Photo from black photo album which had this written on the first page: "In memory: Howard Sanborn, Hollywood, Calif. Early British Columbia 1900's. Prince Rupert on Skeena River by paddle wheeler to old Hazeltown*** By pack train and small boats on Bulkley River to Telkwa, B.C."
Notes
View of the Hazelton Hospital and surrounding area with the Hazelton Mountains in the background.
Photo from black photo album which had this written on the first page: "In memory: Howard Sanborn, Hollywood, Calif. Early British Columbia 1900's. Prince Rupert on Skeena River by paddle wheeler to old Hazeltown*** By pack train and small boats on Bulkley River to Telkwa, B.C."
Notes
View of Hazelton from across the river with the Hazelton Mountains in the background. Message on back unreadable; addressed to "Mrs. R. H. Sanborn, East Newport Orange Co. Calif. U.S.A."
Sunday school picnic Hazelton, July 12, 1913. Everyone is loaded into a truck that has "HAZELTON TELKWA" written on the side. There is a dog standing beside the truck.
Playing ball in Hazelton, with Mt.Roche de Boule in the background. On the front of the photograph, at bottom, is 'Hazelton vs Telkwa.July 15, 1911' and the photographers' initials 'W.W.W.
This is one of 11 photographs sent by the donor from the Alice Eggleston Estate. Alice was the daughter of Willis Eggleston, an early contractor in the Bulkley Valley. Mr. Eggleston was originally from Iowa and worked in the contracting business in Cal
File consists of a letter from Interior News, promoting the benefits of the circular letter system and use of the Interior News' services, as well as sample letterheads. These samples include letterheads for a variety of business in Smithers and the surrounding Bulkley Valley.
The Interior News was the result of Joseph L. Coyle's determination to build a newspaper in Northwest British Columbia. In 1907 he started the Bulkley Pioneer in Aldermere/Telkwa; he then moved to Hazelton and published the Omineca Herald. In 1913, he settled in Smithers to coninue with the Interior News. In 1918, Joseph S. Coyle sold the paper to L. B. Warner; he remained the publisher for the next twenty-two years.
Custodial History
Records were donated to the Archives on August 19, 1981.
Scope and Content
File consists of a letter from Interior News, promoting the benefits of the circular letter system and use of the Interior News' services, as well as sample letterheads. These samples include letterheads for a variety of business in Smithers and the surrounding Bulkley Valley.
Notes
Records have been inappropriately labelled with the wrong accession number.
File contains pamphlets produced by the Hazelton Pioneer Museum & Archives, describing the Collins Russian-American and Yukon telegraph lines, Jean Jacques Caux (Cataline), the Hagwilget Bridges, and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
File contains pamphlets produced by the Hazelton Pioneer Museum & Archives, describing the Collins Russian-American and Yukon telegraph lines, Jean Jacques Caux (Cataline), the Hagwilget Bridges, and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Book originally belonged to cheif engineer for the GTP railway in the Northern interior
Custodial History
This item originally belonged to Bob Davidson, a chief engineer for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Eventually the book was given to Joseph F. MacDonald, the donor's father.
Identified in photograph: [Cornelia?] and Wilhemina (sitting against the house), Mary (sitting on tree stump), Willy (little sister in the front of photograph)
Identified in photograph: [Cornelia?] and Wilhemina (sitting against the house), Mary (sitting on tree stump), Willy (little sister in the front of photograph)
Identified are: Mary Stroet (sitting on the tree stump), [Cornelia?] Stroet and Wilhemina (Wilma) Stroet (sitting against the house), and Willy Stroet (little sister in the foreground).
Only a digital copy of this photo exists in the BVM Archives.
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