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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          Dogsled Team
          2009.5.2.54 · Item · [ca. 1934]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a team of dogs pulling a sled and an unidentified person across a very flat area under heavy clouds. Mountains in background. Handwritten annotations on verso of photograph: "Unbroken Trails", "Taylor". Photograph speculated to have been taken near Atlin, B.C.

          Dogsled Team
          2009.5.2.57 · Item · [ca. 1934]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a team of dogs and sled resting in a very flat snow-covered area. Hills in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "ATLIN."

          Coulee Dam
          2009.5.3.102 · Item · [ca 1930?]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts large bridge and dam over a wide river, industrial structures throughout. Hills on opposite shore in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Coulee Dam, This is were[sic] I went this fall. Wished you had of been with me."

          2009.5.3.141 · Item · [ca. 1917]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts car parked in dirt yard. House stands in background on right, surrounded by miscellaneous items. White tent stands in left background. Water and shore visible in distance. House believed to belong to the Bourchier's niece Jean (see items 2009.5.3.120 & 2009.5.3.122).

          2009.5.4.60 · Item · May 1981
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Julian Fry reminisces on his early life and acquaintances in Prince George during his work along the Blackwater Road in the early 1920's. Some notable references include: Blackwater Road, C.F.S. Baldy Hughes, Bill Comstock, Tom Cornell, Duncan MacKenzie, Ernest Levesque, [?] Hathaway, [?] Nelson, Ed and Julia Erickson, Blackwater Telegraph Station, Everett Vandenburg, and [?] Mackenzie.

          2009.6.1.136 · Item · May 1976
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “With the boss at Kivsta, Q.C.I.: May 1976, 13,000 yrs. carbondated habitation in the same location-- The real Charlottes and his counter culture protection in the rain, mist, moss and dense forest of the Haida”.

          2009.6.1.206 · Item · 1977
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Havana, 1977, Ian Howard, Frances + Chuck Pilfold, Eric Morse - State Guest House”.

          Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.

          2009.6.1.212 · Item · 1977
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “La Bodeguita, Hemingways Bar in Havana, Angive shows us the mojitos motto -- ‘I drink my Daequiris a Las Floridas but I drink my mojitos at La Bodeguita’ Ernest Hemingway”.

          Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.

          2009.6.1.216 · Item · January 1978
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Campagnolo sits at table with Frances Pilfold, Chuck Pilfold, and several others. See items 2009.6.1.214 - 2009.6.1.217 for images featuring similar content.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Bodeguita Café, Havana 1977”.

          Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.

          2009.6.1.217 · Item · January 1978
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Campagnolo sits at table with Frances Pilfold, Chuck Pilfold, and several others. See items 2009.6.1.214 - 2009.6.1.216 for images featuring similar content.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Great Reseraunt in Havana - Jan/78, Frances + Chuck Pilfold of Pr. Rupert with me.”

          Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.

          2009.6.1.219 · Item · January 1978
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Lawn chairs and trees in background. See item 2009.6.1.220 for image featuring similar content.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “my campanero’s de Havana, Jan./78, Ian Howard, Executive Assistant; Roger Jackson, Director Sport Cda; Eric Morse, Ext. Affairs (Spy)”.

          Photograph taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.

          2009.6.1.220 · Item · January 1978
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Campagnolo sits on lawn chair, trees in background. See item 2009.6.1.219 for image featuring similar content.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “‘Ilse she wolf of the north’ in a revolutionary home in Havana!”

          Photograph taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.