This travel scrapbook was created by Jill Singleton to document a trip to Alaska, Yukon, Haida Gwaii, and northern BC. Jill Singleton and Eric Stathers embarked on a 1985 car camping trip using the BC Ferries and Alaska Ferry systems. Includes postcards, ephemera, handwritten notes, pamphlets, issues of local newspapers, and maps. Also includes 37 photographs.
Includes the following:
"Queen Charlotte Islands Observer" newspaper issue for August 8, 1985
"A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Queen Charlotte City", June 1985
"A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Tlell + Port Clements", June 1985
"A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Skidegate Landing, Skidegate and Sandspit", June 1985
"A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Masset", June 1985
"Explorations Q.C.I." pamphlet advertising guiding, outfitting, and touring
"Sandspit Inn, Queen Charlotte Islands" pamphlet
"Visit the Queen Charlottes" pamphlet
Queen Charlotte Islands map, circa 1985
BC Ferries pamphlet "New in 1985... Inside Passage Day Cruise"
BC Ferries pamphlet "Tickets and Boarding Information, Inside Passage"
"Alaska Marine Highway" pamphlet
"Discover Southeast Alaska, Ketchikan" pamphlet
"Alaska State Parks" pamphlet/map
"Tongass National Forest, Alaska" pamphlet/map
"Alaska Marine Highway Summer Schedule - May 1, 1985 through September 30, 1985" pamphlet
History leaflet for St. Michael's Cathedral, Sitka, AK
Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute leaflets, 1984
Anchorage 1984 Visitors Guide, Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau
"Skagway... some Steps on the Gold Rush Trail... walking Tour of the Historic District - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park"
Collection consists of a travel scrapbook created by Jill Singleton documenting a trip to Alaska, Yukon, Haida Gwaii, and northern BC. Includes photographs, ephemera, handwritten notes, pamphlets, issues of local newspapers, and maps.
Photograph depicts passengers sitting on a bench on the deck of S.S. Prince Rupert. The passengers appear to be a mother and father with their young boy, along with an older man and woman who is knitting.
Photograph depicts a Gruman Goose of the Trans Provincial Airpline discharging passengers, having just landed on floats and then taxied on wheels up a ramp.
Photograph depicts a Gruman Goose of the Trans Provincial Airpline that had just landed on on floats and was emerging on wheels to climb a ramp to the seaplane base.
Photograph depicts a steam roller on display in front of the Provincial Court House. Manufactured by "Waterous," Brantford, Canada (Waterous Engine Works Company). Similar, if not identical machine was used by the city of North Vancouver for road paving in 1912.
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.
Photograph depicts trackage connecting the passenger depot in Prince Rupert and freight only section to a seal cove. Image captured at Cow Bay, with the Mason Way grade crossing visible. In 2003, Davies noted that the twin sets of track on the rail bridge survived, but everything else had disappeared.
Image depicts numerous boats docked by the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Association from the deck of a ferry, possibly as it's leaving Prince Rupert, most likely for Haida Gwaii.
