Item is a photograph of the survey crew and their pack horses trekking in the snow.
Item is a photograph of the survey crewman and his pack horse trekking in the snow.
Caption: On the way out. Jack Duncan digging for rocks to build [a] cairn.
Item is a photograph of J.R.M. standing in front of a cache.
Item is a photograph of a house and its large garden.
Item is a photograph of a distance perspective of a River [Ingenika River?] as seen from the survey campsite.
Caption: Our first caribou. Skookum busy in the buck brush. Item is a photograph of Skookum Davidson and another survey crewman cutting up the caribou meet in the tall grass.
Caption: More mucka-muck for man and beast. Our friend the goat. Item is a photograph of a goat standing on a rocky slope.
Annotation on verso: "B2213". Photograph possibly taken in Africa.
Annotation on verso: "B2213". Photograph possibly taken in Africa.
Annotation on verso: "B2213". Photograph possibly taken in Africa.
Item is a photograph of two large Husky dogs standing near a tent situated in a snowy wooded landscape. A pair of large snowshoes lean up against the tent.
Annotation on recto: "I-57372" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives. Annotation on recto: "Local Indians watch the fun".
Item is a photograph of a boat on the Peace River. The name of the boat reads as follows: "Fort Vermilion".
Caption: "Entrance to the Rocky Mountain Canyon, Peace River. 19 miles of Canyon."
Caption: "Entrance to the Rocky Mountain Canyon, Peace River. 19 miles of Canyon."
Item is a photograph of Pelly Creek taken from a distance.
Caption: Our prospector friends' plane, Takla Lake Landing. This was our mail plane. Item is a photograph of a group of men and some dogs standing on a dock next to CF-AAM float plane.
Caption: "Finlay River below Canyon"
Types of materials comprising this collection include: 2 journals, 2 newspaper articles, personal documents, 398 photographs, 2 plans, 2 autograph books, 2 wallets. Textual Series includes 1 diary and partial drafts of diary entitled "Diary of the Charles E. Bedaux Tractor Expedition from Edmonton to Telegraph Creek 1934" and a notebook by A.H. Phipps entitled "A.H. Phipps Memoirs of the Charles E. Bedaux Sub-Artic Expedition of 1934". Reports have been digitized and are accessible on the Archives Digital Collections website.
Phipps, Alfred HughSeries consists of three albums and loose photos, most of which relating to the surveying of Northern BC between 1929 – 1935. The albums in particular, feature photographs from 1929, 1931 and 1935; while the loose photos are mostly dated from 1934 when the Bedaux Expedition was initiated.
Photographs depict two automobiles, ca. 1930, in Place de la Concorde, Paris, France.
Annotation on recto: "Finlay River". Photo depicts two men poling a cargo laden boat away from shore while another man sits in the boat and a dog is stands on the rocky shoreline.
Annotation on recto: "Porcupine".
Caption: Our small friends: Porkie (porcupine) above timber-line.
Item is a photograph of a porcupine on top of a small cache.
Item is a preliminary plan showing traveled route of the Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition in 1934.
Item is a photograph Prince Rupert.
Annotation on recto: "Ingenika River 1930"; annotation on verso: "Ingenika River 1930". Photo depicts five survey crewmen pullng a fully loaded boat and a dog along the Ingenika River.
Annotation on verso: "Oct. 26/29". Photo depicts a sailboat being pulled along a river by another boat. Large striated mountains visible along the shoreline.
Caption: Rafting Tzahny Lake, groundhop country. Stuck on the mud; glacial silt, we have more picturesque names for it. Half hour earlier Bob's pole stuck at the bottom and he left the raft for a good bath. Item is a photograph of two survey crewman poling a raft laden with supplies away from a mud flat.
Caption: Rafting-de-Lux. The arrival of Father Christmas. Item is a photograph of a survey crewman aboard a makeshift raft carrying a small coniferous tree.
Item is a photograph of J.R.M., Frank Swannell, and a dog by a surveying station.
Annotation on recto: "Repair work in Bedeaux Camp at Gundy, B.C." Photograph depicts three men and one woman working on a vehicle.
Annotation on recto: "Repair work on trucks on Bedeaux Party at Gundy, B.C."
Caption: Repairing the "J.C. Bruce" after striking a rock off Ragged Islands near Lund - May 24, 1922. Item is a photograph of two men working on the hull of a boat propped up on a rocky shore.
Caption: "Ride him- Cowboy!" (He didn't) (Dean River Exploration -'22). Item is a photograph of an unidentified man riding a bucking horse.
Item is a photograph of three survey crewmen standing on at a river bench station with three pack dogs.
Photo depicts a perspective of river rapids taken from a sloping rocky shoreline.
Two unidentified men aboard a loaded canoe poling their way through the Finlay Rapids. Annotation on verso: "Finlay Rapids"; annotation on recto: "Finlay Rapids 1929".
Caption: Second from left Miss Purdy, fourth Miss Ralph. Item is a photograph of five women and a man standing in front of a building.
Caption: Second from left Miss Purdy, fourth Miss Ralph. Item is a photograph of five women and a man standing in front of a building.
Item is a photograph of a survey crew lining their boat.
Annotation on recto: "Portage, Deserter's Canyon".
Caption: Shack over Hot Spring, Nascall Bay: Willie Hill, Andy Whitsen, Jack Stenstrum, Cupruin's [sic] Skipper and Engineer. Item is a photograph featuring three men looking out a small window of a wooden shack.
Caption: Shorty going down the McGregor. These last winter scenes are from Skookum. Item is a photograph of "Shorty" Haynes standing in the snow against a mountainous backdrop with a pack sack on his back and snow shoes on his feet. Two pack dogs stand/sit by his side.
Caption: Shorty's Log Cabin. The dogs, Mackenzie River huskies, Dick, Mutt, Pete and Mabel. Item is a photograph of three men seating on the ground next to a log cabin with four husky dogs.