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Handwritten ethnological notes concerning locations and dialects of Chilcotin, Carrier, Sekani, and "Nah-anes" peoples.

Reports as follows: Number 2. Report of the Exploration from Quesnal to Lake Tatla, via Natla and Nakosla, by Major Frank L. Pope. 1865. Title page, map, and pages 1-36. (Pages 15-17: Indian tribes; pages 32-36: vocabulary of "Siccany" (Sekani) tribe, living n. w. of Lake Tatla.) Number 3. Report of the British Columbia and Stekine Exploring Expedition, by Major Frank L Pope. 1866. Title page and pages 1-42. (Pages 27-28: Indian tribes; pages 29-30, Trading with Indians.) Number 4. Report of the Lake Babine and Skeena River Exploration, by Captain James L. Butler. 1866. 19 pages. Number 5. Report of the Atnah & Northern Explorations, by Captain J. Trimble Rothrock. 1866. 10 pages. Number 6. Report of Provisions Expended by the Stekine Exploring party; and proposed plan of an exploration from the Stekine to the Youkon, by George Blenkinsop. 1866. 8 pages, including map.

Swanton, John Reed. “Materials relating to the Haida.” [1898?]. Manuscript 4117-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Wyld, James. "Map of the Colony of New Caledonia and the British & American Territory West of the Rocky Mountains including Vancouvers Island and the Gold Fields" by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen & the Prince Consort, Charing Cross East & 2 Royal Exchange, London, July 16, 1858.

Pope, Frank L. “Sketch Map Showing the Proposed Route of the Western Union Telegraph Between Fort Frazer and the Stekine River, British Columbia. From exploration by the party under the command of Maj. Frank L. Pope Ass’t Engineer, 1866.

Mckay, Joseph William. "Recollections of a chief trader in the Hudson's Bay Company." 1878 Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley. BANC MSS P-C 24.

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McKay came from Canada to Fort Vancouver in the Hudson's Bay Company service in 1844. Describes disturbed conditions in the old Oregon country, in consequence of the American influx; duties in 1845-1846 escorting British officers; visit to San Francisco and Hawaii in 1846 on Company business; Frémont's activities; experiences in charge of Fort Simpson, 1846-1849; relations with the Russian American Company and Indians of the Northwest Coast; duties on Vancouver Island, 1850; discovery of gold on Queen Charlotte Island, 1851, and of coal at Bellingham Bay, 1853; life at Fort Simpson during the Crimean War. Includes typed transcript. (21p. )

Chismore, George. "Record of travel from Skeena Mouth to Peace River mines." George Chismore Papers. 1871-1900. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley. BANC MSS 81/24p.

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Include: journal of journey to Peace River Mines, British Columbia, June-Dec. 1871, with descriptions of mines and mining, encounters with Indians, and an account of performing surgery on an injured miner; eleven journals, 1883-1893, primarily of hunting trips to Rogue River, Oregon, and one journal of trip to Siskyous, with descriptions of wilderness, life in hunting camp, account of associations with black ex-slave woodsman-hunter of Rogue River area; journal of trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, June-Sept. 1898, with descriptions of museums, churches, palaces, impressions of life in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other European cities; journal of trip to Panama, Jan.-March 1900; collection of speeches to Bohemian Club; collection of his poems, ca. 1897. Also includes articles about Chismore's medical career. (32p.)

Chismore, George. "Log-book of a trip among the Siwash of British Columbia." George Chismore Papers. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley. BANC MSS P-K 219.

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Logbook of "a trip among the Siwash of British Columbia" (August 31-September 28, 1866), on the way to join, as surgeon, the Western Union Telegraph Company's expedition for the Russian Extension; record of a hunting trip to Old Tongass, March 3-9, 1870, and of a prospecting trip in British Columbia, June 25-July 20, 1870; a paper read before the Geographical Society of the Pacific in 1881, "From the Nass to the Skeena [Stikine]." An obituary clipping relates to Dr. Chismore's practice of medicine in San Francisco after 1873. (25p.)

Compton, Pyms Nevins. “Forts and fort life in New Caledonia under Hudson’s Bay Company regime.” 1878 Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley. BANC MSS P-C 5.

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Compton landed at Victoria in 1859, and was afterward stationed at Fort Simpson. A sketch plan of Fort Simpson is included. (9p.)

Cooper, James. “Maritime matters on the Northwest Coast and affairs of the Hudson’s Bay company in early times.” 1878. Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley. BANC MSS P-C 6.

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Describes his maritime service with the Hudson's Bay Company from 1844, and the early development of Victoria and Vancouver Island. Primarily an account of the Hudson's Bay Company control over the region and the evolution of local and provincial government.
(32p.)