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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          4138 Archival description results for Geographic Features

          4138 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
          Port Essington, B.C.
          2001.1.022 · File · [ca. 1870]-1986
          Part of NBCA Document and Ephemera Collection

          Consists of copies of lot plans, a blueprint of the townsite of Port Essington, and an article on Port Essington from the 15 November 1984 edition of the Prince Rupert Daily News.
          Port Essington: A Town Remembered
          2002.5.1 · Item · 15 November 1984
          Part of NBCA Document and Ephemera Collection

          "Port Essington: A Town Remembered" consists of copies of 4 black & white photographs of Port Essington, taken in October 1984 by Nancy Robertson, and published on page 13 of the 15 November 1984 edition of The Daily News, Prince Rupert's newspaper. The page caption reads as follows : "Port Essington : a town remembered - These photos are from an aging Port Essington taken in the fall month of October by photographer Nancy Robertson. Once a thriving community, Port Essington stands derelict at a Skeena estuary with only occasional visitors."
          Poling a canoe
          Poling a canoe
          2009.7.1.165 · Item · [ca. 1910]
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Three Indigenous men stand in a canoe poling their craft along a shoreline while one man sits and steers. An unidentified village is visible along the opposite shore.
          Plantsite
          2000.1.1.3.18 · File · 1953 - 1989
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          This file contains operations at the plantsite:
          Below is synopsis of the item level descriptions (see each item for further description)

          • locations depicted at Plantsite: mill building, dry rock storage building, tailings pile, gravel pit, power house, and office.
          • delivery and installation of a Caterpillar engine, welding repairs underway on a Rustin Diesel Engine in the power house, staff portrait taken by the main office building, and fibre testing
            Not done to item level but integrated into subseries file:
          • Photographic negatives included depict milling and packaging machinery in the mill building.
          • 93 slides depicting various activities and equipment at the plantsite including: dry rock storage, screens, collectors, loading trucks, bagging, pallets, tailing pile, lab work by engineers, lab equipment, fibre testing, and fibre samples.
          • photographs of conveyor foundations, tailings equipment, Grizzly truck, containers from site mechanical inspection, and portable crushing plant in June 1991.
          • photos of fibre samples from lab - on display
          • collection of photos of 1970 Mill modification Program of April 1978
          • collection of photos from 1961 and 1962 of plantsite lab and asbestos samples. file labeled "Suter - Webb VU Graph Analysis" and "Suter - Webb and Turner Comb Analysis"
          • Pressure Packer modification photos done by Chapman Industries in 1986
          • Powerhouse equipment from 1979
          • additional 43 slides of inside the mill in June 1978. Slides were used at a board meeting.
          • negatives of inside of mill
          • A photo album of 162 photographs depicting various operations at the plantsite including: drill dust collector, outdoor surroundings, conveyors, and the mine site. (album was originally labelled "Cassiar Plantsite).
          Plans and Legal Records
          2002.17.2 · Series · 1913-1914
          Part of Henderson-Roe collection

          Consists of legal records and documents related to the holdings and activities of J. B. Henderson-Roe and his father, C.H. Henderson-Roe, including a hand-drawn map of Prince George, Fort George, and South Fort George, as well as a surveyor's plan for a subdivision.
          Plane on Summit Lake, BC
          Plane on Summit Lake, BC
          2005.3.37 · Item · [ca. 1945]
          Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

          Handwritten caption above this photo reads: "Plane on Sumit Lake." Logs can be seen floating on water in foreground, as well as trees on opposite shore in background. The seaplane has the letters "CF-ATF" on its side.

          Plane on Summit Lake, BC
          Plane on Summit Lake, BC
          2005.3.36 · Item · [ca. 1945]
          Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

          Handwritten caption above this photo reads: "Plane on Sumit Lake." Logs can be seen floating on water in foreground, as well as trees on opposite shore in background. The seaplane has the letters "CF-ATF" on its side.

          Plan of Port Essington
          2002.5.2 · Item · 28 September 1926
          Part of NBCA Document and Ephemera Collection

          Plan of Port Essington consists of an architectural plan for the townsite of Port Essington compiled from plans in Land Registry and described as Composite Plan 537 (originally deposited October 17th 1893). Depicts Skeena River, Hocsal River, individual lots and streets, the B.C. Fishing and Packing Co. Ltd., a graveyard, and the Anglo British Columbia Packing Co.
          Place-based computing methodology
          2012.13.2.11.16 · File · 2005
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to place-based computing geography methodology regarding inter-disciplinary research on experiences of place to teach history and geography and used by Kent Sedgwick.
          'Place of Echoes' at Kincolith, BC
          'Place of Echoes' at Kincolith, BC
          2009.7.1.150 · Item · [ca. 1878 - ca. 1915]
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Photograph features a steep cliff across water, rocky shore in foreground.

          Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Up the 'Big Creek' at Kincolith B.C. Rock face called 'the place of echoes' by the Indian people."
          Pine Pass?
          Pine Pass?
          2012.13.1.73.03 · Item · Aug. 1979
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a view of what is possibly the Pine Pass located near the Murray Ridge.
          Pine Pass
          Pine Pass
          2012.13.1.91.31 · Item · Nov. 1978
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts an unidentified individual standing near a drop-off in the Pine Pass between Alberta and British Columbia. The sign behind the individual reads: "Pine Pass - 2,868 FT. Here the great barrier of the Rock Mountains is breached by the lowest highway pass. Once the remote route of the trapper, it now links the commerce of the north and markets of the south. The John Hart Highway was completed in 1952 and followed by the P.G.E. in 1958. Gas and oil lines also take advantage of this convenient natural feature."