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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          2021.06.013 · Item · [July 1930]
          Part of Emil Bronlund Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts three men sitting in a circle in a clear area near a sparsely forested area in front of a snowy mountain range. 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.

          2008.27.1 · File · 1930-1999
          Part of Knox McCusker Collection

          File consists of the following photocopied articles:

          • "Collecting Plants Beyond the Frontier in Northern British Columbia" by Mary Gibson Henry
          • "Exploring and Plant Collecting in Northern British Columbia" (1933) by Mary Gibson Henry
          • "A Thousand Miles Exploring on Horseback in Northern British Columbia" (1935) by Mary Gibson Henry
          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
          2021.06.055 · Item · [June 1931 or July 1931]
          Part of Emil Bronlund Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a group portrait of Frank Swannell's and Emil Bronlund's crews surrounded by camping supplies, dogs, and a horse along the shore of Thutade Lake. Skook Davidson is in the back row in front of the horse. Frank Swannell is in the front row 3rd from left, petting a dog.

          2021.06.056 · Item · [June 1931 or July 1931]
          Part of Emil Bronlund Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a man standing beside a discovery vein along a rocky cliff. The location is believed to be the east side of Duncan Mountain, east of the north end of Thutade Lake, some 140 miles northeast of Stewart. The Cairn group of 12 mining claims was located by Cominco Ltd. in 1931.