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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          2009.6.1.484 · Item · [ca. 1985 - 1990]
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Handwritten annotation on slide casing reads: “behind hotel Costa do Sol”.

          Photograph is one of seven images believed to have been taken on a Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO) mission in Mozambique; see also items 2009.6.1.483 - 2009.6.1.489.

          2009.7.1.021 · Item · 1910
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Rev. William Edwin Collison stands in centre of boat, with wife Bertha and daughters Muriel and Katherine seated behind. Unknown man and woman are also seated in boat, and an unknown man stands on shore holding rope.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Will Collison with wife & children leaving Metlakatla to catch steamship en route to England (1910)".

          2012.13.2.19.06 · File · 2006-2011
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to bibliographic references about Fort Alexandria (later renamed Alexandria). Fort Alexandria was a trading post, ferry site, and steamboat landing in the North Cariboo, 45 km south of Quesnel.

          Bill Plumb Exploration
          2000.1.1.1.07 · File · 1963 - 1965
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Photograph of Cassiar's Chief Geologist Bill Plumb who led many exhibitions for the purposes of Cassiar's outside exploration endeavors. Various photos in this collection depict Bill on some of these exhibitions.

          2014.10.1.160 · Item · 1911
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts a view from above the Blackwater telegraph cabin and house. The house has a large fence garden beside, telegraph poles with wires are visible alongside the dirt road. Wood smoke drifts from the house chimney to the sparsely forested area beside.

          2014.10.1.161 · Item · 1911
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts a canvas tent and wooden tent frame in the foreground, more canvas tents erected in the background. Two men carry poles on the right, while another man in center photo stands near another pole frame. There is a body of water in the background.

          2002.12.24 · Item · 1987
          Part of Bob Harkins fonds

          Item consists of transcript of interview with writer, film maker, and guide outfitter Andy Russell conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding Russell's experiences with guiding in Northern Rockies. Russell also discusses his new work The Life of a River and discusses the environmental impact of hydro-electric development on rivers

          Harkins, Bob
          2002.12.17.2 · Item · c.1970-c.1989
          Part of Bob Harkins fonds

          Item consists of transcript and tape summary of interview with trapper Hank Witter who discusses his life as a trapper in Northern BC. c.1920s-c.1960s.

          Harkins, Bob
          2002.12.3.2 · Item · c.1970 - c.1989
          Part of Bob Harkins fonds

          Item consists of transcript of interview with writer and guide outfitter Jack Boudreau conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding Boudreau's experiences with grizzly bears. Boudreau also discusses other guide outfitters and hunters from Northern British Columbia.

          Harkins, Bob
          2002.12.27.2 · Item · c.1970-c.1989
          Part of Bob Harkins fonds

          Item consists of transcript of interviews with various guests including Bob Crosby, manager of the Simon Fraser Hotel; Sammy Labadiere (sp?); and Prince George resident Chuck Williams discussing the re-enactment of the Simon Fraser voyage down the Fraser River in 1958.

          Harkins, Bob
          2012.13.2.02.42 · File · 2009
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of printed emails and typed documents relating to Brett & Hall and an exhibit for the National Gallery of Canada. Brett & Hall were landscape architects from Boston, MA who designed the original plan for Prince George, including features such as the Crescents neighbourhood.

          2012.13.2.02.36 · File · 1996-2003
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Brett and Hall city planning work for Prince George. Brett & Hall were landscape architects from Boston, MA who designed the original plan for Prince George, including features such as the Crescents neighbourhood.

          Bridge Crossing River Canyon
          2009.5.1.72 · Item · [ca. 1900]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts bridge built with wooden planks and poles, with triangles built into its frame. Water rapids in foreground, opposite shore in background behind bridge. This is speculated to be one of the bridges that crossed the Hagwilget Canyon on the Bulkey River since 1859, five kilometres from its confluence with the Skeena River. See items 2009.5.1.69 - 2009.5.1.71.