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Skier in a Costume
2012.13.1.129.05 · Item · 1975
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a skier in a costume with a fake sword, somewhere on the Birchleg Ski route on Tabor Mountain in Prince George, B.C.

Skiing through Trees
2012.13.1.129.08 · Item · 1975
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts numerous skiers cross-country skiing on a trail through trees on the Birchleg Ski route on Tabor Mountain in Prince George, B.C.

Skiing through Trees
2012.13.1.129.07 · Item · 1975
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts numerous skiers cross-country skiing on a trail through trees on the Birchleg Ski route on Tabor Mountain in Prince George, B.C.

Hugh Taylor Jr in Ski Gear
2009.5.1.12 · Item · [ca. 1933]
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a boy believed to be Hugh Taylor Jr wearing skis, goggles, and holding poles. The side of a snow-covered car is visible on left. A house and two wood buildings stand in background in front of trees.

PGE Jordans
2013.6.36.1.045.31 · Item · Sept. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an inspection speeder passing Jordans which was near the Whistler Mountain ski lift.

Start of Birchleg
2012.13.1.129.04 · Item · 1975
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a long line of people cross country skiing along the Birchleg route on Tabor Mountain in Prince George, B.C.

Ranch of the Vikings
2012.13.1.85.32 · Item · [1978?]
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts the ranch house of the Ranch of the Vikings, originally owned and operated by Bjorger Pettersen, a member of the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame, from 1970 until 1985. It is located somewhere west of McBride, B.C.

2008.27.3 · File · 1935-1997
Part of Knox McCusker Collection

File consists of the following items:

  • "Mac" by D.L. Surveyor
  • "Knox (Mac) McCusker: Dominion Land Surveyor" by E.L. Rutherford, V.C. Brink, R.S. Silver and M.Z. (Smokey) Neighbour
  • Excerpts from Men and Meridians by Don W. Thomson
  • Article re: Knox McCusker written on the occasion of his death (April 14, 1955)
  • "McKusker (sic) to open up Blueberry Mountain Area" (Alaska Highway News, June 8, 1950)
  • "McCusker was surveyor, big game guide….also rancher and trail blazer"
  • "Knox Freeman McCusker" written on the occasion of his death (The Canadian Surveyor, July 1955)
  • "Veteran Surveyor - Alaska Highway Stories"
  • Memories of Knox McCusker by his oldest niece Betty (McCusker) Rutherford
  • "Veteran Surveyor prefers horses for long bush treks" by Eric Young (Edmonton Journal)
  • Eulogy for Knox McCusker read by Stanley D. Seif at Burch Presbyterian Church in Fort St. John, B.C.
  • Eulogy for Gwendolyn Dorothy McCusker (July 1997)
  • "Tropical Valley No Myth: amazing story of woman who lived there" by Thomas A. Wayling (Vancouver Sun)
  • Photocopy of section of map: "Topographical sketch map showing route traversed by the Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition 1934 through the Rocky Mountains" (by Frank Swannell, March 27, 1935)
  • Memories of Knox McCusker by Bill McCusker, his oldest nephew
  • "There is always a reason; destiny made it a date. The corridor of the Alcan didn’t just happen" (Fort St. John publication)
  • Article on Knox McCusker (ALS News, Winter 1983)