Surveyors--British Columbia

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Surveyor's sketch book

The item consists of a surveyor's sketch book including drawings with elevations, etc. of the Victoria area (Mt. Tolmie, Christmas Hill) and a survey of Nanaimo.

Hudson's Bay Company

Surveying Department labour book

The series consists of a ledger of payments to individuals in account with the Surveying Dept. Arranged chronologically.

Vancouver Island (Colony). Office of the Surveyor General

Surveying Department old labour journal

The file consists of records of employees of the Surveying Dept. including date hired, name, length of employment and salary, employee's debit and credit account. Arranged by employee name.

Vancouver Island (Colony). Office of the Surveyor General

T.F. Harper Reed fonds

  • PR-0470
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1901-1903, 1918-1975

The fonds consists of photographs of Northern B.C. and the Yukon and survey crew activities on the Alaska Canada Boundary Survey as well as correspondence, legal papers, notebooks, autobiographical material, and annotated publications.

Reed, T.F. Harper

Frederick P. Burden interview

CALL NUMBER: T1865:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Frederick P. Burden : British Columbia land surveyor, 1902-1924 PERIOD COVERED: 1874-1924 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-10-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in New Brunswick in 1874. Working on a log drive in New Brunswick in 1880s. Taught for a time in New Brunswick. Graduated from UNB in 1900. Was good friends with A.H. Green, later a prominent B.C. surveyor. Comments on his days at UNB. Came to Nelson, B.C. in 1901. Became a B.C. land surveyor in 1902. Established the surveying firm of Green Brothers and Burden. Surveyed land near Fort George, 1910. Was a surveyor in Prince George, 1910-28. TRACK 2: Description of Fort George, ca. 1910. Wages and working conditions for survey crews. Railway boom in 1914. Construction on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Mills in the Fort George area. Flu epidemic of 1919. Burden is Conservative candidate in provincial election of 1924. CALL NUMBER: T1865:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Frederick P. Burden : Prince George, 1910-1931 PERIOD COVERED: 1885-1931 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-10-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Burden defeated in the 1924 provincial election by Harry Perry. Suspicious circumstances surrounding absentee ballots. Plans to build a pulp mill at Prince George in the 1920s: the Fraser Syndicate. The murder of Robert Tyhurst of the Syndicate. Power investigations for the proposed pulp mill. Burden's Prince George properties. The collapse of the Fraser Syndicate, 1931. Return to the topic of river drives on the St. John River, NB. TRACK 2: Repeat of side one from the end of the Robert Tyhurst story. River drives in New Brunswick. Odd dealings relating to Fort George Indian Reserve. Boats on the Fraser River. CALL NUMBER: T1865:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Frederick P. Burden : MLA and Minister of Lands PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1942 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-10-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: River boats on the Fraser and Nechako Rivers, 1911-14. Stories about Billy Seymour, local character and chainman for Burden. Running the Peace River with Billy Seymour. Billy Seymour's death.Consideration of potential power projects in the Central Interior. TRACK 2: Real estate and business dealings in early Prince George involving GTP Railway, George Hammond, Morley Phillips, Darcy Scott and others. Elected to B.C. Legislature in 1928. Becomes Agent-General in London, 1931-34. Orchard relates another anecdote told to him by Burden relating to his brief expulsion from UNB. (End of interview)

W.S. Drewry records

Includes letters in and out, including correspondence relating to surveys conducted for the Department of the Interior in the Rocky Mountains and Railway Belt, surveys for the B.C. government in Slocan and personal and business correspondence. Also includes diaries/field books.

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