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R.M. Patterson correspondence

Letters inward, 1934-1977, mainly concerning Cassiar district, the South Nahanni, Liard and Finlay rivers, and the Alberta foothills; copies of pages of Guy Lawrence, "40 years on the Yukon Telegraph" annotated by T.F. Harper Reed. Microfilm (neg.) 1934-1977 35 mm [A00953(1)] Photocopies ca. 1960 1 cm Raymond Murray Patterson was born in Country Durham, England, on May 13, 1898. He was educated at Rossall School, and in 1917 went directly from school into the British army. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, was captured in the spring of 1918, and spent the remainder of the war in a Prisoner of War camp in Silesia. After the war, he attended Oxford University and then joined the Bank of England. In 1924, Mr. Patterson came to Canada. After working briefly on a dairy farm in the Fraser Valley, he homesteaded in the Battle River area of the Peace River District of Alberta. In the summer of 1927, he made the first of the northern journeys which formed the subject of much of his later writings. Travelling by way of Fort Simpson, he spent the summer on the South Nahanni River, returning south by way of a difficult journey via the Fort Nelson River and Fort St. John. He returned to the South Nahanni in the spring of 1928 and remained there with his partner, Gordon Matthews, until the spring of 1929. Mr. Patterson returned to England to be married in 1929. Until 1946, he and his wife and family lived in Alberta, first sheep ranching in the Bow River Valley, and then running the Buffalo Head Ranch in the Highwood River Valley in the Alberta foothills. The Pattersons moved to Vancouver Island in 1946, living first near Sidney and later in Victoria, from 1962 on. In the late 1940s, Mr. Patterson made two more northern trips, again, largely by canoe. With his experiences on the South Nahanni, they formed the basis for three of his books. In 1948, he travelled from Wrangell up the Stikine River to Telegraph Creek and then down the Dease to Lower Post. In 1949, he went from Prince George via the Crooked River to Finlay Forks and then up the Finlay River. In the 1940s, Patterson began to publish articles in magazines such as The Beaver and Blackwoods on his experiences as a homesteader and his northern travels. In 1954, The Dangerous River, the first of his five books, was published. It was based on his experiences on the South Nahanni River, 1927-1929. The Dangerous River was followed by The Buffalo Head, 1961, which was partly about his early life in England and on his Alberta homestead, but mainly about his life in the Alberta foothills. Far Pastures, published in 1963, consisted of articles previously published in magazines with additional chapters on homesteading and later travels in the north. In Trail to the Interior, 1966 and Finlay's River, 1968, Patterson used his journeys on the Stikine and Dease in 1948 and on the Finlay in 1949 as a framework to write about the history of those rivers. In addition to his own books, Patterson wrote the introduction to the Hudson's Bay Record Society's edition of the Journals of Samuel Black, published in 1955. Raymond Murray Patterson died in Victoria in 1984. Records include: letters inward, 1934-1977, mainly concerning Cassiar district, the South Nahanni, Liard and Finlay Rivers, and the Alberta foothills; and copies of pages of Guy Lawrence, 40 years on the Yukon Telegraph annotated by T.F. Harper Reed. Related records include MS-2762, Visual Records accession 198908-001, and Maps accession M89-038 Photocopy Guy Lawrence's 40 years on the Yukon Telegraph annotated by T.F. Harper Reed. Source: MS Finding Aids Finding aid.

Photograph album

The series consists of a photograph album created around 1875, possibly as a presentation album for Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie, containing 77 black and white photographs taken by Charles Horetzky between 1871 and 1875.

The photographs were taken during the Canadian Pacific Railway Survey and include images of the Homathko River area, Jasper House, North Saskatchewan, Peace River, Gardner Canal, Dean Canal, Bella Bella, Lake Huron and Mississaugua River. Many photographs are numbered and all have a caption.

Peace River dam inspection

The item is a reel of unedited film footage. Shows construction scenes at Portage Mountain Dam on the Peace River. Highways Minister Phil Gaglardi visits the site.

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