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2014.10 · Collection · 1907-1920

Collection consists of a photograph album from A. H. Holland, a British Columbia Land Surveyor, that was created while working in the Central Interior, the Cariboo, the Chilcotin and southeast British Columbia. This album visually documents steamboat, stagecoach and horse travel in British Columbia and also captures the prepatory work and dawn of the age of rail travel.

Holland, Arthur H.
Camp near Bednesti
2014.10.1.085 · Item · 1909
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts a cluster of canvas tents on the shores of an inland lake. Wood smoke from the camp disperses amongst the trees in the background. Lily pads dot the lake in the foreground.

Drying sugar
2014.10.1.104 · Item · 1910
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts a tarp spread out on the grass, two men sit nearby the tarp. There is a canvas tent in the background with a man standing beside it. Behind the tent is a low hill with a fence bordering the top of the hill. There are blankets drying on the fence.

2014.10.1.112 · Item · 1910
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts a man bathing himself while standing in a small metal tub. Photograph description in album notes this as "His 'Semi Annual'" [bath]. On the left is a log structure, presumably a cache building. A large clearing surrounds the building and bathing man. There is a forest and bluff in the background. Possibly located near Giscome Portage.

On the Crooked River
2014.10.1.133 · Item · 1910
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts three boats on the edge of a small river. Two men attend each boat. Wild grasses with a skiff of snow in the foreground, river, forest and a low forested bluff in the background.

Five boats breaking ice
2014.10.1.138 · Item · 1910
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts five long canoes with several men attending. The canoes are traveling through a narrow strip of open water. The majority of the river is covered in ice. Forested trees are on the far river shore.

Five boats breaking ice
2014.10.1.139 · Item · 1910
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts five long canoes with several men attending. The canoes are traveling through a narrow strip of open water. The majority of the river is covered in ice. Forested trees are on the far river shore.

Cheakamus River
2014.10.1.145 · Item · 1911
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts three men standing in front of a log cabin. Two men hold fishing rods and each of these men hold a freshly caught fish. The third man stand to the side with a loaded back pack. Two men smoke pipes.

2014.10.1.160 · Item · 1911
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts a view from above the Blackwater telegraph cabin and house. The house has a large fence garden beside, telegraph poles with wires are visible alongside the dirt road. Wood smoke drifts from the house chimney to the sparsely forested area beside.

2014.10.1.161 · Item · 1911
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts a canvas tent and wooden tent frame in the foreground, more canvas tents erected in the background. Two men carry poles on the right, while another man in center photo stands near another pole frame. There is a body of water in the background.

Trip to Fraser Lake
2014.10.1.167 · Item · 1911
Part of Arthur Holland Land Surveying Collection

Photograph depicts five or more men standing near a tent frame. There are several packs on the ground and two horses loaded with packs. There is a bridge or dock on the right, a body of water and forested hills in the background.