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2004.1.2.2.1 · Item · 21 October 1931
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Caption: The riff-ruff of Swannells' Party. J.R.M., Thorne Forrest, F. Jorgenson, A.H. Phipps, J.O. Davids, Mutt, Mrs. Forfars, Fort St. James, F.C. Swannell
Item is a group photograph taken in front of Forfars Hotel in Fort St. James.

2021.06.055 · Item · [June 1931 or July 1931]
Part of Emil Bronlund Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a group portrait of Frank Swannell's and Emil Bronlund's crews surrounded by camping supplies, dogs, and a horse along the shore of Thutade Lake. Skook Davidson is in the back row in front of the horse. Frank Swannell is in the front row 3rd from left, petting a dog.

Swamper on Shovel
2005.3.41 · Item · [ca. 1945]
Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a man seated on cab floor of dragline crane with " CAMPBELL CONSTRUCTION Co. LIMITED" on its side door. The crane is elevated on a man-made dirt hill (see also item 2005.3.40), with forest in background. Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Swamper on Shovel".

2008.3.1.207.5 · Item · Aug. 1996
Part of Bridget Moran fonds

Audio cassette contains a recorded interview with Bridget Moran for a Social Work class, possibly at UNBC, with questions asked by the instructor and individual students.

Audiocassette Summary
Context: Interview with Bridget Moran for a Social Work class [UNBC?] with questions asked by instructor [Rosalie?] and individual students

Scope and Content:

  • Interviewer asks what kept Bridget in social work? – “Not a profession but an addiction”
  • Possibility of addiction to social work possibly contributed to the breakup of her marriage – “married a charming Irishman who could not keep his charm at home”
  • Likes to take the pain of the job home
  • Social work students sometimes afraid to get emotionally involved
  • “translate your private concerns into public actions”
  • Social workers have to be aware of First Nations culture
  • Social workers need to a part of the society in which they are living; Bridget could relate because she was on welfare when she was a child
  • Psychologically prepared for the repercussions of her social actions towards the W.A.C. Bennett government; Bridget notes her actions reflected the frustrations of the group of social workers in Prince George at the time – but that she didn’t involve anyone else – if it had it might have been more successful
  • Important to provide a sense of empowerment to your social work clients
  • Speaks about the response to her book A Little Rebellion
  • Speaks about how the book Stoney Creek Woman was initiated by Mary John’s daughter Helen
  • Speaks about how the inquest into the death of Coreen Thomas, inspired her to write Judgment at Stoney Creek
  • Discusses her book about Justa Monk
  • Native people can only “heal themselves through their own culture”
  • Discusses her Writers Workshop series
  • Re: Oath of confidentiality – ethical dilemmas for social workers - Didn’t mean to break her oath of office but because she did violate it [in the governments view] therefore felt she had to resign
Suspended Trailer
2012.13.1.122.09 · Item · Oct. 1975
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a trailer for a logging truck suspended off the ground by a wooden structure. This is used to load the trailer onto the back of the truck. The name on the truck says "Rormarniewich Trucking Ltd."

Surviving building, Gerard
2013.6.36.1.072.02 · Item · 10 Sept. 1970
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the only surviving building in the ghost town of Gerard. Its survival was due to the ownership and periodic use of the B.C. Government Fisheries Department.

2006.20.12.42 · Item · [ca. 1940]
Part of Northern BC Archives Historical Photograph Collection

Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "The above ship, after 'doing' a barrel-roll 50 feet above the runway." Photograph depicts three men in uniform bent over wreckage of plane crash in airstrip believed to be at Whitehorse, YT. Large group of men and vehicles in background on right, trees and hillside in background on left.

Royal Canadian Air Force
2000.23.1.097.02 · Item · [19-?]
Part of Audrey Smedley L'Heureux fonds

This BC Provincial Archives photograph reproduction photograph depicts two surveyors in the Omineca region. The photograph caption notes: "copied fr. Swannell Diary MSS 392 (Volume 3)".

Survey Equipment
2012.13.1.121.06 · Item · [1968?]
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts objects, including a flag pole, that the slide labels as "survey equipment." The slide also places it as a "Peyto icefall," on the Peyto Galcier in the Banff National Park in Alberta, B.C.