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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.

Photograph is a printed postcard of a group of unidentified men and a dog in front of a rustic building.

Photograph is a printed postcard of a group of unidentified men and a dog in front of a rustic building possibly near Stewart B.C.

Photograph depicts the supply laden canoes of the Bedaux expedition at Pete Toy's bar, taken during the Bedeaux Canadian Sub-Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1934. Original annotation on photograph recto: "River boats on the Peace River". However, this annotation is likely incorrect; if this photograph does depict Pete Toy's bar, the location of the photograph is actually the Finlay River. There may be an error in the original annotation. Also annotated on the back of this print is the code "B-04444" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.

Caption: "Ingenika Mine freight boat"

Photograph depicts a tent and a large pile of metal piping set within a forested landscape in winter.

Photograph depicts the Superior Propane Ltd. tank yard behind Wilkinson Steel Ltd.

Image depicts a sunshine recorder at an uncertain location.

Image depicts the Sunset Theatre in Wells, B.C.

Caption: Travels of a mush-hound during part of 1935. Sunset on ice, two days fromt he mouth of the St. Lawrence, 17th April. Sorry I cannot give you the moon on the ice.

Caption: "The sun sets on 1st day of great adventure. Northward bound!"

Wide angled photograph of a sunset on the waterfront in Prince Rupert. Several buildings are silhouetted in the foreground. Annotation on recto: "Sunset, Prince Rupert, BC No. 4465."

Typed annotation on recto: "Sunset at Stuart Lake, B.C." Hills on shore in midground, sun behind clouds reflected in rippled water.

Image depicts a view of a sunset at an uncertain location, possibly in the Peace River Region.

Photograph depicts Sunny the Sasquatch, a stuffed toy and proposed tourism mascot for British Columbia, posing in a doorway with deputy priemier Grace McCarthy.

Photograph depicts Sunny the Sasquatch, a stuffed toy and proposed tourism mascot for British Columbia, posing with deputy-priemier Grace McCarthy.

Photograph depicts Sunny the Sasquatch, a stuffed toy and proposed tourism mascot for British Columbia, posing in bushes.

Photograph depicts Sunny the Sasquatch, a stuffed toy and proposed tourism mascot for British Columbia, leaning against a tree.

Photograph depicts a sunken whaler with a harpoon gun. A destroyer or, possibly, a corvette was being broken up in the middle background.

Photograph depicts the close up of harpoon guns of a sunken whaler in the Upper Harbour of Victoria.

Photograph depicts block ships sunk to protect booming grounds at Powell River. The ships were former wartime naval vessels.

Photograph depicts seven or more men relaxing near a canvas tent. Some of the men appear to be whittling wood. Long underwear dry on a tent rope and wood smoke drifts past the men and tent to the forest behind.

Photograph depicts a smoking wood fire in the foreground. A man sits in an open canvas tent in the background.