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Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, January 1, 1944 to September 30, 1944:

• January 1-May 27, 1944: Diamond J Ranch
• May 27-June 6, 1944: Travel to Lower Post
• June 6-18, 1944: Waiting for C.H. Ney, land surveyor for the Dominion Geodetic Survey
• June 19-August 28, 1944: Packing for the Dominion astrofix survey
• August 28-September 7, 1944: Lower Post
• September 7-24: Return trip to Diamond J Ranch
• September 28-[October 21], 1944: Fort Ware trip to pick up food and machinery left after the Bedaux expedition

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, January 1, 1943 to December 31, 1943:

• January 1-May 19, 1943: Working at Diamond J Ranch with Craig Forfar
• May 19-30, 1943: Trip to Fort Ware
• May 30-June 30, 1943: At Fort Ware, preparing for packing BC Government triangulation survey trip to surveying location and waiting for Skook Davidson to arrive with horses purchased from Jim Beattie
• June 18-July 13, 1943: Travel to surveying location
• July 15-August 17, 1943: Taking care of case camp while survey crews in field
• August 17-26, 1943: All crews working together
• August 27-October 23, 1943: Return trips between Fort Ware and Diamond J Ranch
• October 23-December 31, 1943: Diamond J Ranch

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, October 1, 1942 to December 31, 1943:

• October 1-13, 1942: Employed with the United States Army in Northern BC, packing and outfitting for the survey crews of the Alaska Highway in the areas of Deserters Canyon, Fort Ware, Sifton Pass, and Fox Pass
• October 16-29, 1942: Journey to Kechika River and Skook Davidson's Diamond J Ranch
• October 30-December 31, 1942: Working and establishing residence at Skook Davidson's Diamond J Ranch
• January 1-May 19, 1943: Working at Diamond J Ranch with Craig Forfar
• May 19-30, 1943: Trip to Fort Ware
• May 30-June 30, 1943: At Fort Ware, preparing for packing BC Government triangulation survey trip to surveying location and waiting for Skook Davidson to arrive with horses purchased from Jim Beattie
• June 18-July 13, 1943: Travel to surveying location
• July 15-August 17, 1943: Taking care of case camp while survey crews in field
• August 17-26, 1943: All crews working together
• August 27-October 23, 1943: Return trips between Fort Ware and Diamond J Ranch
• October 23-December 31, 1943: Diamond J Ranch

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, April 1, 1942 to October 20, 1942:

• April 1-May 30, 1942: Trapping cabin along the Ingenika River
• May 30-June 16, 1942: In the Finlay River area, Freer sold furs to the HBC at Fort Grahame and helped portage supplied through Deserters Canyon for Del Miller and priest
• June 17-October 13, 1942: Employed with the United States Army in Northern BC, packing and outfitting for the survey crews of the Alaska Highway in the areas of Deserters Canyon, Fort Ware, Sifton Pass, and Fox Pass
• October 13-20, 1942: Journey to Skook Davidson's Diamond J Ranch

Photograph depicts a packaged asbestos durability test performed with a forklift.

Photograph depicts a torn bag of asbestos sitting on the back of a truck or shipping container.

Photograph depicts Gordon Wyness at the Bobtail campsite after having just returned from a night of camping without a tent on Bobtail Mountain. Wyness noted (on photograph verso) that there were pack rats in the telegraph cabin in the background of this photograph.

Photograph depicts Jack Lee with gear in front of a tent at Bobtail [Lake?] campsite after returning from Bobtail Mountain where the crew had camped overnight without a tent.

Photograph depicts a young First Nations man with his little sister posed for the camera on a porch. Annotation on verso of photograph states: "Canada B.C. Indian missions A Present day Edwardian Indian boy and his little sister"

Photograph depicts Jack Lee with gear in front of a tent at Bobtail [Lake?] campsite after returning from Bobtail Mountain where the crew had camped overnight without a tent.

Photograph depicts Gordon Wyness at the Bobtail campsite after having just returned from a night of camping without a tent on Bobtail Mountain. Wyness noted (on photograph verso) that there were pack rats in the telegraph cabin in the background of this photograph.

Two carved poles stand in foreground, a third smaller pole visible by wood structure in background.

The pole at left is the Chief Skedans mortuary pole, which was raised in the Haida village of Skidegate about 1870. It honours the Raven Chief of Skedans and depicts the chief's hereditary crests. The two tiny figures in the bear's ears are the chief's daughter and son-in-law who erected the pole and gave a potlach for the chief's memorial. The rectangle board at the top of the original pole covered a cavity that held the chief's remains.

The pole at left may be a whale pole.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "For heading of Page 12. Fin Back Whale Crest. [?] Totems, S.E. Alaska". This original annotation is believed to be incorrect.

Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "75. Steamboat on the Nechac[k]o River." Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation.

