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The following Excel files are the primary lab reports from the Ministry of Forests analytical laboratory. At the time of this study, the lab reports would only use a minimal sample identification consisting of a sequential number (1, 2 … etc.) for each sample in a job. The submitter had to maintain their own records to link that sequential number in the report to something more meaningful – in this case, the tag number on the litterbag, the litter type, and the plot number – as recorded in my consolidated file Kenneth Creek Litterbag Sample Numbering.xlsx

• T458FINL.xls [Most of the data in this file – samples 7-31 – are for litter trap samples in the fall 1997 collection, but the first 6 are triplicate analyses of the initial pine needle litter materials used in the litterbags: #1-3 are Control, and #4-6 are ON2.]
• T483FINL.xls [Litterbags recovered May 5, 1998]
• T508FINL1.xls [Samples 19-42 are from the Kenneth Creek litterbags, recovered Oct. 20, 1998; samples 1-18 are from the EP 1148 (Bobtail) litterbag experiment, recovered Oct. 1998]
• T551FINL.xls [Litterbags recovered April 30, 1999]
• T589F.xls [Litterbags recovered October 12, 1999]
• T613FINL.xls [Litterbags recovered May 4, 2000]
• T650FINL.xls [Litterbags recovered October 11, 2000]
• T700FINL.xls [Litterbags recovered September 27 – October 5, 2001]
• T765FINL.xls [Litterbags recovered September 21, 2002]
• T830FINL.xls [Litterbags recovered October 15, 2003]
• T901FINL.xls [Litterbags recovered October 1, 2004]

Two files contain the complete records of initial litter materials and recovered litterbag contents, with some limited summaries of mean values by treatment and recovery date:

• BowDcomp.xls [complete record of weights of recovered litterbag contents in “Raw Data” tab]
• Bowron Litterbag Chemistry (update Aug 2010).xls [complete compilation of chemical analyses of initial and recovered litterbag materials]

Includes the following data sets from Kenneth Creek installation litterfall collection:

Traps were emptied 3 times per year (May, August, October) and the weights of the sorted contents of each trap were reported for each collection interval in these files:

• BOWAUG95.XLS
• BOWOCT95.XLS
• BOWMAY96.XLS
• BOWAUG96.XLS
• BOWOCT96.XLS
• BOWMAY97.XLS
• BOWAUG97.XLS
• BOWOCT97.XLS
• BOWMAY98.XLS
• BOWAUG98.XLS
• BOWOCT98.XLS
• BOWMAY99.XLS

Sorted litter trap materials – composited for each plot and sampling date – were submitted annually to the Ministry of Forests and Range Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for analysis. The following files provide the link between the sequential sample numbers used in the lab result reports and the records of sampling date, plot number, and material type:

• BOW95LIS.xls
• BOW96LIS.xls
• BOW97LIS.xls
• BOW98LIS.XLS
• BOW99LIS.XLS

The following files have the original lab reports in the “Raw Data” pane, and the lab data merged with the sample identification information in the “Labelled” pane:

• T368finl (May -Oct 1995).xls [August & October 1995 litter collections]
• T384finl (Oct 1995-May 1996).xls [May 1996 litter collection]
• T424finl (May-Oct 1996).xls [August & October 1996 litter collections]
• T442finl (Oct 1996-May 1997).xls [May 1997 litter collection; sample numbers shown in red indicate small samples, so micronutrient data may have lower accuracy]
• T458finl (May-Aug 1997.xls [August 1997 litter collection; samples #1-6 are the initial pine needle litter materials used in the companion litterbag decomposition experiment, with #1-3 = Control, #4-6 = ON2]
• T463finl (Aug-Oct 1997).xls [October 1997 litter collection]
• T488FINL (Oct 1997-May 1998).xls [May 1998 litter collection]
• T518finl (May-Aug 1998).xls [August 1998 litter collection]
• T530finl (Aug-Oct 1998).xls [October 1998 litter collection]
• T568FINL (Oct 1998-May 1999).xls [May 1999 litter collection]

Four files have annual summaries of litterfall amounts, element concentrations, and element fluxes by plot and treatment:

• Litterfall Summary 1995-96.xls
• Litterfall Summary 1996-97.xls
• Litterfall Summary 1997-98.xls
• Litterfall Summary 1998-99.xls

More compact tabular summaries of the litterfall and element fluxes over the 4-year period of monitoring are in:

• Litterfall Annual Flux Summary.xls
• Litterfall Annual Fluxes 1995-99 (Tables).xls

