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File consists of newspaper clippings and reproductions regarding Burns Lake, B.C.

File consists of reproductions of reports, articles, newspapers, and documents containing information about Henry J. Cambie who was employed by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway as a land surveyor in 1867.

File consists of documents pertaining to the life of Rusty Campbell who was a surveyor in B.C. after the first World War; in later years, Campbell was a forestry lecturer. Also includes interviews with Rusty Campbell's brother, Forin "Doc" Campbell. Also contains documents on Campbell's life provided by Mrs. Forin Campbell and transcribed by Audrey L'Heureux, as well as reproductions of surveyor reports, articles, a greeting card, a transcribed interview, correspondence, and a newspaper. Highlights include:

• Mrs. Forin Campbell, "Rusty Campbell", 1977 (biography transcribed by Audrey L'Heureux)
• Reproduction of R. N. Campbell, "Edward 'Red' Tait", [196-??] (magazine article)
• Interview of Forin "Doc" Campbell, [197-??] (interview transcription)
• Interview of Forin "Doc" Campbell in Prince George, 14 Nov. 1977 (interview transcription)
• Fraser Fort George Museum Society, "Museum Mirror" Vol.2 No.2, Feb 1985 (newsletter issue)

This item is the Vol. 2 No. 2 February 1985 issue of the Fraser Fort George Museum Society newsletter titled Museum Mirror. This issue includes a feature on the early days of settlement in British Columbia and an article on Billy and Granny Seymour.

File consists of collected material regarding CN Rail. Includes a Via Rail timetable (1 June 1978) for the Western Transcontinental Services as well as newspaper clippings.

File consists of reproductions of reports, a booklet, and articles pertaining to Canada's military involvement overseas. Highlights include:

• Reproduction of a report by Cyril M. Shelford, "Open Report on Visit to Holland for the 40th Anniversary of Canadian Liberation of Holland", 1985
• Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, "Souvenir of the Campaign in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany 1944-1945", (reproduction of 1945 booklet)
• Cyril and Barbara Shelford, "A War Vet Says Thanks", 1995 (article)

File consists of material relating to the Cariboo District and reproductions of articles and newspaper clippings. Highlights include:

• Reproduction of Isabel M.L. Bescoby, "Some Aspects of Society in Cariboo from it's discovery until 1871", 1932 (booklet)
• "Gold Country '86", a commemorative Expo 86 supplement to the Quesnel Cariboo Observer, 25 June 1986

The Gold Country 86 supplement is a commemorative supplement in the Quesnel Cariboo Observer for Expo 1986.

File consists of calendars, article clippings, and newspapers clippings that relate to the history of automobiles in Canada.

File consists of research material regarding Jean Jacques Caux, known as "Cataline", who was a famous mule packer for the Hudson Bay Company. Materials include a newspaper clipping, notes, and reproductions. Includes Imbert Orchard's 1971 oral history work, "People in Landscape: Track 1 - Stories about the legendary packer Jean Caux (Cataline)".

File consists of newspaper clippings regarding Vanderhoof and its claims of being the geographical centre of the province of British Columbia.

File consists of documents, a newspaper clippings, and summaries surrounding the surrender of the Cheslatta Reserve on April 21, 1952. Highlights include:

• Chief Marvin Charlie, "The Story of the Surrender of the Cheslatta Reserves on April 21", 1952 (document)
• Mike Robertson (compiler), "Ootsa Lake Settlers: Sale of Land to Alcan, 1950-54", 1991 (draft document)
• Cheslatta Band, "Cheslatta Redevelopment Project Executive Summary", [after 1990] (booklet)

File consists of material regarding the archaeological history of British Columbia including newspaper clippings, reproduced articles, a pamphlet, and correspondence. Highlights include:

• Charles E. Borden, "Results of Archaeological Investigations in Central British Columbia", 1950 (article reproduction)
• Roy L. Carlson, "C.E. Borden's Archaeological Legacy", 1979 (article reproduction)
• The Archaeological Sites Advisory Board, "Preserving British Columbia's Prehistory", 1973 (booklet)
• J.H. Sewell, "Archaeological Remains in Central British Columbia", 1950 (article reproduction)

File consists of information on Charles William Digby. Clifford was an Irish-born miner, trader, hotel owner and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cassiar from 1898 to 1903 and Skeena from 1903 to 1907 as a Conservative in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Clifford also a partner in one of the Kitselas mines. Material includes reproductions of articles, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and "Northern B.C. In Retrospect Who's Who" article written by Audrey L'Heureux.

