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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          1199 Archival description results for Exploration, Discovery and Travel

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          Pack Dogs at Fort St. James
          2006.20.11.7 · Item · June 1923
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts two First Nations men and two pack dogs loaded with bags. A small group of people can be seen in distance in front of semi-visible building. Stand of trees in background. Handwritten photo caption below photograph reads: "Indians & Pack Dogs - Fort St. James."

          2000.19.1.191 · Item · 20 Sept. 1926-19 Oct. 1926
          Part of Prentiss Gray Collection

          Photograph depicts a train of pack horses walking along a snowy trail across a snow-covered plateau. In the background a tree-covered mountain base is visible with snow-capped peaks rising up in the distance.

          2006.25.1.62 · Item · [between 1961 - 1967]
          Part of Al Elsey Moving Images Collection

          Footage of large animal, most likely a moose, along a steep bank. Two men and their pack horse traveling along an open landscape, a close shot of their campfire at night, then footage of them preparing for a journey early in the morning. Also a view of a herd of caribou, the men traveling in a pack train over a stream and through upper valleys of the mountains, various sunset shots, a lake full of birds feeding, and finally the men packing the horses with killed game meat, most likely caribou.

          The location of the filming is most likely the Rainbow Mountains.

          Pack Train in High Country
          2006.25.1.01 · Item · April 1963
          Part of Al Elsey Moving Images Collection

          Footage of a pack train in the high country, which is likely an upper valley of the mountain foothills. Probable locations of this footage include Holt homestead, Rainbow Mountains or Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.

          Packing horses
          2014.10.1.010 · Item · 1907
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts a group of horses in process of being loaded with packs. Four or more men attend. There is a canvas tent, open fire and more people in the background.

          2003.13 · Collection · [after 1909]

          Consists of two photograph albums that illustrate Parker Bonney's early years as a Forest Engineer. Includes photographs of the expedition to the Nass Valley undertaken by Parker Bonney, Sam Brown, and others. May also include photographs of later surveying expeditions.

          Bonney, Parker
          Parker photograph collection
          2011.13 · Collection · [between 1910 and 1930]

          The photographs depict the geographic areas of Stewart, BC, Boundary Pass, Nelson River, Bitter Creek Glacier, Portland Canal, Red Cliff and Bear Creek; as well as the ships “Camosun” and “S.S. Prince George.” Types of subjects identified in this collection include: community life, surveying, mining and transportation (i.e. dog-sledding, horse and buggy, and the Portland Canal Short Line Railway “P.C.S.L. Rlwy”).

          Pat Allan Morrow
          2000.23.1.073 · File · 1980-1985
          Part of Audrey Smedley L'Heureux fonds

          File consists of material relating to Patrick Allan Morrow who was a Canadian photographer and mountain climber. In 1986 Morrow was the first person to climb the Seven Summits in the Carstensz-Version. Materials include magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, and correspondence between Morrow and L'Heureux.

          People and Mountains
          2012.13.1.56.36 · Item · 1973
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a man talking to a group of hikers, with what is possibly Mt. Robson and the Robson Glacier in the background.