Small booklet containing handwritten notes of what appears to be a speech prepared by W.H. Collison on the topic of traditions and events he had been witness to along the northwest coast of British Columbia.

Close up of man against corner of unidentified building. Handwritten caption above this photo reads: "Workman Truck Driver". Handwritten annotation on recto of photo reads: "John [Jmeson?] Edmonton".

File consists of an official regional park plan for the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George.

File consists of assorted maps, correspondence, and speeches examining the prospects of park establishment in the Prince George area.

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.

Details from Bancroft Library:
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.

Details from Bancroft Library:
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.

Details from Bancroft Library:
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.

Details from Bancroft Library:
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.

Details from Bancroft Library:
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.)

The photograph depicts a logging truck driving on a steel-trussed bridge over the Klinaklini River, B.C. Annotation on back of photograph states, "Global Pace-Setter -- World's longest laminated-timber, steel-trussed span is 575-ft. Klinaklini, near Knight Inlet, 150 miles north of Vancouver. Built for B.C. Forest Products Ltd., which a quarter of a century ago pioneered province's first laminated logging bridge, structure has a clear span of 207 feet, plus approaches. It opens to logging operations a previously inaccessible 17,000-acre stand of spruce, fir, hemlock and cedar. Laminated components for span were provided by Koppers International Canada Ltd., subsidiary of Koppers Company, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., pioneers in glued wood technology."

The photograph depicts a timber bridge over the Upper Bowron River, B.C. Annotation on back of photograph states, "Indigenous Look -- Laminated-timber bridge, using woods cut from surrounding forest, spans Upper Bowron River, British Columbia's Cariboo area. Built for Northwood Pulp & Timber Co., newly completed cantilever span uses girder lengths of 86 feet and 76 feet, fabricated and pressure creosoted by Kopers International Canada Ltd., subsidiary of Koppers Company, Inc. Ease of assembly is hailed as factor of major advantage in laminated timber use, with prefabricated members being put together much in same elementary fashion as child's Meccano set."

The photograph depicts an ariel view of the Hart Sawmill located near Bear Lake, B.C. Multiple stacks of lumber can be seen surrounding the mill. Multiple roads surround the mill. Annotation on reverse side of the photograph states, "The Pas Lumber Co Hart Sawmill, Bear Lake, B.C. early 1980s"

The photograph depicts a crane on a partially built wooden bridge over the Parsnip River, B.C. Annotation on reverse side of the photograph states, "The Pas Lumber Co Parsnip River Bridge #2, Missinka, River late 1970's Quadra construction crane"

The photograph depicts a partially built wooden bridge over the Anzac River. Annotation on reverse side of the photograph states, "The Pas Lumber Company Ltd Oct 19/75 Bridge - Anzac River - Colbourne Road, Quadra Coast."

The photograph depicts a turned over crane in the middle of the Anzac River. A canoe can be seen in the background on the other side of the river. Annotation on reverse side of the photograph states, "The Pas Lumber Company Ltd Oct 19/75 Anzac River, B.C - Colbourne Road, Quadra Coast - crane."

The photograph depicts a partially built wooden bridge over the Anzac River. A man is walking near the bridge. A turned over crane can be seen in the middle of the river. Annotation on reverse side of the photograph states, "The Pas Lumber Company Ltd Oct 19/75 Anzac River - Colbourne Road, Quadra Coast."

The photograph depicts a partially built wooden bridge over the Anzac River. Annotation on reverse side of the photograph states, "The Pas Lumber Company Ltd Oct 19/75 Anzac River - Colbourne Road, Quadra Coast."

The photograph depicts Doug Rolfs overseeing bridge construction over the Anzac River. A crane can be seen on the uncompleted bridge. Annotation on reverse side of the photograph states, "The Pas Lumber Company Ltd Oct 12/1975, Anzac River - Colbourne Road, Quadra Coast, Doug Rolfs, foreman"

The photograph depicts an ariel view of planer operations at The Pas Company Planer Mill in Prince George, B.C. Multiple stacks of lumber, a train and multiple cars can be seen. Annotation on reverse side of the photograph state, "Doug Weller, Apr. 1974, The Pas Lumber Company Ltd Planer Operations River Road - April 1974"

The photograph depicts a helicopter carrying a drip torch for slash burning by the upper Parsnip River. Annotation on reverse side of the photograph state, "Helicopter + drip torch slasburning - Parsnip River, B.C. mid 1970's"

The photograph depicts smoke from slash burning of a forest by the upper Parsnip River. Photograph taken on a road near the fire. Annotation on reverse side of the photograph state, "Slashburning Upper Parsnip River, B.C. mid 1970's"

The photograph depicts an ariel view of the Hart Sawmill at Bear Lake, B.C. Multiple lumber stacks and a train can be seen. Annotation on reverse side of the photograph state, "The Pas Lumber Co. Ltd. Hart Sawmill, Bear Lake, B.C. mid 1970's"