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9th Annual Women's Ski Fest 2001
- Date Range
- January 2001
- Collection
- BVM discrete item collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- electronic record
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Item is a pdf report on the 9th Annual Women's Ski Fest, held on January 9th-10th 2001 at the Bulkley Valley Nordic Centre. Includes photographs and comments from participants.
- Collection
- BVM discrete item collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- electronic record
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- C1
- Accession No.
- 2021.1
- Physical Description
- 1 pdf (600 KB)
- Date Range
- January 2001
- Custodial History
- Item was found on a CD in Room 6 in early January 2020, amongst other materials which had been submitted to the Interior News in the early 2000s and which were later transferred to the Bulkley Valley Museum (possibly in 2007).
- Scope and Content
- Item is a pdf report on the 9th Annual Women's Ski Fest, held on January 9th-10th 2001 at the Bulkley Valley Nordic Centre. Includes photographs and comments from participants.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Notes
- Digital copy only; CD was disposed of.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
9th Annual Women's Ski Fest 2001
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10th Annual Kinsmen's Rodeo Supplement
- Date Range
- June 13, 1984
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Scope and Content
- Sponsors, list of rodeo events.
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Fonds No.
- BF5
- Accession No.
- 2020.6.44
- Physical Description
- 1 cm textual records
- Date Range
- June 13, 1984
- History / Biographical
- Printed in the Interior News, Houston Today, Lakes District News, and Vanderhoof Express.
- Scope and Content
- Sponsors, list of rodeo events.
- Subject Access
- Interior News
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
10th Annual Kinsmen's Rodeo Supplement
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12th Annual Kinsmen's Rodeo Supplement
- Date Range
- June 11, 1986
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Scope and Content
- Wild cow milking, Chilliwack band, aspiring cowboy, rodeo clown, events and sponsors, chariots, livestock, Mercey Bros. band, steer undecorating, calf roping, "Poem by a cowboy", team roping, bronc riding, steer wrestling, bareback.
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Fonds No.
- BF5
- Accession No.
- 2020.6.45
- Physical Description
- 1 cm textual records
- Date Range
- June 11, 1986
- History / Biographical
- Printed in the Interior News and Houston Today.
- Scope and Content
- Wild cow milking, Chilliwack band, aspiring cowboy, rodeo clown, events and sponsors, chariots, livestock, Mercey Bros. band, steer undecorating, calf roping, "Poem by a cowboy", team roping, bronc riding, steer wrestling, bareback.
- Subject Access
- Interior News
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
12th Annual Kinsmen's Rodeo Supplement
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13th Annual Kinsmen's Rodeo Supplement
- Date Range
- June 10, 1987
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Fonds No.
- BF5
- Accession No.
- 2020.6.46
- Physical Description
- 1 cm textual records
- Date Range
- June 10, 1987
- History / Biographical
- Printed in the Interior News and Houston Today.
- Subject Access
- Interior News
- Notes
- Mother's March, New Zealand rodeos, steer undecorating, Kinettes, "The bull rider" poem, calf roping, chariots and wagons, "Poem by a cowboy", YRCA, barrel racing, Rhona Anderson, saddle bronc riding, bull riding, Anna Campbell, events and sponsors, Gene Allen, yak-bull, rodeo glossary, bareback riding, steer wrestling, how the cowboys stop injury, John Allen, Kinsmen Rehabilitation Foundation of B.C., pickup men.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
13th Annual Kinsmen's Rodeo Supplement
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37th Annual Kispiox Rodeo Supplement
- Date Range
- May 30, 1984
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
38th Annual Kispiox Rodeo Supplement
- Date Range
- May 29, 1985
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
42nd Annual Kispiox Rodeo Supplement
- Date Range
- May 31, 1989
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Scope and Content
- History of rodeo in Kispiox, message from president Laura Wilson, local livestock, local governments contribute to rodeo, event rules/techniques/evaluation, young competitors, Gil Bowe, competitor and staff features, sponsors, Soffel family barrel racing,
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Fonds No.
- BF5
- Accession No.
- 2020.6.49
- Physical Description
- 1 cm textual records
- Date Range
- May 31, 1989
- History / Biographical
- Printed in the Interior News and Houston Today.
