Photograph depicts looking down on several canvas tents set near a creek. A sparsely forested hillside in the background.
Photograph depicts canvas tents placed among the trees. The forest floor is littered with branches, wood smoke or fog disperses among the trees.
Image depicts a camp of people with Mt. Robson and the Berg Glacier in the background.
Image depicts a camp of people with Mt. Robson and the Berg Glacier in the background.
Image depicts a camp and what is likely Mt. Robson in the background.
Image depicts a campsite somewhere near Berg Lake.
Image depicts a group of individuals at camp somewhere in Mt. Robson Provincial Park.
Photograph depicts a man standing beside a discovery vein along a rocky cliff. The location is believed to be the east side of Duncan Mountain, east of the north end of Thutade Lake, some 140 miles northeast of Stewart. The Cairn group of 12 mining claims was located by Cominco Ltd. in 1931.
Photograph depicts two men standing near two horses in front of a tall log cache in a forested environment.
Photograph depicts a rustic log cabin, shed and garden fence near the edge of a lake. The surrounding landscape is low rolling hills.
Photograph depicts a snow covered cemetery with gravestones, tombstones, and monuments.
Photograph depicts a snow covered landscape covered with small trees, many of which are lacking branches.
Photograph depicts a view looking down on the Bulkley River, forested banks on both sides of the river, high mountains in the distance.
Photograph depicts buildings looking north of the Empress Hotel on Douglas Street in Victoria, BC. The Belmont is on the right and the Customs Building on the left.
Grassy area in foreground, trees and fence in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “House for Trudeau + Margaret, Q.C.I., Tlell”.
Photograph depicts a mountain covered with sparse patches of snow (Two Brothers Peak).
Photograph depicts Emil Bronlund's crew on the shore of Sand Bay in front of a CF-AAM float plane. From left to right: Bob Niven, mechanic; Ken Dewar, pilot; Henry Giegerich, geologist.
Photograph depicts several mountains, including Bronlund mountain, from Two Brothers' peak.
Photograph depicts Emil Bronlund, H. Witter, and rescue party alongside two canoes on sleds. A dog is harnessed to one of the sleds. The searching party consisted of E.H. Burden, C.H. Van Somer and Clarence Waldof from Prince George.
The following Prince George Citizen newspaper articles describe the incident:
“Searching Party Sets Out to Look for Emil Bronlund”
Prince George Citizen, April 21, 1932, p. 5
A searching party consisting of E.H. Burden, C.H. Van Somer and Clarence Waldof started out on Tuesday afternoon to look for Emil Bronlund, an engineer connected with the Consolidated Company who has been associated with a local syndicate in prospecting at the headwaters of the McLeod river. According to arrangements made Mr. Bronlund was to have arrived in Prince George last week, coming out by way of Fort McLeod, but in the absence of means of communication it was impossible to learn whether he started or whether he was detained in the vicinity of the area being prospected. Mr. Burden had the broadcasting station CKCD send out a message to J.E. McIntrye, in charge of the Hudson’s Bay post at McLeod, advising that Mr. Bronlund failed to arrive here, and suggesting a search if the missing man had passed the post.
The search party from the end will travel by canoe from Summit Lake to Davie Lake, from which point it will mush over the trail to McLeod. It may be several days before word is received from it.
“Emil Bronlund was held up by bad weather”
Prince George Citizen, April 28, 1932, p. 1
Emil Bronlund, whose delay on the trip from the headwaters of McLeod River occasioned his friends in this city much uneasiness, reached Prince George on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by E.H. Burden and Henry Waldof, who started out some days ago to search for him. Messrs. Burden and Waldof had difficult going. Summit Lake is still frozen, and it was necessary for them on Thursday morning to drag their canoe over four miles of ice until they could strike open water in the Crooked River. Davie Lake was also covered with ice, and they were dragging their canoe over this when they came upon Bronlund and Ham Witter, making their way south in the same tedious way, dragging their boat over the ice. Bronlund explained he had been held up at Fort McLeod on his way out as it was impossible to travel. There was about a foot of water on the ice, and the trail being close to the water level it would have been foolhardy to attempt to come through.
