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Item is a photograph of two men and two pack dogs situated next to a cairn on a snowy hill.

Caption: Who would have believed it!! I hope your sister isn't worrying about you. Item is a photograph of a bearded survey crewman standing with axe in hand next to a rocky cairn.

Image depicts a man, possibly Kent Sedgwick, standing next to a monument which states: "In honour of the pioneers of the Ootsa Lake Valley, first settled in 1905." Located somewhere in either the Francois Lake Provincial Park or the Wistaria Provincial Park.

Caption: Monument in Dean Channel to mark the spot where Mackenzie turned back. The first man to cross North America from Atlantic to Pacific. Item is a photograph of an obelisk on a rocky outcrop.

Caption: Monument in Dean Channel to mark the spot where Mackenzie turned back. The first man to cross North America from Atlantic to Pacific. Item is a photograph of an obelisk on a rocky outcrop.

Photograph depicts a figure with two heads standing above stone reading "Here lies the last but not the least because He is the last of all his line the [?] Tribe ABEL WARD SOLOMON WARD". Bushes, building, and hill visible in background.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Port Simpson BC".

Photograph depicts Gordon Wyness sitting on a historic boat, which he described as built ca. 1860 and could carry "7 Indians" and 5000 lbs of freight up the river. Located nearby is a telegraph cairn erected to commemorate the Collins Overland Telegraph lines that began in Quesnel in 1865. Until 1907, Quesnel was the terminus for the telegraph line. Behind Wyness is a replica of a Cornish water wheel that was originally located at Williams Creek in Barkerville. This location is now called Ceal Tingley Memorial Park-Heritage Corner and is located along Front Street in Quesnel, near the Fraser River Bridge. The cairn and water wheel still stand in this location, however the boat was removed around 1941.

According to additional information from Quesnel & District Museum & Archives, Wyness may have been provided with inaccurate information about the canoe depicted. The canoe believed to have been located at that spot was actually created in 1905 to pack out the Grand Trunk Preliminary Survey Team, which was led by J.M. Rolston.

Photograph depicts a large carved bear mounted on a tall pole. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Bear at Hankedah".

Photograph depicts a grass covered plateau overlooking a lake at the base of a snow covered mountain range.

Tall monument featuring a man's profile stands in foreground. Base of monument features writing on plaques.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "No. 30 Paul [Segaics?] Monument at Port Simpson".

Item is a photograph of Walter and Skookum Davidson building a station for surveying.

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 A. H. Holland standing beside an international boundary monument.

Photograph provides an overview of the stone monument and inset headstone for Knox McCusker at Layton (?) Flats. Caption on verso reads: “Located at Layton Flats”.

Photograph of a stone monument atop a small hill on a forested shoreline. Annotation on recto reads: "Alexander Mackenzie Monument, Dean Channel, Near Ocean Falls, BC."

Caption: "Monument at Prince George, B.C. to Mackenzie's voyage, post on the Fraser in 1790 on his way to the Pacific."

Statue measures 2.7 metres tall. Town buildings in background.

Image is one of six photographs found with negatives in envelope reading: “‘Campaigning 1979,’ 6 colour negatives enclosed and 2- 4x5 prints (pictured with Bunne Hoffman - editor of Chetwynd Echo (now deceased)), Village of Chetwynd 1949 ?” See also items 2009.6.1.349 - 2009.6.1.354.

Carvings sit among bushes in front of what appears to be a totem pole.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Eagle & whale Monument Tanu".

Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo with a bowed head before the cenotaph monument at the Remembrance Day ceremony in Prince Rupert.

Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo laying a wreath at the cenotaph monument at the Remembrance Day ceremony in Prince Rupert.

Caption: On the way out. Jack Duncan digging for rocks to build [a] cairn.

Item is a photograph of J.R.M. kneeling in front of a cairn surveying station beside two pack dogs.

Photograph depicts the statue of Victory with four horses atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, East Germany. The photograph was taken while on Iona Campagnolo's European sports tour.

Photograph depicts the statue of Victory with four horses atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, East Germany. The photograph was taken while on Iona Campagnolo's European sports tour.

Photograph depicts a Governor Douglas Day event with a RCMP officer and a secondary school band positioned next to a wooden monument.

Item is a photograph of two men standing by a stone cairn, each with packsacks on their backs. One man points while the other man looks in the direction being pointed to.

Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo sitting and talking with a group of unidentified Chinese delegates and others in her Ottawa office. Campagnolo's back is to the camera. A statue of a howling wolf is on the center table, and First Nations art is visible in the background.

Caption: Mt. McConachie named in honour of my pilot. F.C. Swannell, B.C.L.S., D.L.S., Instrument: Wild Theodolite reading to seconds. Frank on the job its self. Wall is for wind break, then we use the stones for the cairn. It's a toque not a night cap.

This statue of a bird, most likely a Canadian goose, mounted on marble, was a gift to Minister Iona Campagnolo from Iglooik, which is now in present-day Nunavut. She received this gift during ther 1976 summer visit to the eastern arctic, while in discussion for the Mackenzie Pipeline.

Photograph depicts MP Iona Campagnolo at a Veteran's Day event, likely on November 11, 1975 or 1976 in northern British Columbia. Campagnolo is talking to constituents near a monument to soldiers of World War I, World War II and Korea.

