Telegraph--British Columbia

Ed. Conway with the Collins overland party.

F-09260
Item
[186-]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Ed. Conway with the Collins Overland Telegraph party.

F-09261
Item
[186-]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Robert McMicking personal and business records

MS-1171
Series
1862-1913

Part of Robert Burns McMicking fonds

Robert Burns McMicking was a manager for the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company (later part of the British Columbia Telephone Company) and an electrician for the City of Victoria. He was married to Margaret (Leighton) McMicking.

Records include six volumes of letterbook correspondence outward, 1871-1895 and 1905-1910, relating to the telephone, telegraph and lighting system and the electrical business in Victoria. Also included are diaries from 1862-1863 and 1877 relating to life in Yale; notes for lectures on topics relating to electricity and physics; marriage certificate, 1899; documents relating to Commission as Justice of the Peace, 1899; papers relating to McMicking family history and a scrapbook of clippings relating to electrical and telephone business.

McMicking, Robert Burns, 1843-1915

Terminal station of Collins's Overland Telegraph, New Westminster, B.C.

E-03114
Item
12 Aug 1865

Part of Archives visual records collection

Illustration for article in Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization. Vol. IX, No. 450 (12 August 1865), p.1. Part of article included.

China Bar Bluff.

MS-3100.6.16
Item
1866-1870

Part of Frederick Dally fonds

A view on the Fraser River at New Westminster. A noticeable feature in this river, at this spot, is that a salt water stream runs up on one side, and a fresh water stream from the mountains runs down on the other side.

MS-3100.3.31
Item
1866-1870

Part of Frederick Dally fonds

Route of telegraph line constructed & working. Jany. 1st 1866 / drawn by J.C. White

CM/A375
Item
[1866]

Part of Archives cartographic collection

Shows line from New Westminster to beyond Quesnel, B.C. Photographic copy of sheet 4 or 5 of a 6-sheet set showing the telegraph line from Monterey, Calif. to Fort Stager, B.C. The original is a coloured manuscript map in the Bancroft Library (Map/12(W)/C7T/1866). This map differs slightly from one of the same title drawn by J.F. Lewis (CM/A376). The title is not in a cartouche, and place names differ.

American Division : route of Western Union Telegraph line, New Westminster to Yale, British Columbia / drawn by J.C. White

CM/A337
Item
[1866]

Part of Archives cartographic collection

Ascent to China Bar Bluff.

MS-3100.7.30
Item
1866-1870

Part of Frederick Dally fonds

Jackass Mountain

F-08509
Item
[1866-1870]

Part of Frederick Dally fonds

American Division : route of Western Union Telegraph line, Quesnel Mouth to fishery north of Fort Stager, British Columbia / drawn by J.C. White

CM/A340
Item
[1866]

Part of Archives cartographic collection

Shows route from Quesnel to Elwin Lake near Topley. Photographic copy of coloured ms. original in the Bancroft Library (Map/17.B8/C7T/1866d/D). Astronomical observations by P.J. Leech. From notes by J. [Maclu]re. Sheet 1.

The ascent to China Bar Bluff.

MS-3100.4.58
Item
1866-1870

Part of Frederick Dally fonds

A view on the Fraser River - at New Westminster.

MS-3100.4.16
Item
1866-1870

Part of Frederick Dally fonds

American Division : route of Western Union Telegraph line, Yale to Quesnel Mouth, British Columbia / drawn by J.C. White from notes by J. McClure

CM/A372
Item
1866 June

Part of Archives cartographic collection

Photographic copy of coloured ms. originals in the Bancroft Library (Map/17.B8/C7T/1866/C).

Route of telegraph line constructed & working, Oct. 2nd, 1866 / drawn by J.C. White

CM/A374
Item
[1866]

Part of Archives cartographic collection

Route of telegraph line constructed and working, Jany. 1st 1866 / drawn by J.F. Lewis

CM/A376
Item
[1866]

Part of Archives cartographic collection

Shows line from New Westminster to beyond Quesnel, B.C. Photographic copy of sheet 4 or 5 of a 6-sheet set showing the telegraph line from Monterey, Calif. to Fort Stager, B.C. The original is a coloured manuscript map in the Bancroft Library (Map/12(W)/C7T/1866). This map differs slightly from one of the same title drawn by J.C. White (CM/A375). The title is in a cartouche, and place names differ.