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File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Upper Fraser Historical Geography Project done on the East Line and Upper Fraser in collaboration with the University of Northern British Columbia researchers. Includes a CD titled "Kent's Upper Fraser Files" containing Kent's research files for the Upper Fraser project (7 Jan. 2004) and a computer diskette titled "Oral Histories" containing an oral history interview with a woman (2004).

File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to Mcbride and Dunster. Includes photographs depicting the Croyden cemetery and the Dunster ferry site (2005).

File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to Quesnel, Barkerville, and Wells. Includes: "An Historic Walk of Carson Avenue, Quesnel, B.C". pamphlet prepared by the Quesnel Branch Cariboo Historical Society (1990); "Wells, B.C". pamphlet by the Wells Historical Society (1980); "Cottonwood House Provincial Historic Park" pamphlet by the Province of British Columbia (1980); and vol. 1 of the Cariboo Gazette newspaper (2002). Also includes a map depicting Bowron Lake Park in British Columbia (1968).

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Fort Alexandria (later renamed Alexandria). Fort Alexandria was an HBC trading post, ferry site, and steamboat landing in the North Cariboo, 45 km south of Quesnel. File contains photographs depicting Fort Chilcotin, the landscape and buildings (Sept. 1983 and Aug. 2006).

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Soda Creek, BC. Also includes photographs depicting Soda Creek (2006).

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to a field trip to Jasper.

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to history of the Rocky Mountains. Includes: "Cave & Basin Hot Springs" pamphlet prepared by Parks Canada (1985); "Canadian Rockies Heritage" pamphlet by The Whyte Foundation (1985); "The Alpine Club of Canada" pamphlet by the Alpine Club of Canada (1990); and "Snow War: a guide to the history of Rogers Pass" pamphlet by Parks Canada (1978).

File consists of notes, reproductions, and typed documents relating to Kitimat.

File consists of a clipped article "The Backwoods Baronet and the Golden Spruce" by Dennis Bell from BC Motorist magazine and a map depicting Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii). The map includes annotations in pen by Kent Sedgwick and the backside has a recreational directory for the area.

File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to southern British Columbia. Includes: "Aloha: From Hawaii, B.C". clipped article from Canada Journal magazine (Aug. 1995); "Heritage Nelson B.C". pamphlet from the City of Nelson (198-); and "'Silvery Slocan' Circle Drive from Kokanee Creek Provincial Park" pamphlet from the Province of British Columbia (1980).

File consists of photographs depicting Kitimat, British Columbia in a bound flip book.

File consists of a pamphlet titled "The Quesnel-Lillooet Bulletin Area" prepared by the Department of Lands, Forests, and Water Resources from the Province of British Columbia. The pamphlet is a revised 2nd edition published in 1973, the original was published in 1968.

File consists of photographs depicting the Salmon River Portage. Includes depictions of potential past mill sites, overgrown fields, and derelict buildings.

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Kent Sedgwick's article, "Crossing the Divide: Northern Approaches to New Caledonia", which was published in vol. 12 of the Western Geography journal in 2002.

File consists of notes, reproductions, pamphlets, and postcards relating to the Peyto Glacier, situated in the Canadian Rockies in Banff National Park, Alberta. Includes: "Inland Waters Branch" handwritten letter to Kent Sedgwick (4 Sept. 1970); "Peyto Glacier general information" pamphlet prepared by the Inland Waters Directorate, Water Resources Branch of Environment Canada (1975); and photographs depicting a Peyto Glacier workshop with Kent Sedgwick and colleagues (1996) and personal photographs depicting Kent Sedgwick, his wife, and friends visiting and hiking Peyto Glacier (1990).

File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to Kent Sedgwick's guest lecture at the University of Northern British Columbia on Prince George. Includes: "Situating Prince George" handwritten lecture notes by Kent Sedgwick (2006) and "Geography of British Columbia" university syllabus (2003). Also includes a CD-R "Situating P.G". containing Kent Sedgwick's notes and photographs (Mar. 2006).

Item is a photocopy of Plan No. 1268 showing a subdivision of part of Indian Reserve no. 1 Lot 343 in the Cariboo District of British Columbia.

