- AAAB3776
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- [197-] [date recorded]
Part of 100 Mile House Historical Society oral history collection
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Part of 100 Mile House Historical Society oral history collection
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Part of 100 Mile House Historical Society oral history collection
SUMMARY: [No content summaries or documentation available.];
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
RECORDED: [location unknown], [1955?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Alice M. Earley talks about coming into the Cariboo from Victoria in 1884; the journey by steamboat, train, and horse-drawn wagon to Quesnel, where she had been hired to teach. The Conco;rd stages. She describes Quesnel in the 1880s: the town; the fur traders; pack trains; the Klondike gold rush of 1898; the telegraph line; a plot by the Chilcotin [Tsilhqot'in] people; Barkerville; Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie; the school teacher; coins; prices and automobiles of a later era. [TRACK 2: blank.]
Part of Film and Photographic Branch travel industry and tourism photographs
Along the banks of the Fraser River near Quesnel.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Altar At St. Saviour's Church, Barkerville
Alvin Johnson, C.C. McKenzie and Mrs. Bill Morris : interview
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1952-11-20 SUMMARY: An interview with Alvin Johnson, C.C. McKenzie and Mrs. Bill Morris, recorded by Bob Barlow at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Morris. Includes discussion of lost mines the Canal Flats area of the East Kootenays.
Amateur film by Winston A. Shilvock
The item is a reel of amateur film made by Winstock A. Shilvock, who worked in advertising for Home Oil Distributors in the 1930's and also worked as Assistant Manager of the Pacific National Exhibition from 1939-1940. The reel contains miscellaneous footage: the opening of Vancouver International Airport (including RCMP musical ride); Home Oil gas stations; Home Gas Optimists on tour in Cariboo and in Victoria; race driver "Cannonball" Parker; logging trucks; Exhibition Park, including construction of Exhibition Gardens.
Part of Archives cartographic collection
Shows route from Quesnel to Elwin Lake near Topley. Photographic copy of coloured ms. original in the Bancroft Library (Map/17.B8/C7T/1866d/D). Astronomical observations by P.J. Leech. From notes by J. [Maclu]re. Sheet 1.
Part of Archives cartographic collection
Photographic copy of coloured ms. originals in the Bancroft Library (Map/17.B8/C7T/1866/C).
An early automobile being passed by a freight team on the Cariboo Road.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
An eight-horse freight team on the Cariboo Road.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
An hydraulic claim, First Hill, Richfield
An unidentified man with dog and child, outside the gaol and courthouse at Quesnel
An uphill pull on the Atlin-Quesnel telegraph line.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Anahim Stampede Cowboy Chariot Racing
Anahim Stampede Milking Contest
Andrew Kelly outside the Kelly Hotel in Barkerville.