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Photograph depicts a northwest aerial view from Sustut River of a snow-covered mountain range toward Thutade Lake.

Photograph depicts a northwest aerial view from Sustut Pass of a snow-covered mountain range toward Thutade Lake.

Photograph depicts an aerial view of Finlay Falls from below Thutade Lake set in a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts an aerial view of the north half of Thutade Lake located between a snow-capped mountain range.

Photograph depicts a southeast aerial view from Sustut Pass of a snow-covered mountain range toward Thutade Lake.

Photograph depicts two men, Bill Martin and Clarence Waldof, picking blueberries along a hillside surrounded by their bags and a dog.

Photograph depicts two men pulling a boat through a shallow section of Crooked River in front of a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts three men in a boat using long poles to steer a boat through an ice covered river section at Finlay Forks.

Photograph depicts two horses loaded with packs walking across a wooden bridge leading over Wedge Creek.

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

Photograph depicts a snow covered landscape covered with small trees, many of which are lacking branches.

Photograph depicts two men standing near two horses in front of a tall log cache in a forested environment.

Photograph depicts a man standing beside a discovery vein along a rocky cliff. The location is believed to be the east side of Duncan Mountain, east of the north end of Thutade Lake, some 140 miles northeast of Stewart. The Cairn group of 12 mining claims was located by Cominco Ltd. in 1931.

Photograph depicts four men seated around a small camp in front of Copper Mountain. The location of the photograph is noted to be at Duck Creek at Copper Mountain; however, those names may no longer be in current use. Location is assumed to be approximately 55.979291, -125.208415 near what is currently named Wasi Peak.

Photograph depicts two men seated around a campfire with a tent near the shore of Fredricksen Lake.

Photograph depicts a small caribou herd stopped in a snow covered clearing beside a forest a Drybrough Mountain.

Photograph depicts two men standing in front of and CF-AAM aircraft in front of a lake with a forested mountain range in the background.

Photograph depicts a CF-ABK float plane on the water at Burns Lake. CF-ABK was a legendary bush plane nicknamed "Old Faithful". On the left of the photograph three men are resting on a pile of wood.

Photograph depicts two men, Clarence Waldof and Henry Waldof, posing for a photo while at work clearing dirt in front of a house in Prince George.

Photograph depicts Clarence Waldof sitting on the bow end of a wooden boat floating on End Lake off the Osilinka River with a forested landscape along the shoreline. A mountain range is visible in the background of the photo.

Photograph depicts Bob Niven, Ken Dewar,and Henry Giegerich standing in their Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Ltd. (CMS) camp at Sand Bay near Thutade Lake. Food cache visible at centre.

Photograph depicts Ralph Meiser and another man ("Crites"?) paddling a wooden boat on the Omineca River near Germansen Landing.

Photograph depicts two men and two dogs resting near a wooden rowboat stopped along the shoreline of upper Osilinka River near Swiggums mining claims.

Photograph depicts three dogs pulling a loaded sled being steered by a man over a flat, snow-covered environment with a forested area in the distance.

Photograph depicts five men and three women seated in a semi-circle inside a wooden cabin in Gola, Norway.

Photograph depicts a man (Ed Short) standing on a boulder in front of a hillside covered with grass and trees.

Photograph depicts Emil Bronlund at the back of a wooden motor boat resting after a swim in the Omineca River, located near Germansen Landing.

Photoraph depicts two men, Emil Bronlund and Clarence Waldof, standing beside a long motorboat at the edge of Crooked River in front of a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts two men, Emil Bronlund and Clarence Waldof, posing for a photograph at a farm in Prince George.

Photograph depicts two men (Emil Bronlund and Henry Waldo) in conversation while at work clearing dirt in front of a house in Prince George.

Photograph depicts Emil Bronlund and another man kneeling at camp with a tent and cooking fire. The camp is located at Little Canyon near the upper Omineca River.

Photograph depicts a man (Emil Bronlund) holding up a dead wolf standing in a grass covered landscape in front of a tree with a mountain in the far-right background.

Photograph depicts Emil Bronlund in the second seat of G-CYYG De Havilland D.H. 60 Moth aircraft at the Edmonton Airport. This plane was operated by the Edmonton Aero Club.

Photograph depicts a man (Emil Bronlund) standing on skis in front of a ski trail that leads through a snow-covered forest.

Photoraph depicts a man (Emil Bronlund) skiing in Gola, Noway with a snow-capped mountain range visible in the background.

Photograph depicts a man siting in a wooden boat on the Omineca River leading to the entrance of Little Canyon toward a forested shoreline.

Photograph depicts the rocky shoreline and forest environment at the entrance to Little Canyon viewed from the Omineca River.

Photograph depicts a wide waterfall (Finlay Falls) located above Thutade Lake with a forest in the background.

Photograph depicts a wide waterfall (Finlay Falls) seen through a tree covered landscape.

Photograph depicts men fishing off a rocky point between the Omineca and Osilinka Rivers.

Photograph depicts a man standing to the left of a CF-ABK float plane and a Fokker AAM float plane resting on the water on Takla Landing.

Photograph depicts a CF-AAM float plane stopped after a forced landing on Sustut Lake in front of Sentinel Peak.

Photograph depicts Frank 'Shorty' Weber steering a dug-out canoe on the Omineca River. The background of the photograph depicts log cabins at Old Hogem built along the shoreline of the river in front of a forest with a mountain ridge in the background.

Frank ‘Shorty’ Weber had a trapline on the upper Ingenika for over 30 years. and he was well-known in the Finlay River area.

Photograph depicts the south view of Fredricksen Lake with mountain ranges depicted in the background.

Photograph depicts a frozen pond located in a snowy landscape on the east side of Copper Mountain.

Photograph depicts Henry Cleburn Giegerich and Emil Bronlund with Swannell's party posed in front of Jack Duncan's cabin near Thutade Lake.