Geological Survey of Canada collection acc# 90/36

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1 90/36 # Hydraulic mining of white channel gravels at Jackson Gulch, Klondike district, /36 # View looking up Bonanza Creek, /36 # Coldwater thawing plant in Indian River Valley 2 miles below Granville, /36 # Coldwater thawing plant in Indian River Valley 2 miles below Granville, 1933 (driving points) 90/36 # Sluicing off muck with a monitor R.L. of Indian River Valley 2 miles below Granville, /36 # Dredge Northwestern No.2 on Granville flat Indian River Valley /36 # Loading packhorse, /36 # Pack train crossing north Big Salmon River, /36 # G S C pack train crossing Walsh Creek, near Big Salmon R., /36 # Field work, 1935 Y.T. various locations 90/36 # Old type of thawing point used on Dominion Creek, 1935 required 2 men to drive it. 90/36 # New type of thawing point introduced in Decreases breakage & requires only 1 man to drive it. 90/36 # Cold water thawing plant, Granville. Old points, 90/36 # Cold water thawing plant, Granville. Old points, 90/36 # Dredge Northwestern No. 2, 1935, stacker 90/36 # Loading wood on Steamer Casca, /36 # Prospectors cabin on north side of Keno Hill 90/36 # Original camp of Keno Hill Ltd. on top of Keno Hill, View looks west, /36 # Breaking and sacking high grade lead silver ore on Galena Hill, /36 # Keno City. Mount Hinton in distance, /36 # Prospectors cabin at Anderson Creek, Mayo Lake, /36 # Steamer Keno taking barge up Stewart River 1

2 90/36 # Using dogs to pull a wheel-barrow along a trail Scroggie Creek, /36 # View of Pelly Farm, 1935, looking up Pelly River from the top of the lava cliffs 90/36 # Plane landing on river, /36 # Field work, 1934 Y.T. 90/36 # Field work, 1934 Y.T. 90/36 # Pack horses before starting to swim Stewart R., 90/36 # View of Steamer Klondike 24 hours after her wreck on June 13, 1937 seven miles below Hootalinqua 90/36 # View of Steamer Klondike 24 hours after her wreck on June 13, 1937 seven miles below Hootalinqua 90/36 # Placer workings of individual miner Robert Cameron on west fork of Eureka Creek, 90/36 # Old spruce stump on fork Pulham Creek of Wounded Moose Creek. This stump was cut down with an adze or chisel-like instrument of caribou or moose horn driven with a stone. It probably dates back well into the 1800's, 90/36 # View looking across Lower Dominion Creek & up Sulphur Creek in the centre foreground the battery of pumps, behind them the hydraulic stripping plant & thawing plant on right, 90/36 # Adjoins view #33 (81595) Showing dredge Yukon No. 5 & 6, 90/36 # Sam on Lower Dominion creek above mouth of Sulphur. Also battery of 6 electric pump & screening filters & dredge Yukon no. 5. The pumps supply the hydraulic monitors, 90/36 # Close up of screen filters through which water is sucked by the pump, 90/36 # Stripping off muck with hydraulic monitor on Lower Dominion Creek, 90/36 # View looking up Bonanza Creek from the front of Trail Hill 2

