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Fort Grahame mail boat
2004.1.2.4.6 · Item · ca. 1929
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Annotation on verso: "Fort Grahame mail boat at 20 mile". Photo depicts a mailboat pulling along side another boat along a rocky shoreline. Two men, a woman and a child are on board while one man and two dogs are on the shore.

2012.13.1.93.29 · Item · 1978
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts numerous pieces of what appears to be old farming equipment. There is also an unidentified individual sitting aginst the side of a building. The location is possibly Fort St. John, B.C.

Fort Steele shay locomotive
2013.6.36.1.059.31 · Item · Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts shay locomotive #115. It was running order, but not in steam on the day the photograph was taken. A rod locomotive was found in a shed towards the left. Rails of the spur found in the foreground that led to the shed.

Fort Steele shay locomotive
2013.6.36.1.059.30 · Item · Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts shay locomotive #115. It was running order, but not in steam on the day the photograph was taken. A rod locomotive was found in a shed towards the left, while the "Dunrobin" lay in disuse (but was still workable) in a shed on the rear right.

2012.11.2.3 · Item · 1878
Part of Northern BC Archival Replica Access Collection

Compton, Pyms Nevins. “Forts and fort life in New Caledonia under Hudson’s Bay Company regime.” 1878 Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley. BANC MSS P-C 5.

Details from Bancroft Library:
Compton landed at Victoria in 1859, and was afterward stationed at Fort Simpson. A sketch plan of Fort Simpson is included. (9p.)