Summary of the diary transcript of Willard Freer, May 1, 1948 to October 29, 1948:

• May 1-27, 1948: Spring at Diamond J Ranch, with supply visits from bush planes
• May 27-June 6, 1948: Trip to Lower Post and preparation for work
• June 7-October 1, 1948: Head packer for the British Columbia-Yukon Boundary Survey
• September 26-October 18, 1948: Return trip to Diamond J Ranch
• October 18-29, 1948: Diamond J Ranch

Summary of the diary transcript of Willard Freer, April 1, 1946 to September 30, 1947:

• March 27-April 15, 1946: Fort St. James, working with Hendry Kinniburgh
• April 15-May 3, 1946: Took the Greyhound bus from Prince George to southern BC to visit family (Keremeos, Penticton, Cawston)
• May 3-5, 1946: Travelled with family to Wenatchee, Washington to see a flower show
• May 6-11, 1946: Returned with family to Cawston, BC
• May 12-14, 1946: Return trip north to Fort St. James on the Greyhound bus via Keremeos, Ashcroft, Quesnel, and Prince George
• May 15-28, 1946: Preparing for summer work in Fort St. James
• May 28-September 4, 1946: Departed from Fort St. James for employment with Emil Bronlund and the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co., packing through the Omineca District up to Thutade Lake
• September 9-October 25, 1946: Return trip to Diamond J Ranch
• October 26, 1946-May 27, 1947: Diamond J Ranch
• May 27-June 17, 1947: Travel to the British Columbia-Yukon Boundary Survey and preparations for work
• June 18-October 11, 1947: Head packer for the British Columbia-Yukon Boundary Survey

Summary of the diary transcript of Willard Freer, January 1, 1948 to December 31, 1949:

• May 1-27, 1948: Spring at Diamond J Ranch, with supply visits from bush planes
• May 27-June 6, 1948: Trip to Lower Post and preparation for work
• June 7-October 1, 1948: Head packer for the British Columbia-Yukon Boundary Survey
• September 26-October 18, 1948: Return trip to Diamond J Ranch
• October 18, 1948-April 21, 1949: Diamond J Ranch
• April 23-May 19, 1949: Freer spent time working around his cabin site
• May 19-September 26, 1949: Prepared for surveying as head packer for the British Columbia-Yukon Boundary Survey
• September 26-October 15, 1949: Return trip to Diamond J Ranch
• October 15-25, 1949: Return trip to Freer's cabin
• October 25-December 31, 1949: Freer at his cabin

"The Asbestos Sheet" is a newspaper that documents the community and work life of the residents of Cassiar BC. Content includes text and photographs, as well as jokes, comics, and games.

"The Asbestos Sheet" is a newspaper that documents the community and work life of the residents of Cassiar BC. Content includes text and photographs, as well as jokes, comics, and games.

"The Asbestos Sheet" is a newspaper that documents the community and work life of the residents of Cassiar BC. Content includes text and photographs, as well as jokes, comics, and games.

"The Asbestos Sheet" is a newspaper that documents the community and work life of the residents of Cassiar BC. Content includes text and photographs, as well as jokes, comics, and games.

"The Asbestos Sheet" is a newspaper that documents the community and work life of the residents of Cassiar BC. Content includes text and photographs, as well as jokes, comics, and games.

"The Asbestos Sheet" is a newspaper that documents the community and work life of the residents of Cassiar BC. Content includes text and photographs, as well as jokes, comics, and games.

"The Asbestos Sheet" is a newspaper that documents the community and work life of the residents of Cassiar BC. Content includes text and photographs, as well as jokes, comics, and games.

"The Asbestos Sheet" is a newspaper that documents the community and work life of the residents of Cassiar BC. Content includes text and photographs, as well as jokes, comics, and games. (Note: Page seven is missing from this issue)

File consists of the following materials:

• Letter to Vernon C. Brink from the National Archives of Canada re: Knox McCusker holdings (March 1, 1999)
• Photocopy of article: "Living Landscapes: Exploring the wilds of northeaster BC" by Ross Peck and Brian Apland
• Some materials for an article on Knox McCusker, D.L.S.
• Material about the life of Knox Freeman McCusker
• Letter to Mrs. Rutherford (Oct. 5, 1999) re: access to interview of Knox McCusker by Frank Willis
• Accession information print-out re: interview of Knox McCusker by Frank Willis in 1954
• National Archives of Canada accession information print-out re: Dominion Land Surveyor Diaries, 1881-1930
• Mary Henry / Knox McCusker "Team" (April 19, 1998)
• Letter to Mrs. Rutherford from George Ungar re: background information on Knox McCusker

File contains diagrams of areas to be salvaged in the Aleza lake Research Forest and pre-harvest silviculture prescription reports from Northwood Pulp and Timber Limited.

"The Asbestos Sheet" is a newspaper that documents the community and work life of the residents of Cassiar BC. Content includes text and photographs, as well as jokes, comics, and games.

"The Cassiar Courier" is a newspaper that documents the community and work life of the residents of Cassiar BC. Content includes text and photographs, as well as jokes, comics, and games.