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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          4134 Archival description results for Geographic Features

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          2006.20.2.1 · Item · June 1962
          Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

          Front view of an abandoned log building. The door is open or missing, the front window glass is broken, the area in front of the building is littered with antlers, boxes and wood. The tree next to the building has grown too close the building and roof. Handwritten annotation on verso in pen reads: “Laketon, Dease Lake, BC. Court house & jail June ‘62”

          Across the bay
          2009.7.1.276 · Item · [ca. 1880-1920]
          Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

          Photograph of the bay at dusk. Trees and distant machinery are silhouetted against a cloudy sky and dark waterfront. Annotation on recto reads: "Across the Bay, Prince Rupert, BC No 4466."

          Air Photo Markers
          2012.13.1.121.01 · Item · 1966
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a marker for aerial photography at an uncertain location. The slide labels it as "Elizabeth Station."

          2012.13.2.11.05 · File · 1978-2000
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to air photographs of Prince George. File predominantly consists of reproduced air photos and photocopied air photos from the Royal BC Museum and Archives depicting Prince George and region. Includes: "RE: Archive Photos Gd" printed email from Gabrielle Dupuis to Kent Sedgwick (17 Oct. 2000) and "Aerial photograph data sheet" reproduction of a data sheet (27 June 1978).

          2006.25 · Collection · 1961 - 2000, predominant 1961-1967

          Fonds consists of original, silent 16mm reels that portray the natural, social and land use history of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin regions named the "Natural and Guiding History of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin Regions".

          Possible locations that Al Elsey filmed include: Bella Coola, Bella Bella, Anahim Lake, Alert Bay, Nimpo Lake, Bulkey Valley, the Rainbow Mountains, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, Dean River, Bella Coola River, Tchaha Lake, the Chilcotin region, the Ulkatcho Mountains, Lassard Lake, Fenton Lake, Atnarko River, Wells Gray Park, and Holt Homestead.

          Alaska Highway
          2012.13.1.98.59 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a small section of the Alaska Highway somewhere near Whitehorse, Y.T. The slide also appears to be labelled "army washing" for unknown reasons.

          Album No. 1
          2009.10.1 · File · 1926-1933
          Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

          Images within this album consist primarily of the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, boats) on the Nass River and North Pacific Coast, ca.1926-1933. Images also feature indigenous First Nations peoples, totem poles, the parliament buildings in Victoria, B.C., and the C.P.R. Pier in Vancouver, B.C. Each photograph is accompanied by a handwritten description glued below or beside the image.

          Album No. 2
          2009.10.2 · File · 1921-1926
          Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

          This bound photo album comprises 122 photographic images featuring the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, boats, machinery) and First Nations Peoples on the Nass & Skeena Rivers and North Pacific Coast. Images also include warships, freighters, automobiles, railway stations and trains, and some photographs of Yokohama, Japan and California ca.1924-25. Includes photographs of the 1924 Special Service Squadron World Cruise in Vancouver. Each photograph is accompanied by a handwritten description glued below or beside the image and each image is glued to the album page at its corners. The verso of front cover has a handwritten name plate:

          Album No. 3
          2009.10.3 · File · [between 1923 and 1926]
          Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

          Images within album consist primarily of fishery industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, boats) on the Nass River and North Pacific Coast, ca.1924-1926. Each photograph is accompanied by a handwritten description glued below or beside the image.