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The item is a b&w photograph of Peace River country.

The fonds consists of account books of Fort Dunvegan.

This series contains the records of the Gold Commissioner, Government Agent, and Assistant Land Commissioner, Cariboo District (Quesnel). The records consist of lot registers, certificates of purchase, certificates of pre-emption, registers of pre-emptions (canceled and allowed), registers of land applications and lands purchased, register of leaves of absence granted pre-emption on active service, minute books containing lot register of lands along the route of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, and registers of hay and pasture land leases. The series also includes townsite registers for Quesnel, Barkerville, and Wells and lot registers for some townships in the Peace River Block. Volumes 89-98 and 153-158 are oversize.

The series consists of records created by the Omineca Gold Commissioner between 1869 and 1929. It includes correspondence inward, mining leases, register of free miners' certificates and manual of record and accounts.

The series consists of records created by the Omineca Gold Commissioner between 1871 and 1906. It includes correspondence outward and miners leave of absence counterfoils.

Diaries, account books, letter books [reports], miscellaneous papers, relating to service with Hudson's Bay Company in British Columbia 1883-1928; record of placer claims, Peace River District 1916-1936 under British Columbia Placer Mining Act 1891; sundry mining receipts; correspondence, receipts; documents concerning sons, clippings, 1927-1943. Printed pattern bed quilt in crochet transferred to BC Provincial Museum.

The series contains records relating to mining leases (3 vols.). Volumes 1 and 2 are entitled Records of Mining, Leases and are registers of leases issued. They are arranged by Mining District. Included are entries for lease number, date and description of the lease, name of lessee, lot and locality of the lease, annual rental and other fees, expenditure requirements, date of assignment and assignee, letter reference numbers and cancellation information. Volume 3 is a record book of applications for mining leases recorded at Victoria, B.C., for the Stikine and Liard Mining Divisions of Cassiar District and Victoria District.

This series contains the correspondence inward to the Minister of Mines: includes 1898 report from Gold Commissioner, Telegraph Creek; correspondence with George M. Dawson, Geological Survey of Canada, 1899; a 1900 report on the collection of mineral statistics; correspondence relating to radioactive ores, the B.C. War Metals Research Board, and the B.C. Research Council, 1942-1945, etc.; correspondence with Federal Minister of Transport relating to the establishment of airports in B.C., 1939; notes on 1942 Dominion Provincial conference regarding wartime agreement on Peace River oil rights.

The series consists of loose photographs, a mixture of negatives and prints, taken by Carmichael in the early 1900s. They are of various places including Alberni, Powell River, Haida Gwaii and Peace River and show landscapes, water courses, dams and people as well as mining operations. Several prints may have been removed from an album.

Each image was given an HP (historic photograph) number in the sequence HP001665 to HP001739 and kept as part of the Archives general file (accession 193501-001). Prints, both original and copy, are in the HP original folders while negatives, both original and copy, are filed either by HP number or by negative number, depending on the media (glass, nitrate, acetate etc.).

Series consists of two letters to Richard Wolfenden and one to Madge (Wolfenden) Hamilton, 1904, 1908, 1958, containing reminiscences of early British Columbia by Francis Brook Gregory and John Connell and reminiscences of the family of R.C. Moody by R.A.C. Lowndes (great grandson); one invoice of Robert Porter and Sons.

Microfilmed copy of journal kept at Fort St. John and Hudson's Hope containing records of trading supplies, company servants, outside traders and casual employees. Data includes quantities and qualities of furs traded together with the values of both the furs and the trade goods. Lists of supplies from Lesser Slave Lake plus costs and logistics of transporting them to the Peace River and the furs out are shown. Later, probably ca. 1927, blank and little used pages have been used for recipes.

Series consists of correspondence, 1904, and diaries April - June 1904, winter 1905-1906, and August 14 - October 10, 1907 concerning trapping and prospecting, Tumtum Creek, Shuswap district and of a reconnaissance survey made for lumber company from Fort St. Ann across Wapiti Pass to the Big Salmon River and back.

The series consists of records created by the Sub-Mining Recorder at Fort Grahame between 1909 and 1939. It contains records of claims, applications for certificates of work, powers of attorney, correspondence outward to the Mining Recorder in Smithers and instructions as to the duties of Sub-Mining Recorders. Records may also relate to the Omineca Mining Recorder.

Notebook of George Henderson, Slocan, BC, containing diary of trip from Vancouver to Hudson Hope, 1912; notes re land locations, mineral findings, vicinity Hudson Hope, Nation River, 1912, 1913.

Loaned for copying by Mrs. T. Cooper, Slocan, 1975.

The item is a b&w photograph of a canyon at the mouth Deep Creek.

The item is a b&w photograph of coal seam J14 on Johnson Creek, in the Peace River coal field.

The file consists of correspondence inward to James Walker Beattie, guide and outfitter, 1912-1916. Contains correspondence and monthly game reports of the Hudson Hope detachment of B.C. Provincial Police.

The item is a b&w photograph of coal seam J16 on Johnson Creek in the Peace River coal field.

The series consists of a report collected by the Dept. of Agriculture in 1915. The report was written by Agricultural Surveyor W.H. Cartwright and contains information on the physical features, soil conditions and agricultural possibilities of an area just north of the Peace River Block, recorded between April 1913 and October 1914. The report is illustrated with 22 black and white photographs and is accompanied by meteorological readings and some correspondence between Cartwright and the Deputy Minister of Agriculture.

This series contains a report on the timber conditions in the Peace River Division submitted to the District Forester by George Townshend, Division Ranger.