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Fonds consists of the personal records of Nedra (Ginty) Jane Paul [b. ca.1920-d. 1990]. Personal records include the 1938 Lord Byng High School Annual, 2 teaching certificates, and 1 photograph. Paul worked as a teacher in the Chilcotin and Bella Coola regions of BC and the primary items of the collection are 8 recordings generated by her with members of First Nations Communities at Alkali, Red Stone, Kleena Kleene and Bella Coola from 1964-1971. There are 8 original audio reel to reel recordings (and 2 tapes which are copies of the recordings later created by P.J. Thomas, who accompanied Paul on the interviews). Recordings include stories and songs.

Fonds consists of records to the Nechako Watershed Council. These records were created and/or accumulated by Dr. Richard Krehbiel, who was a Nechako Watershed Council member.

The Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection consists of images representing a variety of subjects areas including but not limited to Transportation and Utilities; Industries; Geographic Features; Military; First Nations; and Exploration, Discovery and Travel. The geographic focus of this collection stretches from Williams Lake to the Yukon border, and from the Alberta border to Haida Gwaii.

Collection consists of an assortment of cartographic materials and architectural plans concerning Northern BC. Included are topographic maps, pre-emptor’s and preliminary maps, physiographic maps, and resource (geological, game, etc.) maps.

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 This material includes documents, subject files, unpublished grey literature, discrete textual records with limited provenance, and other ephemeral items.

Collection consists of accumulated sound recordings collected by Northern BC Archives & Special Collections.

Consists predominantly of photographs, including polaroids of McGregor, NPT fire standby rosters (1984-1997), 1948 obliques of TFL 30, aerial photographs of the City of Prince George (1957, 1977, 1984), and corporate photographs of McGregor. Also includes three forest cover maps from Northwood Pulp and Timber.

The Mabel Rutherford Photograph Collection consists of 8 photographs depicting images of Red Rock and region: family, road and rail construction, landscape, farming equipment.

Collection consists of records related to the Alcan/Kemano project on the Nechako River circa 1980-2000 from the Nechako Neyenk'ut Society, the Rivers Defense Coalition, and the Smelter Study Group.

Fonds consists of 80 video recordings, 4 audio recordings, and textual records from the Boone/Ramsey MLA offices, including both NDP government ministry videos and commercial non-government promotional videos.

These historically important aerial photographs depict Williston Lake soon after its creation in 1968 with the building of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam on the Peace River. Also depicted are the rivers and tributaries that empty into the Williston Reservoir, such as the Finlay River, the Ospika River, and the Omineca River.

These remote-sensing aerial photographs were taken by Lockwood Survey Corporation Ltd. under contract for the B.C. Forest Service. Some photographs are annotated to show logging activity; clearcuts, slash piles, log booms, and tree debris on the water are also visible in some of the images. No detailed location information or index accompanies the photographs.

The Knox McCusker Collection consists primarily of photocopies of publications written by Mary Henry (1931-1935); annual reports; articles and papers written about Knox McCusker (1935-1997) as well as research materials pertaining to his life; articles and speeched written by Knox McCusker and general correspondence regarding surveying. Aside from these photocopies are some original records; namely: original correspondence between McCusker and G.G. Aitken (1934-1938); photographs (ca. 1930-1950); McCuskers 1909 certificate enabling him to be an Articled Pupil with the Dominion Land Surveyors; and an interview with McCusker conducted by J. Frank Willis (CBC, 1954).

Consists of photograph albums and textual records created by the Kiwanis Club of Prince George.

Collection consists of records regarding the Kemano Completion Project collected by four scientists that were involved in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans review of Alcan’s project. The majority of the material consists of copies of publications related to the scientists’ research and activities, many of which were written or annotated by them, such as reprints of journal articles, draft scientific reports, government publications, and newspaper clippings. Original scientific research records comprise raw data, field notes, memoranda, and draft reports. Includes correspondence regarding the Nechako River court action between DFO, Alcan, and the province and scientific reports that were created in anticipation of the case. Also includes significant material emanating from the British Columbia Utilities Commission Kemano Completion Project Public Review, such as correspondence, BCUC newsletters and news releases, exhibits and evidence submitted to the review panel, documents produced for the hearings, and final reports. In addition, includes records and publications relating to various other groups affected by the Kemano Completion Project or arising because of it, such as the Cheslatta Carrier Nation, the Rivers Defense Coalition, the Nechako Fisheries Conservation Program, the Nechako Watershed Council, the Nechako Environmental Enhancement Fund, and the Nechako River Alliance.

