File consists of notes, reproductions, pamphlets, and postcards relating to the Peyto Glacier, situated in the Canadian Rockies in Banff National Park, Alberta. Includes: "Inland Waters Branch" handwritten letter to Kent Sedgwick (4 Sept. 1970); "Peyto Glacier general information" pamphlet prepared by the Inland Waters Directorate, Water Resources Branch of Environment Canada (1975); and photographs depicting a Peyto Glacier workshop with Kent Sedgwick and colleagues (1996) and personal photographs depicting Kent Sedgwick, his wife, and friends visiting and hiking Peyto Glacier (1990).
File consists of notes relating to the Pineview Elementary School.
File consists of notes and typed documents relating to a field trip along the East Line for the Planning Institute of British Columbia.
File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) 2001 Annual Conference, with the theme "A Planning Odyssey".
Subseries consists of material collected and created by Kent Sedgwick for research regarding schools in Prince George and area, as well as materials relating to Kent Sedgwick's involvement with the Prince George Retired Teacher's Association. Files primarily consist of notes regarding the location and history of various schools in and surrounding Prince George and photographs depicting historic school buildings. The research on schools aided the development of a history of schools for the Prince George Retired Teachers' Association.
File consists of notes and clippings relating to a workshop entitled "Prince George Perspectives" by Kent Sedgwick. Includes: "Continuing Education" course booklet for UNBC Continuing Studies (2003).
File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the Prince George Retired Teachers Association. Includes: "Kent Sedgwick's Information on Rural Schools" typed document by Kent Sedgwick (Feb. 2009); and "Help Save the History of Our Schools" pamphlet prepared by the Prince George Retired Teachers' Education Heritage Committee (Apr. 2004).
File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the Prince George school dormitories. Includes: "Old Dormitory Property - Senior Citizens Development" typescript letter from the Secretary-Treasurer of School District #57 to Mr. Jefferies, City Manager (20 June 1979).
File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to Prince George schools. Includes: "Educational Heritage Committee compilation of Newspaper articles, pertaining to education from various publications" typed document from the Retired Teachers' Association Prince George Branch (199?).
File consists of typed documents titled "The Prince George Writings of Kent Sedgwick" by Kent Sedgwick, and includes "The Land of Sunshine, Warm Days, and Cool Nights: Early Agricultural Settlement in the Prince George Area,"; "Prince George as a Central Place"; "A New Historical Framework for New Caledonia,"; "The Salmon River Portage," "Dr. George in the Central Interior,"; "Chala-oo-chick Revisited,"; "Connaught Hill Park,"; "A Brief History of Cottonwood Island,"; and "Some comments on the Cottonwood Island Park Designation of the Official Community Plan".
Series contains material created during Kent Sedgwick’s teaching appointments at the College of New Caledonia and the University of Northern British Columbia. He held a position as a Geography Instructor at CNC from 1970 until 1983 and did frequent guest lectures at UNBC until he became an adjunct professor from 2003 until 2009. He conducted guest lectures and taught course on historical geography and local history. The files primarily consist of lectures, notes, and correspondence between Sedgwick and the institutions.
Image depicts the Prince George Public Library.
Image depicts the Prince George Public Library from 7th Ave.
File consists of transcript of an oral interview with Trelle Morrow regarding the architectural development of Quinson Elementary School.
Image depicts a group of individuals who appear to be searching through the rocks near a railway track. It is possibly part of an educational trip.
File consists of notes relating to the Red Rock Elementary School. Includes photographs depicting the old Red Rock school, a wooden weathered building, and the new Red Rock school (2001).
Image depicts the Red Rock School.
Image depicts a the teacherage building in Red Rock.
File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Reid Lake Elementary School and Chief Lake Elementary School. Includes photographs depicting the old Reid Lake school building and various other old school sites (Sept. 2002).
File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to rural schools in the Prince George region. Includes photographs depicting the first and second school buildings for the North Nechako school; one was sold and the other has been closed (2005).
Image depicts the Salmon School in the Prince George vicinity.
Image depicts the teacherage for the Salmon School, located in the Prince George vicinity.
Image depicts the teacherage for the Salmon School, located in the Prince George vicinity.
File consists of notes relating to the Salmon Valley Elementary School. Also includes photographs depicting the old weathered wooden Salmon Valley school building [2001?].
Image depicts a school and playground, possibly in New Aiyansh, B.C.
File consists of forms created by Kent Sedgwick for recording research regarding schools.
File contains slides depicting schools in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts a large group of people examining the sediment layers in a rock face.
Image depicts a large group of people examining the sediment layers in a rock face.
File consists of notes relating to the Shady Valley School. Also includes photographs depicting the Shady Valley Elementary School, Hart Highway Elementary School, and West Lake Elementary School (2001?).
File consists of notes relating to the Shelley Elementary School.
File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to Kent Sedgwick's guest lecture at the University of Northern British Columbia on Prince George. Includes: "Situating Prince George" handwritten lecture notes by Kent Sedgwick (2006) and "Geography of British Columbia" university syllabus (2003). Also includes a CD-R "Situating P.G". containing Kent Sedgwick's notes and photographs (Mar. 2006).
Image depicts the Buckhorn Snowmobile Club, though it was formerly the Buckhorn school.
File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the South Fort George Elementary School.
File consists of a note relating to St. Marie's Lake Elementary School.
File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Stone Creek Elementary School. Also includes a photograph depicting the old Stone Creek School site (2001).
Image depicts the school site in Stoney Creek.
File consists of notes and clippings relating to the Summit Lake Elementary School.
File consists of written and typed notes relating to the Sylvan Glade Elementary School. Also includes photographs depicting the Sylvan Glade School site (2001?).
File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Tabor Creek Elementary School and Tabor Creek South Elementary School
File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the UNBC course "GEOG 424 Social Geography of Northern Communities" taught by Greg Halseth.
File consists of notes and reproductions relating to a railway article written by Kent Sedgwick entitled "The East Line Section of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in Central British Columbia" (2010).
File consists of a first draft of Masters thesis entitled "The Grand Trunk Pacific in Prince George: A Study in Mismanagement, 1909-1918" by Rhys Pugh. Also includes printed emails and notes regarding the thesis.
File consists of a typed document of Rhys Pugh's thesis entitled "The Newspaper Wars in Prince George, B.C., 1909-1918" (noted by Sedgwick as the second version) and printed emails.
File consists of notes relating to the Thompson Elementary School. Includes a photograph depicting the exterior of a house at a 4818 Giscome Road, Prince George (2005).
Image depicts the Tumbler Ridge School.
File contains slides depicting the UBC Museum of Anthropology.
File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to research of the Upper Fraser as part of the UNBC Upper Fraser Historical Geography Project. Includes photographs depicting students and professors researching in the Upper Fraser region (Dec. 1999).
File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Upper Fraser Historical Geography Project done on the East Line and Upper Fraser in collaboration with the University of Northern British Columbia researchers. Includes a CD titled "Kent's Upper Fraser Files" containing Kent's research files for the Upper Fraser project (7 Jan. 2004) and a computer diskette titled "Oral Histories" containing an oral history interview with a woman (2004).
Image depicts Upper Fraser Elementary School, after closure of town site. Map coordinates 54°06'54.4"N 121°56'16.6"W