Three additional files provide pine foliar chemical data and preliminary estimates of the extent of element retranslocation from foliage prior to litterfall:

• Kenneth Creek (EP886.13) foliar data (1993-99) .xlsx
• Kenneth Creek nutrient retranslocation.xls
• Autumn foliage & needle litter comparison.xls

Includes the following data sets:

• 084996.CSV [whole-rock elemental analyses for < 2 mm fractions of C horizon of Kenneth Creek (KC) ( = “Bowron”) reference pedon; also includes data for C horizon of Holy Cross (HC) pedon related to E.P. 886.15 documented in https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/Docs/Tr/Tr020.htm ]
• 99-479ps.xls [particle size analysis (pipette method) data for plot composites of 1999 mineral soil samples by 0-20 cm and 20-40 cm depths]
• Kenneth Creek Db (1999).xls [bulk density data for 2 sampling locations per subplot = 8 per plot; cores collected at 10-14 cm (U) and 30-34 cm (L) depths]
• EP886.13 (Kenneth Ck) Db data.xls [provides additional detail on fine fraction and total bulk density along with plot and treatment means]
• Kenneth Creek pedon Db (2005).xls [bulk density data collected from the same pit where the “Bowron” pedon was sampled for Arocena and Sanborn (1999)]

The 1996 chemical data for forest floor and mineral soil (0-15 cm) are in:

• D96MIN1.xls
• D96MIN2.xls
• D96FOR1.xls
• D96FOR2.xls
  [In the “Installation” column, 1 = Sheridan Creek and 2 = Kenneth Creek.]

Consolidated versions of the 1996 data:

• EP886.13 Mineral Soil Chemistry (1996).xls
• EP886.13 Forest Floor Chemistry (1996).xls

The forest floor mass / area data are given in:

• Kenneth Creek 1999 Forest Floor Mass.xls
• Kenneth Creek 2005 forest floor mass.xls

Comparison of the 1999 and 2005 forest floor mass data is given by:

• Kenneth Creek 1999-2005 Forest Floor Mass Comparison.xls

The original laboratory data reports for 1999 identified the samples only with a sequential lab sample number (1-72). The complete sample identifications showing the lab sample number, plot, and sub-plot are in 1999 Soil Sample Lists.xls. For the 2005 samples, the laboratory data reports contain the complete identifying information.

• S370finl.xls [1999 mineral soil 0-20 cm]
• S371finl.xls [1999 mineral soil 20-40 cm]
• S375finl2.xls [1999 forest floor]
• S821finl.xls [2005 mineral soil 0-20 cm]
• S822finl.xls [2005 mineral soil 20-40 cm]
• S824finl.xls [2005 forest floor]

More complete versions of the soil chemical data with plot and treatment means, including calculations of elemental mass / hectare by plot and treatment (for 1999 only), are given in:

• EP886.13 Forest Floor Chemistry (1999).xls
• EP886.13 Mineral Soil Chemistry (1999) 0-20 cm.xls
• EP886.13 Mineral Soil Chemistry (1999) 20-40 cm.xls
• EP886.13 Forest Floor Chemistry (2005).xls
• EP886.13 Mineral Soil Chemistry (2005) 0-20 cm.xls
• EP886.13 Mineral Soil Chemistry (2005) 20-40 cm.xls

Calculations of carbon mass by plot and treatment (1999 only) are given in:

• EP886.13 Forest Floor Mass and Carbon Content (1999).xls
• EP886.13 Mineral Soil Carbon Content and Mass(1999).xls

Nutrient pools (kg/ha) are summarized by treatment (1999 only) in:

• Kenneth Creek Nutrient Pools Summary (1999).xls

Includes the following data sets:

• LOGLBIOM.XLS [element concentrations for diameter classes of branches and bole cookies of sample living trees, Log Lake LTSPS site]
• Log Lake Biomass Nutrient Summary (1996).xls [mean values for element concentrations by species and diameter class]
• Skulbiom.xls [element concentrations for diameter classes of branches and bole cookies of sample living trees, Skulow Lake LTSPS site]
• Skulow Lake Biomass Nutrient Summary (1996).xls [mean values for element concentrations by species and diameter class]
• Toplbiom.xls [element concentrations for diameter classes of branches and bole cookies of sample living trees, Topley LTSPS site]
• Topley Biomass Nutrient Summary (1996).xls [mean values for element concentrations by species and diameter class]

File contains the following data sets:

• S1292Final.xlsx [chemical analysis data for mineral horizons, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory]
• S1293Final.xlsx [chemical analysis data for organic horizons, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory]
• B299530-R2013-02-18_15-47-21_N001.xls [particle size analysis data for mineral horizons, Maxxam Laboratories]
• B299530-R2013-02-18_15-47-21_R014.pdf [particle size analysis data for mineral horizons, Maxxam Laboratories]
• Northern Rockies 2012 sample list - Maxxam.xls [list of samples submitted to Maxxam Laboratories for particle size analysis; indicates which samples needed carbonate removal pretreatment]
• N Rockies 2012 - master data file.xlsx [working copy of combined chemical and particle size data in report format]

Footage of a man filleting a fish on an ocean-going boat.

Footage of ducks on a lake and a sunset through trees.

Location of filming is unknown.

Footage of a lake shore and a dog, Suzie, retrieving an object from the lake. There is footage of a fish flipping around on the ice and another shot a fish swimming under the lake ice. There are also a recording of a white weasel climbing a tree

It is speculated that location of this film is either Anahim Lake or Fenton Lake.

Footage of a large caribou bull in what is believed to be the Rainbow Mountains.

Footage of Bill Baker performing catch and release fly fishing in possibly the Bella Coola River or the Dean River for cutthroat trout.

Footage of Dr. Triffenhagen putting mill eggs as bait on a hook for fishing. Speculated locations include the Bella Coola River or the Dean River.

Footage of steelhead salmon jumping in river channel. The location is unknown.

Footage of a pack train in the high country, which is likely an upper valley of the mountain foothills. Probable locations of this footage include Holt homestead, Rainbow Mountains or Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.

Data sets associated with the Arocena & Sanborn 1999 regional soil mineralogy study:

• S234FINL.XLS [data report for mineral horizons from MoF Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, June 20 1996]
• S235FINL.XLS [data report for organic horizons from MoF Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, June 20 1996]
• SAMPLIST.XLS [conversion table for sample numbers used in MoF lab data reports]
• Fe Al extractions.xlsx [assembled from lab data report by L. Arocena for oxalate & dithionite extractions; pyrophosphate extraction data from MoF lab]
• MINSTUDY.XLS [consolidated lab data for organic & mineral horizons, except for BaCl2 exchangeable cations]
• MINCEC.XLS [BaCl2 exchangeable cations & Morgan’s extraction for organic & mineral horizons]
• Soilcon_96-016_particle size_scan0178.pdf [particle size analysis data from Soilcon Laboratories; sample numbers correspond to those given in SAMPLIST.XLS; note that the first 12 samples identified as “Plot 1 … Plot 12” were from a different study (0-20 cm mineral soil composites from E.P. 1185)]

Handwritten ethnological notes concerning locations and dialects of Chilcotin, Carrier, Sekani, and "Nah-anes" peoples.

Reports as follows: Number 2. Report of the Exploration from Quesnal to Lake Tatla, via Natla and Nakosla, by Major Frank L. Pope. 1865. Title page, map, and pages 1-36. (Pages 15-17: Indian tribes; pages 32-36: vocabulary of "Siccany" (Sekani) tribe, living n. w. of Lake Tatla.) Number 3. Report of the British Columbia and Stekine Exploring Expedition, by Major Frank L Pope. 1866. Title page and pages 1-42. (Pages 27-28: Indian tribes; pages 29-30, Trading with Indians.) Number 4. Report of the Lake Babine and Skeena River Exploration, by Captain James L. Butler. 1866. 19 pages. Number 5. Report of the Atnah & Northern Explorations, by Captain J. Trimble Rothrock. 1866. 10 pages. Number 6. Report of Provisions Expended by the Stekine Exploring party; and proposed plan of an exploration from the Stekine to the Youkon, by George Blenkinsop. 1866. 8 pages, including map.

Swanton, John Reed. “Materials relating to the Haida.” [1898?]. Manuscript 4117-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Wyld, James. "Map of the Colony of New Caledonia and the British & American Territory West of the Rocky Mountains including Vancouvers Island and the Gold Fields" by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen & the Prince Consort, Charing Cross East & 2 Royal Exchange, London, July 16, 1858.

Pope, Frank L. “Sketch Map Showing the Proposed Route of the Western Union Telegraph Between Fort Frazer and the Stekine River, British Columbia. From exploration by the party under the command of Maj. Frank L. Pope Ass’t Engineer, 1866.

Mckay, Joseph William. "Recollections of a chief trader in the Hudson's Bay Company." 1878 Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley. BANC MSS P-C 24.