- Scope and Content
- History of rodeo in Kispiox, message from president Laura Wilson, local livestock, local governments contribute to rodeo, event rules/techniques/evaluation, young competitors, Gil Bowe, competitor and staff features, sponsors, Soffel family barrel racing,
- Subject Access
- Interior News
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
42nd Annual Kispiox Rodeo Supplement
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51st Annual Fall Fair Results Supplement
- Date Range
- September 16, 1981
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
56th Annual Fall Fair Results Supplement
- Date Range
- September 3, 1986
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
"61 Things to Do in the Bulkley Valley" Supplement
- Date Range
- June 24, 1998
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Fonds No.
- BF5
- Accession No.
- 2020.34.9
- Physical Description
- 1 cm textual records
- Date Range
- June 24, 1998
- History / Biographical
- Printed in the Interior News, Houston Today, and Lakes District News.
- Subject Access
- Interior News
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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66th Annual Fall Fair Results Supplement
- Date Range
- September 1985
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
68th Bulkley Valley Exhibition Supplement
- Date Range
- August 1998
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Scope and Content
- Message from chairman Walter Hromatka, board of directors, future development of ski corporation, frostbite, Ladies' Day, Award of Merit ski trip, ski injury prevention, first-time skiers wanted, 20 years of ski patrol, map and rates, cross-country trails, town and mountain events, alpine racers, p…
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- newspaper
- Creator
- Smithers Ski Corporation
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Accession No.
- 2020.34.14
- Physical Description
- 1 cm textual records
- Date Range
- August 1998
- History / Biographical
- Printed in the Interior News, Houston Today, Lakes District News, Omineca Express, and Terrace Standard.
- Scope and Content
- Message from chairman Walter Hromatka, board of directors, future development of ski corporation, frostbite, Ladies' Day, Award of Merit ski trip, ski injury prevention, first-time skiers wanted, 20 years of ski patrol, map and rates, cross-country trails, town and mountain events, alpine racers, preparation exercise, ski lessons, Bulkley Valley Days chairlift.
- Subject Access
- Interior News
- Bulkley Valley Exhibition
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
68th Bulkley Valley Exhibition Supplement
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Administrative
- Date Range
- 1913-1915; 1918
- Collection
- Smithers Citizens' Association fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Series includes records related to the administrative activities of the Association. The series contains a report of the committee, list of members, meeting minutes, a proposal, executive resignations and nominations and reference materials.
- Collection
- Smithers Citizens' Association fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual record
- Creator
- Smithers Citizens' Association
- Fonds No.
- AF2
- Series No.
- S1
- Accession No.
- 1988.1
- Physical Description
- 2.5 cm of textual records
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Date Range
- 1913-1915; 1918
- Scope and Content
- Series includes records related to the administrative activities of the Association. The series contains a report of the committee, list of members, meeting minutes, a proposal, executive resignations and nominations and reference materials.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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Aida Family fonds
- Date Range
- [1929-1946; 2008]
- Collection
- Aida Family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- graphic material
- textual record
- electronic record
- Scope and Content
- Fonds includes records collected and created by the Aida Family. Records include Tetsuo's school certificates, Aida Cleaners signs and photographs.
- Collection
- Aida Family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- graphic material
- textual record
- electronic record
- Fonds No.
- PF5
- Accession No.
- 2015.13
- 2017.89
- Physical Description
- 2.5 cm of textual records
- 26 photographs
- 3 postcards
- 1 CD
- Date Range
- [1929-1946; 2008]
- History / Biographical
- The Aidas were a Japanese-Canadian family who lived in Smithers during the 1920s-1940s. Kintaro Aida, born in Tokyo in 1888, immigrated to Canada in 1906 and married Sadako Fuseya-Wanibe, who had come to Canada from Japan in 1909. The couple had three sons in Prince Rupert - Tatsuo 'Tat' (b. 1916), Fujio 'Joe' (b. 1917), and Tetuso 'Ben' (b. 1919) - before moving to Smithers. Two more children - a son named Asao and a daughter named Sumiko - were born here in 1927 and 1929 respectively. Kintaro ran a tailor shop and rooming house, while Sadako managed a laundry. Sadako, Asao and Sumiko visited family in Japan shortly before the outbreak of World War II and were unable to return home until after the war. Asao got married in Japan and remained there. The rest of the Aida family moved to Stouffville, Ontario in the late 1940s. For more information, see finding aid.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds includes records collected and created by the Aida Family. Records include Tetsuo's school certificates, Aida Cleaners signs and photographs.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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Alan Pickard fonds
- Date Range
- 2001-2020
- Collection
- Alan Pickard fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- electronic record
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Fonds contains records related to Alan Pickard’s historical research. It is divided into two series based on the content of the research and the author’s own organization: Telkwa High Road History and Place Name Stories.
