Item is a photograph of Skookum Davidson leading a pack of sled dogs.
Item is a photograph of Skookum Davidson.
Caption: Old tent Plaging River, 8x10. WE had 3 men and 5 dogs in it one night, when it was 40 degrees below: these were in the days before eiderdown sleeping bags. Item is a photograph of Skookum Davidson standing next to a tent situated in a snowy wooded landscape. A pair of large snowshoes lean up against the tent.
Item is a photograph of Skookum Davidson and a dog standing on top of a cliff.
Item is a photograph of Skookum Davidson cooking a meal over an open fire.
Item is a photograph of Skookum Davidson and two pack dogs.
Item is a photograph of Skookum Davidson, Walter and two pack dogs.
Item is a panoramic photograph of Ingenika Mine.
Item is a photograph of Frank Swannell and Al Phipps holding rifles. Caribou meat hanging on a drying rack over a smoking fire is visible in the background.
Photograph depicts snow cover along the uppermost slope of a mountain range.
Photograph depicts a large snow covered mountain emerging from behind a forested landscape; water visible in foreground.
Item is a photograph of a steamship cruising the ocean waters off Victoria, Vancouver Island.
Caption: S.S. Prince Rupert taken from Bessie's house. Item is a photograph of Ocean Falls rooftops in the foreground, and the steam vessel, S.S. Prince Rupert at a distance in the midground.
Photo depicts a man and two boys standing along the shores of the Peace River. Annotation on verso: "Peace ' North Pine' (?) Oct 27/29"
Item is a photograph of four surveyors, one of whoe is surveying whil the ohers are resting by their tent.
Caption: "The sun sets on 1st day of great adventure. Northward bound!"
Caption: Travels of a mush-hound during part of 1935. Sunset on ice, two days fromt he mouth of the St. Lawrence, 17th April. Sorry I cannot give you the moon on the ice.
Caption: "Ingenika Mine freight boat"
Photograph depicts the supply laden canoes of the Bedaux expedition at Pete Toy's bar, taken during the Bedeaux Canadian Sub-Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1934. Original annotation on photograph recto: "River boats on the Peace River". However, this annotation is likely incorrect; if this photograph does depict Pete Toy's bar, the location of the photograph is actually the Finlay River. There may be an error in the original annotation. Also annotated on the back of this print is the code "B-04444" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Caption: "Coming up the Finlay Rapids on the Peace"
Caption: "Coming up the Finlay Rapids on the Peace"
Caption: "Man and wife, writters [sic] for some travel magaine. Living off the country with a .22; bag so far one squirrel. 300 miles from rail."
Annotation on recto: "Group at Thutade Lake, July 1931". Photograph depicts survey crew gathered around the cook tent and fire. A log cabin is visible in the background.
Caption: "Getting ready to leave MacLeod Lake, 6:30am, 22nd May 1930"
Annotation on recto partially obscured by damage to emulsion: "1930...Write (?) Creek"
Item is a photograph of an unidentified survey crewman standing next camp supplies in the snow.
Photograph depicts five supply laden canoes and several unidentified survey crewmen along a lakeshore.
Caption: Two of our Battle-squadron. Thutade Lake. Item is a photograph of three survey crewmen paddling two rafts to the shores of Thutade Lake. The rafts are laden with supplies.
Item is a photograph of a survey crew on a boat, poling down a river.
Caption: Now Jack do you really think you can pole over that riffle (A riffle is a small rapid) If there is anything on a river Jack Adam couldn't do; I'm sure it would be almost imposible to find a man who could.
Item is a panoramic photograph of Swannell Creek.
Item is a panoramic photograph of Swannell Creek.
Item is a panoramic photograph of Ingenika Valley.
Caption: The riff-ruff of Swannells' Party. J.R.M., Thorne Forrest, F. Jorgenson, A.H. Phipps, J.O. Davids, Mutt, Mrs. Forfars, Fort St. James, F.C. Swannell
Item is a group photograph taken in front of Forfars Hotel in Fort St. James.
Stamped annotation on verso: "Printed by Leffler"
Annotation on recto: "I-57373" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Series consists of five files which are related to surveying experiences in northern BC from 1931 and 1934, personal documents belonging to Phipps and his wife Dorothy Summer Phipps, and documents from the time when Phipps was working in South Africa.
Caption: Arctic-Pacific divide; To the Pacific (written on left side of photo); To the Arctic (writtn on the right side of the photo); Timber-line valley, lovely open country to live and travel in.
Caption: The Big Kettle. Omineca River. the gas from this, kills birds, rats and mice. Item is a photograph of three survey crewman standing besie the Big Kettle - a geiser (?)
Item is a group photograph of First Nations men, women and children standing around surveying equipment situated next to Takla Lake. One non-native (Mackenzie?) is kneeling in the foreground with a young child in his arms.
Item is a landscape photograph of Tatlatui Lake, mountains and trees.
Item is a photograph of two young women and one elderly woman and one young man posing for am informal photograph in a garden. The elderly woman is seated and is reading "The Bulletin" newspaper.
Item is a photograph of a survey crewman kneeling outside his tent after the first snowfall.
Caption: Our small friends: the ground-hog, whistler, marmot. Sentinel of the glen.
Item is a panoramic photograph of Ingenika Valley.
Item is a photograph six grazing pack horses and two survey crewmen.
Caption: Our small friends: The ptarmigan that used to bring his wife to see us. His bright plumage is her protection.