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The cook on the summit
2000.13.1.8 · Item · 1939.
Part of Ray Williston fonds

Item is a photograph of Gladys Williston sitting at a campfire during her and Mr. Williston’s Hope to Princeton trek in the summer of 1939.

2001.1.044 · Item · 1 Sept. 1899
Part of NBCA Document and Ephemera Collection

Item is original correspondence from the accountant of the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company to "Messrs. Harvey, Bailey & Co., Ashcroft, B.C." Includes original cover envelope posted 1 Sept. 1899 at the Bullion Post Office located 3 miles southeast of Quesnelle Forks. Also includes an accompanying informational sheet about the company operations and some postal history about the item.

1996.8.1.206 · Item · 1991
Part of Chander Suri fonds

Two copies of "The Complete Street Map of Prince George." Colour maps, printed on both sides. Map produced by The Cariboo Real Estate Board. The map includes legend and b&w pictures.

The CNR in Prince Rupert
2011.3.3.29 · Item · [ca. 1910]
Part of North Coast & Central BC Postcard Collection

Slightly elevated front-facing photograph of a steam engine and cargo coming into a station in Prince Rupert, BC. Coal and lumber yards are visible in the background. Annotation on recto reads: "The C.N.R. Prince Rupert. 79."

2004.1.2.2.6 · Item · ca. 1931
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Item is a group photograph of First Nations men, women and children standing around surveying equipment situated next to Takla Lake. One non-native (Mackenzie?) is kneeling in the foreground with a young child in his arms.

The Cassiar "?" Mar. 1956
2000.1.3.1.001 · Item · 7 Mar. 1956
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

On March 7, 1956 the Cassiar Reporters Guild published one issue of an untitled newspaper simply titled "The Cassiar '?'" (vol.1, no.1) along with a "name that newspaper" contest call out to the local community. It is believed that no other issue of this first volume was published until December 7, 1957 when The Asbestos Sheet (vol.2, no.1) was published. The Asbestos Sheet, was generally published twice a month and ran from December 1957 to September 1976; after which time both its name and its format changed: the 8-1/2 x 10" news bulletin changing to an 11 x 17" newspaper; and The Asbestos Sheet becoming the Cassiar Courier. The Courier was published monthly from fall 1976 until February 1991 when it stopped circulation shortly before the closure of both the mine and the company town.

"The Canadian"
2013.6.36.3.05.10 · Item · [after 1949]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Postcard depicts "Canadian Pacific's all Stainless Stel Scenic Dome Streamliner-"The Canadian"-in the Canadian Rockies."

"The Canadian"
2013.6.36.3.08.01 · Item · [after 1949]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Postcard depicts "VIA Rail Canada Nos. 6456 and 6454 hauling Train No. 1, "The Canadian" between Spences Bridge and Drynoch, British Columbia, on Canadian Pacific's Thompson Subdivision, having been delayed by the need to detour, from its usual route, on Canadian National's Ashcroft Subdivision, seen here across the Thompson River. May 14, 1993."

"The Canada Chart"
2012.13.2.01.07.1 · Item · 1983
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

The Canada Chart depicts Canadian federal and provincial and government information and graphics.

The Bullion Pit
2012.13.1.69.25 · Item · [1981?]
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts the Bullion Pit in Likely, B.C. It is a man-made canyon from the days of the gold-rush, formed by the use of hydraulic monitors. The gold-mine operated from 1892 to 1942.