Details from Bancroft Library:
McKay came from Canada to Fort Vancouver in the Hudson's Bay Company service in 1844. Describes disturbed conditions in the old Oregon country, in consequence of the American influx; duties in 1845-1846 escorting British officers; visit to San Francisco and Hawaii in 1846 on Company business; Frémont's activities; experiences in charge of Fort Simpson, 1846-1849; relations with the Russian American Company and Indians of the Northwest Coast; duties on Vancouver Island, 1850; discovery of gold on Queen Charlotte Island, 1851, and of coal at Bellingham Bay, 1853; life at Fort Simpson during the Crimean War. Includes typed transcript. (21p. )

Chismore, George. "Record of travel from Skeena Mouth to Peace River mines." George Chismore Papers. 1871-1900. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley. BANC MSS 81/24p.

Details from Bancroft Library:
Include: journal of journey to Peace River Mines, British Columbia, June-Dec. 1871, with descriptions of mines and mining, encounters with Indians, and an account of performing surgery on an injured miner; eleven journals, 1883-1893, primarily of hunting trips to Rogue River, Oregon, and one journal of trip to Siskyous, with descriptions of wilderness, life in hunting camp, account of associations with black ex-slave woodsman-hunter of Rogue River area; journal of trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, June-Sept. 1898, with descriptions of museums, churches, palaces, impressions of life in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other European cities; journal of trip to Panama, Jan.-March 1900; collection of speeches to Bohemian Club; collection of his poems, ca. 1897. Also includes articles about Chismore's medical career. (32p.)

Chismore, George. "Log-book of a trip among the Siwash of British Columbia." George Chismore Papers. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley. BANC MSS P-K 219.

Details from Bancroft Library:
Logbook of "a trip among the Siwash of British Columbia" (August 31-September 28, 1866), on the way to join, as surgeon, the Western Union Telegraph Company's expedition for the Russian Extension; record of a hunting trip to Old Tongass, March 3-9, 1870, and of a prospecting trip in British Columbia, June 25-July 20, 1870; a paper read before the Geographical Society of the Pacific in 1881, "From the Nass to the Skeena [Stikine]." An obituary clipping relates to Dr. Chismore's practice of medicine in San Francisco after 1873. (25p.)

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.)

Cooper, James. “Maritime matters on the Northwest Coast and affairs of the Hudson’s Bay company in early times.” 1878. Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley. BANC MSS P-C 6.

Details from Bancroft Library:
Describes his maritime service with the Hudson's Bay Company from 1844, and the early development of Victoria and Vancouver Island. Primarily an account of the Hudson's Bay Company control over the region and the evolution of local and provincial government.
(32p.)

File consists of thin section micrograph images from the Boreal Cordilleran grassland soils study (2007 & 2008).

File contains the following data sets:

• S925finl.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for pedons Y07-06 & Y07-07; also includes data for BC07-03 & BC07-04 (Boreal Cordillera grassland soils – see associated file note)]
• S1007finl_revised2.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for pedons Y07-06 & Y07-07: oxalate & dithionite extractions, P retention; also includes P retention data for Nazko pedons BC07-07 & BC07-09]
• CANTEST lab report 90206003.pdf [particle size analyses for Klutan Glacier pedons Y07-06 & Y07-07; also Tuya pedons BC07-03 & BC07-04 &]

File contains the following data sets:

• BC & Yukon 2008 soils data – compiled.xls [combined chemical & physical data for BC08-06, Y08-39, Y08-41, Y08-43]
• S925finl.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for pedons BC07-03 & BC07-04; also includes data for Y07-06 & Y07-07 (Klutlan Glacier – see associated file note)]
• S979finl(revised) – PS edits.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for BC08-06, Y08-39, Y08-41, Y08-43]
• S994finl_revised.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for BC07-04 (CaCO3-equiv, total & inorganic C, pyrophosphate, oxalate & dithionite extractions) & selected horizons from BC07-07 & BC07-09 (Nazko basaltic soils))
• CANTEST lab report 91010076.pdf [particle size analyses for BC08-06, Y08-39, Y08-41, Y08-43]
• CANTEST lab report 90206003.pdf [particle size analyses for Tuya pedons BC07-03 & BC07-04 & Klutan Glacier pedons Y07-06 & Y07-07]

This 3.5" floppy contains the following EP 1148 .TXT data sets from 1995-1997:

