File consists of newspaper clippings and reproductions regarding airplanes, airports, and aviation in the northern and central B.C region. Highlights include:
Plane in foreground, forest trees visible in background.
Plane visible in distance, dark clouds in background.
Handwritten photo album caption below this photo reads: "Ordinary 'Nose-Hanger'." Photograph depicts airplane hangar with large circles in a darker fabric to accommodate the nose and engines of plane. Large truck and stacks of unidentified packages in foreground on right. Unidentified vehicle to left of hangar. It is believed that photograph was taken at Whitehorse, YT.
Royal Canadian Air Force
Photograph depicts Jack Baker's plane resting on a snow-covered Weissner Lake in Rocky Mountain Trench.
Annotation on recto: "Aero. Signal 1930". Photo depicts three men and three pack dogs seated at the top of a signal marker.
Photograph depicts an air-sea rescue launch that may been used during World War II. It was located just beside Highway 16, about 5 miles from the centre of Prince Rupert.
File consists of issues of the literary periodical entitled "Aisling: A Quarterly of Irish and American Poetry".
File contains slides depicting New and Old Aiyansh, as well as the Tseax Lava Flow.
File contents relate to: Labour Management Issues, Personnel / Human Resources. Document type(s) include: employee file (misc.).
File contents relate to: Labour Management Issues, Personnel / Human Resources. Document type(s) include: employee file (misc.).
Photograph depicts men in uniform standing on and around a stage coach with the sign "BREWSTER TRANSFER COMPANY." One man sits inside the coach pulled by four horses. Large building with extended porch and balcony in background. Mountains barely visible in distance. It is believed that one of the men in this photograph may be Mr. A. K. Bourchier.
Photograph depicts a man and woman, elderly couple, and young girl standing on porch of large house. It is believed that A.K. Bourchier stands on far right, next to his niece Jean. House also featured in items 2009.5.3.127.
Item is a photograph of A.H. Phipps and Skookum Davidson standing beside a horse and a surveying station at the top of a mountain.
Photograph depicts a portrait of Al B. Anderson, president of the National Sporting Goods Association.
Image depicts an old convenience store, with a sign on it labelled "Al Crosina." It is located at the 153 Mile House.
Image depicts the interior of an old convenience store; there are several unknown individuals present. It is located at the 153 Mile House.
Image depicts the interior of an old convenience store; numerous unknown individuals are present. It is located at the 153 Mile House.
Fonds consists of original, silent 16mm reels that portray the natural, social and land use history of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin regions named the "Natural and Guiding History of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin Regions".
Possible locations that Al Elsey filmed include: Bella Coola, Bella Bella, Anahim Lake, Alert Bay, Nimpo Lake, Bulkey Valley, the Rainbow Mountains, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, Dean River, Bella Coola River, Tchaha Lake, the Chilcotin region, the Ulkatcho Mountains, Lassard Lake, Fenton Lake, Atnarko River, Wells Gray Park, and Holt Homestead.
File contains correspondence to Brian Fawcett from Al Neil. Includes a letter to Brian Fawcett from Al Neil, a member of the Professional Art Dealers Association. Card dated March 24, 1994.
Item is a photograph of A.H. Phipps driving his convertible car.
Item is a photograph of A.H. Phipps standing on a rocky mountain slope.
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps kneeling on the ground and holding up the head of a dead black bear.
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps looking through the surveying equipment.
Caption: "It must have been a Sunday!"
Caption: "Paradise for man & beast. Timber-line"
Caption: "A river station"
Caption: "Another River station"
Caption: "Excelsior or Pilgrim with his load"
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps with a back pack on his back, standing with two pack dogs in the snow.
Item is a photograph of Al Phipps, Jack Anderson and Jack Adams beside a surveying station overlooking the Ingenika River.
File contains correspondence to Brian Fawcett from Al Purdy. Includes a letters to Brian Fawcett from Al Purdy, writer.
Item is an audio recording of Al Purdy.
Item is an audio recording of Al Purdy: Canadian Poets on Tape.
Item is an audio recording of Al Purdy reading at CNC.
Collection contains a signed Spruce Kings hat, a signed game puck and a letter to Al Lefebvre of UNBC.
File contains correspondence from writer, Alan Barber to Brian Fawcett.
File contains correspondence to Brian Fawcett from Alan Cassels, Lt. (N) Naval Section of Koh Kong, Cambodia. Includes a letter congratulating Brian on his book, "Cambodia", and Cassels expresses his thoughts and feelings in relation to the book. Letter dated August 10, 1993.
File contains correspondence from Brian Fawcett to Alan Copper.
File contains letters to Brian Fawcett from Alan Gasser. Correspondence includes poetry typed written by Alan Gasser. The items are dated August 1, 1989 and March 12, 1990.
File contains correspondence to Brian Fawcett from Alan Hoover, Assistant Anthropologist , Department of Recreation and Conservation, British Columbia Provincial Museum. Includes letters dated February 10, and March 25, 1969.
Photograph depicts Alan Safarik and Brian Fawcett at Fort San Saskatchewan.
File contains correspondence to Brian Fawcett from Alan Twigg. Includes letters to Brian Fawcett from Alan Twigg, Publisher of BC Book World regarding Brian's manuscripts. Letter predominately written 1989 to 1994.
File contains correspondence to Brian Fawcett from Alan Winter. Includes a letter to Brian Fawcett from Alan Winter, thanking Brian for review of his book. Letter dated June 25, 1988.
File contents relate to: Accounting / Payroll. Document type(s) include: delivery receipts.
Image depicts the ferry to Alaska in the port of Prince Rupert, B.C.
Image depicts a small section of the Alaska Highway somewhere near Whitehorse, Y.T. The slide also appears to be labelled "army washing" for unknown reasons.
File consists of documents relating to the Alaska Highway conference in 1992.