topic:"British Columbia" found 2 records - Research Collections

Abstract: "Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide is the second book of a two-part series describing the initial Alberta/BC boundary survey undertaken between 1913-1924. Surveying the 120th Meridian focuses on the years 1918–1924, when the Alberta crew continued the survey of the 120th meridian while the BC crew split off to continue mapping the Great (Continental) Divide. The Alberta/BC boundary survey was a unique Canadian project that combined talented surveyors, high-tech surveying equipment, rugged crew members and Canadian wilderness. This is a story of adventure and danger: the crew climbed mountains and surveyed from the peaks of the Canadian Rockies; slogged through the muskeg north of the Peace River; occasionally crossed rivers at high water; and often worked in the rain, snow or cold. The boundary survey produced the first detailed maps of the terrain along the divide and the first pictures of the northern Canadian Rockies taken from an airplane. But the most important legacy of this project is the collection of approximately 5,000 photographs developed from high-quality glass plate negatives. These photographs provide full panoramas of the Rocky Mountain landscape as it looked over a century ago. Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide combines the best of these photographs, diary entries and government documents to recount the astonishing journey of the surveyors and their crew members as they explored Canada’s most dramatic landscape."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Surveyors; Surveying Methods 1918-1924; Completion of the Boundary Survey, 1950-1953; Conclusion; Geographical Names; Survey Crews, 1918-1924; Sources Consulted; Index

Notes: Features visual and textual material from the A.O. Wheeler fonds M546 / V771

ISBN: 9780773860091

Accession Number: 2019.90

Call Number: 08.3 Sh5s Volume 2

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

http://caitlin-press.com/our-books/surveying-the-120th-meridian-and-the-great-divide/

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Diary of a wilderness dweller

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19887

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Czajkowski, Chris

Publisher: Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers

Call Number: 01.4 C11d

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Author: Czajkowski, Chris

Responsibility: Chris Czajkowski

Publisher: Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers

Physical Description: x, 209 p. : ill., map, port. ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Wilderness areas; Pioneer life; British Columbia; Coast Mountains; Dairies; Biography; Natural history

Abstract: Diary of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski begins: “It is two days since I left my truck at the end of a logging road twenty miles east of here. I have hiked through untracked forest and over a mountain, through country I have never seen before, to reach a point of land jutting into an un-named lake five thousand feet hight in the Coast Range of British Columbia. And yet, unbelievably, I now have rights, in our civilization’s laws, to adapt this uncompromising pile of boulders and its wind-weary trees to my own ends; I plan to build on it, single-handedly, two cabins, a business, and a life. I must be crazy” Thus wrote Chris Czajkowski as, aged 37 years old, she arrived at an un-named location that she later called Nuk Tessli. This book spans a period of three years where first Chris lived in a tent until she erected the first cabin, finding, falling, peeling and hauling all the logs alone, then moved under the first roof while she completed (more or less) the second. Contact with the outside world was via a long hike in summer and a 4-day snowshoe trip in winter. Crazy or not, Chris made this place work for her, and eventually lived there for 23 years.

Notes: The front inside cover of the book has been annotated by the author. The annotation reads as follows, “To Janet, All my best, Chris Czajkowski”; The abstract has been taken from the official website of the author, the URL can be found below

ISBN: 1551430592

Accession Number: 2019.60

Call Number: 01.4 C11d

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: The URL has been linked to the official website for the author, Chris Czajkowski. Contains information on the book, as well as additional information concerning the authors personal life.; The second URL is linked to the authors official website in which the abstract has been taken from

Websites

http://www.wildernessdweller.ca/

https://www.wildernessdweller.ca/all-book/diary-of-a-wilderness-dweller/

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