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Summit Lake (Lake : Upper Fraser Region, B.C.)
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[Beginning of trip to Hazelton, 1928]

Amateur film. In summer 1928, two carloads of travellers drive from Kamloops to Hazelton and return, filming highlights of their trip. These include the Cariboo Road, Barkerville, Bear Lake, Summit Lake, Stuart Lake, Fort St. James, Bulkley River, Telkwa River, and Skeena River. Footage from this trip is continued on film F1984:01/05.

Cariboo lot registers

  • GR-2594
  • Series
  • 1914-1949

This series consists of Cariboo Land District lot registers. This includes subdivision lot registers for Fort George, Summit Lake, Red Pass, and a McBride townsite register with a list of reverted lots offered for sale by public auction in 1923. Earliest entries dated 1914 and all volumes were superseded by 1949 (i.e. no further entries were made after 1949).

The registers list lots in numerical order and record the alienation of land from the Crown (by purchase, auction, etc.). Information may include name of purchaser, dates and numbers of certificates issued (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and references to correspondence files and field books. Upset prices are also listed. There is an alphabetical name index in each volume.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands

Ivor Guest interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ivor Guest recalls his history; he was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1886. He first came west in 1908 to Edmonton. He eventually came to Vancouver and saw posters of Fort George, and so he decided to go there. His brother came from New York to join him. Their other brother met up with them and in May 1911, they came to Ashcroft and bought a team of horses to make the journey ;to Fort George. He describes what the journey was like, what the road houses were like, the ferry at Quesnel and how he sold a horse and traded another to an Indian for a canoe which broke in two. H;e describes several characters with whom he rode dog teams and canoed; his job as a fire warden at the Crooked River near Fort McLeod in the summers of 1912 and 1913; a description of Fort McLeod and who lived there; the business of fur; the growth of Fort George and his first impressions; the business of saw mills; Summit Lake prospecting; and the Grand Trunk Railroad. TRACK 2: Mr. Guest continues by describing farming in the Fort George area; the old characters; and differences between central and south Fort George.

Journey from zero

The item is a documentary film made by the National Film Board of Canada in 1961. It shows the free book service of the BC Public Library Commission, serving oil towns, army bases, mining camps and scattered settlements along the Alaska Highway. Shows the library van's annual trip north from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse, Yukon, with a side trip to Atlin. Includes footage of oil and gas drilling and road construction, and of asbestos mining operations at Cassiar.

Muirhead, Cecil Davidson, 1899-. Prince George District, Bulkley Valley; Game Warden.

Diary, January 27, 1922 - December 31, 1937, of C.D. Muirhead. Muirhead worked in the vicinity of Strathnaver, helping on the family homestead, trapping, cutting ties, etc., and at Summit Lake before joining the B.C. Provincial Police, as a Special Constable in August 1923 and as a regular constable in October 1924. He served as a Game Constable at Finlay Forks and Fort St. James, and from 1929, following the separation of the Game Department from the Provincial Police, as Game Warden, first at Telkwa and then Smithers. The transcripts were made by C.D. Muirhead's brother, William Muirhead.

Copied from photocopies borrowed from Mrs. A.A. Mallery, Prince George, 1986 (niece of C.D. Muirhead).

Muirhead, Cecil Davidson, b. 1899

[Parsnip FDR and area forest activities]

Stock shots. Mixed footage showing land clearing and related activities. North Harbour clearing; Scott Creek Bridge; crew travelling by river boat on Parsnip River and clearing brush; Ranger and scaler checking a truckload of logs; logging trucks on logging roads; helicopter; highway at Pine Pass; Azouzetta Lake; trucks on scales; crew working at bridge site; PGE freight train; sternwheeler (?); sequence showing bridge construction.