The item is a copy of an essay by David T. Hawkes titled "An analysis of demographic data dealing with employment and residence patterns in the two Indian communities of Telegraph Creek and Iskut, British Columbia." 1966. 33 leaves: maps, tables. Essay (B.A.) - University of British Columbia, 1966.

Series consists of 15 images attributed to Andrew Jackson Stone believed to have been taken during his 1897-1899 American Museum of Natural History expedition, sponsored by Recreation Magazine, to northern British Columbia and the arctic.

This series contains the correspondence inward to the Minister of Mines: includes 1898 report from Gold Commissioner, Telegraph Creek; correspondence with George M. Dawson, Geological Survey of Canada, 1899; a 1900 report on the collection of mineral statistics; correspondence relating to radioactive ores, the B.C. War Metals Research Board, and the B.C. Research Council, 1942-1945, etc.; correspondence with Federal Minister of Transport relating to the establishment of airports in B.C., 1939; notes on 1942 Dominion Provincial conference regarding wartime agreement on Peace River oil rights.

Diary recording road work done for Provincial Government, 1917-1919.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Eileen Gordon : Telegraph Creek in the 1930s PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1946 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Eileen Gordon discusses life in Telegraph Creek in the 1930s. The name of the town. Tahltan Indians. Home life. Effects of the Depression. Travel. School. Social life. Her later life.

CALL NUMBER: T1660:[0006? - 0009?] SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Evening chats with Eric R. Thomson (cont'd) RECORDED: Hopkins Landing (B.C.), 1974 & 1975 SUMMARY: In a series of interviews recorded by his grandson, Eric R. Thomson of Hopkins Landing discusses his memories of the First World War; memories of Vancouver; and the history of Hopkins Landing. [NOTE: Not transcribed.]

CALL NUMBER: T1660:0001 - [0005?] SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Evening chats with Eric R. Thomson RECORDED: Hopkins Landing (B.C.), 1974-07-30 & -08-01, etc. SUMMARY: In a series of interviews recorded by his grandson, Eric R. Thomson of Hopkins Landing discusses: a 1902 trip up the Skeena with his father, James Thomson, of the Hudson's Bay Company; a 1911 trip up the Stikine; and his recollections of growing up in Victoria, 1896-1904.

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.

The series consists of oral history interviews recorded by Georgiana Ball dealing with the history, language and customs of the Tahltan People and the history of the Stikine Region. The series also includes recordings of fiddle tunes and country and western songs performed by local musicians.

The series consists of two photocopies of a diary made in 1978 of a 1958 transcript. The original handwritten diaries were created by John L. Heron as he traveled from Harvey, North Dakota to Dawson, Yukon Territory between 1898 and 1900, likely as part of the Klondike gold rush. He spent the winter of 1898-99 on the Liard River, the winter of 1899-1900 at Telegraph Creek, and then he traveled down the Stikine River and reached Dawson via Skagway. His diaries document his experiences of prospecting, mining, transportation, hunting, and the people he meets during his travels. As Heron wrote his entries he used language that was considered acceptable at the time. The transcript was created in 1958 by Lois Sanderson from the original diaries for Colonel J.M. Gibson in Toronto, a relative of John Heron. The photocopies include a copy of a map with dates and locations, and copies of photographs that were added in 1978 by Colonel Gibson.

This series consists of wildfire mapping records including fire atlas maps and fire reports from the Prince Rupert Forest District. The records date from 1921-1980. Collectively these records provide a comprehensive image of the amount and extent of forest fires in the area.

The Prince Rupert Forest District was divided into smaller Ranger Districts. These Ranger Districts changed over the years, but included: Burns Lake, Hazleton, Terrace, Prince Rupert, Kitwanga, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), Ocean Falls, Francois Lake, Smithers, Telkwa, Houston, Pendleton Bay, Kitimat, Lower Post, Topley, Bella Coola, Southbank, Telegraph Creek and Atlin.