3 90/36 # View of old white channel hydraulic cut on Trail Hill, Bonanza Creek [wrong? Same image as #40 / 81602] 90/36 # Men working hydraulic monitor, stripping muck at Arlington area. Hunker Creek, [wrong? Same image as #39 / 81601] 90/36 # Piping laid out in setting up of thawing plant on dredging area below Arlington on Hunker Creek 90/36 # View of electric pumps (6000 gal per min at 65 lbs pressure) being installed below dredging area at Arlington, Hunker Creek. Pumps are set up with filter screens in front, 90/36 # Oblique view of electric pumps (6000 gal per min at 65 lbs pressure) being installed below dredging area at Arlington, Hunker Creek. Pumps are set up with filter screens in front, 90/36 # View of dredge camp of Holbrook Dredging Co. On Sixty Mile R. Taken from road to Miller Creek, 90/36 # Miller Creek Roadhouse & camp, 60 mile district, 90/36 # Steam hoist, shaft head, derrick and self dumper as well as dump pile partly washed away by hydraulic monitor 90/36 # View looking down Sixty Mile valley showing dredge & tailings, 90/36 # Steam dredge of Holbrook Dredging Co. On Sixtymile valley, 90/36 # Freight on bow of Princess Louise for Yukon (Steam boat on inside passage), /36 # Yukon, Transportation barge of freight for Klondike, 1937 at Fort Selkirk 90/36 # Remains of Steamer Klondike /36 # June, Yukon, Breaking camp on Lewes River below Lake Laberge, /36 # June, just before start down Lake Laberge 90/36 # Joint modes of transportation 90/36 # Lake Laberge 90/36 # Ogilvie sheet, back packing 3

4 90/36 # Placer miner and his cabin 90/36 # Fly camp up Maisy May Creek, July /36 # Team & wagon on Maisy May farm, shows hay field, July /36 # View of Maisy May farm from hill above 90/36 # Steamer Keno loading wood 90/36 # Steamer Aksala bringing down heavy load of freight /36 # Wood raft on Yukon River near Sixty Mile, note terrace 90/36 # July, Porsild's cabin & Ann Elizabeth at Ten Mile on Sixty Mile River, /36 # Wood for the miners of Galena Hill, Part of 25 miles, /36 # Minto bridge over Mayo River, /36 # Minto bridge over Mayo River, /36 # New all year road to Silver King Mine, /36 # New all year road to Silver King Mine, /36 # August, Messur Bermingham & Schellinger at Arctic Group Galena Hill, /36 # Portal of the new tunnel on Hector Group Galena Hill, Aug., /36 # Aug. 300 tons of silver lead concentrate on a barge leaving Mayo 90/36 # Waterfront at Mayo, /36 # Waterfront at Mayo, /36 # Waterfront at Mayo, /36 # Waterfront at Mayo, /36 # Stewart River city, /36 # Steamer Keno & barge of concentrate landing at Stewart River City 90/36 # Steamer Keno & barge of concentrate landing at Stewart River City 90/36 # Steamer Keno starts up Stewart River with 150 tons of diesel oil,

5 90/36 # Waterfront at Dawson, /36 # Waterfront at Dawson, /36 # Joseph Fournier's farm and roadhouse on Dominion Creek Summit, /36 # Jensen Creek roadhouse and camp, /36 # Thawing plant laid out on Sulphur Creek, /36 # Thawing plant laid out on Sulphur Creek, /36 # Digging a pond for the new dredge on Sulphur Creek, /36 # Digging a pond for the new dredge on Sulphur Creek, /36 # General view of area stripped for a new dredge on Sulphur Creek, /36 # Stump of trees cut down with an adze or chisel like instrument 90/36 # Truck loaded with machinery for Sulphur Creek, /36 # Prospector (Stuart-Campbell) and cabin on Indian River, /36 # View from prospectors cabin Conglomerate Creek, Indian River, Harpstack mountains on the right, /36 # Sept. morning at the mouth of Quartz Creek Haystack Mountains on right 90/36 # Sept., dismantled dredge on Eldorado Creek, /36 # Grand Forks, Bonanza creek, as it is today, /36 # Y.C.G.C. Power plant Klondike River, /36 # Headgate of south Klondike power canal 90/36 # Intake of south Klondike power canal, /36 # Electric shovel. Sept /36 # Dawson waterfront from mouth of Klondike River, /36 # Dawson wood yard, rafts being landed, /36 # Whitehorse, June 1, /36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat, people on wharf 90/36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat the barge & freight to be taken down river,

