Annotation on verso: "One of the five caterpillar trucks on Bedeaux Expedition in Pouce Coupe, B.C."
File contains a diary of surveying party from 1 June to September 1931 and a report of surveying Peace River Country
Item consists of a typewritten report together with three earlier complete or partial drafts of this report “A. H. Phipps Memoirs of Charles E. Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition 1934” along with original notebook which includes 11 pages of handwritten notes about the expedition.
File contains nine driver’s licenses 1936 – 1970, an identification certificate issued by the Department of National Defense, Assessment Notice 1972 for taxation, a document presented by Deputy Minister of National Defense promoting A. H. Phipps to a higher rank, a reference letter dated 16 January 1941, and a document related to a house construction and a signature-book presented to him for his retirement from the B.C. Civil Services.
Item is a photograph of a Thorne, Fred and Jack standing with six pack horses in the snow.
Annotation on verso: "Caribou on Ingenika Summit".
Item is a photograph of a logged landscape.
Item is a photograph of a forested landscape and a mountain range.
Item is a photograph of three tents set up in a woodland clearing and a seated dog looking up into the branches of a tree.
Item is a photograph of a tundra-like landscape.
Item is a photograph of a survey crewman, with pack on his back, standing in a tundra-like landscape.
Item is an aerial photograph of Ocean Falls, British Columbia.
Item is an aerial photograph Powell River Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd. Plant
Photograph depicts a large group of people, primarily men, seated at a series of three tables in a decorated dining hall. Annotation on recto: "Air Survey Division Luncheon Christmas 1967".
Annotation on recto: "Aero. Signal 1930". Photo depicts three men and three pack dogs seated at the top of a signal marker.
Item is a photograph of A.H. Phipps and Skookum Davidson standing beside a horse and a surveying station at the top of a mountain.
Item is a photograph of A.H. Phipps driving his convertible car.
Item is a photograph of A.H. Phipps standing on a rocky mountain slope.
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps kneeling on the ground and holding up the head of a dead black bear.
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps looking through the surveying equipment.
Caption: "It must have been a Sunday!"
Caption: "Paradise for man & beast. Timber-line"
Caption: "A river station"
Caption: "Another River station"
Caption: "Excelsior or Pilgrim with his load"
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps with a back pack on his back, standing with two pack dogs in the snow.
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps, Jack Anderson and Jack Adams beside a surveying station overlooking the Ingenika River.
Item is a photograph of two men in bathing suits standing beside a Californian beach.
Item is a photograph of a cook tent flooded with water.
Caption: Travels of a mush-hound during part of 1935. 50-50; Scot-Irish; Adela-Tony. Anne Hwthorne Pateson, Durieu, B.C. Item is a photograph of a little girl standing by a veranda.
Item is a landscape perspective of a small town in British Columbia.
Item is a photograph of Ingenika Mine.
Caption: Backpacking. Usual load 60-65lbs. We carried a spring balance. The smile is natura.. Item is a photograph of 2 survey crewmen trekking down a slope with packsacks on their backs.
Caption: Backpacking. Usual load 60-65lbs. We carried a spring balance. Water cooling system. Item is a photograph of 2 survey crewmen trekking through water with packsacks on their backs.
Caption: Backpacking. Frank liked his load low. Bob and I prefered [sic] ours high. Item is a photograph of Frank Swannell and another survey crewman trekking up a grassy slope; each with packsacks located at different points on their backs.
Caption: Backpacking: snow cooled. Item is a photograph of two survey crewmen trekking up a snowy slope with packsacks on their backs.
Annotation on recto: "I-33251" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.
Item is a photograph of a Barrier Lake in the foreground and a forest and mountain range in the background.
Item is a panoramic photograph of Barrier Lake, featuring a rocky shoreline, whitecaps and a mountaineous background.
Item is a photograph of a mountain range.
Item is a photograph of forested landscape in the midground and a barely visible mountain range in the background.
Item is an photograph of a woman, B.D. Hodsdon sitting on the stairs to a house next to a rocky garden.
Caption: Note the rock and box garden. Item is an photograph of a woman, B.D. Hodsdon sitting on the stairs to a house next to a rocky garden.
Caption: On the "Only Way". Item is an photograph of a woman, B.D. Hodsdon walking.
File contains three correspondences related to Bedaux Company in South Africa, six employee reports written by A. H. Phipps, a copy of Bedaux Weekly Analysis, a map from “Goldfields Hotel” in Petersburg, South Africa, a booklet “Bedaux Measures of Labor”, and a medical certificate with A. H. Phipps’ photograph.
File contains a preliminary plan showing traveled route of the Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition in 1934, two newspaper articles from 1935 and 1990, a manuscript “Diary of the Charles E. Bedaux Tractor Expedition from Edmonton to Telegraph Creek 1934”, a typewritten report together with three earlier complete or partial drafts of this report “A. H. Phipps Memoirs of Charles E. Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition 1934”, a notebook which includes 11 pages of handwritten notes about the expedition, an invitation card for reunion of the personnel of the Bedaux Expedition held in 6 September 1964, and a funeral notice of Monsieur Clovis Balourdet, the mechanic of the expedition.
Annotation on recto: "C-08431" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.