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Item is original correspondence from the accountant of the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company to "Messrs. Harvey, Bailey & Co., Ashcroft, B.C." Includes original cover envelope posted 1 Sept. 1899 at the Bullion Post Office located 3 miles southeast of Quesnelle Forks. Also includes an accompanying informational sheet about the company operations and some postal history about the item.

Series 4 contains photographs illustrating mining activities in Atlin, B.C. It also includes photographs of the people of Atlin, B.C.

This photograph album consists of photographs, membership cards and correspondence of Herbert F. Glassey. Subjects identified in this album include: automobiles, landscape vistas, hunting scenes, snowshoeing, dog sledding, provincial government offices and waterscapes. Identified geographic locations include: Nesutlane Trading Post, Atlin, Teslin Lake, Atlin Lake, McKee Creek, Taku Glacier and Otter Creek. The following of Mr. Glassey’s membership cards are also included within this album: “White Pass & Yukon Route, No. 308: Government Agent, Atlin account, 1939-1940”; “White Pass & Yukon Route, No. 283: Government Agent account, 1941-1942”; “Registration Certificate, 1940”; “The Wartime Prices and Trade Board, no.1305, 1942”; “Dominion Bureau of Statistics, no.252”; “The Society of Notaries Public Membership Card, 1956”; and “Prince Rupert Liberal Association, 1953”.

This collection consists of 64 black and white photographs, 263 color slides, and 65 negatives.

The Man’s Knife Among the North American Indians: A study in the collections of the U.S. National Museum. Otis Tufton Mason. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1899.

Consists of photographs depicting various forestry and forestry railway scenes, including early sawmills, Church Logging (Prince George) logging trucks, the Eagle Lake Spruce Mills (Giscome) railway locomotive and train cars loaded with logs, early logging with horse-drawn skids, an aerial of Eagle Lake Spruce Mills, among others.

Consists of photographs depicting unidentified rail stations, locomotives, equipment, communities and people.

Postcard depicts totem poles at Wapla Lake Camp. The lake was the headwaters of the Kicking Horse River.

Postcard depicts the first crossing of the Kicking Horse.

Postcard depicts Mount Field from a CPR hotel in Field, Canadian Rocky Mountains.

Postcard depicts Kicking Horse Canyon, Field, A.B.. on the CPR line.

Postcard depicts Kicking Horse Canyon in the Canadian Rockies.

Postcard depicts Kicking Horse Canyon.

Postcard depicts Kicking Horse Canyon.

Postcard depicts lower Kicking Horse Canyon, on the CPR line.

File consists of postcards collected by David Davies of Rogers Pass and Glacier, BC.

Postcard depicts Glacier House and Great Glacier House built in 1886 as one of three similar hotels, the other two being Mt. Stephen House in Field, and Fraser Canyon Hotel in North Bend. Business fell off rapidly in 1916 when tracks were relocated into a new tunnel. Buildings were demolished in 1930.

Postcard depicts a train oustide a snowshed in Glacier, BC. It was thought the view was looking south with Glacier Hotel in the middle distance at the head of the 180 degree loop. Outside trackage was built alongside sheds in the summit area of Rogers Pass.

Postcard depicts the entrance to the east end of the Connaught Tunnel.

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Glacier from the Railway. "One of the chief attractions for tourists is the Illecillewaet Glacier, and, while not the largest in the Canadian Rockies, it is the most accessible and in every way representative of these most interesting natural phenomena. A trip across its face leaves a lasting impression on one's memory. The Illecillewaet River takes its rise from the great glacier of the Selkirks."

Postcard depicts the crossing of "The Loop."

Postcard depicts the CPR station at Albert Canyon, BC, circa 1900.

Postcard depicts the east portal of the Connaught Tunnel and Mount Macdonald.

Postcard depicts Sicamous Station and Hotel, circa 1910. "Sicamous became a favorite statring point for fishermen to the Shuswap Lake and junction for the fruit growing Okanagan Valley. The first station in Sicamous, built in 1890, burned down in 1900. A new one was built, modernized in 1908, and torn down in the 1960s."

Postcard depicts Main Street (Victoria West) Kamloops in 1910.

Postcard depicts the Thompson River, 6 miles north of Spences Bridge, on the Okanagan Trail.

Postcard depicts the CPR crossing Skuzzy River, Fraser Canyon, BC

Postcard depicts Fraser River Canyon, near North Bend, BC

Postcard depicts the Four Tunnels on the CPR line through the Rocky Mountains.

Postcard depicts the Four Tunnels over Fraser River, BC