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

          1199 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
          Duke of Sutherland
          2012.13.2.20.03 · File · 2011
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Duke of Sutherland. Also includes photographs depicting the area of White's Landing in Strathnaver (2010).

          2012.13.2.14.05 · File · 2009
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the Alexander Mackenzie monument in Prince George. Includes a photograph depicting Judge Howay at the unveiling of the original National Historic Monument to Alexander Mackenzie in Prince George on 13 June 1925 (reproduced 2009).

          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.

          4th Duke of Sutherland
          2012.13.2.20.21 · File · 2007
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of reproductions relating to the 4th Duke of Sutherland, Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1851-27 June 1913).

          Fort Alexandria
          2012.13.2.19.07 · File · 2007-2010
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Fort Alexandria (later renamed Alexandria). Fort Alexandria was an HBC trading post, ferry site, and steamboat landing in the North Cariboo, 45 km south of Quesnel. File contains photographs depicting Fort Chilcotin, the landscape and buildings (Sept. 1983 and Aug. 2006).

          Prince George urban planning
          2012.13.2.02.35 · File · 2006-2010
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the planning of the Prince George townsite. Includes material on surveyors, Fred Burden, and town planners working with the landscape architects Brett and Hall on the development of the townsite. File predominantly consists of Kent Sedgwick's handwritten notes on townsite planning in Prince George. Includes a clipped article from the Prince George Citizen newspaper "Town planners involved landscape architects" (4 Nov. 2006).

          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.

          2012.13.2.10.07 · File · 2006
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Royal Engineers and Henry Spencer Palmer, a British Army military engineer and surveyor. Henry Spencer Palmer was sent to British Columbia and completed a report in 1863 on Wiliams Lake, the Caribou Districts, and the Fraser River from Fort Alexandria to Fort George. File primarily consists of Kent Sedgwick's handwritten notes on Henry Palmer and his work in British Columbia.

          Simon Fraser
          2012.13.2.02.55 · File · 2006-2008
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to research conducted by Kent Sedgwick on Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer and fur trader. Includes: "Simon Fraser: The Birth of Modern British Columbia" special edition issue of the Vancouver Sun newspaper (3 Jan. 2006).

          Mount Sir Alexander
          2012.13.2.19.12 · File · 2006-2010
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to Mount Sir Alexander, a mountain in the Sir Alexander Area of the Continental Ranges of the BC Canadian Rockies.

          2012.13.2.02.50 · File · 2004-2011
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to encouraging settlement and immigration to Prince George. Includes material on Dutch settlement in Prince George; the Hornby Plan, a 1933 settlement plan by the Canadian National Railway to develop communities and stimulate business for the railway, particularly in Prince George; promoting Prince George for settlers; reserved land for veterans; and auction of lands to cover delinquent taxes in British Columbia.

          2012.13.2.02.53 · File · 2004-2006
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to soldier land settlement in northern British Columbia following the First World War. Includes material regarding the British Columbia Land Settlement Act; the allotment of land for Prince George; and the opening of reserved lands for veterans. Includes a printed article entitled "Soldiers, Settlement and Development in British Columbia, 1915-1930" by Paul Koroscil (2000).

          2012.13.2.02.32 · File · 2003-2004
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the boundary survey done by A.O. Wheeler, who was employed by British Columbia Government as a surveyor in 1922 to survey the boundary between British Columbia and Alberta.

          Land surveyors
          2012.13.2.02.27 · File · 2003-2009
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to land surveyors working in British Columbia. Includes material on Rupert Williams Haggen who became a land surveyor in 1911 and surveyed Prince George, Quesnel, Bowron River, and the Fraser River area below Quesnel; Henry Fry who worked in Victoria between 1871 and 1897; Otto Julius Klotz who surveyed the Alaska-British Columbia boundary and also surveyed for the Canadian Pacific Railway between 1871 to 1927; James Herrick McGregor who worked in the Kootenays and assisted for the survey of the British Columbia Alberta border between 1891 and 1903; and Forin Campbell who came to Prince George in 1908.

          Frank Swannell
          2012.13.2.02.31 · File · 2002-2008
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to Frank Swannell, who was a surveyor in British Columbia that surveyed many areas across the province between 1898 and 1908.