Annual fire reports are oversized handwritten tables that provide detailed information on individual fires for the years 1921-1967. The tables list: name of the fire; name of officer in charge; date; district fire number; fire origin; cost of fighting and source of funds; area burned; total area of damage done; amount of merchantable and unmerchantable timber burned; amount of range land burned; amount of property or other damage caused; and the cause of the fire. Possible causes include lightening, recreational activities, railroad clearing, smokers, brush or range burning, construction, industrial activities, incendiaries, miscellaneous known causes and unknown causes. The pages are arranged by year, with one page used per Ranger District. Each year includes a summary sheet with the totals for all Ranger Districts.

Fire atlas maps and overlays show the location and type of fires, as well as the extent of some burned areas. The majority of the maps are forest cover maps which have been annotated or had overlays added with this additional information. Many of the maps have been cut to fit in the bound volume they were originally stored in. This can make it difficult to determine the precise year the maps were created and annotated.

The series also includes one scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to forest fires, fire protection and firefighting for the years 1988-1991. This item was created by the successor of the Prince Rupert Forest District, the Prince Rupert Forest Region.

Ministries responsible for the creation of this series, and their dates of the responsibility, are:
Dept. of Lands (1908-1945)
Dept. of Lands and Forests (1945-1962)
Dept. of Lands, Forests and Water Resources (1962-1975)
Dept. of Forests 1975-1976
Ministry of Forests 1976-1986
Ministry of Forests and Lands 1986-1988
Ministry of Forests 1988-2005

The series consists of photographs documenting the activities of Anton K. Money and R.H. (Bob) Dickinson, including prospecting and mining for gold and silver-lead ore in the Cassiar district in 1924-1925. Images in the series include: mining tunnels, flumes, sluice boxes, and other placer operations, and road development by the Dickinson Mining Company near Telegraph Creek and Dease Lake. The series also includes photographs of First Nations trappers and Hudson's Bay Company poling boats (fur scows). Locations also include the Klondike-era ghost town of Glenora, and other locations in the Cassiar district.

The item is a record book or diary kept by Marshall Bond from July 26 to October 4, 1911. It details the activities of Bond on his journey from Seattle to Wrangell, Alaska on board the steamship Jefferson, on the S.S. Port Simpson from Wrangel to Telegraph Creek and then by pack horse through the Stikine on a hunting trip with his friend Warburton Pike and guide Charley Quash.

This series consists of records created by Government Agents in the Cassiar district from 1872-1912. These Government Agents may have been based in Laketon, Port Simpson (Fort Simpson), Telegraph Creek, Atlin, Hazleton, Prince Rupert, Teslin Lake, McDame Creek and Glenora.

The majority of the records relate to finances. Records include cash books from the Stikine River collectorate Cassiar collectorate and McDame Creek; and volumes recording reciepts and payments. Some volumes include additional information related to water records, mining bills of sale and trail accounts. There is also a letterpress volume of correspondence outward signed by James Porter and dated from Laketon and Telegraph Creek.

A note by James Porter on one of the volumes states "book of accounts from 1 Oct 1890 to 31 Dec 1897 was left in the Laketon office when I moved from there in March 1898 to establish the office at Telegraph Creek. Sometimes afterwards when I visited the old office intending to secure the book I could not find it. The place had been broken into and much of the stuff left there had removed or destroyed.”

Records of arrivals and departures at Telegraph Creek from January 1909 to May 1920. The volume lists names, date of arrival, occupation, nationality, age, date of departure and "remarks". The information was recorded by Constable Harry W. Dodd [see GR-0055, Box 52 for a sample of his handwriting].

Records of the Mining Recorder, Telegraph Creek, relating to mineral claims and placer filings. Includes receipts of notice of assessment work, partnership applications, applications for placer claims, placer assignments, powers of attorney, mineral claim agreements, and mining syndicate agreements.