Consists of June Swanky Parker's Trip Diary (1990-1991) compiled during Alexander MacKenzie bi-centennial exploratory trips for an exhibition entitled: "In the Footsteps of Alexander Mackenzie on the Nuxalt-Carrier Grease Trail"

Diary begins Sept. 21, 1990, ends August 25, 1991 and consists of :

• 34 Handwritten entries
• 17 Watercolour sketches and 7 pen or pencil sketches
• 49 Photographs of the trip and of resulting artworks

Trip embarked upon by the “Milltown Six”: Caroline Moorhouse, June Parker, Ruth Hansen, Vivian Antoniw, Anne Bogle and Doris Dittaro.

Diary divided into 8 sections:

1. Introduction to the Milltown Six

   • Includes 1 b&w photo of June Swanky Parker

2. Trip #1: Eucheniko Lk, Kuskus Lake – Sept. 21-24, 1990

   • Includes: 2 ink sketches, 4 colour photographs, 8 watercolour sketches

3. Trip #2: Ulkatcho meeting Grounds, Gatcho Lake- July 22-27, 1991

   • Includes: 4 ink or pencil sketches, 5 colour photographs, 3 watercolour sketches

4. Trip #3: Bella Coola – Aug. 15, 1991

   • Includes: 2 colour photographs, 2 watercolour sketches

5. Euchiniko Lake Lodge with Ted and Linda Williams – Aug. 23-25, 1991

   • Includes: 1 ink sketches, 8 colour photographs, 4 watercolour sketches

6. Record and photographs of paintings and slides of paintings created for the exhibit (2 pages)

   • Includes 29 photographs of artwork

7. Newspaper article re: PG Art Gallery exhibition, July 1993

   • "Milltown Artists traverse, and record historic route to the Pacific" by Arnold Olson for Plus! Magazine Saturday July 10, 1993

8. RBCM exhibit program re: exhibition, Nov.1-Dec.15, 1993.

Consists of photographs taken by June Chamberland depicting old homesteads in the Prince George region. Includes the following:

2006.42.1 Beaverly East [4 col. photographs]
2006.42.2 Bevearly (Hiller Homestead) [30 col. photographs]
2006.42.3 Blackburn Road [11 col. photographs]
2006.42.4 Blackwater Road [1 b&w ; 9 col. photographs]
2006.42.5 Buckhorn Area [24 col. photographs]
2006.42.6 Buckhorn Area (Cummings, Pinko & Bendixon Rds) [20 col. photographs]
2006.42.7 Cariboo Hwy. [5 col. photographs]
2006.42.8 Chief Lake Road [37 col. photographs]
2006.42.9 Chilako River, Upper Mud River [36 col. photographs ; 2 col. photocopies of photographs]
2006.42.10 Cluculz Lake – Bednesti [1 col. photographs]
2006.42.11 Cranbrook Hill (1) – Manjas, Beger, geisler, Willmann, Fichtner, Seida, Alfred Seidas [33 col. photographs]
2006.42.12 Cranbrook Hill (2) – Kueng, Russman, Teshke, Hildebrandt, Cranbrook Hill School, Seida [36 col. photographs]
2006.42.13 Foreman Flats [16 col. photographs]
2006.42.14 Ferguson Lake Rd. [6 col. photographs]
2006.42.15 Giscome Portage [4 col. photographs]
2006.42.16 Giscome Portage [2 col. photographs]
2006.42.17 Hart Hwy 97 South [24 col. photographs]
2006.42.18 Hwy 16 East [3 col. photographs]
2006.42.19 Isle Pierre Road [30 col. photographs]
2006.42.20 Kerkhoff Road – Woodpecker [7 col. photographs]
2006.42.21 Mandalay Ranch on the Stuart River [18 col. photographs]
2006.42.22 Miworth [8 col. photographs]
2006.42.23 Ness Lake Rd. [12 col. photographs]
2006.42.24 Nukko Lake Rd. [4 col. photographs]
2006.42.25 Old Summit Road North [15 col. photographs ; 2 colour photocopies]
2006.42.26 Old Summit Road South [5 col. photographs]
2006.42.27 Pedscalny Road – Blackburn [4 col. photographs]
2006.42.28 Petersons [2 col. photographs]
2006.42.29 Pilot Mountain – Ferguson Lake Rds. [11 col. photographs]
2006.42.30 Pineview – Gabrielson, Pinko [3 col. photographs]
2006.42.31 Red Rock Area [3 col. photographs]
2006.42.32 Reid Lake Rd. [7 col. photographs]
2006.42.33 Salmon River Area (Salmon Valley) [9 col. photographs]
2006.42.34 Six Mile Lake (Tabor) [18 col. photographs]
2006.42.35 (Close to) Telegraph Line at Dahl L. Rd. [8 col. photographs]
2006.42.36 Willow River – Perry’s [8 col. photographs]
2006.42.37 Willow River – Pickering [13 col. photographs]
2006.42.38 Willow River [2 col. photographs]
2006.42.39 Willow River [1 col. photographs]
2006.42.40 Woodpecker [9 col. photographs ; 7 colour photocopies]
2006.42.41 Wright Creek Road [6 col. photographs ; 1 colour photocopy]
2006.42.42 Hixon [1 col. photographs]

