Showing 116 results

File consists of photocopied and printed research materials on Australian Aborigines.

File consists of printed article from the Australian Humanities Review entitled "Paradox on the Queensland Frontier: Platypus, lungfish and other vagaries of nineteenth-century science" by Libby Robin.

File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the history of Chinese people in British Columbia. Includes material on Ahbau Creek, named after a Chinese miner; the Chee Kung Tong building in Barkerville; Chinese involvement in the Fraser Valley gold rush; and the Prince George Chinese Freemasons Society. Includes: "Chinese Cemeteries and Grave Markers in B.C.: A Research Guide" a printed article by Judy Maxwell (2007); "Chee Kung Tong Building, Barkerville, British Columbia" clipped article from The Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada by Norman Shields (2008); and "Chinese roots" clipped article from the Prince George Citizen newspaper (2008).

File consists of photocopied published research concerning aboriginal botany in Australia and women in science in Canada.

File consists of notes, clipping, and reproductions relating to Japanese internment camps along the East Line, between Prince George and Tete Jaune Cache, during World War II. Includes material on Japanese internment camps in and around Giscome, Sinclair Mills, Longworth, Penny, and Tete Jaune Cache.

File consists of a loose-leaf print of "A Documentary Study of the Lheidli T'enneh Cemetery Prince George" written by Kent Sedgwick.

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to a 2006 Lheidli T'enneh Cemetery presentation conducted by Kent Sedgwick.

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the 5th and 6th Dukes of Sutherland.

File consists of research notes, drafts, and correspondence regarding research in Australia.

File consists of notes and printed emails relating to a Japanese internment camp and sawmill near Penny and Hungary Creek.

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to immigration to British Columbia between 1910 and 1915. Includes material regarding James Mackay, an immigrant from Scotland who came to Canada in 1912, and his wife Dorothy Mackay; and passenger lists for immigration to Canada.

This collection contains two tapes of interviews by Kent Sedgwick and Megan Heitrich, and one tape by Megan Heitrich alone. Interviews focus primarily upon the Japanese Internment during WWII in the Prince George – Valemount corridor. The interviews are with women who lived near an internment camp during the war, and had some contact with the Japanese men.

The interviewees were selected for having mentioned the Japanese internment in prior interviews: Louisa Mueller and Ruth Cunningham in interviews by the Prince George Oral History Group, and Karlleen Robinson in “A History of Logs and Lumber.” In the Cunningham Interview, Ruth’s daughter Lillian Coulling is also present.

File consists of notes and typed transcripts of various oral interviews relating to a Japanese internment camp between Giscome and Willow River during World War II.

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Japanese internment and work at Sinclair Mills during World War II. File also includes photographs depicting the pit and field site for the old North Road camp for Sinclair Mills, where Japanese internment workers worked (2010).