• sbsapc.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce" Intact soil cores
• sbsbd.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce" Bulk density mineral soil 0-20cm
• sbsffc.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, Sub-boreal Spruce" SBS forest floor bulk density and mass3
• sbsfc.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, Sub-boreal spruce" SBS forest floor chemistry
• sbsmc.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, Sub-boreal Spruce sites" SBS mineral soil chemistry
• sbskgff.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-boreal spruce zone" SBS forest floor nutrient mass in kg/ha
• sbskgmm.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-boreal spruce" SBS mineral nutrient mass in kg/ha
• sbsom.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, SBS" "SBS bole-only treatment, slash levels"
• sbscr.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-boreal spruce zone" Timber cruise of initial stands
• sbshtcr.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, SBS" Age vs height curves - pretreatment data (mature stand)
• sbssi.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce zone" Carmean estimates of site indices for initial stand
• sbstr.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce" Tree measurements

This 16mm film of Eagle Lake Sawmills was produced by Torajiro Sasaki in July 1952, likely commissioned or with permission from the sawmill owners, the Spurs. The film depicts logging and sawmilling operations at the Eagle Lake Sawmill, as well as shots of the bunkhouses, exterior shots of the mill, and the beehive burner. Employees of the mill are shown at work. In 1952, Eagle Lake Sawmill used both machinery and horses in their operations.

Data set consists of lab data for sites Y04-01 to Y04-04. Original data set created in 2004; an update was provided in March 2023 but horizon designations were not updated to be consistent with the paper.

File contains the following data sets:

• Phytolith contents.xls [phytolith content in 5-20 µm silt, tallied by morphological categories; also summarized as % of total soil fine (< 2 mm) fraction]
• M-K (2001) soil LOI data.pdf [LOI (loss-on-ignition) data for sampled soil horizons – proxy measurement for organic matter content]

File contains the following data sets:

• S300FINL.XLS [Ministry of Forests lab data report: non-woody forest floor components]
• S301FINL.XLS [Ministry of Forests lab data report: woody forest floor components]
• 660FF97.xls [non-woody and woody forest floor components: mass / unit area (corrected to oven-dry basis)]
• BUCKLIST.xls [table showing internal sample numbers corresponding to lab sample numbers used in MoF lab reports]

File contains the following data sets:

• Archie Site Tree Data.xls [diameter (dbh) and basal area of trees within and overhanging plots]
• Archie Site non-woody forest floor properties (1995).xls [non-woody forest floor chemical properties – individual sample results & plot means]
• Archie Site woody forest floor component properties (1995).xls [total C, N & S concentrations, pool sizes for woody forest floor components]
• Archie Site mineral soil properties (1995).xlsx [0-20 cm mineral soil chemical properties – individual sample results & plot means]
• Archie Site forest floor mass (1995).xlsx [mass per unit area of non-woody & woody forest floor components, corrected to oven-dry basis]
• S221FINL.xls [MoF lab data report: non-woody forest floor components]
• S222FINL.xls [MoF lab data report: woody forest floor components]
• S251FINL.xls [MoF lab data report: 0-20 cm mineral soil]

File consists of the following data sets:

• Kluane crust Min N (2003) S671FINL.xls [mineralizable nitrogen for biological soil crusts & upper mineral soil, 2003 samples]
• Kluane Crust samples (2004) moisture contents.xls [moisture content of air-dry 2004 crust samples from Peninsula & Silver City sites; sampling procedures & locations in Marsh et al. (20060]
• Kluane Soil Crusts (2004) chemical analyses.xls [consolidated file of chemical data for 2004 crust samples from Peninsula & Silver City sites]
• Kluane 2003 soil & crust 15N data.xls [15N natural abundance, total N, organic & inorganic C for 2003 crust & upper mineral soil samples]
• Kluane 2003 soil data.xlsx [consolidated file of chemical data for 2003 crust and mineral horizon soil samples]
• Kluane Crust 2004 total C & N data.xls
• Kluane AMS dates (2003-2008 charcoal samples).xls [radiocarbon dates from the University of Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Lab]
• Kluane soil transect - texture data.xls [2009 soil particle size analysis data, with potential lithological breaks highlighted]
• Kluane surveys 2009.xls [topographic surveys for 3 soil transects cutting across eskers along Cultus Bay Rd., SE shore of Kluane L.]
• S1061_1069_Final_Rev1.xls [lab data report from Ministry of Forests Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for 2009 transect samples: total C, inorganic C, & total N]
• 100812003 (annotated) -corrected.xls [2009 transect samples: particle size analysis data report from CANTEST]
• Kluane soil transect - master data file.xls

