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Photographs within this file pertain to modes of transportation and transportation routes (including construction, surveying and traveling).

This photograph album consists of photographs, membership cards and correspondence of Herbert F. Glassey. Subjects identified in this album include: automobiles, landscape vistas, hunting scenes, snowshoeing, dog sledding, provincial government offices and waterscapes. Identified geographic locations include: Nesutlane Trading Post, Atlin, Teslin Lake, Atlin Lake, McKee Creek, Taku Glacier and Otter Creek. The following of Mr. Glassey’s membership cards are also included within this album: “White Pass & Yukon Route, No. 308: Government Agent, Atlin account, 1939-1940”; “White Pass & Yukon Route, No. 283: Government Agent account, 1941-1942”; “Registration Certificate, 1940”; “The Wartime Prices and Trade Board, no.1305, 1942”; “Dominion Bureau of Statistics, no.252”; “The Society of Notaries Public Membership Card, 1956”; and “Prince Rupert Liberal Association, 1953”.

File contains two newspaper clippings, one from the B.C. Saturday Sunset of September 14, 1912 concerning economic development on Vancouver Island and the second from The Globe dated Saturday March 23, 1907 which contains two photographs of Prince Rupert.

File contains postcards portraying life in Prince Rupert, B.C. Images depict harbour scenes, street scenes (Third Avenue, Sixth Street, Central Street, and Mainstreet), airplanes, large ships, fisheries, city aerials, parades, military, a dog sled mail team, and a frozen fishing boat.

File consists of a folder containing documents describing Skeena Kraft Limited. Folder consists of:

• Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget--A Forest Products Giant
• Columbia Cellulose Company, Limited--A Corporate History
• Two World-Wide Sales Organizations to Market Skeena Kraft Pulp
• Skeena Kraft Limited Adopts Distinctive Housemark Symbol Adapted from Sun Totem, Kee-War-Kow, Family Crest of Sky People
• The Nass and Skeena Valleys--A New Economic Region Terrace and Prince Rupert are Hubs in Finance and Services
• MISSING: Twinriver Timber Limited: New Company Created to Administer Two Tree Farm Licence Areas
• The Forests Behind the Coast Range Produce Superior Pulp
• Efficient New Woodroom Highlights Skeena Mill
• Integrating Two Power Systems--A Marriage with Convenience One Power Group Serves Two Mills
• Pulping Group Features Flexible Bleaching Sequence and World's Largest Flakt Drier
• New Dams Create Huge Storage Area for Skeena Water Supply
• Advanced Process Control Techniques Employ Computers Extensively
• Skeena Kraft Mill Quality Control and Process Control Tune Mill to Produce Prime Quality Pulps
• Co-ordination and Administration of Construction and Design of Skeena Kraft Shared by H.A. Simons and Central Engineering of Columbia Cellulose
• Purchasing and Traffic Departments Buy and Move More than 25,000 Tons of Materials During Skeena Kraft Construction Co-ordinated Sea and Land Transport System Introduced
• Skeena Kraft--Hundreds of New Jobs Canada-Wide Recruiting Programme Attracts New Workers to Growing Nass-Skeena Region;
• Also includes 19 photographs; 12 technical drawings and diagrams; 2 maps;
• Promotional pamphlet "The Skeena Kraft Story."

This travel scrapbook was created by Jill Singleton to document a trip to Alaska, Yukon, Haida Gwaii, and northern BC. Jill Singleton and Eric Stathers embarked on a 1985 car camping trip using the BC Ferries and Alaska Ferry systems. Includes postcards, ephemera, handwritten notes, pamphlets, issues of local newspapers, and maps. Also includes 37 photographs.

Includes the following:

• "Queen Charlotte Islands Observer" newspaper issue for August 8, 1985
• "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Queen Charlotte City", June 1985
• "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Tlell + Port Clements", June 1985
• "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Skidegate Landing, Skidegate and Sandspit", June 1985
• "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Masset", June 1985
• "Explorations Q.C.I." pamphlet advertising guiding, outfitting, and touring
• "Sandspit Inn, Queen Charlotte Islands" pamphlet
• "Visit the Queen Charlottes" pamphlet
• Queen Charlotte Islands map, circa 1985
• BC Ferries pamphlet "New in 1985... Inside Passage Day Cruise"
• BC Ferries pamphlet "Tickets and Boarding Information, Inside Passage"
• "Alaska Marine Highway" pamphlet
• "Discover Southeast Alaska, Ketchikan" pamphlet
• "Alaska State Parks" pamphlet/map
• "Tongass National Forest, Alaska" pamphlet/map
• "Alaska Marine Highway Summer Schedule - May 1, 1985 through September 30, 1985" pamphlet
• History leaflet for St. Michael's Cathedral, Sitka, AK
• Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute leaflets, 1984
• Anchorage 1984 Visitors Guide, Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau
• "Skagway... some Steps on the Gold Rush Trail... walking Tour of the Historic District - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park"
• "Skaguay Alaskan" newspaper issue, Vol. VIII, No. 1880 (1985)
• "Klondike Gold Rush" pamphlet for tourists
• "Broadway, Skagway, Alaska" pamphlet
• "S.S. Tutshi, Carcross" pamphlet
• "Moon Watching" pamphlet by BC Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing (1980)
• "Some Insects of Provincial Parks" pamphlet by BC Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing (1980)
• "Stewart, British Columbia - Hyder, Alaska... Your Gateway to Alaska and the Yukon!" pamphlet
• "Stewart-Cassiar Highway 37" map
• "Prince Rupert City Map & Guide" pamphlet
• "Explore Canada's Yellowhead, Western Canada's New Interprovincial Highway" pamphlet (1983)
• "101 Things To Do in Yukon" booklet published by Tourism Yukon (1985)
• "Your Guide to B.C. Ferries' Inside Passage" booklet by British Columbia Ferry Corporation (1985)
• "Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada" booklet (1981)

Trip itinerary:

• Vancouver, BC
• Nanaimo, BC
• Port Hardy, BC
• Prince Rupert, BC
• Yakoun River, BC
• Haida Gwaii, BC (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands)
• Rennell Sound, BC
• Graham Island, BC
• Queen Charlotte City, BC
• Sandspit, BC
• Prince Rupert, BC
• Ketchikan, AK
• Sitka, AK
• Tenakee Springs, AK
• Juneau, AK
• Skagway, BC
• Carcross, YK
• Atlin, BC
• Telegraph Creek, BC
• Kitwanga, BC
• Prince Rupert, BC
• Prince George, BC
• Lillooet, BC
• Vancouver, BC

This photograph album consists of images pertaining to early settlements, bridges, riverboats, railways, cross-land travel companies, and family and social life including portraits and such events as cross country skiing, picnics, family gatherings, basketball team photos, masquerade dances, dramatic plays, hockey games and team dinners. Identified individuals include: the Tillicums, Bill Bennett, Jean Caux, Frank Johnstron, the Taylor Family (Hermina, Hugh, Ellen, Violet, Lucy, Dixon, Arthur, Virginia, Tom and Hugh Jr.), H.G.T. Perry, Betty Angus, Mrs. Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Davis. Identified geographic locations include: South Fort George, Prince George, Hagwilget Bridge, Walcott, Prince Rupert, Finlay River Rapids, Lulu Island, Ashcroft, Skeena River, Nechako River, Bulkley River, Kispiox and Hazelton.

This file also contains a one way Canadian National Railways ticket in the name of Miss V.B. (Violet Bourchier) Taylor to travel from Prince Rupert to Vancouver in July 1927.