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Photograph depicts the swing span of the road and rail bridge at Mission City, looking upstream from the south bank.

Photograph depicts the CPR swing bridge crossing the Harrison River at Harrison Mills. It is a plate girder bridge carrying a double track. The bridge tender occupied a shanty at the east end of the bridge at mile 68.3 from North Bend. The timetable states that trains may proceed at restricted speed after stopping, if the tender fails to appear after 4 whistle signals and the hone signals show stop.

Photograph depicts a swimming pool at Second Beach in Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. The snow in the foreground is 16 inches deep and there is a gathering snowstorm in the background coming in from the west.

Photograph depicts Clarence Waldof, Henry Waldof, Ethel Waldof, and another woman swimming in Summit Lake.

Photograph depicts two men inspecting dirt at Swiggums' mining claim near Osilinka River.

Item is a copyprint reproduced from the British Columbia Forest Service photographic records held at BC Archives.

Item is a copyprint reproduced from the British Columbia Forest Service photographic records held at BC Archives.

Photograph depicts a view from the water looking toward Swanson's Bay, BC.

Photograph depicts Frank Swannell's party posed to the left of a CF-AAM float plane on a dock at Takla Landing.

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.

Photograph depicts four men moving camping supplies on a wooden raft on the shore of Thutade Lake.

Item is a panoramic photograph of Ingenika Valley.

Item is a panoramic photograph of Swannell Creek.

Item is a panoramic photograph of Swannell Creek.

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.

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".

Caption describing photograph: "Ground vegetation of swamp, ledum, carex and betula. Main Access Road, F.E.S. Aleza Lake."

Photograph depicts many swallows' nests under eaves of unidentified building, window visible beneath.

Photograph depicts a view of a forested valley, a human figure stands on a path in the midground.

Photograph depicts a wide view of Sustut Lake from the west with a heavily forested area on both sides of the lake with a snow-covered mountain range in the background.

Photograph depicts Sustut Lake with forested shoreline on the far edge of the lake and a snow-covered mountain range in the background.

Photograph depicts a shoreline with long grass and trees located along Sustut Lake with a snow-covered mountain range in the background.

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."

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.

Photograph depicts one of the surviving houses on Beach Ave, Vancouver, between Gilford and Chilco.

Photograph depicts two surveyors (Jack Lee, Gordon Wyness, or Philip Monckton) taking bearings from Pineview Station tower east of Prince George. Their surveying transit and telescope are visible in the image.

Photograph depicts a large concrete post with dirt mounded around.

Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "2. Surveyors on No.1 Division of Five Acre Garden Tracts." Photograph depicts four men posing for a photograph within a forested area. Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation.

Unidentfied surveyor standing next to his surveying equipment situated on railroad tracks, makes notes in a hand held notebook.

Caption: Now Jack do you really think you can pole over that riffle (A riffle is a small rapid) If there is anything on a river Jack Adam couldn't do; I'm sure it would be almost imposible to find a man who could.

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.

Item is a photograph of a survey crew on a boat, poling down a river.

Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "15. Surveying 5-acre Garden Tracts at Fort Fraser." Photograph depicts a man holding a rolled map in one hand and a wooden stake in the other, standing in a wooded area. Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation.

Photograph depicts cut alders, a long straight line through the forest.

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.

Caption: Two of our Battle-squadron. Thutade Lake. Item is a photograph of three survey crewmen paddling two rafts to the shores of Thutade Lake. The rafts are laden with supplies.

Photograph depicts five supply laden canoes and several unidentified survey crewmen along a lakeshore.

Item is a photograph of an unidentified survey crewman standing next camp supplies in the snow.

Annotation on recto partially obscured by damage to emulsion: "1930...Write (?) Creek"

Caption: "Getting ready to leave MacLeod Lake, 6:30am, 22nd May 1930"

Photograph is a printed postcard of a group of unidentified men inside a canvas tent possibly near Stewart B.C.

Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.

"Another expression of the high morale which prevailed was a joint project which we pursued after hours, on our own time. Out of one huge spruce log we made a set of furniture using an axe and a crosscut saw. We made chairs, a table and a sofa." -- quote from Cedric W. Walker (1907-2003) in "An Early History of the Research Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range" (p. 48)

Annotation on recto: "Group at Thutade Lake, July 1931". Photograph depicts survey crew gathered around the cook tent and fire. A log cabin is visible in the background.

Caption: "Man and wife, writters [sic] for some travel magaine. Living off the country with a .22; bag so far one squirrel. 300 miles from rail."

Caption: "Coming up the Finlay Rapids on the Peace"

Caption: "Coming up the Finlay Rapids on the Peace"

Part of a set of 41 original black & white photographs [1908-1933-?]) of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway line in BC depicting surveying crews, town sites (Prince Rupert and its port, Hazelton and Fort George), and First Nations Peoples.