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Yukon Telegraph
2000.23.1.105 · File · 1970-1997
Part of Audrey Smedley L'Heureux fonds

File consists of material relating to the Yukon Telegraph. Materials include newspaper clippings, correspondence, a magazine, pamphlets, a newspaper, and reproductions of articles. Highlights include:

  • Beautiful British Columbia Magazine, Vol. 32 No. 2 , 1990
  • Ministry of Lands, Parks, and Housing, "Provincial Parks of British Columbia Map", 1980 (pamphlet)
  • Telegraph Trail Preservation Society, "Telegraph trail Hiking & Recreational Guide", [198-?] (pamphlet)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Atlin- Quesnel Telegraph Line", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Pack Train Atlin Quesnel Telegraph Line", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
  • BC Provincial Archives, "Cooking at Teamsters Camp Atlin Quesnel Telegraph Line", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
  • Original photographic slides from 1981 depicting Sinkut Lake Ranch and Nulki Lake Resort south of Vanderhoof
2009.7.1.015 · Item · [ca. 1917]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Photograph depicts two young granddaughters of Marion and W.H. Colllison, holding flowers in grassy area. Forest and hills in background.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Winnie & Joyce at Kincolith". Marion Winnifred is the daughter of John Maxwell Collison, and Joyce is the daughter of William Edwin Collison.

2009.5.4.36 · Item · [ca. 1938]
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Fred and Alan are being pushed in wheelbarrow by a woman wearing a blouse, dress pants, and sunglasses. Typed annotation on recto of photograph: "This is 'Mac' - she is a young woman." This woman is speculated to be Tom Taylor's wife Marion. They stand in a field with a car behind them. A forest and body of water can be see in background, as well as the opposite shore.

Yellowhead Pass?
2012.13.1.85.03 · Item · 1970
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a view of what is possibly the Yellowhead Pass on the British Columbia-Alberta border, west of Jasper A.B.

Writing on a Rock
2012.13.1.56.73 · Item · 1973
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts an unknown individual pointing at some writing on a rock; it possibly reads "ACC Aug 10 1911."

Wrecked Plane
2012.13.1.46.42 · Item · 1980
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts Kent Sedgwick standing beside a wrecked plane somewhere in South Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.

2000.1.1.3.19.194 · Item · [ca. 1980]
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts ore cars on cables running between tramline towers on left. Road in right foreground, building and McDame mountain in background. Tramline ran through mine valley, between loading station in mine and dump station at mill on plantsite.

2000.1.1.3.19.195 · Item · [ca. 1980]
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts ore cars on cables running between tramline towers on left. Road in right foreground, building and McDame mountain in background. Tramline ran through mine valley, between loading station in mine and dump station at mill on plantsite.

2000.1.1.3.19.198 · Item · [ca. 1980]
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts tramline conveyor in centre of image (located west of mine). Conveyor ran from crusher plant to tramline loading station. Building on left believed to be the crusher reject plant. Mine valley and northwestern mountain range in background.

Woodpecker Ranch
2012.13.1.41.01 · Item · 1980
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts the grade for the British Columbia Railway, which was formerly known as the Pacific Great Eastern until 1972. It is located somewhere near the Woodpecker Ranch in Woodpecker, B.C.

Woodpecker Ranch
2012.13.1.41.02 · Item · 1980
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts the grade for the British Columbia Railway, which was formerly known as the Pacific Great Eastern until 1972. It is located somewhere near the Woodpecker Ranch in Woodpecker, B.C. There are two unknown individuals present in the image.

Woman with Camera
2012.13.1.52.27 · Item · 1980
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts an unknown woman with a camera. Nearby are the skeletal remains of an unknown animal. The location is the upper Fraser Canyon.

2007.17.4.22 · Item · [ca. 1960]
Part of James Joseph Claxton Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a woman wearing a Cowichan sweater rowing a boat away from a rocky island with a lighthouse. Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Gal in boat wearing Indian sweater knit by my mother Eileen M. Jackson (she also spun the wool) for her brother J.J. Claxton, cook on the Columbia Coast Mission Boat. - S.K. Jackson”