Consists of a photograph album that contains photographs that depict Parker Bonney's early years as a Forest Engineer. Includes photographs of the expedition to the Nass Valley undertaken by Parker Bonney, Sam Brown, and others. May also include photographs of later surveying expeditions.
Consists of a photograph album that contains 224 photographs that depict Parker Bonney's early years as a Forest Engineer. Includes photographs of the expedition to the Nass Valley undertaken by Parker Bonney, Sam Brown, and others. May also include photographs of later surveying expeditions. Also includes three photographs of the University of Washington rowing team, of which Parker Bonney was a member between 1909 and 1913.
Consists of two photograph albums that illustrate Parker Bonney's early years as a Forest Engineer. Includes photographs of the expedition to the Nass Valley undertaken by Parker Bonney, Sam Brown, and others. May also include photographs of later surveying expeditions.
The photographs depict the geographic areas of Stewart, BC, Boundary Pass, Nelson River, Bitter Creek Glacier, Portland Canal, Red Cliff and Bear Creek; as well as the ships “Camosun” and “S.S. Prince George.” Types of subjects identified in this collection include: community life, surveying, mining and transportation (i.e. dog-sledding, horse and buggy, and the Portland Canal Short Line Railway “P.C.S.L. Rlwy”).
Handwritten annotations read: "At rest, after a rough passage of two days and a night from Massett, Queen Charlotte's Islands by canoe - W.H. Collison and Mrs. Collison with Indians from Masset"; "Archdeacon Collison Indian Canoe & Crew. Return from Queen Charlotte's Islands, Haida & Tsimshian Crew [...?]" Archdeacon and Mrs. Collison sit in centre of canoe.
Footage of a pack train in what is believed to be the Rainbow Mountains.
Footage of a pack train in the high country, which is likely an upper valley of the mountain foothills. Probable locations of this footage include Holt homestead, Rainbow Mountains or Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.
Footage of Tom Engebretch loading a Honda motorbike with gun and gunny sack and driving off through a creek and up a hill.
Location is believed to be East Ranch, possibly located in near Bella Coola, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park or Chilcotin area.
Footage of a pack train along a river, a campsite, view of the mountains, and two grouse.
Location is believed to be the Rainbow Mountains.
Footage of a moose hunt, moose kill, and butchering of the moose.
Possible locations of this footage are the Chilcotin region, Rainbow Mountains or Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.
Footage of large animal, most likely a moose, along a steep bank. Two men and their pack horse traveling along an open landscape, a close shot of their campfire at night, then footage of them preparing for a journey early in the morning. Also a view of a herd of caribou, the men traveling in a pack train over a stream and through upper valleys of the mountains, various sunset shots, a lake full of birds feeding, and finally the men packing the horses with killed game meat, most likely caribou.
The location of the filming is most likely the Rainbow Mountains.
Footage of a herd of caribou running on mountain plateau, probably the Rainbow Mountains. Also various clips of hunting camp and the men loading their pack horses.
Typed annotation on recto: "Our guide captures a baby moose Stuart Lake, B.C." Man stands with calf in arms among forest trees.
There are three different sections of film footage on this reel.
The first is of two men and a young boy going fishing from a river bank, gutting and cleaning the fish they catch and baiting their hooks with mill eggs. There is more filming of three other men going down the river in a small boat and then banking it to fish. They gut and clean their fish as-well. They load their small boat into the back of a red pick-up truck after they are finished their day.
The second part of this film reel begins with a map of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. Men on snowmobiles traveling to an abandoned log home and acreage. They then break through the ice on the nearby lake and begin to retrieve their previously set beaver trap, which has a caught beaver. The men then travel to a different location and set up a beaver trap. There is some additional footage of two moose in the snow as the men travel to a third location and retrieve another caught beaver from under the ice. The men return to their cabin and skin the beavers.
The third part of this film is footage of Anahim Lake village, birds in the area, wild flowers, cattle drive, children fishing on the river and swimming, a pelican on a lake, and people in a boat traveling.
Possible other locations of filming include Bella Coola River, Dean River, Ulkatcho, Ulkatcho Mountains, and Tweedsmuir Provincial park.
Image depicts a large group of individuals preparing to hike up Mt. Robson.
Image depicts three men and a dog on the hiking trail near Mt. Robson.
Image depicts two men on the hiking trail near Mt. Robson.
Image depicts a man on the hiking trail near Mt. Robson, with a river in the background; it is possibly the Robson River.
Image depicts a large number of felled trees, and an unknown individual standing on the path.
Image depicts a camp and what is likely Mt. Robson in the background.
Image depicts an unknown individual and a dog on a bridge over what is possibly the Robson River.
Image depicts two unknown individuals standing near a waterfall somewhere near Mt. Robson.
Image depicts a waterfall with a mountain peak in the background; it is most likely Mt. Robson.
Image depicts a group of people on the rocky bank of a river somewhere near Mt. Robson.
Image depicts a camp of people with Mt. Robson and the Berg Glacier in the background.
Image depicts a camp of people with Mt. Robson and the Berg Glacier in the background.
Image depicts five unknown individuals somewhere near Mt. Robson.
Image depicts a group of people heading towards a glacier, possibly the Robson Glacier.
Image depicts a group of people standing on the foot of a glacier, possibly the Robson Glacier.
Image depicts a group of people standing on the foot of a glacier, possibly the Robson Glacier.
Image depicts a group of people hiking up a glacier, possibly the Robson Glacier.
Image depicts a group of people hiking on a glacier, possibly the Robson Glacier.
Image depicts a group of people hiking on a glacier, possibly the Robson Glacier.
Image depicts a group of people hiking on a glacier, possibly the Robson Glacier.
Image depicts a group of people hiking on a glacier, possibly the Robson Glacier.
Image depicts a group of people hiking up a mountain side, possibly Mt. Robson.
Image depicts a group of people standing on a hill, with what is possibly Mt. Robson in the background.
Image depicts a man talking to a group of hikers, with what is possibly Mt. Robson and the Robson Glacier in the background.
Image depicts a group of hikers standing on a slope.
Image depicts a climbing either up or down a rock face.
Image depicts three unknown individuals at a campsite.