Historical Writings
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- Date Range
- 2008-2021
- Collection
- Harry Kruisselbrink fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual record
- electronic record
- Scope and Content
- Series contains short articles and other historical writings by Harry Kruisselbrink including: text of Main Street walking tours from 2015-2021, "Tribute to Gordon Hetherington", "Smithers: BC's First Village", "Fred Watson's Last Flight", "The Dave Havard Story", as well as other short articles ab…
- Collection
- Harry Kruisselbrink fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Creator
- Harry Kruisselbrink
- Fonds No.
- PF32
- Series No.
- S1
- Accession No.
- 2019.33
- 2020.18
- 2021.8
- 2022.5
- 2023.23
- Date Range
- 2008-2021
- Scope and Content
- Series contains short articles and other historical writings by Harry Kruisselbrink including: text of Main Street walking tours from 2015-2021, "Tribute to Gordon Hetherington", "Smithers: BC's First Village", "Fred Watson's Last Flight", "The Dave Havard Story", as well as other short articles about Gilbert Clarke Killam, James Kirby, Sadie Hadley and D.C. Sangster, Werner (Vern) Dettwiler, and Art Priestly. Some articles were printed in Autumn Leaves (produced by the Smithers Senior Citizens Association) and Heirlines (produced by the BV Genealogical Society). Items were not formally published (see Series 2, Publications).
- File 22, [Smithers History Stories], includes drafts of historical material later re-purposed for other articles and/or publications. Sections titled "Telegraph Lines in the Bulkley Valley", "Ah - A Railroad at Last!", "The Heal Family", "Smithers' Main Street", "The Smithers Citizens Association", "G. C. Killam: Photographer Extraordinaire", "The Hotel Bulkley: Smithers' First Hotel", "Smithers' Hospitals", "The Lumber Industry", "School Days, School Days", "The Survival of the Central Park Building", "The Great Depression", "The Jack McDonell Story", "The Smithers Harmonettes".
- File 23, "Canada - Here We Come! Memories of an Immigrant Family" is a 2010 expansion and of two articles published in the December 27 1995 and January 3 1996 editions of the Smithers Interior News about the Kruisselbrink family's experience immigrating to Canada and Smithers.
- Subject Access
- Bulkley River
- Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Notes
- Some articles co-written by Dirk Mendel
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Documents
PF32S1_2019.33_Heirlines_December_2015_Hadley%20and%20Sangster