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Photograph depicts the British Columbia coastal shoreline, possibly near Haida Gwaii.

Photograph is adhered to cardboard matting and has a hand drawn "frame" decorating it's perimeter. Handwritten annotation on the recto of the matte, directly under the photograph, lists the names of the photo subjects.

Photograph depicts a view from the water of the Parliament buildings in Victoria BC. Possible sea plane docked in front centre.

Photograph depicts the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, BC.

Photograph depicts the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, BC.

Photograph depicts the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, BC.

Item is a map compiled and produced by Geographic Division, Surveys and Mapping Branch, Department of Lands, Forests, and Water Resources ; geological and physiographical data supplied by Dept. of Mines and Petroleum Resources, Victoria, B.C. (1964).

Image depicts an aerial view of the BC Rail, in Prince George, B.C. It is now known as CN Rail.

Photograph depicts a stationary B.C.R. locomotive # 586 on a wintry track with seven men on board posing for a photo. Part of a set of 17 black & white photographs of British Colombia Railway & its precursor, Pacific Great Eastern Railway (1912 - 2004) in British Columbia. Photos depict locomotives, railroad cars, and crew members.

Photograph depicts B.C.R. locomotive # 586 derailed with two men arriving in a company truck. Gravel and switch is visible in the foreground while industrial storage tanks are visible in the background. Photographer: "Brock Gable" stamped in red on verso. Typed note on verso reads: "When we say May Day, we mean May Day.......specifically May1, 1985. Our locomotive, BCR # 586 made the front page of the "Citizen" that day. though not the way anyone intended. In fact, it was downright embarrassing and unflattering. Nearing the end of its career, # 586 was involved in a minor hist and run in the BCR yard and parted company with the rails. As is evident in the picture, BCR's big hook" is standing by and help is on the way. No! we don't know if anyone got the other guy's license. (Photo Credit: Brock Gable ///Citizen). Part of a set of 13 black & white photographs of British Colombia Railway & it's precursor, Pacific Great Eastern Railway (1912 - 2004) in British Columbia. Photos depict locomotives, railroad cars, and crew members. «

The British Columbia Railway (BC Rail) series consists of promotional ephemera material, employee time tables, fare rates and multiple forms, used and unused, pertaining to daily train movements and BCR operations. Several employee manuals, employee examination material, employee seniority listings, and union agreements are also contained within. Three plans detail various BC Rail sites.

This spoon was possibly a gift to Minister Iona Campagnolo from the British Columbia Women's Institute group in Smithers. An inscription on the spoon reads "for home and for country," and on the back, "Commemorative I.S. Canada."

Photograph depicts British Navy cottages (styled after cottages in the U.K.) in Esquimalt. Built when Dockyard was operated by the Imperial Navy.

Photograph depicts Brodie Junction on the CPR Spences Bridge to Princeton line, located at mile 65.2 from Spences Bridge. The former northbound connector of the Coquihalla line (Hope to Brodie) is in the right foreground but it's not a dead-end spur of 200 yards in length. The mainline makes an 180 degree loop at this point. The tracks in the left rear of the photo lead to Merritt. The elevation is 3025 ft.

Photograph depicts a torn bag of asbestos sitting on the back of a truck or shipping container.

Photograph depicts Emil Bronlund, H. Witter, and rescue party alongside two canoes on sleds. A dog is harnessed to one of the sleds. The searching party consisted of E.H. Burden, C.H. Van Somer and Clarence Waldof from Prince George.

The following Prince George Citizen newspaper articles describe the incident:

“Searching Party Sets Out to Look for Emil Bronlund”
Prince George Citizen, April 21, 1932, p. 5

A searching party consisting of E.H. Burden, C.H. Van Somer and Clarence Waldof started out on Tuesday afternoon to look for Emil Bronlund, an engineer connected with the Consolidated Company who has been associated with a local syndicate in prospecting at the headwaters of the McLeod river. According to arrangements made Mr. Bronlund was to have arrived in Prince George last week, coming out by way of Fort McLeod, but in the absence of means of communication it was impossible to learn whether he started or whether he was detained in the vicinity of the area being prospected. Mr. Burden had the broadcasting station CKCD send out a message to J.E. McIntrye, in charge of the Hudson’s Bay post at McLeod, advising that Mr. Bronlund failed to arrive here, and suggesting a search if the missing man had passed the post.
The search party from the end will travel by canoe from Summit Lake to Davie Lake, from which point it will mush over the trail to McLeod. It may be several days before word is received from it.