Consists of primarily photographic forestry-related records from John Muraro's career with the Canadian Forest Service and BC Ministry of Forests.

Collection consists of 73 photographs featuring the construction of the John Hart Highway in Prince George, BC from 1945-1946. Images depict construction, machinery, workers, bunkhouses, persons, wildlife, and buildings all associated with this construction project around the Summit Lake region of the city.

Consists of interviews between Jim Taylor and Chief Justice J.O. Wilson.

Collection consists of a travel scrapbook created by Jill Singleton documenting a trip to Alaska, Yukon, Haida Gwaii, and northern BC. Includes photographs, ephemera, handwritten notes, pamphlets, issues of local newspapers, and maps.

This collection contains two tapes of interviews by Kent Sedgwick and Megan Heitrich, and one tape by Megan Heitrich alone. Interviews focus primarily upon the Japanese Internment during WWII in the Prince George – Valemount corridor. The interviews are with women who lived near an internment camp during the war, and had some contact with the Japanese men.

The interviewees were selected for having mentioned the Japanese internment in prior interviews: Louisa Mueller and Ruth Cunningham in interviews by the Prince George Oral History Group, and Karlleen Robinson in “A History of Logs and Lumber.” In the Cunningham Interview, Ruth’s daughter Lillian Coulling is also present.

Collection consists of 140 photographs pertaining to the life and pursuits of James Joseph Claxton over the course of sixty years. Subject areas identified within this collection include: quartz and placer mining in the Cariboo; Kingcome Village; the Royal Irish Contabulary; Roderick's Jewelers, New Westminster; the "M.S. Columbia III"; Kwakiutl petrographs in Fort Rupert; totem poles at Alert Bay; and the Salmon Arm Boy Scouts of Canada group.

The fonds consists of audio reels and dubbed audio cassettes of a radio programs hosted by Jack Carbutt at CKPG Radio in Prince George, and includes transcriptions in electronic and textual format. This collection has been divided into the following three series: "Audio Recordings" (2000.21.1); "Transcriptions" (2000.21.2); and "Miscellaneous Materials" (2000.21.3).

Collection consists of over 120 images, copy prints, originals, digitized images, postcards and reproductions of textual materials relating to the pioneers, wildlife, and trapping of the Prince George region.

Collection consists of material resulting from Dr. Mike Evan's Island Cache Recovery Project Collection. Includes oral history interviews of former Island Cache (Cottonwood Island) residents on recording media (cassette and VHS) as well as transcripts of the oral histories. Also includes administrative records for the project and photocopies of background research material used for the project, such as Prince George city records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and correspondence.

Consists of photographs taken by Kay Hubensky and other family members of rural and northern BC, including Aleza Lake.

This collection consists of a scrapbook entitled "My Two Year Term on the Teen Town Council", which was created by Howard Foot to document his involvement in the Prince George Teen Town Council in 1958-1959.

Fonds consists of scanned historical documents pertaining to stumpage and royalty in British Columbia's forest industry.

Contains photographs generally depicting landscapes, water scenes, and views of towns on British Columbia's north coast. Includes images featuring sternwheelers and other boats, canneries, fisheries, and individuals. Locations depicted include Port Essington and Port Simpson (Lax Kw’alaams) in BC, Fort Wrangell in Alaska, and other unknown towns. Includes one photograph of a man named Max Lohbrunner, and many other images depicting unidentified individuals.

Collection consists of materials related to Fort George surveying and preemption, including both legal and personal correspondence, legal documents and records, plans of lots, photographs, and a map. Includes records from the Cariboo Investment Company, Ltd., J.B. Henderson-Roe and C.H. Henderson Roe.