6 90/36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat, picking up the barge 90/36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat, the barge & lower end of wharf 90/36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat, tightening up the tackle 90/36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat, straightening the barge 90/36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat, the bystanders and freight shed 90/36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat, lower end of wharf, Loon & Hazel B. 90/36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat, view of town 90/36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat, approaching Klondike at the foot of slips 90/36 # Str. Klondike 90/36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat, stern view 90/36 # Leaving Whitehorse. by steamboat, the boneyard 90/36 # Hootalinqua today June /36 # Hootalinqua today June /36 # Remains of the old Klondike June /36 # Passing the Keno and barge above Big Salmon. The Keno moving out of the channel (stern view) 90/36 # Eagle rock. Note anticline in left side of Lewes River series 90/36 # Tantalus Coal Mine June /36 # Howard McMillan's telegraph cabin, Carmacks June /36 # Five Finger Rapids. Going through 90/36 # Stewart R. City June /36 # Stewart R. City Aksala waiting 90/36 # Barges at Stewart waiting to be picked up ["Hootalinqua Dawson",? and "Klaza of Dawson".] 90/36 # Stewart R. City Roadhouse etc 90/36 # Loading wood on a steamboat 6

7 PHO /36 # Setting the gang planks for loading wood 90/36 # Trucking on wood 90/36 # Miller of Rosebud Crossing. A woodman cutting 90/36 # Loading wood 90/36 # Aksala from the barge 90/36 # Loading wood [onto sternwheeler Aksala. Barge loaded with fuel drums in foreground.] 90/36 # Millers wood camp 90/36 # Loading wood 90/36 # Pulling the planking after loading the wood /36 # Pulling the planking after loading the wood 1938 [onto sternwheeler Aksala] 90/36 # Straightening the barge and Capt. C. Morrison on rail [on sternwheeler Aksala] 90/36 # Fraser Falls /36 # Looking down Fraser Falls from above 90/36 # Castillated outcrop of quartz mica schist at elevation of 4200 a few miles N.E. of Fraser Falls. A monument to the back of Wisconsin glaciation at this elevation. 90/36 # Placer Miner's cabin. Gagnon, Steep Creek /36 # The fly camp at the foot of Mout. Hinton /36 # Stump 200 years old on N. Shore of Mayo Lake at Creek mouth at foot of Mount Albert. This stump was cut down with a chisel-like primitive instrument /36 # Stump 200 years old on N. Shore of Mayo Lake at Creek mouth at foot of Mount Albert. This stump was cut down with a chisel-like primitive instrument /36 # Charles Ross panning on Davidson Creek /36 # Elsa camp and mill /36 # Elsa camp and mill /36 # Bulldozer working on Silver King Road 7

8 PHO /36 # Camp at the head of Lightening Creek, /36 # Old Keno Mine camp today July /36 # Old Wernecke Mill camp today July /36 # Charlie Johnson and horses leaving for Keno 90/36 # Dredge on north side of Klondike River from air /36 # W.P. & Y.R. ford trimotor /36 # Casca leaving Dawson with a barge 90/36 # Hauling freight on the Sixty Mile road to the dredge on the west side of the boundary. Mr. J.A. Jeckell comptroller speaking to the cab driver /36 # Holbrook Dredging co. Sixty Mile Dredge camp /36 # Holbrook Dredging co. dredge and stripping plant 90/36 # Holbrook Dredging co. operated by diesel power 90/36 # Holbrook Dredging co. operated by diesel power 90/36 # Holbrook Dredging co. Diesel pumping plant for stripping and thawing /36 # Up to date prospectors starting up 90/36 # Even girls drive tractors /36 # Messrs. H.A.R. Stewart and Gordon Stewart melt down their fine gold dust from the clean-up and pour a gold brick. Miller Creek Aug /36 # Messrs. H.A.R. Stewart and Gordon Stewart melt down their fine gold dust from the clean-up and pour a gold brick. Miller Creek Aug /36 # New booster pumping plant at Australia water syphon /36 # Australia water syphon crossing Dominion Creek at the pumping plant /36 # General view of the pumping plant /36 # New York Dredge No. 8 on middle Sulphur, Bow 90/36 # New York Dredge No. 8 on middle Sulphur, Stern 90/36 # Stripped area on middle Sulphur under thawing plank

