Fonds PR-0389 - Frank Cyril Swannell fonds

Frank Swannell's surveyors on the boiler of the wreck of the SS Enterprise at Tremblay [Trembleur... "Manson Creek, Omineca, Oct 1913". Boat encampment at Big Bend on the Columbia River; Frank Swannell's notations. Bedaux expedition; Tommy Wilde and the fireless cooker. Bedaux expedition; Sifton Pass and Kachika River Bedaux expedition; loading boats at Fort Grahame. Bedaux expedition; at Pete Toy's bar. Bedaux expedition; at Pete Toy's bar. Bedaux expedition; loading at Fort Graham. Bedaux expedition; lunch below Finlay rapids. S.C. McLean, geological survey Frank Swannell at Morice Mountain geodetic station. Bedaux expedition; pack train on Caribou Summit. Bedaux expedition; loading a raft on Halfway River. Bedaux expedition; members. Bedaux expedition; members Frank Swannell and Al Phipps. Bedaux expedition; abandoning the trailer. Bedaux expedition; Muskwa River. Bedaux Expedition; cook preparing to ride a bucking horse. Bedaux expedition; camp at Fox River. Bedaux expedition; Josephine Daly Bedaux expedition; Josephine and Balourset Halfway River; the Westergaard family. Bedaux expedition; Mademoiselle Chiesa and Bruce Bedaux. Bedaux expedition; Westergaard family at the Westergaard Ranch on Halfway River. Bedaux expedition; Upper Kachika River Bedaux expedition; running Finlay Rapids. Frank Cyril Swannell and Ada Mary Driver on their wedding day. Tetachuk Falls. Frank Swannell survey; Takla Lake. "Fort St. James."
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Frank Cyril Swannell fonds

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PR-0389

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  • 1811-1968 (Creation)
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    Swannell, Frank Cyril, 1880 - 1969

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1.4 m of textual records and other material

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(1880-1969)

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Frank Cyril Swannell (F.C.S.) was born in Hamilton, Ontario, on May 16th 1880. He obtained a certificate in assaying from the University of Toronto in 1899 and moved to Victoria, British Columbia shortly afterwards. He received his Provincial Land Surveying licence in 1903, married Ada Mary Driver in 1904 and started his own surveying business in 1908. Swannell became well known as a surveyor and took several government contracts in the interior of B.C.

He enlisted in the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force in February 1915 and was sent to France. He was injured in the head by shrapnel at the battle of Festubert and recovered in hospital in England and the Military Convalescent Hospital in Esquimalt.

Swannell returned to surveying and continued in the field until 1945, including surveying for the Bedaux Expedition of 1934. He died in Victoria in 1969, at the age of 89.

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The fonds consists of diaries, photographs, field books, scrapbooks and files containing notes and correspondence. Fonds includes survey maps of land in Russia, Turkey, France, and British Columbia.

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Finding aid available for MS-0392.

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Associated records (photographs and maps) at Library and Archives Canada. See correspondence in volume 76, file 8a.

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Archives code(s): MS-0392; MS-1635

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Accession number(s): 75-119, 198002-017 (89-0932); 80-123; Map Reg. No. 11507; Map Reg. No. 14104-14150; Map Reg. No. 14281-14287.

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Includes: ca. 6000 photographs, 1 microfilm reel, and 90 maps.

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