Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history and Anthropology, during the year of 1948. Published in 1949, the British Columbia Department of Education published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could then be shared with the public. Each issue features a report from the director, biologist, and/or botanist, and/or anthropologist in which they would share their subsequent findings from the previous year. Topics discussed in each report include, but are not limited to the following; exhibitions, new accessions, staff changes, research, botany, entomology and relevant articles.
Contents
Report of the Director (pg. 7)
Exhibitions and Preparation (pg. 7)
Special Exhibitions (pg. 7)
Field-work (pg. 7)
Publications (pg. 8)
Motion Pictures (pg. 8)
Education (pg. 9)
Museum Lectures (pg. 9)
Other Lectures (pg. 9)
School Loan Material (pg. 10)
Research (pg. 10)
Attendance (pg. 10)
Staff Changes (pg. 11)
Office Equipment (pg. 11)
Obituary (pg. 11)
Report of the Assistant in Biology (pg. 12)
Report of the General Assistant (pg. 12)
Botany (pg. 12)
Entomology (pg. 15)
Accessions (pg. 15)
Article: "A Report on a Study of Jordan Meadows," by G.A. Hardy (pg. 20)
Article: "Some Lepidoptera from the Forbidden Plateau District of British Columbia," by J.R.J. Llewellyn Jones (pg. 47)
Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1939. Published in 1940, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
Contents
Objects (pg. 7)
Visitors (pg. 7)
Activities (pg. 7)
Accessions (pg. 10)
Anthropology and Archaeology (pg. 10)
Botany (pg. 10, 12)
Mammals (pg. 11)
Birds (pg. 11)
Invertebrates (pg. 12)
Palaeontology (pg. 12)
Library (pg. 15)
Addenda to the Flora of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands (pg. 15)
Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1940. Published in 1941, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1941. Published in 1942, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
Pertains to the geology and mineral deposits of Northern British Columbia and West of the Rocky Mountains. Through the practice of mining, prospecting and geological exploration, we have been able to vastly increase our understanding of geological material. The publication focuses on both general geology and economic geology. Additionally, the publication offers information pertaining to the history of mining, and the ways in which it has transformed our understanding of geological material.
Contents
Preface (pg. v)
Introduction (pg. 1)
Physiography (pg. 3)
General geology (pg. 6)
Precambrain (pg. 6)
Palaeozoic (pg. 7)
Mesozoic (pg. 8)
Cenozoic (pg. 10)
Tertiary (pg. 10)
Quaternary (pg. 11)
Intrusive rocks (pg. 11)
Structural geology (pg. 13)
History of mining (pg. 14)
Economic geography (pg. 16)
Summary of economic geology (pg. 16)
Relation of metalliferous deposits to intrusions (pg. 16)
Relation of metalliferous deposits to structure (pg. 17)
Mineral deposits (pg. 18)
Placer gold (pg. 18)
Lode gold (pg. 22)
Atlin and Stikine mining dividions (pg. 22)
Cariboo mining division (pg. 23)
Omineca mining division (pg 24.)
Portland canal mining division (pg. 24)
Queen Charlotte mining division (pg. 25)
Skeena mining division (pg. 25)
Silver-lead-zinc (pg. 25)
Portland Canal area (pg. 26)
Quartz veins containing one or more of the metals, silvers, lead, and zinc (pg. 26)
Silver-barite-jasper deposits (pg. 26)
Silver-lead deposits (pg. 27)
Hazelton-Smithers area (pg. 27)
Canadian National Railway belt from Houston to Burns Laek (pg. 27)
Ingenika River (pg. 28)
Copper (pg. 28)
Mercury (pg. 29)
Tungsten (pg. 30)
Molybdenum (pg. 31)
Antimony (pg. 31)
Manganese (pg. 31)
Chromium (pg. 31)
Mica (pg. 32)
Iron (pg. 32)
Pyrite (pg. 32)
Coal (pg. 32)
Jurassic or Lower Cretaceous coal (pg. 32)
Tertiary coal (pg. 33)
Bibliography (pg. 35)
Notes
At head of title: Canada. Dept. of mines and resources. Mines and geology branch
Pertains to a map and tourist guide of Victoria, British Columbia. Additionally, the booklet contains a road map of Vancouver Island. The inside of the map has been annotated by Bert Rigall. Readers can expect an illustrated souvenir map and guide of Victoria.
Notes
Annotation – the map has been annotated by Bert Rigall
Pertains to the experience of C.B. Sisson and his ascent of Mount Coleman with his wife and children. He shares details of his travels, both exploring the pain and success’ he shared along his trip. The article is pertinent to the Canadian Rocky Mountains in that Mt. Coleman exists within them. Readers can expect to read a personal story of perseverance, adventure and strength.
Notes
article IN Canadian Geographical Journal, Volume XXIV, No. 2. Mount Coleman by C.B. Sissons can be found on page 102 of the journal.
Pertains to the highly personal account of Wendell Willkie and his meetings with Stalin, General Chennault, Chiang Kai-shek and other United Nations leaders. In addition to members of the United Nations, Willkie also tells of his international meetings with various kings, soldiers, teachers, farmers and librarians. The publication was based during the wartime era, and thus the overarching theme resides in a deep desire from an American victory. Willkie shares his belief that in order for said victory, the United Nations must work in cooperation. Readers can expect to receive an insight into wartime thinking, and international relations during the time period.
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Mission to Moscow : A record of confidential dispatches to the State department, official and personal correspondence, current diary and journal entries, including notes and comment up to October, 1941.
“Mission to Moscow is a report to the American people on the facts which enabled Mr. Davies to predict the Nazis-Soviet Pact, the outbreak of the war, the German attack on Russia, and the amazing resistance of the Red Army. In addition to telling a new story for the first time, Mission to Moscow tells this story in a new way. The book is made up entirely of confidential dispatches to the State Department, selections from diary and journal entries, and correspondence both official and personal.”
Contents
Foreword (pg. xi)
Author's note (pg. xxi)
I : The mission begins : November 16, 1936 - March 30, 1937 (pg. 1)
II : Washington and points East : April 5 - June 20, 1937 (pg. 137)
III: The purge hits the red army : June 25 - July 28, 1937 (pg. 155)
IV: Russia through her neighbours' eyes : July 28 - December 24, 1937 (pg. 205)
V: The purge hits Bukharin : January 15 - March 17, 1938 (pg. 281)
VI: Moscow hears the drums of war : March 14 - April 1, 1928 (pg. 281)
VII: Climax of the mission : April 6 - July 5, 1938 (pg. 311)
VIII: Brief on the facts : June 6, 1938 (pg. 375)
Harvest of the mission : September 6, 1938 - October 28, 1941 (pg. 427)
Chronology (pg. 515)
Appendix (pg. 535)
Index (pg. 647)
Notes
The abstract had been taken directly from the book itself
Pertains to a short publication critiquing the translations of La Verendrye’s Journal. The author, Lawrence J. Burpee, offers his critiques of the translations of the 1738-9 Journal of La Verendrye, arguing that it is filled with mistakes. The publication is rather short and offers a quick argument from Mr. Burpee.
Notes
Reprinted from Canadian historical review, December 1942.