9 PHO /36 # Yukon No. 9 upper Sulphur under construction 90/36 # Thawing plant on upper Sulphur 90/36 # Reconstruction of a bridge on upper Sulphur road to take heavier freight /36 # Middlecoff's placer working on Highet Creek /36 # The dredge on Highet Creek 90/36 # Placer workings of Messrs. Harvey and Irvine Ray on Highet Creek, using 95 foot head and showing method of blowing coarse gravels up box with grated floor /36 # Placer workings of Messrs. Harvey and Irvine Ray on Highet Creek, using 95 foot head and showing method of blowing coarse gravels up box with grated floor /36 # Camp at the Hector Tunnel, Galena Hill /36 # Operating plant at Hector camp 90/36 # View of Elsa camp /36 # View of Elsa camp /36 # Bridge and waterfront at Carcross /36 # Bridge and waterfront at Carcross /36 # Swede Dome cut-off on Sixty Mile road /36 # Dawson from West Dawson /36 # Dawson ferry /36 # Dredge Yukon No. 3 in Bonanza Creek Aug /36 # Stripping on Middle Hunker Aug /36 # Stripping on Middle Hunker Aug /36 # Thawing plant on Upper Dominion /36 # Construction of Dredge Yukon No. 10 on Middle Dominion /36 # Construction of Dredge Yukon No. 10 on Middle Dominion /36 # Construction of Dredge Yukon No. 10 on Middle Dominion

10 PHO /36 # Construction of Dredge Yukon No. 10 on Middle Dominion /36 # Head and shoulders of H.S. Bostock (appears in Reading the Rocks p. 339) ca /36 # Pelly Crossing Road House (Carmacks District) 1933* 90/36 # View looks up the Pelly river past the old cache platform to the site of the present cable crossing of the Pelly river (Carmacks District) /36 # Exposure of glacial till above Miles Canyon below big cauldron 90/36 # View down cauldron (Miles Canyon) from below cauldron 90/36 # View down cauldron (Miles Canyon) from below cauldron 90/36 # Two Indian boys and pack dogs Feb photo by Parke Hodges 90/36 # A 1933 GSC pack train at Pelly Crossing Roadhouse on North side of Pelly River (roadhouse not in view) 90/36 # B Tent camp 90/36 # C Man on cache 90/36 # E Man and woman at camp 90/36 # F Clarence C. Sherlock at the door of the cook tent at Pelly Crossing Roadhouse (cook for GSC parties in B.C. and Yukon ) 90/36 # G Man and woman in front of small cache 90/36 # H Man setting up tent 90/36 # I Roadhouse and tents at Pelly Crossing 90/36 # J Members of survey party 90/36 # K Similar to above [214 / J]. The joint topographical and geological party at Pelly Crossing. From left to right - topographers W.H. Miller (later director of Surveys and Mapping Branch), C.H. Smith (later col. R.C.E., etc), C.C. Sherlock (cook), Jim 90/36 # L Pelly Crossing Roadhouse 90/36 # M Camp at Pelly Crossing 10

11 PHO /36 # N Jim White right and Clarence Sherlock left packing at Pelly Crossing Roadhouse 90/36 # O More pack horses 90/36 # P Bill H. Miller and Jim V. White right at Pelly Crossing Roadhouse 11

Postcard collection acc# 82/427

Postcard collection acc# 82/427 82/427 #1 Dawson, Y.T., Canada - interior of Zero Club 82/427 #2 Alaska Highway [Dawson Creek Milepost] 82/427 #3 The "One Dog Pull" contest in the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous 82/427 #4 The power dam at