- Collection
- Alan Pickard fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- electronic record
- graphic material
- Creator
- Alan Pickard
- Fonds No.
- PF23
- Accession No.
- 2017.44
- 2019.23
- 2020.2
- 2020.41
- Physical Description
- 1.71 GB of electronic records
- Date Range
- 2001-2020
- History / Biographical
- Alan Pickard was born and raised in New Zealand. He met his wife, Anne, while visiting Calgary en route to Europe. They moved to the Bulkley Valley in 1970, working here for a few months before moving to Kitimat for four years. Afterwards, they returned to Smithers and built a log cabin on Telkwa High Road. The two were frequent international travelers, dividing their time between the Bulkley Valley and locations such as Alaska, Saudi Arabia and New Zealand.
Pickard began researching early settler history of the Bulkley Valley in 1998. He initially focused on the Telkwa High Road and the two telegraph lines that ran along it: the Collins Overland telegraph (1866) and the Yukon telegraph (1900). His interests then broadened to include early trails, roads and bridges, early (pre-1914) settlers, place names, and maps. Pickard’s use of original sources (books, archival records, etc.) in his research led to him collecting documents such as early mining claims, Hudson’s Bay Company and North West Company trading posts, and land surveys in the Bulkley Valley. Pickard’s research is a continuation of the work of other researchers, including local historian Lynn Shervill, author of “Smithers: From Swamp to Village,” and John Tupper Saywell. He also assisted Kate Smallwood with her book “Kate’s Selection,” published in 2005.
In addition to his historical research, Pickard served as the Chairman of the Smithers Library Board, was a member of the Bulkley Valley Writers’ Group, contributed articles to the Interior News, staked mining claims, worked as an electrician, and wrote poetry (his volume being the first book printed by Bulkley Valley Printers).
In 2005, Alan and Anne Pickard returned to New Zealand, where they currently reside.
- Custodial History
- Records were collected and created throughout Pickard’s research activities. Items were donated by Alan Pickard on June 29th 2017, July 22nd 2019, January 15th 2020, and October 18th 2020.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds contains records related to Alan Pickard’s historical research. It is divided into two series based on the content of the research and the author’s own organization: Telkwa High Road History and Place Name Stories.
- Arrangement
- Items have been retained in the original order established by their creator (Alan Pickard). Duplicate records and empty folders have been deleted. Original order of the file structure has been screencapped and can be referred to if needed.
- Geographic Access
- Bulkley Valley
- Smithers, B.C.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Records collected for reference by Alan Pickard may or may not be protected by copyright. These include PDF articles and images.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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Albert George Shepherd fonds
- Date Range
- 1971
- Collection
- Albert George Shepherd fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- The fonds contains Shepherd’s personal memoirs entitled “Rural Memories” and “History of Schools in District #54 (Smithers)".
- Collection
- Albert George Shepherd fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual record
- Creator
- Albert George Shepherd
- Fonds No.
- PF13
- Accession No.
