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File contains slides depicting various places located across Canada.

Subseries consists of material collected and created by Kent Sedgwick for research relating to agriculture in Prince George and the surrounding areas including Pineview, Mud River, and Blackburn. Includes material regarding the Prince George experimental farm, historical agriculture, dairying, and ranching.

File contains slides depicting New and Old Aiyansh, as well as the Tseax Lava Flow.

Subseries consists of material involved in Weller’s activity applying for, obtaining, and fulfilling the responsibilities of academic appointments (professorships, tenure, and university administrative positions), including correspondence, application materials, and annual reviews.

Subseries consists of artwork by Brian Fawcett's friends and family, as well as miscellaneous printed graphic materials.

File contains slides depicting buildings and places in and around Ashcroft, Kamloops, and Hat Creek, B.C.

Subseries contains material collected and created by Kent Sedgwick for research on various areas in British Columbia and Alberta. Includes written notes by Kent Sedgwick, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings relating to towns and settlements. These areas include Quesnel, Likely, the Yukon Telegraph Trail, Barkerville, Wells, the Cariboo region, Fort Alexandria, Soda Creek, the Chilcotin region, Jasper, the Rocky Mountains, Mackenzie, Tumbler Ridge, the Peace River region, Fort St. James, the Omineca region, Kitimat, Lethbridge, the Bulkley Valley, and Fort Mcleod. These files cover a variety of topics including Chinese people in British Columbia, land settlement, tourism, and historic information on the regions.

File contains slides depicting maps from the B.C. Atlas.

File contains slides depicting views of numerous B.C. Mountains.

File contains slides depicting birds and wildlife at unknown locations.

File contains slides depicting the Bowron Lake Provincial Park.

File contains slides depicting locations in and around Bralorne, B.C.

Consists of photographs depicting various scenes on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway and British Columbia Railway (later known as BC Rail).

File contains slides depicting places in California, USA.

Consists of photographs depicting abandoned Canadian National train stations, derailments, equipment, locomotives and staff.

Consists of photographs depicting abandoned Canadian Pacific train stations, derailments, equipment and staff.

File contains slides depicting maps of Canada's former boundaries.

File contains slides depicting images of areas in the Carp Lake Provincial Park.

Subseries contains Ainley's research material on Catherine Parr Traill (nee Strickland). The subseries includes research for and manuscripts of: the conference presentation and book chapter, "Science in Canada's 'Backwoods'?: Catharine Parr Traill" (originally titled, "Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899): A Woman Science Writer in 19th Century Canada"); the conference presentation, "Women and the Popularization of Science: 19th-century Women Science Writers in Canada"; and the conference presentation, "Colonial Lessons: Catherine Parr Traill (1802-99) and Popular Science Education in Upper Canada"; and publication "Circulating Gendered Knowledge: Catharine Parr Traill's Colonial Science Lessons, 1836-1895." Subseries consists of photocopied archival material, research notes, overhead transparencies, correspondence, manuscripts, and articles.

File contains slides depicting a caving group in various places in West Virgina, USA.

File contains slides depicting places in, around, and near Prince George, B.C.

File contains slides that reproduce historical photographs of Indigenous peoples of Central Interior, as well as maps.

File contains slides depicting Chemanus, B.C.

File contains slides depicting images of Cheslatta from 1991

File contains slides depicting closeups of flowers at unknown locations.

File contains slides depicting the Columbia River in Interior Washington, USA.

Subseries consists of photographic material pertaining to building construction at Cassiar and Clinton Creek. Photos were taken of all the major structures during the building of the Cassiar plant in the early 1950s and the Clinton Creek plant in the early 1970s. There are also photographs pertaining to the new mill that was built at Cassiar in 1970-1971. Smaller scale construction jobs have been included: police station, powerhouse expansion, fiber storage building, sewage collection and treatment plants, accommodations and outside work camps.

Subseries consists of photographic material pertaining to the corporate affairs of the Cassiar Asbestos Corporation.

File contains slides depicting Cottonwood Island in Prince George, B.C.

Subseries documents "Critical Turning Points: Women Engineers Within and Outside the Profession," a study funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) strategic grant. The study was broken up into four projects: "Women in Engineering: A Historical Overview," a project based on analyzing statistical and demographic data to establish a statistical profile of women in engineering; "The Explorers: Early Women Engineers," a project based on conducting oral histories and examining archival material to establish the reasons for early engineers choosing their careers; "Women's Exit from Engineering Studies, a project based on using semi-structured interviews to analyze reasons for women departing from their degree programs; and "Women's Exit from the Engineering Profession," a project based on open-ended unstructured interviews of former male and female engineers to analyze their reasons for leaving the profession. Ainley was a co-investigator on the study, along with the principal investigator, Peta Tancred, and co-investigators Susan Whitesides and Gillian Rejskind, and was involved in all the projects, except, "Women's Exit from Engineering Studies." Subseries consists of audio tapes and transcripts from interviews with female engineers, questionnaires from a project on Queen's University female engineering graduates by Alison Bowe, research notes, articles, conference proceedings, brochures and correspondence.

File contains slides depicting quotations and sketched images.

Subseries consists of prints and negatives depicting railways in British Columbia, as well as a small selection of other subjects such as historical ships, buildings, vehicles, and bridges. All photographs created by David Davies.

File contains slides depicting old geological maps of the Central Interior.

File contains slides depicting images of areas around Dease Lake, B.C.

File contains slides depicting areas around the Discovery Passage.

File contains slides depicting images of and around Divide Lake.

File contains slides depicting a Doukabour community at an unknown location.

Subseries includes material collected by Kent Sedgwick regarding the Duke of Sutherland. The Duke of Sutherland is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The fourth Duke of Sutherland was Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower who lived from 1851 to 27 June 1913. Toward the end of his life, the 4th Duke began moving his wealth and life to Canada. The Duke owned land across British Columbia and Alberta and contributed to various settlements, including Strathnaver, BC; Windermere, BC; Brooks, AB; and Clyde, AB. The Duke of Sutherland owned the Sutherland Land Company, creating and selling plots in BC and Alberta. He also worked closely with the Canadian Pacific Railway to support immigration and settlement of the area.

File contains slides depicting images of Dunster Station from 1982 to 1983.

Subseries consists of material collected by Kent Sedgwick for research regarding the communities along the East Line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in Central British Columbia, particularly between Prince George and McBride. These communities and locations include, among others, Shelley, Willow River, Sinclair Mills, Longworth, Dunster, Tete Jaune, Valemount, Mount Robson, and the Yellowhead Pass. Research on these communities was conducted during Kent Sedgwick's involvement in the UNBC-led Upper Fraser Historical Geography Project. The files primarily consist of research notes, audio and transcripts of oral interviews, and photographs of the East Line communities.

File contains slides depicting places along the east line of the BC Railway. Some are duplicates of the images found in the "East Line, Dome Creek - Lamming Mills - Misc" file.

File contains slides depicting places along the east line of the BC Railway.

File contains slides depicting places along the east line of the BC Railway.

File contains slides depicting places along the east line of the BC Railway.

Subseries consists of photographic material pertaining to early geological exploration and planning of the mine sites, plant sites and town sites of both Cassiar, B.C. and later Clinton Creek, Y.T. This subseries also includes photographic material capturing mining locations not owned by Cassiar Asbestos Corporation for what is believed to be corporate research and development purposes.

File contains slides depicting images of fences and various other forms of log construction, ranging from 1970 to 1985.

File contains slides depicting images of the Fort George Canyon from 1984.