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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          Paddlewheel Park
          2012.13.1.7.201 · Item · Nov. 2000
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the Fraser River at Paddlewheel park, with a train on the other side of the river, in Prince George B.C.

          2009.5.4.52 · Item · [ca. 1912]
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts four men on conveyor, and clear view of paddle wheel. A small boat is docked to the conveyor with men and equipment. Crowd of men on shore in foreground on right, trees on opposite shore in background. Mountains visible in distance. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Str. Conveyor".

          Packing horses
          2014.10.1.010 · Item · 1907
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts a group of horses in process of being loaded with packs. Four or more men attend. There is a canvas tent, open fire and more people in the background. Location believed to be HBC post at Fort Fraser.

          Pack Train in High Country
          2006.25.1.01 · Item · April 1963
          Part of Al Elsey Moving Images Collection

          Footage of a pack train in the high country, which is likely an upper valley of the mountain foothills. Probable locations of this footage include Holt homestead, Rainbow Mountains or Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.

          2014.10.1.007 · Item · 1907
          Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

          Photograph depicts twelve or more horses loaded with packs. Three or more men attending. There is a telegraph pole in the midground, treed low hills in the background. The horses are standing in a field. Note: Fort Fraser, BC was at one time also referred to as "Fraser's Lake" - the name of the Post Office within the Hudson Bay Company store.

          2020.08.82 · Item · [between 1915 and 1917]
          Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern Railway train on Pavilion Creek trestle at Mile 20.3. Also visible are a water tank and possibly the graveyard at Pavilion.

          The ca. 1921-1927 “PGE Bridge List” from the notebook of William H. Hewlett (1914-1968) references a 389.4 foot long, 34 ft. high, framed trestle with 26 spans of 14.8 feet at Mile 20.3 carrying the line over Pavilion Creek. There was a water tank at Pavilion located between the North end of the siding and the South end of the trestle. A track profile chart confirms that the track at this point is on a 12 degree curve. This photograph was taken from a vantage point up the hill to the North. The structures at the lower left of this image (2020.08.82) are consistent with a small construction camp, which accounts for the presence of a camp cook in image 2020.08.83.

          "Canadian Railway and Marine World" reported in their January 1916 issue (p. 11, c.1), that track had been laid to within ½ mile of Clinton (Mile 45.0) on Dec. 14, 1915. If a constant rate of construction had been maintained from Mile 14, reached on July 30, 1915 as previously discussed, to Clinton, the approximate date of completion to Pavilion would be around the end of August, 1915 which is probably the earliest possible date for this photograph.

          2020.08 · Collection · [between 1905 and 1926]

          This collection consists of photographs and "real photo" postcards that depict the construction and operation of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway line, communities nearby the railway line, and regional geography of areas adjacent to the PGE line.

          Overview of Stewart, BC
          2011.13.21 · Item · ca.1910-ca.1930
          Part of Parker photograph collection

          Photograph of Stewart BC taken from a distance. Trees in the foreground slightly obscure the village, and a large mountain is visible in the background. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Stewart B.C. Hughes 93."

          2011.12.05 · Item · [ca. September 1950- June 1951]
          Part of Giscome, BC Historical Photograph collection

          Photograph of various plant life with Eagle Lake visible in the background. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “Eagle Lake from the top of the bluff. Eagle Lake is about 7 miles long & about 1 mile wide. It is a fair sized lake.”

          Overturned Grader
          2000.1.1.2.2.22 · Item · 1963
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Damage to Cassiar Grader, result of hazardous access to site". Rocks and rubble in foreground, mountain in background. Grader appears to be sitting on edge of cliff.

          2009.7.1.277 · Item · [ca. 1880-1920]
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Wide angle photograph of many buildings scattered in a clear cut area. Foreground shows several businesses, including "Kelly Carruther's Supply" and "Prince Rupert Hardware and Supply Co." Some remaining forest is visible in the background. Annotation on recto reads: "Prince Rupert, BC 1659."

          Otter Creek, BC
          2009.5.2.70 · Item · 6 June 1937
          Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a shallow creek winding through dirt area, forest in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Otter Creek Showing overlying moraine 6/6/37". See also item 2009.5.2.69.

          Other Town Plans
          2012.13.1.030 · Subseries · [between 1985 and 1988]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File contains slides depicting old town site plans for various cities.

          Oscar Peak
          2012.13.1.57.24 · Item · 1982
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the north aspect of Oscar Peak overlooking Lava Lake in the Nass Valley.

          Oscar Peak
          2012.13.1.57.25 · Item · 1982
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the north aspect of Oscar Peak overlooking Lava Lake in the Nass Valley.

          Orchard Irrigation
          2012.13.1.82.27 · Item · 1981
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts water flowing through an irrigation channel in an orchard, somewhere in or near Seton Portage, B.C.