It was at McLeod that Bronlund fell in with Witter. The latter had been trapping in the Nation River section but had been taken ill. He was delirious and unable to eat, and his boys decided to bring him out as far as the fort, and having the patient strapped to a toboggan. Witter improved rapidly at the fort and when Bronlund started south on Wednesday morning he decided to accompany him. They had been on the trail two days when they met Burden and Waldof.
The local syndicate, with which Bronlund is associated, has made a number of locations on the headwaters of McLeod River, and is preparing to do further prospecting to determine more fully the probable values contained in the gravels.
Photograph depicts the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, BC.
Photograph depicts the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, BC.
Photograph depicts the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, BC.
Photograph depicts Moran walking away from round entrance to long house, unidentified individual visible inside.
Photograph depicts bridge built with wooden planks and poles, with triangles built into its frame. Water rapids in foreground, opposite shore in background behind bridge. This is speculated to be one of the bridges that crossed the Hagwilget Canyon on the Bulkey River since 1859, five kilometres from its confluence with the Skeena River. See items 2009.5.1.69 - 2009.5.1.71.
Photograph depicts the bridge at Goodacre Pond in Beacon Hill in Victoria, BC. Duck in foreground.
Photograph depicts the bridge at Goodacre Pond in Beacon Hill in Victoria, BC. Swans are swimming in the pond and there is a path and footbridge behind the pond.
Photograph depicts two horses loaded with packs walking across a wooden bridge leading over Wedge Creek.
Photograph depicts a rustic bridge covered in snow leading across a log jam. A horse is walking on the bridge toward the photographer. [55th parallel]
Photograph depicts a trail through log jam built by survey party. [55th parallel]
Photograph depicts a view of a small bridge and dirt road joining buildings on two sides of a river. Loaded packhorses are traveling down the road. There are mountains in the distance. Survey of 55th parallel.
Photograph depicts five men carrying shovels, walking through the snow in single file.
Photograph depicts three men in a boat using long poles to steer a boat through an ice covered river section at Finlay Forks.
Photograph depicts A cluster of boats anchored on the edge of a stream, some men standing on shore. Photograph is dark and blurry.
Photograph depicts a bow of a boat in the foreground. Thick ice on the edges of the river, water with floating ice beyond the boat. Trees lines the shoreline.
Photograph depicts two men standing in center foreground, forested flat land in background.
Photograph depicts forest growth near Woodpecker Island and Stone Creek.
Photograph depicts forest growth with fallen trees and remnants of a forest fire.
Photograph depicts two men pulling a boat through a shallow section of Crooked River in front of a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a view of the Blackwater bridge from downstream. The cabin, house and telegraph poles in the background.
Photograph depicts a view from above the Blackwater telegraph cabin and house. The house has a large fence garden beside, telegraph poles with wires are visible alongside the dirt road. Wood smoke drifts from the house chimney to the sparsely forested area beside.
Photograph depicts a canvas tent and wooden tent frame in the foreground, more canvas tents erected in the background. Two men carry poles on the right, while another man in center photo stands near another pole frame. There is a body of water in the background.
Photograph depicts three men standing on a bridge in the foreground, a cabin and fenced house in the midground, sparsely forested hills in the background. There are telegraph poles with wires between the bridge, cabin and house.
Photograph depicts a body of water surrounded by sparsely forested hills and low mountains.
Photograph depicts the Blackwater bridge and cabin. The forest in the foreground has been roughly cleared.
Photograph depicts a large body of water the shore edged with forest and low hills.
Photograph depicts a view from the railroad looking toward the river and mountain beyond at Billings siding.
Photograph depicts two men, Bill Martin and Clarence Waldof, picking blueberries along a hillside surrounded by their bags and a dog.
Photograph depicts three men standing in a canoe with long poles. Canoe is floating in quiet river water, bluffs in the background.
Photograph depicts a view possibly from a stage coach, fences and rolling hills with dry vegetation in the background.
Rev. William Edwin Collison stands in centre of boat, with wife Bertha and daughters Muriel and Katherine seated behind. Unknown man and woman are also seated in boat, and an unknown man stands on shore holding rope.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Will Collison with wife & children leaving Metlakatla to catch steamship en route to England (1910)".