Land, Settlement and Immigration

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  • Claiming, settling, and moving to a new land
  • Land titles, distribution, grants, etc.
  • Community and regional settlement patterns
  • Land settlement companies
  • Land surveys and surveyors
  • Real estate companies and activities
  • Organizations involved in sponsoring and supporting immigrants

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          2002.1 · Collection · 1887-1999

          The Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Society Collection consists primarily of textual, photographic, and cartographic records related to the regional developments of the railway industry in Northern BC. A predominant portion of the collection is made up of material from the Canadian National Railway; other railways represented include the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, the British Columbia Railway (BC Rail), the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the Grand Trunk Railway, the Intercolonial Railway, and the Okanagan Express. Significant geographical areas covered include Prince George, the Peace River Region, Terrace, Bulkley Valley, Hazelton and Prince Rupert.

          The forestry industry is represented in the collection with operational and financial records from Fyfe Lake Sawmill Ltd., which operated southwest of Prince George in the 1950s.

          The collection has been organized into series according to creator, each of which also has been arranged to subseries, file and item level, where applicable. This collection consists of eight series, as follows:

          1) Canadian National Railway
          2) Grand Trunk Railway
          3) Pacific Great Eastern Railway
          4) British Columbia Railway (BC Rail)
          5) Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)
          6) Intercolonial Railway
          7) Fyfe Lake Sawmill ltd.
          8) PGRFM
          9) Photographs

          2020.4.6.509 · File · 1998
          Part of G. Gary Runka fonds

          File consists of records created and accumulated by Gary Runka over the course of his consultancy work for B. & V. Prokopetz for the "ALCA Application for Subdivision" project in Terrace, BC. This file was numbered as G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. client file #509; that client number may be seen referenced elsewhere in the G. Gary Runka fonds. The Land Sense Ltd. client files generally include records such as correspondence, contracts, invoices, project reports, publications, ephemera, memoranda, maps or map excerpts, legal documents, meeting materials, clippings, and handwritten notes. File also includes 22 accompanying photographs.