- 1979.143
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Date Range
- 1971
- History / Biographical
- Albert George Shepherd was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on September 14, 1914. When he was four years-old, he moved to Hubert, B.C. with his family and was on one of the last wagons to cross the bridge at Hubert before it was washed out. His family moved to the Bulkley Valley to make their fortune in farming. Shepherd was educated at the only school in Round Lake, and later worked on Joe Bourgon’s farm in the early 1930s before purchasing his own farm in the Round Lake area. In 1938, he married Grace Phillips, a school teacher, and the couple had a son (James) and a daughter (Sally). Shepherd was the manager of the Bulkley Valley seed cleaning plant for two years; he later became the northern representative (McBride to Terrace) for the Canadian Farm and Loan Board. After selling his farm in 1948, he was employed by Bulkley Valley Collieries for a year, and also worked as a woods foreman for the TFM Mills in Telkwa, B.C. In 1951, he went into partnership with his father-in-law, Bob Phillips, for two years. He was elected as a school trustee in 1952 and, later, secretary-treasurer of the Smithers and District School Board. Although Shepherd retired in 1976, he was appointed provincial government representative to the board of directors of Northwest Community College in 1977; director of the Telkwa Barbeque; director of the Telkwa Skating Rink; and served as rector warden for St. Stephens Anglican Church. His leisure diversions included woodworking, gardening, and the collection of pioneer artifacts. He died in Telkwa, B.C., on February 16, 1981.
- Scope and Content
- The fonds contains Shepherd’s personal memoirs entitled “Rural Memories” and “History of Schools in District #54 (Smithers)".
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Albert George Shepherd fonds
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Albert William Vinson fonds
- Date Range
- 1946-1950; 2009; 2011
- Collection
- Albert William Vinson fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual record
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Fonds is organized into five series, reflecting Vinson’s various endeavours:
- Collection
- Albert William Vinson fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual record
- graphic material
- Fonds No.
- PF18
- Accession No.
- 2013.14
- Physical Description
- 6.4 cm of textual records
- 7 b&w photographs
- Date Range
- 1946-1950; 2009; 2011
- History / Biographical
- Albert William (Bill) Vinson was born in Basingtoke, England on May 26, 1909 and immigrated to Nova Scotia in April, 1910. Vinson was Game Warden in Smithers, B.C., from November 1, 1946 to August 31, 1948. Vinson also owned and operated Smithers Second Hand Store until it burned down on February 2, 1949. During 1948, he was a polling station Deputy Returning Officer. On November 8, 2011, Vinson passed away in Prince George, B.C. For further information, see finding aid.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds is organized into five series, reflecting Vinson’s various endeavours:
- 1. Personal records
- 2. Smithers Second Hand Shop
- 3. Game Warden
- 4. Deputy Return Officer
- 5. Photographs
- Records include correspondence, receipts, forms, personal documents and reports.
- Arrangement
- No original order exists and the arrangment is an artificial one produced by the Archivist (March 2017).
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Albert William Vinson fonds
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Alfred Coldwell Fowler fonds
- Date Range
- [1890-1970]
- Collection
- Alfred Coldwell Fowler fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of certificates which depict the achievements of Fowler during his life time. Fowler received certificates for his baptism and confirmation, as well as from the Town of Smithers and the Rotary Club of Smithers.
- Collection
- Alfred Coldwell Fowler fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- PF14
- Accession No.
- 1980.168
- 1981.51
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Date Range
- [1890-1970]
- History / Biographical
- Alfred Coldwell Fowler was born in Headingly, Manitoba, on January 27, 1890. He moved with his family to Armstrong, B.C. in 1905, finally settling in Smithers in 1927. He married Muriel Spencer on May 3, 1921, and together they had five children: Muriel, Mary, Jean, Robert and Joyce.
Fowler was co-owner of the Smithers Lumber Yard (with Reg Collison) and bought out of the partnership in 1951. He was also President of the Chamber of Commerce and was elected Chairman of the Village Council (1952-1963). Fowler passed away in 1974 at the age of 85.
For more information, see finding aid.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of certificates which depict the achievements of Fowler during his life time. Fowler received certificates for his baptism and confirmation, as well as from the Town of Smithers and the Rotary Club of Smithers.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Alfred Coldwell Fowler fonds
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Annual report and statement of finances, 1923
- Date Range
- 1923
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley District Hospital fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Item is a Bulkley Valley District Hospital annual report and statement of finances for 1923.
Apple, 1970
- Date Range
- 1969-1970
- Collection
- School District No. 54 fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- electronic record
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Item is a 1970 "Apple" yearbook for Smithers Secondary School.
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