Item is an original map depicting east central British Columbia published by the Technical Supper Section Surveys and Resource Mapping Branch Ministry of Lands and Parks in Victoria, British Columbia.

Item is a photocopied 1923 pre-emptor's map of Fort George, published by the British Columbia Department of Lands.

Item is a photocopied 1930 pre-emptor's map of Fort George, published by the British Columbia Department of Lands.

Item is a photocopied 1944 map depicting Fort George, published by the British Columbia Department of Lands.

Item is an original 1950 pre-emptor's map of the Chilcotin region, published by the British Columbia Department of Lands and Forests.

Item is an original 1919 pre-emptor's map of Tete Jaune, published by the British Columbia Department of Lands.

Item is an original 1969 map depicting McLeod Lake in British Columbia, published by the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources in Ottawa.

Item is an original 1979 map depicting Taseko Lakes in British Columbia, published by the Province of British Columbia Ministry of Environment.

Item is an original 1982 map depicting the Bowron River in British Columbia, published by the Province of British Columbia Ministry of Environment.

Item is an original 1994 map titled "Welcome to Prince George" that includes the Prince George Heritage River Trails. The map was published by the City of Prince George.

Item is an original 1977 map depicting Cluculz Lake in British Columbia published by the Province of British Columbia Ministry of Environment. The map includes pen annotations.

Item is an original 1976 map depicting Prince George, published by the Province of British Columbia Ministry of the Environment.

Item is an original 1967 map depicting Prince George in British Columbia, published by the British Columbia Department of Lands, Forests and Water Resources. Map includes pen markings.

Item is an original map depicting West Lake pulp harvesting forest.

Item is an original 1952 map depicting Isle Pierre in British Columbia, published by the British Columbia Department of Lands and Forests. Map includes pen markings.

Item is an original 1954 map depicting Salmon Valley British Columbia, published by British Columbia Department of Lands and Forests. Map includes pen markings.

Item is an original 1982 map depicting Prince George British Columbia, published by the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources in Ottawa. Map includes pen markings.

File includes six aggregations of photographs which have been assembled in this file in order to maintain the integrity of each group by keeping the photos arranged together, though each group features operations pertaining to multiple files in this subseries. Includes groups featuring photos from 1961, 1965 1971, a helicopter trip, a community album, and a workplace album. Photographs depict images pertaining to the following operations at Cassiar, B.C.: mining, milling, maintenance, labratory tests, and tramline and town operations. Images featuring operations of the company town include the grocery store, bank, churches, school, library, lounge, pool, theater, community center, outdoor recreation, hospital, dentist, cafeteria, bus route, residences, air strip, firehall, laundromat, park, police, and newspaper.

Photographs depict construction of the new mill, each taken from approximately the same distance and featuring two different angles of the building. Construction work progresses from framework to sheeting and siding. Vehicles, piles of building supplies, and a construction trailer are often in foreground, mountains in background. It is believed that these photographs were taken during a labour dispute. Each photo has been annotated on recto with the date and time of day, and some document the number of workers on site. Annotations include: "2 days work", "work gets less & less", "not much for 4 men", "very little done - less than usual low performance", "0° - 20° weather must have thickened their blood".

Photographs depict different construction projects at separate locations in Cassiar. Photographs were originally housed in envelopes with the following annotations: "POLICE STATION. July 15, 1977."; "Aggregates and Concrete (PERMASTEEL)"; "Fibre Storage and Handling"; "Powerhouse Expansion"; "Sewage Collection Plant."; "Sewage Treatment Plant"; "Single Person Accommodations - Site Work."; "Outside Work - Camp Nos. 1,2,3." Photos generally feature the work sites, supplies, vehicles, machinery, and work in progress at each location.

Additional photographs integrated into file include maintenance project on lining of tubes, lining of aspiration hood, and lining of willow fiberizer. Also five photographs of maintenance in the townsite to fix in ground piping.

Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd opened a second mine in 1967 at what became the one-industry town of Clinton Creek, Y.T. File contains photographs depicting different areas of operations at Clinton Creek. Locations include the mine, plant, town, tailings pile, main office, the 40 Mile River, and surrounding area. Town photos depict the grocery store, cafeteria, medical clinic, school, auditorium residential area, Connell Street and power house. File also includes aerial photographs and images depicting forest fighting, photographers capturing the tailings pile, asbestos samples, mining machinery, staff offices, and operations in the mill, lab, and garage.

