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This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "#51779 - Hudson's Bay Co buildings - Fort George, B.C. 1911".

This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "#70002 - Hudson Bay Boat at Fort St. James - circa 1909."

This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "#10843- Hudson's Bay Co. post at Fort St. James (Stuart Lake)."

File consists of material relating to the town of Houston, British Columbia and its namesake John Houston. John Houston (November 1850-March 8, 1910) was a newspaper publisher and politician in British Columbia. Materials include a postcard, a newspaper, and reproductions of articles.

File consists of material relating to various historical sites in British Columbia. Materials include pamphlets and newspaper clippings. Highlights include:

• Yellowhead Western Canada Scenic Route, "Explore The Great New Yellowhead Highway", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• Dawson City Museum, "Dawson Museum and Historical Society", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• The Government of the Province of British Columbia, "Historic Barkerville Gold Rush Capital of British Columbia", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Kitimat Centennial Museum, "A Short History of Kitimat", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• B.C. Provincial Parks Branch, "Let's Take A Walk!", 1974 (pamphlet)
• Heritage Advisory Committee, "Heritage Conservation in your Community", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• Cariboo Tourist Association, "The Nugget Route Scenic Circle Tour", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• Lillooet and District Chamber of Commerce, "The Place Where Three Rivers Meet or Pap-Shil-Qua-Ka-Meen", 1973 (pamphlet)
• Burnaby Village Museum, "The Living Village", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• The Hallmark Society, "Richard Carr House', 1973 (pamphlet)
• Historic Sites Advisory Board, "Historic Fort Steele", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• The Museums Advisory Service Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, "Museums in Manitoba 1982", 1982 (pamphlet)

The map is part of an advertising pamphlet that depicts the Yellowhead Highway 16. The map highlights towns and tourist attractions along Highway 16 like Hazelton, Kitimat, Vanderhoof, Fraser Lake, Burns Lake, Fort St. James, Prince George, Terrace, and Smithers.

File consists of reproductions of reports, articles, newspapers, and documents containing information about Henry J. Cambie who was employed by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway as a land surveyor in 1867.

This photograph of a book page depicts a printed image of a mountain with text under the image that says "Hazelton District uranium strike proving up".

File consists of collected research materials regarding the re-branding of Hazelton into a historic town. Materials include newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, reproductions of articles, photographs, and a map. Highlights include:

• BC Provincial Archives reproduction, "Mule Train at Hazelton, B.C.", [191-?] (photograph)
• BC Provincial Archives reproduction, "Hazelton, B.C. Believed to be a Hudson Bay Pack Train", [191-?] (photograph)
• BC Provincial Archives reproduction, "Resembles terrain encountered in the Skeena area", 1865 (photograph)
• Kasan, "An Authentic Indian Village Hazelton, British Columbia", [197-??] (pamphlet)
• Hazelton, "Discover the Hazeltons - your Entrance to a New and Exciting Northern Frontier", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• Parks Canada, "Kitwanga Fort National Historic Site", 1984 (pamphlet)
• Hazelton, "Hand of History, Tour of the Hazelton Area Highway 16", [198-?] (pamphlet)

File consists of material relating to Haida Gwaii, formerly named the Queen Charlotte Islands. Materials include a book, pamphlets, a booklets, postcards, and a magazine. Highlights include:

• Fern Henderson, "Queen Charlotte Islands, Trail Hikes and Beach Walks", 1978 (book)
• Emily Carr College of Art and Design, "The Art and Nature of the Queen Charlotte Islands", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Queen Charlotte Islands Chamber of Commerce, "A Brief Guide to the Queen Charlotte Islands", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Province of British Columbia Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing, "Naikoon Provincial Park", 1982 (pamphlet)
• British Columbia Ferry Corporation, "Northern Inside Passage", 1980 (pamphlet)
• Tlell, Queen Charlotte Islands, "A Love Story Between Horse and Beach" [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Queen Charlotte Islands Chamber of Commerce, "Home of the Haida, Canada's Western Isles", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Queen Charlotte Islands Islands Observer magazine, [1983?]

