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Consists of records and reports created or collected by Horst Sander, former President of the Cerebral Palsy Association of Prince George & District. Includes annual reports for the Cerebral Palsy Association of Prince George & District, building proposals for a new Prince George Child Development Centre (CDC), CDC reports, Horst Sander's speech notes, and a history of the CDC.

Photograph depicts Francis Lamont, Executive Director of the Cerebral Palsy Association of British Columbia, holding a framed architectural sketch drawing of the proposed new Prince George Child Development Centre building. Horst Sander, President of the Cerebral Palsy Association of Prince George and District, stands beside.

Includes the following:

• Child Development Centre of Prince George & District, "Early Intervention Services in Prince George & District", May 2007
• Child Development Centre of Prince George & District, "Building an Early Childhood Development Hub in the North: Helping Our Children Reach Their Potential", May 2007

Photo depicts people with poles on a river shore clogged with huge slabs of dirty river ice. The river is open except for ice on the shore. The men are in shirtsleeves indicating it's not freezing cold. A structure of scaffolding and possible concrete bridge piling molds on the shore suggesting this is the beginning of a bridge-building project.

Photo depicts two men in a trolley hanging from wires that cross a frozen river. Chunks of river ice are in the foreground, a sandy cutbank forms the far shore, and beyond a rocky mountain fills the right side of the photo. The trolley or hanging platform is simple - maybe two planks hung from three wires, and a second wire trolley or platform is seen closer to the foreshore hanging from the same river-spanning wires.

Photo depicts a truck crossing a frozen river in front of a dock and machinery or possibly river boats are. A road is in the foreground, plowed but snowy, and bare branches of bushes next to a barbed wire fence. Beyond the truck and dock are a low wooden bridge, and a similar dock and machinery structure is seen on the far shore of the river.

Photo depicts a truck with a plow blade attachment blowing snow or clearing snow. The plow attachment is open to the front, and three corkscrew blades are visible. Blowing snow obscures all but a small portion of a snowy road. Nothing visible in the background.

Photo depicts a large metal bridge under construction across a river. The upright girders have been erected and a trolley is halfway between the upright girders hanging from wire strung between them. Men on this trolley can be seen next to a ladder. The trolley is connected by wires from the bottom to a barge or platform. One man on this platform seems to be in a seated harness aided by another man. Another man is seen on the middle of the barge or platform. Machinery, building debris, and men in hardhats are in the foreground and logging clearing can be seen across the river.

Photo depicts two men with soda bottles sitting on the front fender of a truck in front of a building with a NORTHERN BOTTLING LTD. PHONE 222 sign. The truck is parked in the dirt lot in front of the building. Another sign that presumably says DRINK COCA-COLA is partially obscured but the distinctive Coca-Cola font can be identified along with the upper half of a glass bottle. One man has the soda bottle to his lips, the other has it half-raised, and both wear work shirts, dark pants, and work boots. The truck has a covered truck bed. The building is wooden with wooden slats nailed to the roof to use as a ladder. A bicycle leans against the building.

Photo depicts a large military-style Quonset hut with men working in front of it. Military cab over trucks in the foreground show the Quonset hut is large enough to park many trucks inside it. Ladders on the side and front of the hut suggest it's under construction. A man in white painter's overalls carrying a paint can is near sliding white front doors and ladders, and four men are at work in front of the hangar or Quonset hut at various benches. An engine is near them, and another truck is on the left of the hut. A fifth man is between the painter and the army trucks, possibly smoking, in front of a sign that says BE CAUTIOUS OF FIRE. Another sign on the door says NO SMOKING... OUT ONLY. Four three over three windows on sliding front doors.

Photo depicts four army work trucks in a muddy cleared area with five men beside them. The front truck has U.S.A.533532 printed in block letters on either side of its grill and one window of its split windscreen is propped open. Another truck is in its truck bed inside wooden railings with its trailer stacked on top, and a third truck equal in size to the first is on a trailer pulled by the first truck. The fourth truck may or may not be attached or towed by the first, creating a truck train. The Fourth truck has a covered truck bed and may be towing a trailer. A blurry tall item behind the last truck could be another man.

Photo depicts a work camp in a mountainous valley seen from behind and above. Fourteen buildings and four wall tents make up the camp, which is situated at the bottom of a valley next to a snow-over river. Snow is on the mountains. Cleared logs and logging activity are seen in the work staging and camp area as well as in the foreground.

Photo depicts a 1940s cab over military or army truck with a canvas covered truck bed. The right headlight of the truck, directly under the split windscreen, is above a hand-lettered sign that says LADIES ENTRANCE ONLY. A faint black arrow under the sign points at a man leaning against the truck with one leg crossed in front of the other. He wears a chauffeur's hat at a jaunty angle, workpants and work boots, and a dark, short-sleeved shirt with many shiny buttons. A second vehicle is seen at the right of the photo.

Photo depicts a wooden bridge under construction across a wide river on which the ice is melting. The bridge is split into two lanes, the front one higher, on which decking can be seen at the close end of the bridge. A gap in the close lane is visible two thirds of the way across the river. The wooden bridge lane continues past the gap to the far side of the river. Cranes and canopied military trucks are on the lower lane, the top halves of which are visible in the photo. Low mountain in the background behind coniferous trees on the far side of the river and cut logs on the foreshore.

Photo depicts 1940's GMC transport truck parked next to a long body of water (either a lake or slow, wide river) in a valley at the side of a dirt road. Truck bed has wooden rails around it and guidelines hold the back rails together. Round headlights and dual or dually tires of note on the truck. Passenger door is open to the water.

Photo depicts 1940's transport truck hauling a metal 'I' beam or girder on a trailer on a dirt road in a mountain pass. A valley is visible in haze in the background, and 3 men walk behind the truck. Round headlights and dual or dually tires of note on the truck.

Photo depicts a work camp or staging site with buildings and silos in front of a mountain. Snow on the mountain and at the side of the dirt road suggest late or early winter. Men can be seen from behind near power poles, vehicles, and walking towards a dark-coloured one-storey building with many windows.

Series consists of three albums and loose photos, most of which relating to the surveying of Northern BC between 1929 – 1935. The albums in particular, feature photographs from 1929, 1931 and 1935; while the loose photos are mostly dated from 1934 when the Bedaux Expedition was initiated.

The Phipps-Mackenzie Collection consists of four series. The textual series contains surveying journals and reports mostly related to the Bedaux Expedition and other surveys which took place in northern BC, correspondences and reports from the time when Phipps was working at South Africa with the Bedaux Company, as well as personal documents which belong to A. H. Phipps and his wife, Dorothy E. Phipps (nee Sommers). The photographic series holds three photo albums most of which are related to surveying northern BC in 1929, 1930 and 1935, and some loose photos which mostly reflect Phipps' involvement in the Bedaux Expedition in 1934. The cartographic series includes a map of the traveled route of the surveyors of the Bedaux Expedition. The ephemera series holds two wallets and an award pin.

Series consists of five files which are related to surveying experiences in northern BC from 1931 and 1934, personal documents belonging to Phipps and his wife Dorothy E. Phipps (nee Sommers), and documents from Phipps' employment in South Africa with the Bedaux Company.