Series includes material related to the personal activities of H.G.T. Perry, which incorporates various materials from family and acquaintances. Included are correspondence between family and friends, news clippings regarding family funerals, Christmas cards, telegrams and postcards. Also includes printed notes and clippings of poetry, stories, and humour with commentary by H.G.T. Perry.
- Cards, letters, photos (separated to Photobox) dating circa 1950s
Perry’s Speeches & Memos on democracy, liberty, citizenship, freedom 1940s Speeches, General – ‘43-‘45
“Scrapbook Perry Municipal Report”
- Scrapbook Album of HGT Perry c.1921-23 – Title: “Perry Municipal Report” –
- News-clippings of various political issues related to Perry’s involvement in provincial politics as MLA for Fort George - including clippings from regional newspapers: Nechako Chronicle, Vanderhoof as well as Vancouver and Victoria papers. Subjects include: Pacific Great Eastern Railway Construction; election reform; pulp and paper mill construction promises in region (1922); Ephemera includes: invitation to the Prince George Liberal Association Banquet, 1921.
“Vote For Perry" re-election posting – 5 identical ones on green paper. 20.3 cm x 38.5 cm.
Handwritten annotation on recto: "Opening McBride Bridge 1925"
Liberal picnic at Six Mile Lake in Prince George
Handwritten annotation on recto: "near Rolla. Peace River. showing formation where oil exits, 1921"
File Contains scrapbook with misc textual records, including newspaper pages and clippings re: Northern BC political and economic Development Ex. Alaska Hwy and need for extension of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway..
Scrapbook – contains misc. textual records including newspaper pages, newsclippings, (loose and glued in book) regarding Northern BC political and economic developments c.1920s-50s. Includes letters & reports re building of Pacific Great Eastern Railway (1920s-30s) and need for railway to Peace River Country. Also includes reports relating to the building of the Alaska Highway 1950s. (Loose; fragile). Scrapbook also includes a series of correspondence (within scrapbook) between Perry and John Oliver regarding the proposed completion of the PGE 1920s and issue of Liberal nominations 1920s. Includes typed speech given by MLA H.G.T. Perry in the BC Legislature, 1925
- Bound album – “Oversees Empire Parliamentary Conference, 1935”
Lieutenant Governor J. Forham Johnson reading from the Speakers Seat.
Photo shows an extensive loaded pack train at rest next to a large building.
Handwritten annotation on recto: "On way to Peace, 1921". Photo depicts Harry Perry sitting by a campfire with two unidentified men. Photo may have been taken near Brennan's Flats where gold was being dredged from the Peace River.
Six horses pull a fully laden stagecoach along a dirt road. People, dogs and another team of horses are also traversing this road.
Oversized Advertisement. Provincial Election Act, Fort George Electoral District.
? Form 14 (Section 61)
? Newsclippings
Newsclippings and typed notes
Handwritten annotation on recto: "Lining up boat" which refers to a slight view of men along the left edge of the photo maneuvering their row boat within the water
Handwritten annotation on recto: "Ne Parle Pas Rapids"
Handwritten annotation on recto: "Ne Parle Pas Rapids on the Peace River BC"
Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Mr. Moore, HGP, Parr Brown, Tailor, killed in France, Central Ave. Fort George, 1913"
Series includes Boy Scout ephemera, Robert Burns articles, a list of bursaries, and cancelled Bank of British North America cheque.
- Includes history by Perry of the Prince George Fall Fair. HG Perry’s telephone booklet.
- 1 Hall of Remembrance photo and description, Ottawa. And Misc. telegrams and notes (Perry’s poem re PGE issue) from political activities.
newsclippings
Cartographic Materials: Plan – Cottonwood Group – “Mineral Claims, Quesnel – 2 copies.
? Map showing relative position of Cottonwood Group of Mineral Claims, at Hixon Creek, owned by Colgrove-Charnwood, Limited to Quesnelle Quartz Mine, Cariboo District, B.C.”
“A Message of Vital Interest to the Citizens of Prince George Concerning Natural Gas.”
? From the Prince George Gas Co. Ltd.
? Memorandum to the Industrial Development Committee re Mining in BC
- Folder A: Contents from Black Binder – 2002.7.2.98. Re: Amendments, Motions – Perry – Speaker of the House 1930s, 1940s; loose clippings & correspondence re motions accepted/put forth
- Folder B: Black Binder. “H.G.T. Perry” Contained “Meetings, Speakers of House 1930s” - moved contents out and placed into 2002.7.97 Folder A.
Handwritten annotation on recto: "Meal time near Brennan's Flats where gold dredging on Peace River, Sept. 1921". Photo depicts three men standing next to a campfire.
? With suggested highway routes to Alaska.
? Legend includes: 1) Main Highways Constructed, and In Use, 2) Suggested highway to Alaska, 3) Connections.
? Map no. 1J
? Map showing areas in B.C. served with electricity, including name of company, form of power and capacity (K.V.A.).
- Clippings of poetry, wit, humour with Perry’s notes
Printed Material within this file are:
- The Canadian Liberal: A Survey of National Affairs, Volume 7, no. 1
- The Choice for Britain: The Liberal Case
Handwritten annotation on recto: "Liberal Picnic to (?) HGP, Swan Lake, Peace River, July 20th 1930, Fed Election"
Overview of cars parked next to buildings at Six Mile Lake.
Contains a letterhead by Hon H.G.Perry, M.L.A. President “Colgrove- Charnwood Limited” but on the left hand upper side it has a quote “Developing the ‘Cottonwood Group’ at Hixon, B.C.”
Handwritten annotation on recto: "Peace River"
Mountain rising above a forested landscape, water feature in foreground.
Mountains and forested shores as seen from a boat on the water.
Photo depicts caged foxes.
? Newsclippings
? Supreme Court of Labour Relations notes
? Correspondence
- Personal Correspondence - to/from Perry: Karl Anderson; correspondence to/from other PG residents 1950s –
Handwritten annotation on recto: "Jimmy Mattern, 1933"
Handwritten annotation on recto: "Jimmie Mattern at PRince George, July 27th 1933. After his crossing from Siberia where he had crashed during around the world flight". Photo depicts Harry Perry and five other men standing around Jimmie Mattern who sits on a truck flat bed parked next to his plane.