          Father Adrien Morice
          2012.13.2.10.06 · File · 2001
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to Father Adrien Morice. Father Adrien Morice was a missionary and was ordained as a priest who came to British Columbia in 1880 to complete his ecclesiastical studies. After completing his schooling he was signed to the Williams Lake Mission where he worked closely with the Chilcotin peoples, learning their language and ministering. He continued to learn Chinook before moving to work at Stuart Lake with the Na'Kaztl'Tenneh Band in 1885, working with four divisions of the Carrier Tribes, the Alexandria, Quesnel, Blackwater, and Lhuskuz. Morice continued to use the Cree language and eventually published a monthly newspaper between 1881 and 1884 called "Tsettes Nahivelnik" (meaning "storyteller") using the Cree language. File primarily consists of handwritten notes by Kent Sedgwick regarding Father Adrien Morice and his work.

          2012.13.2.02.46 · File · 2001-2005
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Hudson's Bay Company subdivision. Includes material on the subdivision, survey, and sale of lands in Fort George owned by the Hudson's Bay Company.

          Fred Burden
          2012.13.2.02.30 · File · 2001-2006
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Fred Burden, a surveyor in British Columbia who surveyed tar sands in the Fort McMurray region and returned to Prince George in 1921 to complete a topographical survey of Prince George.

          2012.13.2.15.07 · File · 2001-2004
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the British Columbia Express Company. Barnard's Express, later known as the British Columbia Express Company or BX, was a pioneer transportation company that served the Cariboo and Fraser-Fort George regions in British Columbia, Canada from 1861 until 1921.

          2012.13.2.02.54 · File · 2000-2004
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the North Coast Land Company, Russel Walker, and Rattenbury Lands. The North Coast Land Company owned and sold many plots of land alongside the developing Pacific Great Eastern Railway line in Fort George and Prince George. The company had an office on George Street. Russel Walker was a sales agent and manager of the North Coast Land Company in Fort George and Prince George, Walker had also become the publisher and editor of the Fort George Herald newspaper. Russel Walker worked in Prince George between 1910 and 1916. Rattenbury Lands was a company that held and sold land in the Prince George area during the 1910s and 1920s, as they had taken over most of the land from The North Coast Land Company. File primarily consists of photocopied newspaper clippings, including articles and advertisements for the North Coast Land Company.

          2012.13.4.08 · File · 1999-2000
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of photographs depicting the Salmon River Portage. Includes depictions of potential past mill sites, overgrown fields, and derelict buildings.

          David Thompson
          2012.13.2.13.07 · File · 1998, 2004-2011
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to David Thompson, surveyor, cartographer, and fur trader with the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company.

          2012.13.2.02.40 · File · 1998-2006
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of reproductions and photocopies of articles on the history of city planning in North America. File predominantly consists of printed articles: "Encyclopedia of Urban Planning" by Arnold Whittick; "Radburn and the American Planning Movement: The Persistence of an Idea" by Eugenie Ladner Birch; "The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States" by John W. Reps; and "The Story of the Planner's Journal 1915-1980" by Donald A. Krueckberg.

          2008.27.4 · File · 1998-2003
          Part of Knox McCusker Collection

          File consists of the following materials:

          • Letter to Vernon C. Brink from the National Archives of Canada re: Knox McCusker holdings (March 1, 1999)
          • Photocopy of article: "Living Landscapes: Exploring the wilds of northeaster BC" by Ross Peck and Brian Apland
          • Some materials for an article on Knox McCusker, D.L.S.
          • Material about the life of Knox Freeman McCusker
          • Letter to Mrs. Rutherford (Oct. 5, 1999) re: access to interview of Knox McCusker by Frank Willis
          • Accession information print-out re: interview of Knox McCusker by Frank Willis in 1954
          • National Archives of Canada accession information print-out re: Dominion Land Surveyor Diaries, 1881-1930
          • Mary Henry / Knox McCusker "Team" (April 19, 1998)
          • Letter to Mrs. Rutherford from George Ungar re: background information on Knox McCusker
          2009.6.1.580 · Item · July 1996
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Left to right: Deborah Poff, Dennis Macknak, Charles Jago, an unidentified woman, Iona Campagnolo, an unidentified man, Ellen Facey, and an unidentified woman. Unknown man stands on lower deck in foreground. Mountains visible in background. Photograph taken during the Chancellor's 1996 regional tour through Atlin and Whitehorse; see also items 2009.6.1.578 - 2009.6.1.581.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "#3 Chancellor's Tour".