The Helen Mustard Collection consists of textual records, audiocassettes and copies of publications relating to the history of Mackenzie Townsite and Rocky Mountain Trench region of Northern British Columbia

Consists of excerpted photograph album pages that depict the following locations in British Columbia: Otter Flat (Tulameen), Hedley, 20 Mile Creek, Princeton, Grouse Mountain, New Westminster, and Ruskin.

Collection consists of textual and photographic items related to Prince George hockey and sports history.

Collection consists of photographs of restoration work on Hagwilget Bridge near Hazelton performed by Buckland & Taylor Ltd., a structural engineering company. The photographs depict inspection work on the bridge, main cables, and other structural elements, as well as general photographs of the bridge from various angles including detailed imagery of the structural components of the bridge. The photographs also show rehabilitation work underway on the bridge and employees at work.

Consists of material created by playwright Gwen Pharis Ringwood including correspondence, newspaper clippings, performance schedules, a scrapbooks, unpublished manuscripts, as well as some photographs of the Ringwood play "Road Runs North".

This photograph collection consists of 53 photographs featuring primarily Giscome with a few of Prince George. Subjects include the Eagle Lake Sawmill, Eagle Lake, Giscome townsite (including specific buildings and general road perspectives), Giscome School, Division II class photos (1950-51), and the Giscome School teacherage.

The Fred Jeffery Collection consists of three photograph albums comprising a total of 303 b&w photographs all dating from ca.1924-1933. The subject matter of these images consist primarily of the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, machinery, boats) on the Nass River and North Pacific Coast. Notable are the photographs depicting indigenous (Nisga'a) people and places and Chinese and Japanese cannery workers. Identified canneries featured in these photographs include: Mill Bay Cannery, Namu Cannery, Klemtu Cannery, Shushartie Bay Cannery, Balmoral Cannery, North Pacific Cannery, Nass Harbour Cannery, Port Essington Cannery, Kitwanga Cannery, Port Nelson Cannery, Alert Bay Cannery, Dominion Cannery and ABC Co. Cannery. Photographs also include images of the Canadian Pacific Railway in both Vancouver and Sicamous, BC., as well as, images of the Legislative Assembly buildings in Victoria, the 1924 Special Service Squadron ships in Vancouver, early construction of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and town overviews of Yokohama, Japan (pre WWII).

This photograph album features 86 black and white photographs of Fort Fraser area during the time of the community's formation.

Collection consists of 11 digitized images of Prince George in the 1930s. Includes depictions of snow removal, flooding of the Fraser and Nechako Rivers, the CNR rail yard, and the railway bridge.

Emil Bronlund was in 1927 hired by Consolidated Mining and Smelting Ltd. (later known as Cominco) to take on the company's mining exploration in northern British Columbia, a position he held for almost 25 years. Bronlund had a Leica camera and took photographs during his exploratory trips.

This album of Bronlund's photographic negatives from 1930 to 1932 includes photographs of the following trips:

• Trip to Osilinka River and Omineca River, July 1930
• Copper Mountain on Duck Creek, July 1930
• Wedge Creek, Sept. 1930
• Finlay River, Finlay Forks, Parsnip River, and Crooked River, Oct. 1930
• Prince George, Aug. 1930
• Gola, Norway, Apr. 1931
• Emil Bronlund and Frank Swannell survey crews at Thutade Lake, June 1931 and Sept. 1931
• Cairn mining claim exploration for Consolidated Mining and Smelting Ltd., June-July 1931
• Brothers Lake, Bronlund Peak, and Fredricksen Lake, July 1932
• Sustut Lake, Sept.-Oct 1931
• McLeod River trip, Mar.-Apr. 1932

Consists of excerpted pages from a photograph album created by Eileen Ralston depicting Prince George and Wellington, BC.

Collection consists of publications and papers created and collected by Dr. Margaret Anderson, predominantly including topics related to Indigenous people of the Northwest coast of North America.

Collection consists of photographs and a film relating to logging operations at the Peden Hill sawmill. Some of the photographs depict other unknown sawmills, one with a dry kiln.

Consists of interview tape summaries, transcripts, and consent forms from "Improved Partnership Stream" interviews. Also includes interviews with Fort St. James, Tl'azt'en Nation and Nak'azdli community members.

Consists of records and collected material relating to Northern BC communities and their forestry and mining resource-based economies. The majority of the holdings are collected materials relating to specific industrial corporations active in Northern BC (e.g. Alcan), such as annual reports and company profiles. The remainder of the records cover resource economy research in Northern BC more generally, such as collected data and analyses.