File consists of research collected regarding the Groundhog coalfield, 150 miles north of Hazelton and 95 miles northeast of Stewart. Materials include newspaper clippings, as well as reproductions of maps, mine reports, and an article. Highlights include:

• Fleet Robertson, "The New Coalfield at The Headwaters of the Skeena River: North of Groundhog Mountain", 1912 (reproduction)
• George Hanson, "The Groundhog Coalfield: British Columbia", 1949 (article reproduction)

File consists of collectors guides on antiques and a newspaper clipping. Highlights include:

• Ralph and Terry Kovel, "Family Circle's Pocket Guide to Collectibles", 1987 (booklet)
• Bea Boynton, "A Very Amateur Guide to Antique Bottle Collecting", 1974 (booklet)

File consists of collected research materials regarding Perry McDonough Collins and the Collins Overland Telegraph. Collins was the visionary behind the Russian-American Telegraph of 1865-1867. The failed venture aimed to connect America to Europe by telegraph via the Bering Strait. Materials include newspaper clippings, a book, as well as reproductions of articles, correspondence, and archival material. Highlights include:

• D.A. McGregor, "Through B.C. to Bering Sea-A Dream that Failed" from The Province, 1953 (article reproduction)
• John B. Daniell, "The Collins Overland Telegraph" from the Northwest Digest, 1960 (article reproduction)
• Illustration from Provincial Archives of British Columbia, "Williams Creek from the canyon To middle town (Barkerville)" from a painting by Frederick Whymper, [186?] (print photograph reproduction)
• Reproduction of Corday MacKay, "The Collins Overland Telegraph", 1866 (article reproduction)
• Hon. Homer D. Angell, "Congressional Record: Proceeding and Debates of the 78th Congress, First Session", 1943 (reproduction)
• Article entitled "Collin's Overland Telegraph" by Kathleen Fitzgerald in "The History of the Canadian West" collector's no. 1, 1982 (magazine issue)
• Willard E. Ireland, "The Collins Overland Telegraph", 1866 (article reproduction)

This photograph reprint sourced from the Provincial Archives of British Columbia depicts an illustration of Williams Creek from the canyon to middle town (Barkerville).

This photograph reproduction contact print and negative depicts a Portrait of Perry McDonough Collins.

File consists of entirely of newspaper clippings collected regarding Les Cox who served in World War II under the first Special Service Force designed by Churchill and Roosevelt. Cox is also known for his position as a BC conservation officer for 32 years.

File consists of a 1936 thesis written by Arthur J. Johnson entitled "The Canadian Pacific Railway and British Columbia, 1871-1886" from the University of British Columbia.

File consists of newspaper clippings and a newsletter consisting of information on crop circles. Includes a winter 1998 Prince George Art Gallery newsletter with a feature article entitled "Invision: Crop Circles and Creativity".

File consists of research and newspaper clippings collected on Sir Arthur Curtis surrounding the Klondike Gold Rush and Curtis' mysterious disappearance on the Yukon Trail.

File consists of research materials and correspondence collected regarding Skook Davidson, who was known for being a packer in the Fort St. John area and for being a World War I veteran.

File consists of material regarding George Mercer Dawson who in 1875 joined the Geological Survey of Canada. His survey of BC strongly influenced government decisions on the proposed route of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Dawson was a charter Royal Society of Canada member (1882) and by 1883 was the assistant director of the Geological Survey of Canada. Includes reproductions of reports written by Dawson, articles, and research materials.

File consists of a photocopied newspaper clipping (1934) and a newspaper article transcription (1930) regarding the economic depression in Prince George and northern BC in the 1930s.

File consists of research material regarding David Douglas (25 June 1799 - 12 July 1834), a North American explorer and botanist best known as the namesake of the Douglas fir. Includes photocopied articles and photocopies of his correspondence from an archives.

File consists of research materials regarding Ducks Unlimited. Includes newspaper clippings and a booklet from the Ducks Unlimited Canada Vanderhoof Committee entitled "3nd Annual Banquet" (1987).

File consists of slogans written by Audrey L'Heureux, and collected reproductions of jokes, poetry, and mottos. Includes some jokes that include BC cultural references.

