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Correspondence

Correspondence

The file consists of photocopies of two letters from John McLoughlin, 1844, 1845, and one letter outward (handwritten copy) to Colonel Robert Scott, U.S. Army, Division HQ, San Francisco, 1867, regarding U.S. administration of Indian affairs in Alaska.

Letter from Thomas J. Farnham to Secretary of War, Washington (copy)

Letter from Thomas J. Farnham to Secretary of War, Washington (copy)

The file consists a transcript copy of a letter from Thomas A. Farmham, dated January 4, 1840 at Oahu Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), to J.R. Poinsett, the Secretary of War in Washington. In it Farnham gives detailed information of the activities of the Hudson's Bay Company in Oregon Territory (present day Oregon and Washington). The letter is accompanied by a certificate issued by the Department of State on July 12, 1898, certifying that it is a true copy of a document from the files of the Department of State.

Down the Columbia river by canoe

The file consists of a transcript titled "Down the Columbia river by canoe" by George Burnet Forde, written in 1916. It contains an account of a trip made in September and October 1915 by the 15 year old G.B. Forde who accompanied his father John Preston Forde, a civil engineer with the C.P.R. and assistant Captain F.P. Armstrong. The purpose of the trip was to examine the possibilities of navigation on the Columbia. The party travelled from Robson, B.C., to Beverly, Washington, by canoe and then onwards by train and steamer to Astoria. There are 21 photographs that accompany the transcript.

Forde, George Burnet

Assorted travels

Assorted travels

The item consists of one album containing five titled and dated sections of photographs:

  1. “A trip to the continent March-April 1900,” includes views of France and Italy. Large photographs were likely purchased during travels and include a number and the name of a photographer’s studio. There is pressed plant material “From Hadrian’s Villa” on page 3.

  2. “Port Townsend Cruise (in “Dorothy”) July 1900” includes views of various sailing vessels, many are identified.

  3. “Cruise to Nanoose Bay (in “Dorothy”), Sept 1902” includes photographs of house exteriors, sailing vessels, and unidentified women and men.

  4. “Duck shooting expedition to Douglas Lake (via Kamloops), October 1903” includes outdoor group portraits of identified men and one woman, building exteriors, and transportation by horse and boat.

  5. “A trip to Cassiar, 22nd Aug. to 2nd Oct 1904” includes views of landscapes, river boats, outdoor group portraits of partially identified men, and animal trophies. A “Memo of dates” and “Synopsis of hunting tip to Eagle River, 1904” are written on two of the pages. The collection ends with two full-page hunting photographs.

Numerous album pages are unused.

All photographs are captioned in black ink.

“(All photos (except large full plate[s]) taken with Kodak by WHL)” is written in pencil in the top left of the first album page, probably by Archives staff.

Real Estate Agent. Port Moody; Seattle.

Notebooks of unidentified real estate agent covering sales in Salmon Bay City (near Seattle), ca. 1902-1906, and sales of lots in Port Moody, 1912-1919. Names of purchasers and dates of various payments are shown.

Real Estate Agent. Port Moody; Seattle