File consists of material relating to Guy Lawrence who wrote the autobiographical "Forty Years on the Yukon Telegraph", which details his arrival in Canada in 1898 from England to prospect in the Klondike Gold Fields. While en route, a gold strike was made at Atlin, B.C. that was closer and changed his plans. Spending two years working in various mining camps in Atlin, Lawrence joined the Yukon Telegraph Line, which was just being completed. This line ran 1900 miles from Vancouver, B.C. through Ashcroft to Hazleton, Whitehorse and Dawson City. Up to World War I, Lawrence worked from isolated wilderness cabins, relaying messages and repairing lines. After serving overseas in the war, he ran the telegraph office in Stewart, which ran a branch line along the Portland Canal to the company town of Anyox. He remained in Stewart for 26 years, retiring in 1946. By this time, due to the wireless, most of the line had been abandoned. Materials include reproductions of articles, and a transcribed oral history from Guy Lawrence, copied from the BC Provincial Archives.

File consists of research collected regarding the Groundhog coalfield, 150 miles north of Hazelton and 95 miles northeast of Stewart. Materials include newspaper clippings, as well as reproductions of maps, mine reports, and an article. Highlights include:

• Fleet Robertson, "The New Coalfield at The Headwaters of the Skeena River: North of Groundhog Mountain", 1912 (reproduction)
• George Hanson, "The Groundhog Coalfield: British Columbia", 1949 (article reproduction)

This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "#68319 - G.T.P. Track Layer Laying Steel from Kitselas to Hazelton."

This reproduction of a BC Provincial Archives photograph is captioned: "Construction Days - GTP Railway."

This reproduction of a BC Provincial Archives photograph is captioned: "Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Bridge construction (falsework) crossing Fraser River from East entering Prince George."

File consists of collected research materials regarding the Grand Truck Pacific Railway. Materials include brochures, newspaper clippings, a CN supplement, a bibliography, pamphlets, correspondence, photographs, and reproductions of articles. Highlights include:

• Fraser Fort George Museum, "Grand Truck Pacific: The Transcontinental Line", 1983 (exhibit brochure)
• CN Mountain Region Supplement 1 employee time table for June 21, 1978
• CN Headquarters Library, "A Selected Bibliography on Canadian Railways", Special Series No. 25 6th edition, 1968
• Greater Victoria Public Library, "Railroads & Railroading in Canada: A selected booklist", 1988 (pamphlet)
• Stephen Ruttan, "Transportation in British Columbia", 1985 (pamphlet)
• Fort George Regional Museum, "Fort George Railway, Prince George B.C.", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Bulkley Valley Historical and Museum Society, "Smithers Grand Trunk Pacific Freight and Passenger Division Headquarters", 1978 (booklet)
• Prince George Railway Museum, "On Track" newsletter, Vol. 9 No. 6-7 July, 1991 (newsletter)
• Central British Columbia Railroad Preservation and Museum Society, "On Track" newsletter, Vol.3 No.5 1985 (newsletter)
• BC Provincial Archives of British Columbia Aural History Programme, "The Grand Trunk Pacific", Interviewed by Imbert Orchard, People in Landscape Educational Series, 1969 (booklet)
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "Camp near Burns Lake", Aug 1912
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "G.T.P. Steel bridge across the Shuswap River, Mile 79, 12 miles east of McBride", [191-?]
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "Prairie Creek Bridge nearly completed, 5 miles west of Hilton", [191-?]
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the "McKenzie & Blais store", [191-?]
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "Linking up of Steel on G.T.P. Transcontinental, Fort Fraser", 1914

This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "#59876 - Grading Prince George railway yards. Marion steam shovel + mules. Late summer 1913." Photograph depicts Foley Welch & Stewart rail cars filled with gravel, a work horse, and a Marion Shovel Model 40 shifting gravel.

File consists of material relating to gold mining in British Columbia. Materials include articles, a magazine, and newspaper clippings. Highlights include:

• Envex Investments Inc., "The Gold Guide: The Buy & Sell in The Mining Industry", Vol. 1 No. 2, 1982
• "First Gold in British Columbia: The Pend-d'Oreille", BC Historical News, Summer 1980

File consists of material relating to the Giscome Portage and Huble Farm. Research materials include newspaper clippings, histories, booklets, a development proposal, pamphlets, a newsletter, and newspapers. Highlights include:

• Regional District of Fraser-Fort George and the Giscome Portage Historical Society, "Giscome Portage-Huble Farm Regional Park: A Development Proposal", 1984 (booklet)
• Regional District of Fraser-fort George, "Regional Parks", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Regional District of Fraser-Fort Newsletter, Vol. 3 No. 2, 1989
• Giscome Portage Historical Society, "A Pioneer Homestead on the Banks of the Fraser River", 1989 (pamphlet)