          2009.6.1.581 · Item · July 1996
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Left to right: Deborah Poff, Dennis Macknak, Charles Jago, an unidentified woman, Iona Campagnolo, Ellen Facey, Nick Petraryszak, an unidentified man, and an unidentified woman. Unknown man stands on lower deck in foreground. Mountains visible in background. Photograph taken during the Chancellor's 1996 regional tour through Atlin and Whitehorse; see also items 2009.6.1.578 - 2009.6.1.580.

          2012.13.2.02.34 · File · 1996-1998
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Brett & Hall landscape architecture and urban planning in Canada. File predominantly consists of photocopies of articles relating to urban planning, including "The Influence of Thomas Adams and the British New Towns Movement in the Planning of Canadian Resource Communities" by Oiva Saarinen; "Thomas Adams and the Commission of Conservation" by Alan H. Armstrong; "The Laying Out of Towns" by W.H. Dorsey; "The Relation of the City Engineer to Public Parks" by John C. Olmsted; "The Planning of Company Communities in the Lake Superior Mining Region" by Arnold R. Alanen; and "Planning the Canadian Environment" by L.O. Gertler.

          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.

          Two People, Two Dogs
          2012.13.1.84.06 · Item · 1994
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts two individuals and two dogs standing by a stream at an uncertain location, possibly somewhere in Bear Glacier Provincial Park. The woman in purple is possibly Sue Sedgwick.

          Three People, Three Dogs
          2012.13.1.84.04 · Item · 1994
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts three individuals and three dogs standing by a stream at an uncertain location, possibly somewhere in Bear Glacier Provincial Park. The woman in purple is possibly Sue Sedgwick.

          Two People, Three Dogs
          2012.13.1.84.05 · Item · 1994
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts two individuals and three dogs standing by a stream at an uncertain location, possibly somewhere in Bear Glacier Provincial Park. The woman in purple is possibly Sue Sedgwick.

          Simon Fraser
          2012.13.2.13.06 · File · 1993, 2007-2008
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer and North West Company fur trader who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia and founded a number of BC communities, including Prince George (Fort George). Includes a photograph depicting a bicentennial celebration at Fort George Park (1993).

          Survey of Prince George
          2012.13.2.02.29 · File · 1990
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the survey of Prince George. Includes material on survey plans, lots in Prince George, original town planning, subdivision plans, and Kent Sedgwick's handwritten notes on surveying and town planning in Prince George. File primarily includes photopied maps depicting town lots and planning in Prince George. Includes: "RE: Title Search for Fairgrounds" typescript letter from Kent Sedgwick to Dr. Dick Rowe (26 Apr. 1990) and "Map showing South Fort George, Fort George (Central) and the additions surveyed in 1910 or later" reproduced map from the Fort George Tribune newspaper.

          2009.6.1.511 · Item · 1990
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          Trees in foreground, hills in background. Unidentified man stands on far left.

          Photograph is one of 11 images taken during a World Health Organization (WHO) trip, Human Rights of Women and Children, Peru, 1990. Possibly affiliated with World Council of Churches, International Ecumenical Delegation to Lima, Peru, 14-25 October 1990. See also items 2009.6.1.505 - 2009.6.1.515.

          2009.6.1.507 · Item · 1990
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          The group stands in front of a brick wall.

          Photograph is one of 11 images taken during a World Health Organization (WHO) trip, Human Rights of Women and Children, Peru, 1990. Possibly affiliated with World Council of Churches, International Ecumenical Delegation to Lima, Peru, 14-25 October 1990. See also items 2009.6.1.505 - 2009.6.1.515.

          2009.6.1.508 · Item · 1990
          Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

          The group stands in front of a cement building.

          Photograph is one of 11 images taken during a World Health Organization (WHO) trip, Human Rights of Women and Children, Peru, 1990. Possibly affiliated with World Council of Churches, International Ecumenical Delegation to Lima, Peru, 14-25 October 1990. See also items 2009.6.1.505 - 2009.6.1.515.