File consists of booklets, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and reports on fishing in British Columbia. Highlights include:

• Government of Canada, "Salmonid Enhancement", [after 1977] (pamphlet)
• Province of British Columbia, "Angling Data Northern British Columbia", 1976 (booklet)
• Sportguide Series Special Interest Supplement to TV Week Family Magazine, "The Salt Chucker", Vol. 2, 1978 (magazine)
• Government of Canada Fisheries and Oceans, "Where and When to See Salmon", 1998 (pamphlet)

File consists of newspaper clippings, reports, agendas, booklets, articles, and a pamphlet regarding fisheries in British Columbia, particularly the impact of the Kemano Completion Project on the Nechako River and other tributaries. Highlights include:

• Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Public Meetings Concerning Kemano Completion, "Agenda", 1984 (reproduction)
• Reproduction of "Presentation by the Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council to a Public Meeting Called by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) on March 2 & 3, 1984 in Vanderhoof, British Columbia"
• Department of Fisheries and Oceans, "Towards a Fish Habitat Decision on the Kemano Completion Project A Discussion Paper", 1984 (booklet)
• Province of British Columbia, "Fraser River Estuary Study", [198-?] (pamphlet)

File consists of photocopied research materials on Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 - July 22, 1915), a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor who promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time. He designed Canada's first postage stamp, produced a great deal of work in the fields of land surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the first several hundred kilometres of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Canadian Institute (a science organization in Toronto).

File consists of research materials regarding forestry in British Columbia. Includes newspaper clippings, booklets, pamphlets, correspondence, photocopied articles, and a proposal on land and resource management of Vanderhoof. Highlights include:

• Vanderhoof Forest District, "Vanderhoof Land and Resource Management Plan: Summary", 1997 (booklet)
• MacMillan Bloedel, "How the forest grows...", 1975 (booklet)
• MacMillan Bloedel, "Enjoying the forest...", 1974 (booklet)
• B.C. Business Magazine, "Forestry in B.C. The Winter Years", 1981 (booklet)
• Province of British Columbia Ministry of Forests, "Integrated Resource Management", [198-?]
• Province of British Columbia Ministry of Forests, "Reforestation: more than 7 seedlings planted every second", 1992 (booklet)
• The Shared Resource, "Our Forests" Vol. 2, 1993 (booklet)
• Plateau Forest Products Ltd., "2000 Forest Development Plan: 2000-2005 Beetle Management", Dec. 1999 (map)

This Slocan Group forestry development plan highlights contributing obstacles to the development like the Pine Beetle infestation.

File consists of reproduced newspaper clippings and articles on the history of forts in British Columbia. Includes a 1982 Parks Canada booklet entitled "Historic, Guide to Canada's National Historic Parks".

File consists of collected research materials regarding Fort Fraser, Fraser Lake, Engen, Endako, and the Endako mine. Includes a Provincial bulletin, postcard, histories of Fort Fraser, correspondence, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings, articles, and an advertisement for Fort Fraser. Highlights include:

• Province of British Columbia Lands Service, "The Fort Fraser-Fort George Bulletin Area", 1967 (booklet)
• Postcard of Fraser Lake, [198-?]
• Don & Sue Rudland, "Welcome to Historic Fort Fraser", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Christero Communications, "Rose Prince of the Carrier Nation", [198-?] (pamphlet)

File consists of research material collected on the history of Fort George including a Provincial bulletin, newspaper clippings, pamphlet, and reproductions of articles and images. Highlights include:

• Robert Arthur Williams, Province of British Columbia Lands Service, "The Fort Fraser- Fort George Bulletin Area", No.7. 1973 (bulletin)
• Fort George Park, "Fraser-Fort George Museum", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• W.J. MacAllan, "The Moving of the Fort George Indians", Cariboo & Northwest Digest, Summer 1948 (photocopied article)
• Nellie R. Campbell, "When Steel Came to Prince George", Cariboo & Northern B.C. Digest, Summer 1947
• Fraser Fort-George Museum, "Museum Mirror", Vol. 2 No. 1, 1986

File consists of collected research materials regarding the settlement of Fort St. James. Materials include booklets, postcards, pamphlets, maps, an information placemat, newspaper clippings, a newsletter, and reproductions of a map, articles, and images. Highlights include:

• Parks Canada, "Fort St. James National Historic Park", 1981 (booklet)
• "Fort St. James National Historic Park", [197-?] (postcard)
• Chamber of Commerce, "Fort St. James", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• "Fort St. James, B.C., Canada Chundoo Motor Inn", [197-?] (postcard)
• Parks Canada, "Fort St. James National Historic Park", 1985 (pamphlet)
• Parks Canada, "National & Historic Parks Guide", 1985 (pamphlet)
• Parks Canada, "Fort St. James National Historic Park", 1977 (pamphlet)
• Environment Canada Lands Directorate, "Soil Capability for Agriculture, Fort St. James", 1974 (map)
• Fort St. James, "Murray Ridge Ski Hill", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Illustration from Provincial Archives of British Columbia, "Fort St. James, Mount Murray in the distant background", [192-?] (print photograph reproduction)
• Illustration from Provincial Archives of British Columbia, "Fort St. James Pageant, heft to the right, Norman Mathews in costume of Clark at old post, Sir George Simpson as Chief factor, CH. French; AC Murray as C.F. Arch, McDonald', 1928 (print photograph reproduction)
• Illustration from Provincial Archives of British Columbia, "Fort St. James-Celebrations-Dominion Day: Tug-of-war-Fort St. James", July 29,1911 (print photograph reproduction)
• Illustration from Provincial Archives of British Columbia, "Indian Village at Fort St. James-Stuart Lake", 1913 (print photograph reproduction)
• Caledonia Inns, "The History of New Caledonia Established 1806", [198-??] (placemat)
• National Historics, "Fort St. James", Vol.1 1999 (newsletter)