“Emil Bronlund was held up by bad weather”
Prince George Citizen, April 28, 1932, p. 1

Emil Bronlund, whose delay on the trip from the headwaters of McLeod River occasioned his friends in this city much uneasiness, reached Prince George on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by E.H. Burden and Henry Waldof, who started out some days ago to search for him. Messrs. Burden and Waldof had difficult going. Summit Lake is still frozen, and it was necessary for them on Thursday morning to drag their canoe over four miles of ice until they could strike open water in the Crooked River. Davie Lake was also covered with ice, and they were dragging their canoe over this when they came upon Bronlund and Ham Witter, making their way south in the same tedious way, dragging their boat over the ice. Bronlund explained he had been held up at Fort McLeod on his way out as it was impossible to travel. There was about a foot of water on the ice, and the trail being close to the water level it would have been foolhardy to attempt to come through.
It was at McLeod that Bronlund fell in with Witter. The latter had been trapping in the Nation River section but had been taken ill. He was delirious and unable to eat, and his boys decided to bring him out as far as the fort, and having the patient strapped to a toboggan. Witter improved rapidly at the fort and when Bronlund started south on Wednesday morning he decided to accompany him. They had been on the trail two days when they met Burden and Waldof.
The local syndicate, with which Bronlund is associated, has made a number of locations on the headwaters of McLeod River, and is preparing to do further prospecting to determine more fully the probable values contained in the gravels.

Photograph depicts several mountains, including Bronlund mountain, from Two Brothers' peak.

Photograph depicts Emil Bronlund's crew on the shore of Sand Bay in front of a CF-AAM float plane. From left to right: Bob Niven, mechanic; Ken Dewar, pilot; Henry Giegerich, geologist.

Photograph depicts a water tower maintained by volunteers. It moved to the present site from a concrete base near the KVR trackside.

Photograph depicts a mountain covered with sparse patches of snow (Two Brothers Peak).

Grassy area in foreground, trees and fence in background.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “House for Trudeau + Margaret, Q.C.I., Tlell”.

Photograph of the front of Brown's General Store. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “Brown’s General Store. The wheelbarrow is for bringing the groceries and mail over from the train. Also if you buy a great quantity of things you wheel it home and then bring back the barrow (Taken on Sunday).”

Photograph depicts the trekking party's guide Bruce Otto, sitting next to the mule deer shot by Prentiss Gray near their Mile 52 campsite.

Photograph depicts Bruce Otto, a hunting guide, standing next to Prentiss Gray, who is seated on a stump skinning his prized mountain goat.

Photograph depicts heavy machinery believed to be a brush rake in front of a long unidentified building. Treetops can be seen in background, snow in foreground.

Photograph depicts the Buckingham Apartments at 925 Cardero St.and Barclay St. in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts the Buckingham Apartments at 925 Cardero St. in Vancouver, B.C. after a snowfall. The view is looking south and depicts Barclay St. crossing in the foreground.

Photograph depicts a southbound Budd car on Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (CPR) track.

File consists of budget proposals and forecasts for 1993/94 and 1994/95 with recommendations of road maintenance as the central expenditure.

Photograph depicts group of buffaloes on horizon. Trees in midground, field in foreground. It is believed that this photograph was given to Lillian & A.K. Bourchier by their niece Jean. Location unknown; possibly Alberta as the Bourchier family moved to Alberta in 1902.

Photograph depicts two buffalo visible by trees on horizon, field in foreground. It is believed that this photograph was given to Lillian & A.K. Bourchier by their niece Jean.

Photograph depicts the builder's plaque of the C.N.R. S.S. Canora.

Photograph depicts a blurred sports building with trees in Friedrichshafen, Germany as part of Iona Campagnolo's European sports tour.

Photograph depicts the Cassiar Asbestos Corporation's wharf being built.

Photograph depicts a wooden structure in a gravel landscape. Truck with open door in foreground, forest and snow capped mountains in background. Mounds of gravel visible behind structure.

Image depicts a vehicle parked beside a small, wooden house in Upper Fraser, B.C. Map coordinates 54°07'05.7"N 121°56'38.9"W

Handwritten annotation on recto: "McBride Bridge 1924-25"

Item is a photograph of the women and children on Rathrevor Beach.

Photograph depicts a building structure in an unknown location.

Photograph depicts a building structure near a train in an unknown location.

Railroad ties beside a track waiting to be laid.

File consists of documents relating to the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE), which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes a chronology of the history of PGE, a list of sub-contractors who completed the Squamish sub-division, "PGE/BCR: Dease Lake Extension First 25 Years, 1968 to 1993", and "P.G.E.R. 1914 to 1923: Progressive Dates of Commencement of Passenger Service".

Image depicts an unknown building under construction at the corner of 6th Avenue and Dominion Street in Prince George, B.C.

Image depicts an unknown building under construction at the corner of 6th Avenue and Dominion Street in Prince George, B.C.

Photograph depicts a building with mountains in teh background. A man wearing a hardhat stands outside.

Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "D.O.T [Department of Transportation?] Bldgs & Garage, Whitehorse." Photograph depicts numerous buildings and a four-door garage on streets in Whitehorse. Dump trucks and other various vehicles surround garage. Road and gravel covered area crosses foreground.

Part of a set of 41 original black & white photographs [1908-1933-?]) of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway line in BC depicting surveying crews, town sites (Prince Rupert and its port, Hazelton and Fort George), and First Nations Peoples.