File consists of information gathered on Gerald (Gerry) Smedley Andrews, Surveyor General of the Province of British Columbia and Director of Mapping and Provincial Boundaries Commissioner. File contains greeting cards, correspondence, articles written by both Audrey L'Heureux and Gerry Andrews, a booklet on land surveying, and reproductions from the G. Smedley Andrews collection at BC Archives. Correspondence includes letters to and from L'Heureux and her publisher Northern B.C. Book Publishing as well as letters between L'Heureux and Gerry Andrews. Highlights include:

• Reproduction of G.S. Andrews' article "Surveys and Mapping in British Columbia Resources Development", 1954 (article)
• G.S. Andrews, "The Land Surveying Profession in British Columbia", 1955 (booklet)
• Reproduction of article by Gerry Andrews in The Victoria Naturalist 46 (3) entitled "My Bear", 1989 (article)
• G. Smedley Andrews, "Metis Outpost", 1985 (promotional pamphlet)
• Reproduction of paper by G. Smedley Andrews entitled "The Makings of a Surveyor General", 1989 (document)
• Dave Robinson and Mike Hocking, "The Monkman Pass and Trail: A Brief History", 1982 (book)
• G.S. Andrews, "Professional Land Surveyors of British Columbia: Cumulative Nominal Roll, 4th Edition", 1978 (booklet).
  File also includes a photograph reprint of "Trout Lake Johnny" from the collection of the uncle of G.S. Andrews.

File consists of material relating to George Williams, a Prince George pioneer and author. File includes reproductions of records and journal articles.

This reproduction of a BC Provincial Archives photograph is captioned "George Street - Prince George, B.C. January 26th, 1915." The King George Hotel is depicted in the photograph.

File consists of material regarding George Mercer Dawson who in 1875 joined the Geological Survey of Canada. His survey of BC strongly influenced government decisions on the proposed route of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Dawson was a charter Royal Society of Canada member (1882) and by 1883 was the assistant director of the Geological Survey of Canada. Includes reproductions of reports written by Dawson, articles, and research materials.

File consists of collected research materials regarding genealogy. Materials include pamphlets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings. Highlights include:

• The British Columbia Genealogical Society Newsletter, 1979-1981
• The British Columbia Genealogical Society, "Information", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• The Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ, "In a Granite Mountain", 1973 (pamphlet)
• BC Provincial Archives of Alberta, "Sources of Genealogical Information at the BC Provincial Archives of Alberta 1978", No. 8, 1978 (information leaflet)
• The British Columbia Genealogical Society, "Tracing Ancestors In British Columbia", 1986 (pamphlet)
• The British Columbia Genealogy Quarterly, 1979-1980
• John J. Newman, "Cemetery Transcribing: preparations and procedures", 1971 (leaflet)
• Logan Utah, "The New Year Brings New and Exciting Things!", 1979 (booklet)

File consists of photographs from Audrey L'Heureux's manuscript for publication entitled "Trail to Rail: Surveys and Gold, 1862-1904". The following photographs are reproductions from the BC Provincial Archives:

• BC Provincial Archives, "Stoney Creek Charlie", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Terraces near Blackwater Bridge", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Kenton daughter Bessie, Egra Evans, Charlie McKinnon with whiskers", 1882 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Old Rupert Town", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "J.C. white during Western Union Telegraph Expedition", 1865 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Unknown", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Raft", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Unknown Cottage", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Fredrick Whymber", 1864 (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• National Archives of Canada, "Unknown" [190?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Mary Quaw, Mile Six Mary Fraser River", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Mary Quaw, Mile Six Mary Fraser River", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "S.C White During western telegraph expedition", 1865 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "S.C White During western telegraph expedition", 1865 (photograph reproduction)

File consists of a floppy disk with digitized chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's "Surveys and Gold 1862-1904". Data could not be migrated.

Data could not be migrated.

