falls. In the background a tree-covered hillside is visible.

Photograph depicts Pete Callao on horseback looking through binoculars in order to determine his course through a forested valley to Pine River. In the background the peak of a mountain is visible.

Photograph depicts Pete Callao using an axe to cut a trail through an area covered with windfall.

Photograph depicts Frank Dewing cutting a trail through an area covered with windfall consisting of fallen trees.

Photograph depicts Prentiss Gray climbing over fallen logs in an area of windfall.

Photograph depicts Carrol Paul standing to the left beside a felled bull moose while George Bates sits on top of a felled bull moose.

Photograph depicts two men on horseback and a full laden pack horse riding across a grassy slope with a forested mountain range in the background. The location of photo is between Wapiti Lake and Red Deer Valley.

Photograph depicts seven pack horses grazing in grass by a stream. In the background the tree line of a forest is visible with mountain peaks rising in the distance.

Photograph depicts a pack horse train walking through a mountain valley. In the background forested foothills are visible with a mountain peak rising in the distance.

File consists of the following articles and speeches written by Knox McCusker:

• "Reminiscences of Knox McCusker" (63 typewritten pages)
• "Back and Beyond the Peace" by K.McCusker (taken from the Toronto Star Weekly Saturday May 5, 1928) – retyped
• "The Alaska Highway" by Knox F. McCusker, D.L.S. (The Canadian Surveyor, July 1943)-photocopy
• Mr. McCusker's speech (5 pages)
• “Tropical Valleys of B.C.” (4 pages)
• "The president has called me an old old surveyor…" speech written by K. McCusker
• "In the early days of my career in the Surveying profession…" written by K. McCusker

Photograph depicts two men inspecting dirt at Swiggums' mining claim near Osilinka River.

Photograph depicts a man siting in a wooden boat on the Omineca River leading to the entrance of Little Canyon toward a forested shoreline.

Photograph depicts the rocky shoreline and forest environment at the entrance to Little Canyon viewed from the Omineca River.

Photograph depicts Emil Bronlund at the back of a wooden motor boat resting after a swim in the Omineca River, located near Germansen Landing.

Photograph depicts Ralph Meiser and another man ("Crites"?) paddling a wooden boat on the Omineca River near Germansen Landing.

Photograph depicts the view from Germansen Lodge of Omineca River with a forested shoreline and mountain ranges in the background.

Photograph depicts Frank 'Shorty' Weber steering a dug-out canoe on the Omineca River. The background of the photograph depicts log cabins at Old Hogem built along the shoreline of the river in front of a forest with a mountain ridge in the background.

Frank ‘Shorty’ Weber had a trapline on the upper Ingenika for over 30 years. and he was well-known in the Finlay River area.

Photograph depicts a man (Ed Short) standing on a boulder in front of a hillside covered with grass and trees.

Photograph depicts two men standing near two horses in front of a tall log cache in a forested environment.

Photograph depicts two horses loaded with packs walking across a wooden bridge leading over Wedge Creek.

Photograph depicts a snowy mountain range to the south of Wedge Creek with a forested area at the base.

Photoraph depicts two men, Emil Bronlund and Clarence Waldof, standing beside a long motorboat at the edge of Crooked River in front of a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts two men, Clarence Waldof and Henry Waldof, posing for a photo while at work clearing dirt in front of a house in Prince George.

Photograph depicts two men (Emil Bronlund and Henry Waldo) in conversation while at work clearing dirt in front of a house in Prince George.

Photograph depicts two men, Emil Bronlund and Clarence Waldof, posing for a photograph at a farm in Prince George.

Photograph depicts (from left to right) Bill McPhee, an unidentified man, a dog, and Frank 'Shorty' Weber standing in tall meadow grass in front of a sparsely forested landscape in front of a mountain range. The location of the photograph is noted to be at Duck Creek below Copper Mountain; however, those names may no longer be in current use. Location is assumed to be approximately 55.979291, -125.208415 near what is currently named Wasi Peak.

Frank ‘Shorty’ Weber had a trapline on the upper Ingenika for over 30 years. and he was well-known in the Finlay River area.

Photograph depicts four men seated around a small camp in front of Copper Mountain. The location of the photograph is noted to be at Duck Creek at Copper Mountain; however, those names may no longer be in current use. Location is assumed to be approximately 55.979291, -125.208415 near what is currently named Wasi Peak.

Photograph depicts Copper Mountain with forested area at base and grassy area in the foreground.

Photograph depicts (from left to right) Bill McPhee, Frank 'Shorty' Weber, and another man resting along the rocky terrain on the west slope of Copper Mountain with a forested area at the base of the mountain. In the background of the image another mountain range is visible. The location of the photograph is noted to be at Copper Mountain; however, that name does not appear to be in current use. Location is assumed to be somewhere in the vicinity of 55.979291, -125.208415, near what is currently named Wasi Peak.

Frank ‘Shorty’ Weber had a trapline on the upper Ingenika for over 30 years. and he was well-known in the Finlay River area.

Photograph depicts two men (Bill McPhee and Shorty Weber) standing at the summit of Copper Mountain with a snowy mountain range visible in the background of the image.

Photograph depicts a frozen pond located in a snowy landscape on the east side of Copper Mountain.

Photograph depicts two men and a dog standing in a grassy field at Duck Creek in front of a forested landscape with a mountain range in the background.

Photograph depicts two men standing on a boat floating between ice chunks down Finlay River below Deserter Canyon.

Photograph depicts five men repairing a boat pulled up on a snow covered shoreline beside the river at Finlay Forks.

Photograph depicts a large build up of ice along Parsnip River. In the midground there is a boat stopped at the shore and the background depicts a forested area in front of a snow-capped mountain range.

Photograph depicts two men pulling a boat through a shallow section of Crooked River in front of a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts Clarence Waldof, Henry Waldof, Ethel Waldof, and another woman swimming in Summit Lake.

Photograph depicts men fishing off a rocky point between the Omineca and Osilinka Rivers.

Photograph depicts Clarence Waldof sitting on the bow end of a wooden boat floating on End Lake off the Osilinka River with a forested landscape along the shoreline. A mountain range is visible in the background of the photo.

Photograph depicts two men and two dogs resting near a wooden rowboat stopped along the shoreline of upper Osilinka River near Swiggums mining claims.

Photograph depicts a wide view of the Omineca River with a man standing on a boat in the right corner of the image. In the background the river a forested shoreline and mountain range are visible.