Geographic Features

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  • Includes both natural and artificial features

  • Physical landscape, built landscape

  • Urban and industrial landscapes

  • Topography

  • Site plans

  • Boundaries, districts, reserves, parks, sanctuaries, towns, etc.

  • NOTE: Mainly but not exclusively pertaining to photographic and cartographic records

  • SEE ALSO: Land, Settlement and Immigration

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          4130 Archival description results for Geographic Features

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          2011.13.05 · Item · ca.1910-ca.1930
          Part of Parker photograph collection

          Photograph taken from a low elevation of various businesses in Stewart, BC. Visible businesses include "The R. Boyd Young Co." and "Motel King Edward." Printed annotation on recto reads: "Cor. 5th and Columbia Sts. Stewart. B.C. Hughes #45."

          2011.13.08 · Item · ca.1910-ca.1930
          Part of Parker photograph collection

          Photograph taken from a low elevation of various businesses in Stewart, BC. Visible businesses include "The R. Boyd Young Co." and "Motel King Edward." Printed annotation on recto reads: "Cor. 5th and Columbia Sts. Stewart. B.C. Hughes #44."

          Cottonwood House
          2012.13.1.126.49 · Item · [1990?]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the Cottonwood House Historic Site along Barkerville Highway, east of Quesnel, B.C. A sign posted by the fence reads: "For over half a century the Boyd family operated this haven for man and beast. Here weary travellers found lodging, food, and drink. Here fresh horses were hitched to stage-coaches and miners bought supplies. This historic road-house, built in 1864, stood as an oasis of civilization on the frontier of a rich new land."

          Cottonwood Island
          2012.13.1.023 · Subseries · 1973
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File contains slides depicting Cottonwood Island in Prince George, B.C. These photographs were taken by Kent Sedgwick when he was an instructor in Geography at the College of New Caledonia. The images were taken in support of a proposal by the New Caledonia Institute of Environmental Studies to create a municipal park at Cottonwood Island.

          Cottonwood Island
          2012.13.2.03.07 · File · 2001-2009
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Cottonwood Island in Prince George, formerly named Island Cache and Foley's Cache. Includes: "A brief history of Cottonwood Island Park" typed document by Kent Sedgwick (Nov. 2009).

          2012.13.2.14.02 · File · 1973-2010
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of clippings, notes, and reproductions relating to the history of Cottonwood Island in Prince George. Includes: "A brief history of cottonwood island" typed draft by Kent Sedgwick (Nov. 2009); "Cottonwood Island area suggestions for street names" typescript document by Kent Sedgwick for the Heritage Advisory Committee; and "Proposal for Cottonwood Island as a park reserve" typescript document by Kent Sedgwick (Aug. 1973). File also includes "Kent Sedgwick - Island Cache / Cottonwood Island" a CD-R containing photographs of the Cottonwood Island and Island Cache area (2009).

          Cottonwood Park Opening
          2012.13.1.133.12 · Item · 1985
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts Elmer Mercier, a former mayor of Prince George, B.C., cutting the ribbon to open Cottonwood Park's Heritage Trail.

          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."

          Creek
          2012.13.1.41.10 · Item · 2002
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a creek near Iron Road North, north of Woodpecker, B.C.

          Creek
          2012.13.1.41.09 · Item · 2002
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a creek near Iron Road North, north of Woodpecker, B.C.

          2012.13.1.122.34 · Item · July 1982
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a man attaching a logging trailer to a crane on a wooden structure to stack the trailer on the truck. A Crestbrook Forest Industries sawmill is located in the background.

          2012.13.1.124.06 · Item · 1972
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a group of unidentified individuals walking along a crevasse filled ridge somewhere in the vicinity of Smithers, B.C. The slide also labels it as a "drift ridge."