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Newsreel footage. Depicts hydraulic mining operation at "Lowhee Pit" site near Wells, BC. A shorter version of this film forms part of the NFB film JOBS THAT ARE DIFFERENT.

RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), [197-?] SUMMARY: [No documentation is available for this tape.];

SUMMARY: Three parts of a radio program entitled "A View from the Inside", by Robert Cummings of Prince George radio station CJCI. The three parts focus on the history of Prince George and Barkerville.;

CALL NUMBER: T2602:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Metchosin memories : the Helgesen family PERIOD COVERED: 1861-1910 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: Christian Helgesen tells the story of his father, Hans Helgesen, who settled in Metchosin, B.C., in 1861.;

CALL NUMBER: T2602:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Miracle of the sea : a sealing tale PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1900 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: Christian Helgesen tells the story of Hans Helgesen's adventures on a sealing schooner that overturned in a storm.;

Wages, March to May, 1865; store account book [1874?]-1879

Ledger.

Unused way bill.

Daybook of unidentified blacksmith at Quesnel, 1871-1882; papers relating to E.T. Dodge, including power of attorney, 1867 and a number of promissory notes; papers re post office at Hanceville, 1902-1904; cartoon of a politician courting Chinese and Indian voters.

The item is a testimonial presented to James Wattie of Camerontown, a miner and woolen mill owner, on his leaving the Cariboo to return to Canada.

The item is an assessment notice for income tax, for George Cowan, Barkerville M.L.A. and Registrar of the County Court.

The item is a Free Miner certificate from 1876, made out to William Lyons, a Barkerville miner.

The item consists of a photocopy of an account book, kept by William Lyne, a blacksmith at Williams Lake, between 1886 and 1896.

The item is a photocopy of the reminiscences of Ernest Hubert Allcock. Allcock emigrated from England to Alberta in 1909 and worked on farms and on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. In 1914 he homesteaded near White's Landing, north of Quesnel. He was highway foreman in Quesnel, and from 1941 to 1952 in Lillooet.

The file consists of reminiscences entitled "A Tale of Northern B.C. from Cariboo to Cassiar" by Martha Boss, a telegrapher at Trail

The consists of a letter written by Thomas Robert Mitchell to his parents in 1862, outlining journey to and from the Cariboo gold fields. File includes a typescript copy which was made in 1993 by R.C. Harris. Also a map has been added.