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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          Jill Singleton Collection
          2020.09 · Collection · Aug. 1985

          Collection consists of a travel scrapbook created by Jill Singleton documenting a trip to Alaska, Yukon, Haida Gwaii, and northern BC. Includes photographs, ephemera, handwritten notes, pamphlets, issues of local newspapers, and maps.

          Alaska Trip, August 1985
          2020.09.01 · File · Aug. 1985
          Part of Jill Singleton Collection

          This travel scrapbook was created by Jill Singleton to document a trip to Alaska, Yukon, Haida Gwaii, and northern BC. Jill Singleton and Eric Stathers embarked on a 1985 car camping trip using the BC Ferries and Alaska Ferry systems. Includes postcards, ephemera, handwritten notes, pamphlets, issues of local newspapers, and maps. Also includes 37 photographs.

          Includes the following:

          • "Queen Charlotte Islands Observer" newspaper issue for August 8, 1985
          • "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Queen Charlotte City", June 1985
          • "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Tlell + Port Clements", June 1985
          • "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Skidegate Landing, Skidegate and Sandspit", June 1985
          • "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Masset", June 1985
          • "Explorations Q.C.I." pamphlet advertising guiding, outfitting, and touring
          • "Sandspit Inn, Queen Charlotte Islands" pamphlet
          • "Visit the Queen Charlottes" pamphlet
          • Queen Charlotte Islands map, circa 1985
          • BC Ferries pamphlet "New in 1985... Inside Passage Day Cruise"
          • BC Ferries pamphlet "Tickets and Boarding Information, Inside Passage"
          • "Alaska Marine Highway" pamphlet
          • "Discover Southeast Alaska, Ketchikan" pamphlet
          • "Alaska State Parks" pamphlet/map
          • "Tongass National Forest, Alaska" pamphlet/map
          • "Alaska Marine Highway Summer Schedule - May 1, 1985 through September 30, 1985" pamphlet
          • History leaflet for St. Michael's Cathedral, Sitka, AK
          • Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute leaflets, 1984
          • Anchorage 1984 Visitors Guide, Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau
          • "Skagway... some Steps on the Gold Rush Trail... walking Tour of the Historic District - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park"
          • "Skaguay Alaskan" newspaper issue, Vol. VIII, No. 1880 (1985)
          • "Klondike Gold Rush" pamphlet for tourists
          • "Broadway, Skagway, Alaska" pamphlet
          • "S.S. Tutshi, Carcross" pamphlet
          • "Moon Watching" pamphlet by BC Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing (1980)
          • "Some Insects of Provincial Parks" pamphlet by BC Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing (1980)
          • "Stewart, British Columbia - Hyder, Alaska... Your Gateway to Alaska and the Yukon!" pamphlet
          • "Stewart-Cassiar Highway 37" map
          • "Prince Rupert City Map & Guide" pamphlet
          • "Explore Canada's Yellowhead, Western Canada's New Interprovincial Highway" pamphlet (1983)
          • "101 Things To Do in Yukon" booklet published by Tourism Yukon (1985)
          • "Your Guide to B.C. Ferries' Inside Passage" booklet by British Columbia Ferry Corporation (1985)
          • "Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada" booklet (1981)

          Trip itinerary:

          • Vancouver, BC
          • Nanaimo, BC
          • Port Hardy, BC
          • Prince Rupert, BC
          • Yakoun River, BC
          • Haida Gwaii, BC (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands)
          • Rennell Sound, BC
          • Graham Island, BC
          • Queen Charlotte City, BC
          • Sandspit, BC
          • Prince Rupert, BC
          • Ketchikan, AK
          • Sitka, AK
          • Tenakee Springs, AK
          • Juneau, AK
          • Skagway, BC
          • Carcross, YK
          • Atlin, BC
          • Telegraph Creek, BC
          • Kitwanga, BC
          • Prince Rupert, BC
          • Prince George, BC
          • Lillooet, BC
          • Vancouver, BC
          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