Additional photographs integrated into file depict Clinton Creek's surrounding area, and three slides of a tailing pile explosion believed to be Clinton Creek.

• File contains photographs done to item level description, depicting miscellaneous people and locations at or around Cassiar, B.C. This includes a photograph of renowned prospector William (“Bill”) Storie, Bill Pratt with a fox, a community gathering in a someone's home, and a hockey game.
• Also included but not to item level is a photo of "David Madore" as part of his application to Cassiar, photo of "William Field" a local hire maintenance mechanic, and photos of a RNWMP Post sign (Royal North West Mounted Police) that depicts annotations "Indian grave" , "Miners Cabin" , "Road House" , "Customs House" , "St. James Church" , "Swansons Store" etc., and 15 negatives of various individuals at what appears to be someone's home.
• Also included is cabin at Boya Lake, which used to be named Chain lake, located off the Stewart-Cassiar highway. This land of this cabin may have been involved legal issues , which was related to people at Cassiar.

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

File consists of material relating to the Yukon Telegraph. Materials include newspaper clippings, correspondence, a magazine, pamphlets, a newspaper, and reproductions of articles. Highlights include:

• Beautiful British Columbia Magazine, Vol. 32 No. 2 , 1990
• Ministry of Lands, Parks, and Housing, "Provincial Parks of British Columbia Map", 1980 (pamphlet)
• Telegraph Trail Preservation Society, "Telegraph trail Hiking & Recreational Guide", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Atlin- Quesnel Telegraph Line", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Pack Train Atlin Quesnel Telegraph Line", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Cooking at Teamsters Camp Atlin Quesnel Telegraph Line", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• Original photographic slides from 1981 depicting Sinkut Lake Ranch and Nulki Lake Resort south of Vanderhoof

This bound photo album comprises 122 photographic images featuring the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, boats, machinery) and First Nations Peoples on the Nass & Skeena Rivers and North Pacific Coast. Images also include warships, freighters, automobiles, railway stations and trains, and some photographs of Yokohama, Japan and California ca.1924-25. Includes photographs of the 1924 Special Service Squadron World Cruise in Vancouver. Each photograph is accompanied by a handwritten description glued below or beside the image and each image is glued to the album page at its corners. The verso of front cover has a handwritten name plate:

File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to a downtown walking tour conducted by Sedgwick for the British Columbia Historical Federation 2003 conference. Also includes photographs depicting participants of the BC Historical Federation Conference on a downtown walking tour in Prince George (2003).

File consists of notes and reproductions for use by Kent Sedgwick for lectures. Includes: "Annual Meeting Western Division Canadian Association of Geographers" conference program and abstracts (7-8 Mar. 1997).

File consists of notes relating to Kent Sedgwick's guest lecture on historical geography and transportation routes in New Caledonia, including the interior plateau of Central British Columbia. Includes correspondence with James Windsor, the instructor for the course, and Kent Sedgwick's notes for the lecture.

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to Kent Sedgwick's guest lecture for UNBC course "GEOG 200 Geography of British Columbia".

File consists of a bound work entitled "Prince George Papers: Based on a field excursion taken in the Summer semester, 1974" that was produced by a Geography 262 course Simon Fraser University taught by professor L.J. Evenden. This work includes the following student papers: "Development and Planning of Prince George 1793-2001" by Jack Pope and Doug Sheffield; "Prince George: Entertainment and recreation" by Frank Chandler; "Parks in Prince George: The attitude of change" by Jane Davidson and Gary Dodd; "Glacial Features in the Prince George Study Area, B.C". by Maynard E.W. Embree; and "City of Prince George, a study of its Parks and Recreation Facilities, 1974" by Peggy Etches. Some of Kent Sedgwick's works were cited by these papers.

Item is a map depicting the revised site plan for the Salmon Valley Ranch created by Trelle Morrow, architect.

Item is a photocopied plan depicting the Eagle Lake Sawmills Ltd. in Giscome, British Columbia with the plan of the sawmill and adjacent buildings, published by Transit Survey by L.C. Gunn and P.J. Klotz.