File consists of photographs from Audrey L'Heureux's manuscript for publication entitled "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins, 1905-1914". The following photographs are reproductions from the BC Provincial Archives:

• BC Provincial Archives, "Hudson's Bay Co. Post at Fort St. James (Stuart Lake)", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Fort St. James, Hudson Bay Boat at Fort St. James area", 1909 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Grading Prince George Railway Yards Marion Steam Shovel and Mules", 1913 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Hudson's Bay Co Building Fort George B.C", 1911 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Prince George, B.C. from the foot of Victoria St., looking Southeast", April 12, 1914 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Northern Hotel at South Fort George Note the water on the street", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Another town mile 129 BC", 1913 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "H.B. Co. Post at Fort Fraser (Fraser Lake) with barley field in the foreground", [191?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Fort Fraser, B.C.", 1914 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Mr. Olds as he entered British Columbia to locate 100 miles ahead of steel at Endako", February, 1913 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "S.S Chileatin and the S.S. at Stuart lake", 1913 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Showing Track layer Arriving from the east making the last connection G.T.P.P Ft. Fraser", 1914 (photograph reproduction)

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of a floppy disk with digital manuscript chapters from Audrey L'Heureux's book "Trail to Rail: Settlement Begins".

File consists of collected research materials for Audrey Smedley-L'Heureux's book draft for "From Trail to Rail", as well as reproductions of articles and maps. Materials include chapters of "Trail to Rail, Surveys and Gold 1862-1904 Fort George, Fort St. James, Fort Fraser", reproductions of journal articles, photographs, and correspondence. Highlights include:

• Photograph reproduction, "A Hudson's Bay Steamer Engaged in The Skeena River Traffic at Hazelton", [192-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "Fort George, Fraser River", [192-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "Approaching the Main Range of The Rocky Mountains", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "In the Swamp Near Jasper Lake", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "Quaint Cantilever Bridge of Timber, built by the Indians across the gorge of the Bulkley River near Hazelton", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "A Shack Among the Trees on the Skeena River", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "The Most Majestic of Canadian Mountains", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "Telkwa", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "A Settler's Cabin Near Tsinkut Lake, in the Nechaco [Nechako] Valley", [189?]
• Photograph reproduction, "How One Has To Travel Up the Fraser River", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "The Eternal Quest", [191-?]
• Photograph reproduction, "Mr. J. W. Millan's Ranch At Stoney Creek", [191-?]

File consists of a floppy disk with digital copyright and photograph information from Audrey L'Heureux's book series "Trail to Rails". Data could not be migrated.

File consists of material collected on Frederick William Knewstubb. Frederick William Knewstubb, who first foresaw the possibility of the Kenney Dam/Nechako Reservoir project, which was carried out by the Aluminium Company of Canada (ALCAN). Knewstubb joined the Water Rights Branch as a draughtsman in 1911, became a hydrological engineer in 1926, and was Chief Hydrologic Engineer for the Water Rights Branch at the time of his death, 16 December 1937. Materials includes reproductions of articles, and correspondence.

This photograph of a photograph [poor reproduction] depicts the B.X. sternwheeler on the Fraser River at South Fort George.

File consists of research materials on the Fraser River such as newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reports on Fraser River management programs. Highlights include:

• Fraser Basin Management Board, "What People in the Communities Told Us: A Report on the Open House Discussions", 1993 (booklet)
• Fraser Basin Management Board, "What Basin-Wide Stakeholders Told Us: A Summary of the Presentations", 1993 (booklet)
• Fraser Basin Management Board, "Sustainability Together", 1993 (booklet)
• Environment Canada, "Fraser River Action Plan 1992-93, Progress Report", 1992 (booklet)
• The Mighty Fraser River, "Portraying its Scenic Beauty and Rugged Canyons", 1976 (booklet)

File consists of material relating to Frank Cyril Swannell, a surveyor of British Columbia. Materials include a magazine, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photograph reproductions, journal articles, and journal notes compiled by Audrey L'Heureux. Highlights include:

• Swannell, F.C, "Report on Topographical Surveys in Omineca District", 1912 (reproduced journal article)
• Corporation of Land Surveyors, "The Link", Vol.1 No.2 , 1977 (magazine)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Exploring Surveyors Making Canoe Finlay River", 1913 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Surveying Omineca Exploration", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)

File consists of reproduced newspaper clippings and articles on the history of forts in British Columbia. Includes a 1982 Parks Canada booklet entitled "Historic, Guide to Canada's National Historic Parks".

This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "Fort St. James Pageant 1928. (Left to Right) - Norman Mathews in costume of clerk at old post, Sir George Simpson as (Chief Factor, CH. French); AC Murray (as C.F. Arch. McDonald)".