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Glenora (B.C.) Shipping--Stikine River (Alaska-B.C.)
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Georgiana Ball films

The item consists of 20 camera original, unedited films created by Georgiana Ball between about 1957 and 1970. Original films 1-11 and 12-20 were combined onto 2 film reels by the BC Archives upon acquisition.

The film are "home movies", primarily of ranching activities in the Stikine and Liard regions, particularly showing the communities of Telegraph Creek and Trutch. Other locations include Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Ocean Falls, Dawson Creek, Dease Lake, Stikine River, Mount Edziza and Banff, Alberta. Activities shown include Ball family Diamond B Ranch game guiding operations, ranching, haying, packing and various types of transportation including horseback, pack horses, river boats (incl. Judith Ann), cargo ships (incl. Northland Prince, Skeena Prince), bush planes (North Coast Airways) and helicopters.

[Stikine River]

Amateur film. A journey up the Stikine River to from Wrangell, Alaska, to Telegraph Creek, B.C. -- first on the riverboat "Hazel B. No. 2", then twelve miles by trail to the mouth of the Tahltan River. Includes footage of Stikine riverboats; Great Glacier; Mud Glacier; miners' cabins; Glenora.