Audio recording is of an interview by Bridget Moran with both Mr. George Henry and Mr. Arnold Davis to discuss their memories of the early town site development of South Fort George and Central Fort George c.1910-c.1917. Mr. Henry was born in 1882 and his family arrived in Quesnel in 1909. Mr. Henry’s interview is primarily about his work as a captain on the BX Sternwheeler up until the time of the railroad arriving in Prince George in 1914. Mr. Davis, who was a Sherriff in Prince George, recalls his childhood memories of Fort George and Central Fort George c.1917. Mr. Davis also discusses his family roots from Ireland, the family’s arrival in Fort George from Ashcroft in 1917 and memories of his father who worked on the sternwheelers on the Fraser River.

Audiocassette Summary

Scope and Content:
Interview with Mr. George Henry

Mr. Henry was born in 1882 in Northern California and his family came to the Cariboo in 1909. He recalls riding his bicycle from Ashcroft to Quesnel in 3 days to find work with the BC Express Company.

Mr. Henry recalls working on the BX and describes the sternwheeler trip from Quesnel to South Fort George; it was a 3 hour trip from Quesnel and included two mail stops ;
Henry recalls an accident onboard the sternwheeler going through the Fraser Canyon (see p.p.11-12 of
Prince George Remembered)

Mr. Henry describes his homestead at South Fort George

Mr. Henry describes the BX sternwheeler being aground at South Fort George c.1920

Mr. Henry recalls spending winters in South Fort George in his log cabin; that work was “plentiful” in 1910 and the population at “about 700”
Mr. Henry notes that the “Indian reserve was at the Hudson’s Bay company” and that the native population was at “about 50”

Mr. Henry recalls the early commercial businesses in South Fort George c.1910 including the Northern Hotel; the candy store and ice cream store and theatre.

Mr. Henry describes the start of the town site of Central Fort George as a “viable little town” which started once the Grand Trunk Railway arrived and recalls the change in population between South Fort George & Central Fort George.

Henry recalls how all the workers came and lived in tents in Central Fort George.

Mr. Henry was not happy about the arrival of the railway as it meant he lost his job on the sternwheeler – he recalls that “us old river rats were just lost” (see p.p.34 of Prince George Remembered)

Bridget then asks Mr. Arnold Davis to recall his memories of early South Fort George
But first asks him to describe his family’s roots (See p.p. 1-2 of Prince George Remembered)

Scope and Content:
Interview with Mr. Arnold Davis

Davis notes he is 6th generation Canadian; family came from Ireland and his grandfather’s brother Jeff Davis became the President of the Confederate States of America.
Davis refers to his mother’s family being on the Prairies at time of the trial of Louis Riel

Davis explains that his grandfather first homesteaded at Banff; then Kamloops; then Ashcroft and on to South Fort George in 1917.

Davis’ father worked for the BC Express Company and he recalls being on the sternwheeler as a child during same time that George Henry worked the boats. Recalls workers on the boat; eating pie on the boat baked by the Chinese cook; (See p. 33 of Prince George Remembered)

Davis recalls the town site of South Fort George. He notes it had a population by 1917 of only “about 300” and that the “boom was over”

Davis describes location of various businesses in South Fort George including the Rex Theatre, George St. Poole Room, McKay Bros. Grocery store, Drugstore, Bairds, Peters Butcher Shop.

Davis recalls that there were many “Yukoners” here at the time and recalls a tale about an old Yukoner

Mr. Davis recalls other people who worked on the BX with his father including Margaret “Granny” Seymour’s father;

Mr. Davis recalls riding up and down the river to Foley’s Cache on the sternwheeler as a child
Mr. Henry then speaks up and recalls trips on the sternwheeler with Arnold Davis on the boat as a child

Tape ends

Audio recording consists of individual taped interviews conducted by Bridget Moran with a number of early Fort George residents recalling the early years of white settlement in Prince George c.1910-c.1915. Interviews were conducted with the following individuals: Arnold Davis; J.A.F. Campbell; Alec Moffat; Claude Foot; George Henry; Nellie Law; John McInnis; Georgina [McInnis] Williams and Peter Wilson. These interviews were incorporated into the publication: Bridget Moran, Prince George Remembered…from Bridget Moran, Marsh Publishing, Prince George, 1996.

