The item is a record book or diary kept by Marshall Bond from July 26 to October 4, 1911. It details the activities of Bond on his journey from Seattle to Wrangell, Alaska on board the steamship Jefferson, on the S.S. Port Simpson from Wrangel to Telegraph Creek and then by pack horse through the Stikine on a hunting trip with his friend Warburton Pike and guide Charley Quash.

Records of the Mining Recorder, Telegraph Creek, relating to mineral claims and placer filings. Includes receipts of notice of assessment work, partnership applications, applications for placer claims, placer assignments, powers of attorney, mineral claim agreements, and mining syndicate agreements.

Series consists of report generated by the Survey's branch of the Government of British Columbia for a survey and study of a proposed highway route in British Columbia along its western border with Alaska, connecting the town of Hazelton to the Alaska Highway in Yukon Territory. The records included in this series reflect the methodology of the 1947-48 investigations and covers: a review of existing reports, ground reconnaissance, aerial reconnaissance and aerial photography using 3-camera photography. Prior to the construction of the Alaska Highway, investigations took place to determine the viability of proposed routes that would allow road travel between southern BC (and Seattle) with Yukon Territory along the scenic Coastal Mountain range and provide access at various points in BC to coastal ports along the Alaska panhandle. P.M. Monckton, surveyor, was recognized as having the longest association with the western route project and contributed not only ground photographs and text, but also summary reports from his previous survey work beginning in 1926. N.C. Stewart, Surveyor General of B.C. provided primary oversight for the project. His report to the Hon. E.T. Kenney, Minister of Lands and Forests, includes a diary describing the flight path, weather conditions and topographical features with aerial photograph reference numbers typed in the margin of alongside timed entries. Aerial photograph reference numbers are additionally inscribed on the attached maps and include directional arrows. G.S. Andrews provided aerial reconnaissance and stereographic photographs in his capacity as aerial survey engineer. D. Pearmain, senior draughtsman and most junior member contributed aerial reporting. In June of 1948, following the completion of aerial and ground reconnaissance surveys and reporting, R. Thistlethwaite, DLS, BCLS undertook the final part of the study, an astronomic survey. The purpose of the astronomic survey and reconnaissance was to provide horizontal control for aerial photographs. A series of captioned photographs illustrates this final report. Records are arranged in 5 black cloth binders printed with title of report (source of series title); book number, from 1 to 5; N.C. Stewart Surveyor General; and date, 1947 on books 1 to 4 and 1948 on book 5. The report includes ground and aerial photographs, maps, and text produced predominantly between 1947 and 1948 as well as reports written during earlier regional surveys in 1929 and 1939.

CALL NUMBER: T3120:0001 Track 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Prospecting and logging near Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Steve J. Tomecek (prospector, logger, trapper, farmer) was born on August 20, 1904 in Czechoslovakia. He came to Quebec in 1928. Worked in Saskatchewan, white-fish fishing at Fort McMurray. Loss of supplies. Walking one hundred miles in three days. Rabbit dinner cooked by Indians. The call of the wilderness. Came to Rosswood in 1930. Washing gold in Douglas Creek. Working on the telegraph line. Logging for George Little. Trip up the Stikine River. Living on game and fish. Crossing river by cable. Extracting gold. High cost of supplies. Finding gold in Douglas Creek. Taking out poles with horses. Raft making. Earning one hundred dollars per day during the year 1937. Small logging camps. Confused prospector looking for Snow Mine. Hiking up Goat Mountain. Changes in staking claims. Accident in bush at age 65. TRACK 2: Finding platinum. Picking up gold. Sighting and shooting Kermode bear. Grizzly bears. Sighting of huge footprints up the mountain (Sasquatch?). Meeting bears on narrow ledge. Goat hunting. Building own home. Sending out mineral samples for evaluation. Farm animals. Selling eggs. Falling on the Copper River. Soldiers going hunting with Dud Little. A labour strike. Attempts to beaver farm near Rosswood. CALL NUMBER: T3120:0001 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Prospecting and logging near Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-07 SUMMARY: Finding platinum. Picking up gold. Sighting and shooting Kermode bear. Grizzly bears. Sighting of huge footprints up the mountain (Sasquatch?). Meeting bears on narrow ledge. Goat hunting. Building own home. Sending out mineral samples for evaluation. Farm animals. Selling eggs. Falling on the Copper River. Soldiers going hunting with Dud Little. A labour strike. Attempts to beaver farm near Rosswood.

