Collection consists of accumulated material relating to Northern and Central British Columbia. This material includes documents, subject files, unpublished grey literature, discrete textual records with limited provenance, and other ephemeral items.
File consists of two letters written by John McCormick to a friend describing his experiences in Barkerville and the gold mining conditions on Williams Creek.
Sem títuloFile consists of:
- Barkerville Historical Park pamphlet (1961?)
- Postcard of St. Saviour's Church, Barkerville, "one of BC's oldest churches" (2 Aug. 1964)
- An informational booklet about St. Saviour's Church, Barkerville (2 Aug. 1964)
- Theatre Royal, Barkerville playbill (2 Nov. 1966)
- Theatre Royal, "The Legend of Fanny Bendixon" playbill (1983)
- Barkerville Schedule of Events (1983)
Item is a GTPR banquet menu. Printing on recto reads “Menu G.T.P.R. Banquet To Sir Charles Rivers Wilson and President Charles M. Hays of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company Given by The Prince Rupert Board of Trade at the Prince Rupert Inn Saturday, August 21st, 1909”.
Item is a printed seasonal greeting card. Includes a printed image of an Alaskan Highway view from Dawson Creek and an outline map of the Alaska Highway. Printed card inscription states "Major and Mrs. C.C. Clitheroe Rae Pauline and David Charles Send Greeting and Best Wishes for Christmas 1944 and the New Year 1945".
File consists of:
- 1961 Letter of appointment for Walter George Freshwater (1929-2014) to be Manager at the Queen Charlotte City branch of CIBC
- 1961 CIBC pamphlet for the Queen Charlotte City branch
- Queen Charlotte Islands Telephone Directory (15 April 1961)
- Queen Charlotte Islands Chamber of Commerce By-laws (ca. 1961)
File consists of:
- 1948 Canadian National Brochure, Alaska in ’48. Dimensions: [21 x 28 cm]
- 1948 Pamphlet brochure 5 Day Cruise to Ketchikan Alaska. Dimensions: [10 x 22 cm]
- 1948 CNR Grand Trunk Railway letter regarding cruise offerings. Dimensions: [20 x 28 cm]
Item is a rough draft of James Hackler's 1958 thesis, which was later entitled "Factors leading to social disorganization among the Carrier Indians at Lake Babine".
Stone Creek Hotel was a motel in Stoner, BC, located 23 miles south of Prince George. File consists of:
- 1962 Stone Creek Hotel calendar
- Correspondence from Roy and Lorraine Santics, owners of Stone Creek Hotel, to family members
- Photograph of Santics family
- Empty Stone Creek Hotel matchbook
- Stone Creek Lodge drink coaster
- Stone Creek Hotel ashtray
- Clipping ad for the Stone Creek Hotel
Some of the items in this file contain imagery of vintage "pin-up girls".
Item is an programme for the Canadian Schools Curling Championship that occurred at the Prince George Coliseum in Prince George, BC between February 20-24, 1961.
Item is a 1967 annual report created by the First Memorial United Church in Vanderhoof.
File consists of music programs, brochures, and news clippings from performances in Prince George and Vanderhoof. Some of the concerts were organized by the Prince George and District Drama and Music Association, the Prince George Concert Association, the Prince George Concert Group, the Prince George Cantata Singers, Alaska Music Trail, Overture Concert Association, and the Nechako Community Arts Council.
Item is a promotional calendar for a long haul trucking company from Vanderhoof, BC called "Johnson Transfer". Calendar imagery is a print of an English setter dog.
Item is a brochure promoting the 150th anniversary of Fort St. James, BC. The brochure contains a history of Fort St. James.
Item is a BC Hydro brochure promoting hydroelectric power projects in the Peace River area. Includes information about the W.A.C. Bennett Dam, the Portage Mountain Generating Station, the Williston Lake reservoir, and employment statistics relating to the projects from 1968.
Item is an orange bumper sticker with the BC Hydro logo and the words "I HAVE SEEN THE PEACE POWER PROJECT".
Item is a brochure printed for the BC Centennial Caravan project from 1971 which included a number of promotional displays. The brochure has a handwritten annotation: "Vanderhoof, B.C. June 12, 1971".
Item is a course selection guide for Grade 8 courses at Cassiar Secondary School from 1983-1984.
File consists of digital scans of the following reports regarding indigenous land use:
- Archeo Tech Associates. "An Aboriginal Sustenance Impact Assessment of the Quesnel River Gold Development Project, near Quesnel, B.C.". Prepared for the Mine Review and Permitting Branch, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. December 1993.
- Archeo Tech Associates. "An Aboriginal Sustenance Impact Assessment of the Kemess South Gold-Copper Project: A Status Report". Prepared for El Condor Resources Ltd. September 1995.
- John Dewhirst and Archaeo Research Ltd. "Tsilhqot'in Use and Occupancy of the Xeni Gwet'in Claim Area, 1793-1864". Prepared for Chief Roger William, Xeni Gwet'in First Nation Government and Woodward & Company. 4 August 2005.
File consists of eight newspaper clippings, seven of which are a series of articles on the findings of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition, with the eighth being a photograph of the Expedition’s winter quarters in Etah, Greenland. Five of the articles were written by the expedition leader, Mr. Noel Humphreys and the other two were written by members of the Expedition, Mr. Moore and Mr. Haig-Thomas. The articles were originally published in the “Times” of London but the clippings appear to be from the “New Zealand Herald”.
