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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          2021.06.012 · Item · [July 1930]
          Part of Emil Bronlund Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts (from left to right) Bill McPhee, an unidentified man, a dog, and Frank 'Shorty' Weber standing in tall meadow grass in front of a sparsely forested landscape in front of a mountain range. The location of the photograph is noted to be at Duck Creek below 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.

          Frank ‘Shorty’ Weber had a trapline on the upper Ingenika for over 30 years. and he was well-known in the Finlay River area.

          2021.06.014 · Item · [July 1930]
          Part of Emil Bronlund Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts four men seated around a small camp in front of Copper Mountain. 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.

          2021.06.016 · Item · [July 1930]
          Part of Emil Bronlund Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts (from left to right) Bill McPhee, Frank 'Shorty' Weber, and another man resting along the rocky terrain on the west slope of Copper Mountain with a forested area at the base of the mountain. In the background of the image another mountain range is visible. The location of the photograph is noted to be at Copper Mountain; however, that name does not appear to be in current use. Location is assumed to be somewhere in the vicinity of 55.979291, -125.208415, near what is currently named Wasi Peak.

          Frank ‘Shorty’ Weber had a trapline on the upper Ingenika for over 30 years. and he was well-known in the Finlay River area.

          Ice jam in Parsnip River
          2021.06.029 · Item · Oct. 1930
          Part of Emil Bronlund Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a large build up of ice along Parsnip River. In the midground there is a boat stopped at the shore and the background depicts a forested area in front of a snow-capped mountain range.

          View up the Omineca River
          2021.06.010 · Item · [Sept. 1930?]
          Part of Emil Bronlund Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a wide view of the Omineca River with a man standing on a boat in the right corner of the image. In the background the river a forested shoreline and mountain range are visible.

          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
          2008.27.5 · File · 1928-1955
          Part of Knox McCusker Collection

          File consists of the following articles and speeches written by Knox McCusker:

          • "Reminiscences of Knox McCusker" (63 typewritten pages)
          • "Back and Beyond the Peace" by K.McCusker (taken from the Toronto Star Weekly Saturday May 5, 1928) – retyped
          • "The Alaska Highway" by Knox F. McCusker, D.L.S. (The Canadian Surveyor, July 1943)-photocopy
          • Mr. McCusker's speech (5 pages)
          • “Tropical Valleys of B.C.” (4 pages)
          • "The president has called me an old old surveyor…" speech written by K. McCusker
          • "In the early days of my career in the Surveying profession…" written by K. McCusker
          Loading up a pack horse
          2000.19.2.154 · Item · 29 Aug. 1927-26 Sept. 1927
          Part of Prentiss Gray Collection

          Photograph depicts a man loading up pack horse with two other laden pack horses visible in the periphery of the image.