Audiocassette Summary
Scope and Content:Recording consists of individual taped interviews conducted by Bridget Moran in a number of locations with Arnold Davis; J.A.F. Campbell; Alec Moffat; Claude Foot; George Henry; Nellie Law; John McInnis; Georgina [McInnis] Williams; Peter Wilson

Subjects include:

• Arnold Davis – former Sherriff in Prince George (born in 1882) arrived in Quesnel in 1909 and worked on the BX sternwheeler. Davis discusses his family roots from Ireland as a 6th generation Canadian. Recalls how his family arrived in South Fort George in 1917 and how his father worked on boats that went up and down Fraser River
• Claude Foot recalls coming from New Zealand to Fort George [Prince George] in 1906 and how there were ‘very few white men’; his father was Irish, mother was English
• Alex Moffat – describes how his parents provided a ‘stopping place’ for stage coaches in the Cariboo region
• George Henry recalls working on the boats that plied the Fraser River between Prince George and Soda Creek, near Quesnel
• Nellie Law – describes arriving from England in 1917 to Ashcroft and then Quesnel in 1917
• Peter Wilson – Barrister and Solicitor; the prosecutor for Prince George since 1916 describes arriving by train from Edmonton and arriving on a scow in South Fort George
• Mr. John McInnis – from Prince Edward Island, who sat twice in provincial legislature – in constituency of Grand Forks as socialist and later for constituency of Fort George recalls arriving in 1910 by rail to Kamloops and then by sleigh to South Fort George; describes the Indian Reserve at Fort George “[…don’t think there were a dozen white people…when I arrived […]”
• J.A. ‘Doc’ Campbell recalls being part of a survey crew in Fort George in 1908
• George Henry – also recalls cruising down the [Fraser] river by way of sternwheeler and losing men overboard
• Peter Wilson recalls experiences as practicing lawyer; there was no assize court in the region until 1919; recalls some of his early cases [murder case]
• Nellie Law describes working as a desk clerk at first The Alexandra Hotel and later The Prince George Hotel from 1918 to 1952
  Law describes the hotel patrons and how she met the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire in 1922. Recalls stoking furnace with logs in the hotel to keep it warm and working as a bouncer
• Alex Moffat – recalls workers and hauling freight via the old Cariboo Road; existence of one policeman only (BC Provincial Police); and describes in detail a stopping place for horses / crew on the Cariboo Road and the pack trains.
• Mr. Moffat – Describes the luxury experienced on the sternwheeler, The BX that “could carry seventy saloon passengers” and “staterooms were all equipped with push buttons, electric lights, hot and cold water, steam heat, and everything modern”
• Claude Foot – Recounts a dance in Quesnel at the hotel barroom and describes ordering drinks at the Al Johnson Hotel that had a bar which boasted to be “ the biggest bar in Canada, if not the world” 100 ft + bar with “six or seven bartenders behind this long bar, and the customers would be lined up two or three deep […]”
• J.A. [F.] [Campbell] – post-1910 changes with the use of scows on the Fraser River; describes the BC Provincial Police “in those days [they] just wore ordinary civilian clothes, but they were a tough bunch….[…]” and rowdiness in the bars in South Fort George
• Campbell describes the first bank in Fort George was the Bank of British North America that was housed in a tent and he recalls needing money while playing poker - ‘about eleven o’clock that night, the vault was open, and the till was open, and if you wanted money you’d walk up to the bank till and put an IOU in and take money out and go on playing [poker]
• Peter Wilson – comments about how lax the enforcement of law and order was in the early years including among the police themselves: “that the “Old Blind Nick [who] ran a bootlegging joint, went broke because he said he couldn’t afford to supply the police with any more liquor.”
• Claude Foot – recalls a fire in Quesnel in 1916 that burned a large part of the business section and the firemen were as Nellie Law notes “ a bucket brigade of Chinamen, filling buckets from a water hole in the Fraser River that the horses drank in…”
• John McInnis recalls political meetings and the election in 1916 when he was a candidate for the Fort George riding and being defeated by 7 votes; that the investigation of the election “was a whitewash”
• Georgina McInnis, who was the first White Child born in the community – she tells of the meeting that decided her name – as Fort Georgina McInnis
• Arnold Davis recalls his father working on boats that went up and down Fraser River and being on the boat with him and “watching the connecting rods go in and out and concentrate on pie…[served by the Chinese cook]” Davis also recalls The Yukoners who emigrated to PG after the Gold Rush
• George Henry recalls with lament the coming of the railway as he lost his job plying the River - preferred voyages on the Fraser River – and refers to those who worked the River and himself as “river rats”

Audio recording is of an interview by Bridget Moran with Ken Rutherford, educator and former municipal politician of Swift Current Saskatchewan. Rutherford was an Alderman prior to becoming Mayor of Swift Current from 1944-1952, he ran unsuccessful for the CCF in 1960 and later for the NDP. Rutherford ran for political office in BC in the electoral district of Fort George in 1963 unsuccessfully against Liberal MLA Ray Williston. The interview includes biographical information as well as memories of his career as a school teacher, his political aspirations and involvement with the CCF and later the NDP and the history of medicare in Canada.

