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On the Crooked River
2014.10.1.133 · Item · 1910
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts three boats on the edge of a small river. Two men attend each boat. Wild grasses with a skiff of snow in the foreground, river, forest and a low forested bluff in the background.

2009.7.1.314 · Item · [ca.1880-1920]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Photograph of a long bridge spanning two rock faces. Below is a smaller, half demolished wooden bridge. A small settlement is visible on the lower right. Annotation on recto reads: "Haquelqet Bridge." Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Old & New. Old Indian built bridge & later one at Hazelton, BC."

2012.13.2.02.54 · File · 2000-2004
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the North Coast Land Company, Russel Walker, and Rattenbury Lands. The North Coast Land Company owned and sold many plots of land alongside the developing Pacific Great Eastern Railway line in Fort George and Prince George. The company had an office on George Street. Russel Walker was a sales agent and manager of the North Coast Land Company in Fort George and Prince George, Walker had also become the publisher and editor of the Fort George Herald newspaper. Russel Walker worked in Prince George between 1910 and 1916. Rattenbury Lands was a company that held and sold land in the Prince George area during the 1910s and 1920s, as they had taken over most of the land from The North Coast Land Company. File primarily consists of photocopied newspaper clippings, including articles and advertisements for the North Coast Land Company.

New Caledonia fur trade
2012.13.2.13.04 · File · [between 1980 and 2000]
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the New Caledonia fur trade by the North West Company. The New Caledonia fur trade began with Simon Fraser who set up posts at Fort St. James, Fort Fraser, and Fort George. The fur trade was administered out of the post at Fort St. James. File primarily consists of handwritten notes by Kent Sedgwick for a lecture on the New Caledonia fur trade.