Amateur film. A journey up the Stikine River to from Wrangell, Alaska, to Telegraph Creek, B.C. -- first on the riverboat "Hazel B. No. 2", then twelve miles by trail to the mouth of the Tahltan River. Includes footage of Stikine riverboats; Great Glacier; Mud Glacier; miners' cabins; Glenora.

Amateur film. Mainly shows trip(s) up the Stikine by riverboat and placer mining activity on the river. Includes: waterfront view of Wrangell, Alaska; views of and from riverboat "Hazel B No. 2" going upriver; the Three Sisters (islands in the river); riverboat at Telegraph Creek and barge at Dease Lake, and local activity; forest fire & fire-fighting; shots of a Fokker F-11AHB flying boat designated CF-AUV (at dock and taking off) and a Fairchild floatplane; aerial shots in the vicinity; wreckage of aircraft CF-AUV (which crashed at McDame Lake, 13 July1935); general scenery and wildlife. The placer mining footage, which is interspersed, includes shots of a small mining camp, sluice works, panning, hydraulic monitor operation, jerry-built mining equipment in use, etc.

Amateur film. Tahltan Mining Company operations, filmed by English prospector Anton K. Money. REEL 1: The first pumping hydraulic mining operation on the Tahltan River. REEL 2: Tahltan mine -- first operations, 1937. REEL 3: Building a road seven miles up Tahltan River; mining camp scenes. REEL 4: Tahltan River mining footage.

This series contains records relating to Placer Mining Leases Includes applications, licences and lease forms, and correspondence. Many tracings and sketches are contained in the lease and correspondence files. Maps and plans transferred to Map Division.

Telegraph Creek Gold Commissioner's records

Source: GR Finding Aids

Transferred from Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Mineral Titles Branch, 1982.

Finding aid: file list.

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Andrea Madelaine Katherine Demchuk titled "The Stikine: Tahltans, environmentalists and B.C. Hydro." vi, 97 p. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1985. Vita. Bibliography: pages 88-97.

The fonds consists of diaries, notebooks, literary papers, business records, subject and correspondence files, photographs, maps and films. The records were created between 1926 and 1989 and document the activities of Tommy and Marion Walker as they operated Tweedsmuir Lodge from 1940 to 1948, ran their big game hunting and guiding business at Cold Fish Lake from 1948 to 1968 and Tommy Walker's advocacy role in promoting the conservation of the Spatsizi area from 1956 to 1989.

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by George Tripp titled "The Stikine gateway and the Cassiar region: a study in frontier development." 1975. xv, 185 leaves: maps. Thesis (M.A.), University of Western Ontario, 1975. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 175-183. Canadian theses on microfiche, 24686.

The item consists of an oral history with Willie Campbell recorded in 1970.
T4238:0001 summary:
TRACK 1: Early Stikine region. First white man. Buck Choquette's birth place. Gold discovery on Dease Lake, etc. TRACK 2: Early road houses. Wilson (?); Meadow, etc.

T4238:0002 summary:
Stories of 1898. Dease Trail. Road houses. Murders. Chief Nanook.

The item consists of an oral history interview with Willie Campbell and family, recorded in 1963.
It includes general chatter; Willie tells tall tales beginning with reasons for names of different species of salmon. Other stories included about 1898 gold rush, Stikine region trails, etc. Fiddle tunes.