Audiocassette Summary

• Rutherford provides genealogical information on grandfather and his mother (her family was from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan)
• Discusses his parent’s marriage
• Recalls schooling in Swift Current, Saskatchewan where he eventually becomes principal
• Rutherford notes he never went to university, but went to Normal School
• Talks about his wife and children
• Donley Hill
• Recalls joining the CCF and distributing pamphlets; recalls 1935 election and CCF getting few votes
• Recalls salary troubles at the school in Swift Current in the 1930s and being both the teacher and janitor
• He was Mayor of Swift Current from 1944-1952; and previously as Alderman and ran for the CCF in the federal election in 1953;
• Recalls spoiled ballots in the election
• Recalls getting involved with the issue of health premium payments in Swift Current c.1940s.
• Recalls the history of the fight for health care in Canada; and strike in Saskatchewan by doctors
• Recalls the national fight for Medicare – 1961
• Discusses Tommy Douglas; Mackenzie King
• Health care issues

In July 2009, Dr. Paul Sanborn undertook the first soils field research at the Fort Selkirk volcanic field in central Yukon, with helicopter support and funding from the Yukon Geological Survey. This file includes the following data sets gathered from the research:

• Ft Selkirk 110114069.xls [particle size analysis data, CANTEST]
• S1090final.xlsx [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory]
• S1112final.xlsx [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory]
• Ft Selkirk 2009 soils data (updated Sept 15, 2010 and April 10, 2023).xls [consolidated lab data for all 2009 samples]

This data set consists of elemental analysis data for selected B horizons from Wounded Moose paleosols sampled by Tarnocai and Smith. The file includes the original ALS lab report, additional panes showing comparison of replicates, and calculation of a weathering index.

During the 1980s, Agriculture Canada pedologists Scott Smith (retired from Summerland Research Station, formerly based in Whitehorse) and Charles Tarnocai (retired from Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa) had a large field program which addressed the trends in soil development in the central Yukon. Across this region, particularly between Whitehorse and Dawson City, the land surfaces and surficial deposits vary greatly in age due to the differing extents of glaciations over the past ~2 million years.

Tarnocai and Smith shared the unpublished data and soil samples from this work with Dr. Paul Sanborn, and this resulted in a student project published as:
Daviel, E., P. Sanborn, C. Tarnocai, and C.A.A. Smith. 2011. Clay mineralogy and chemical properties of argillic horizons in central Yukon paleosols. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 91: 83-93. https://doi.org/10.4141/cjss10067

This data set consists of transcribed data from lab data sheets, showing McQuesten-Dawson City paleosol data from the Tarnocai and Smith 1983 AAFC Yukon Paleosol Study. The data set includes chemical and particle size data for Tarnocai & Smith samples, as determined by the Ag Canada lab. Note that the “Site” column indicates the NTS topographic map sheet (e.g. 115P/13) for the sampling locations.

File consists of a 1973 BC Land Commission photographic slide and audio tape set entitled "Land Commission Act and the Agricultural Reserve Plan" that was used in original public hearings throughout the province. The 80 slides included with the presentation materials were created mostly by Gary Runka. The audio cassette is a recording of the presentation with speakers Bill Lane, BC Land Commission Chair, and Gary Runka, BC Land Commission General Manager.

This "The Land is Yours" film is a promotional film produced by the British Columbia Department of Agriculture in Kelowna, ca. 1968 or 1969. The film was produced by Gary Runka and hosted by Russ Richardson. Runka and Richardson provide commentary throughout the film. The film was directed by Nobert Hartig.

This original film footage clip depicts a Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Trip with Premier Bennett from Vancouver to Prince George in 1958. This is believed to be the beginning part of the inaugural train run of the Pacific Great Eastern (PGE) Railway line into Fort St. John in Oct. 1958. The second part of this clip is believed to be "2017.5.2.5 - Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) "Peace River Special" inaugural train to Fort St. John, 1958".

This original film footage clip depicts a Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Open Passenger Car riding along Seton and Anderson Lakes in British Columbia.