Sem títuloFile consists of items found within the book "Placer Mining in British Columbia" (1931), which now resides in our Special Collections:
- Photograph depicting a creek within a extensive mountain range. Handwritten annotation in upper right corner reads: “Cassiar Yukon Properties Quartz Creek” and an arrow pointing downwards towards a creek (2 copies)
- Photograph depicting rocky valley. Handwritten annotation along top and bottom of recto reads: “600’ Channel; Wing Pit”
- Telegram from A.J. Marion to Joseph T. Mandy sent from Telegraph Creek, BC, on May 17 (1968?) re: mining start dates in Dease lake, Lower Post and McDames
- 6 scraps of paper with handwritten mining notes
- “Mining in focus” by Bruce Ramsey, 1968 handwritten notes
File consists of information about each Royal Bank of Canada branch in Northern BC. Includes history of branch opening/closing dates, past managers for each branch, and the address of the branch.
Consists of copies of lot plans, a blueprint of the townsite of Port Essington, and an article on Port Essington from the 15 November 1984 edition of the Prince Rupert Daily News.
Item is two photocopied chapters from Gwen Abram's biographical manuscript entitled "Bone to Soup: A Memoir by Gwen Abram". The chapters are titled "Wood and Snow: Adventures in Prince George; Walls Come Tumbling Down" and "Fun at College: Prince George college sit-in".
Item is a White Pass & Yukon Route pamphlet from 1971. Shows illustrated route map and fares.
Item is a Canadian Pacific Railway document with a "Passenger trains line up of No. 2 & No. 12 - In & Out" from 6 October 1970. Includes names and codes of train cars.
Item is a Canadian Pacific Railway "CP Rail" pamphlet for ferry services in British Columbia for the following locations: Vancouver, Nanaimo, Seattle, Victoria, and Port Angeles. Also advertises an "Alaska cruise" on the Princess Patricia from Vancouver to Skagway, with stops at Prince Rupert, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, and Bartlett Cove.
Item is the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Time Table 92. Includes interleaved Bulletin No. 201 notifying employees of the new timetable.
Item is the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Passenger Time Table 76A. Includes an illustrated route map.
Item is a document that describes the scenic route of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway and amenities and services along the way. The document may be a script that was read aloud to passengers or it may be draft language for use in promotional material.
Consists of a certificate of appointment of Louis Dixon of Telegraph Creek as Justice of the Peace.
Item is a 1968 Tourist Edition of the Prince George Progress newspaper. Includes "Mr. P.G. Welcomes You to Prince George" full page advertisement from the Prince George Chamber of Commerce, as well as features on various tourist attractions in Northern and Central BC.
Item is a single-page mimeographed list of free miners' licenses dating from May 31st, 1928.
File includes:
- Memorandum to Stuart S. Holland, 14 Nov. 1941
- Newspaper clipping re: Boulder Creek, ca. Jan. 1939
- Correspondence from Barrington Transportation Company to Stuart Holland, 1 May 1939
- Notes regarding amounts of gold and silver on Wheaton Creek (Boulder Creek)
Item reads "Programme of Ceremony at Unveiling of Cairn at Barkerville under the auspices of Cariboo Lodge No. 4, A.F. & A.M., to mark completion of the historic Cariboo Road in 1865". Includes an order of ceremony, the committee in charge, information about children's sports at the event, and a listing of pioneers and "old-timers" present in the platform party at the event.
Item is a tourist travel brochure for Quesnel, ca. 1963. The date of the brochure based on the image of the newly opened Quesnel Museum on the front of the brochure, which opened in 1963. Includes a pictorial city map inside the brochure.
Item is original correspondence from the accountant of the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company to "Messrs. Harvey, Bailey & Co., Ashcroft, B.C." Includes original cover envelope posted 1 Sept. 1899 at the Bullion Post Office located 3 miles southeast of Quesnelle Forks. Also includes an accompanying informational sheet about the company operations and some postal history about the item.
File consists of six love letters written by an unknown woman from Masset on Graham Island, BC to her husband Constable Donald Stevenson in Prince George. Donald Stevenson was employed by the North-West Mounted Police. The woman was employed at Tow Hill cannery.
File consists of Ernie Kaesmodel's copy of "Cariboo Chronicles" by John Roberts. The booklet is signed by the author. The booklet is accompanied by a letter from Rip Kitchen to Ernie Kaesmodel regarding the "Cariboo Chronicles" booklet and provides other local historical anecdotes.
Historically interesting letter from George Hills (1816-1895), the first Anglican bishop of British Columbia (in 1860-1892). The letter contains an extensive quote from the letter by Rev. James Reynard, who built the famous St. Saviour church in Barkerville. Written in the midst of the construction, the letter describes the process: "I have just had an interesting letter from Cariboo in which Mr. Reynard details his recent trials, his difficulty in getting his church built which some have opposed - he had however been at last rewarded by being able to make a start. He says "as a result of all these efforts we do start tomorrow. I am paying two clever builders ten dollars (2 £) a day each to superintend, make foundations & doors, windows, and on Tuesday next I call "a Bee". The freshet has put many men out of work & I have had many offers of free labour. I am under obligation to pay 500 dollars (100 £) as soon as possible for the lumber & the baland 1545 dollars (310 £) by installments. All the church proceeds will be devoted to reduce this and therefore I shall still be almost beggared for another year. I hope soon to send you a sketch of the Church among the Golden Hills." This letter is dated Oct. 10..." Hill also expresses his gratitude "for the kind mention of the Columbia Mission in your interesting work & for the response which you name. It will do if you send the amount you have received to us at the end of the year."
Letter is addressed 70 Upper Berkeley St., London, 23 November 1869.