The publication is a commemorative newsletter for the 180th Birthday celebration of Fort St. James. The publication was created by the Fort St. James Chamber of Commerce as a supplement to the Caledonia Courier. The publication also depicts the early pioneers of Fort St. James.

This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "#69967 - Indian Village at Fort St. James - (Stuart Lake)."

This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "Tug-of-war - Fort St. James - July 29, 1911".

This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "Fort St. James Pageant 1928. (Left to Right) - Norman Mathews in costume of clerk at old post, Sir George Simpson as (Chief Factor, CH. French); AC Murray (as C.F. Arch. McDonald)".

This photographic reproduction from the BC Provincial Archives is captioned: "#10834 - View of Fort St. James, with Mount Murray in the distant background".

File consists of research materials on the Fraser River such as newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reports on Fraser River management programs. Highlights include:

• Fraser Basin Management Board, "What People in the Communities Told Us: A Report on the Open House Discussions", 1993 (booklet)
• Fraser Basin Management Board, "What Basin-Wide Stakeholders Told Us: A Summary of the Presentations", 1993 (booklet)
• Fraser Basin Management Board, "Sustainability Together", 1993 (booklet)
• Environment Canada, "Fraser River Action Plan 1992-93, Progress Report", 1992 (booklet)
• The Mighty Fraser River, "Portraying its Scenic Beauty and Rugged Canyons", 1976 (booklet)

File consists of collected research materials regarding Simon Fraser. Fraser was a Canadian explorer and fur trader who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. He also built the first European settlement in British Columbia at Fort McLeod. Materials include reproductions from BC Archives, such as photocopies of correspondence, booklets, reports, and newspaper clippings. Other highlights include:

• The British Columbia Genealogist, Vol. 21 No.1 March 1993
• The British Columbia Genealogist, Vol. 22 No.1 March 1993

File consists of collected research materials regarding Olive Fredrickson who was an author known for her novel "The Silence of the North". Materials include correspondence between Fredrickson and L'Heureux, a photograph, newspaper clippings, postcards, and reproductions of articles. Photograph depicts Olive Fredrickson in Prince George in the fall of 1977.

Photograph depicts Olive Fredrickson in Prince George in the fall of 1977.

File consists of collected research materials regarding genealogy. Materials include pamphlets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings. Highlights include:

• The British Columbia Genealogical Society Newsletter, 1979-1981
• The British Columbia Genealogical Society, "Information", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• The Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ, "In a Granite Mountain", 1973 (pamphlet)
• BC Provincial Archives of Alberta, "Sources of Genealogical Information at the BC Provincial Archives of Alberta 1978", No. 8, 1978 (information leaflet)
• The British Columbia Genealogical Society, "Tracing Ancestors In British Columbia", 1986 (pamphlet)
• The British Columbia Genealogy Quarterly, 1979-1980
• John J. Newman, "Cemetery Transcribing: preparations and procedures", 1971 (leaflet)
• Logan Utah, "The New Year Brings New and Exciting Things!", 1979 (booklet)

File consists of material relating to the Giscome Portage and Huble Farm. Research materials include newspaper clippings, histories, booklets, a development proposal, pamphlets, a newsletter, and newspapers. Highlights include:

• Regional District of Fraser-Fort George and the Giscome Portage Historical Society, "Giscome Portage-Huble Farm Regional Park: A Development Proposal", 1984 (booklet)
• Regional District of Fraser-fort George, "Regional Parks", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Regional District of Fraser-Fort Newsletter, Vol. 3 No. 2, 1989
• Giscome Portage Historical Society, "A Pioneer Homestead on the Banks of the Fraser River", 1989 (pamphlet)

File consists of material relating to gold mining in British Columbia. Materials include articles, a magazine, and newspaper clippings. Highlights include:

• Envex Investments Inc., "The Gold Guide: The Buy & Sell in The Mining Industry", Vol. 1 No. 2, 1982
• "First Gold in British Columbia: The Pend-d'Oreille", BC Historical News, Summer 1980