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Berta Fraser collection

  • CA yuk yuk-321
  • Collection
  • 1945

The collection consists of photographs taken by a member of a survey party along the Alcan Highway in 1945. They show areas around Whitehorse and Johnson's Crossing, including the U.S. army maintenance shops at McCrae and a dog race on Lewes (Yukon) River..

Fraser, Berta, 19-- -

Bill Becht Jr. collection

  • CA yuk yuk-98
  • Collection
  • 1899, 1906, [ca. 1918]

The collection consists of a photograph taken, by Wolfe, of a dredge in the Klondike Gold Fields, 1906, and a panorama of Dawson City, Yukon, 1899. The postcards are photographs of Carcross and Kate Carmack, ca. 1918. The collection includes a Whitehorse newspaper "The Daily Evening Star" July 12, 1905 edition.

Becht, Bill Jr.

Bill Birchmore and Molly McCombe collection

  • CA yuk yuk-113
  • Collection
  • Copied 1988 (originally created [ca. 1932-1946])

The collection consists of photographs copied from originals collected by Bill Birchmore and Molly McCombe of their lives in Dawson. The photographs show Bill, other dredge men, White Pass & Yukon Route airplanes, mining camps, dredges, Dawson and the Klondike creeks.

Birchmore, Bill McCombe, Molly, d. 1988

Bill Hembroff collection

  • CA yuk yuk-412
  • Collection
  • 1908-1919, 1953, 1954

The collection consists of ten Canada Post postcards addressed to the Klondike Thawing Machine Co. in Dawson City and two envelopes addressed to Wayne D. Carlm of Dawson City postmarked in 1914.

Hembroff, Bill

Bill Roozeboom collection

  • CA yuk yuk-166
  • Collection
  • Copied 1976 (originally created 1897-1901)

The collection consists of 31 black and white prints and accompanying negatives copied by Bill Roozeboom from an album he located in Vancouver. The images include: the reception of Governor General Minto's party which visited Dawson in 1900; Dawson street scenes; mining claims; people crossing the Klondike River; the Trail of '98; stampeders; scenes at Dyea, Lake Bennett, Whitehorse and Lake Laberge. Also images of Fort Selkirk and the Yukon Field Force. The majority of the photographs are by Larss & Duclos. The remainder are by Eric Hegg and Goetzman. The original album contained 40 photographs. Nine of the 40 were not copied as they duplicated images already held by the archives.

Roozeboom, Bill

Bill Ward collection

  • CA yuk yuk-902
  • Collection
  • [1910?]-1973, predominant 1972-1973

The collection contains photographs and copies of articles and newspaper clippings relating to Edith Josie of Old Crow, Yukon. Includes a copy of "Best of Edith Josie" published in 1965, Canadian newspaper clippings (1972) and a copy of an Alaska Magazine article on Edith Josie written by Flo Whyard in 1973.

Ward, William

British Columbia Archives collection

  • CA yuk yuk-140
  • Collection
  • Copied before 1988 (originally created 1894-1960)

The collection consists of photographic images and textual records. There are photographs held by the British Columbia Provincial Archives that pertain to the Klondike Gold Rush era and were copied in ca. 1982. Images include Atlin, Dyea, Log Cabin, Pine City and Spruce Creek, by A.C. Hirschfeld; Skagway, Dyea and the Chilkoot Trail, by Winter & Pond Co.; Dawson City, by Larss & Duclos and H.J. Goetzman, and others. There are also 26 photographic postcards, both colour and b&w, depicting scenes in the Klondike and Alaska. There are pictures of the Klondike River, Dawson City buildings, Forty Mile in 1898 and 1904, captains and officers from steamers, and scenes in Alaska and the Yukon. The textual records include an assortment of miscellaneous papers and ledgers, covering a span of years. Part of the paperwork appears to have belonged to Judge S.O. Morford of Dawson City, and it includes correspondence, claim agreements, placer mining grants, cancelled cheques, bank statements and other financial records, all of which deal with assorted mining matters in which Morford was involved. There are also promissory notes, receipts, and records of accounts to do with the sale of ice. Other papers include a power of attorney document dated 1898, land title certificates for Forty Mile, a 1925 Sunnydale, Yukon voters list, and a letter written in Carmacks in 1960. There are three supplies account books (1892-1903) and a cash ledger (1904-1930), in which the name David Swanson appears. There is also a land title certificate with David Swanson's name on it.

British Columbia Archives

Canada. Department of Defence collection

  • CA yuk yuk-186
  • Collection
  • Copied 1991 (originally created 1944-1977)

The collection includes photographs of military activities and scenes military personnel took in the Yukon. Subject matter includes airports, the DEW Line, Whitehorse street scenes, Dawson City, opening of the Ogilvie Bridge, Watson Lake, Snag, Swift River, Eagle River, Northwest Staging Route, Old Crow and aviation scenes.

Canada. Department of Defence

Canadian Bank of Commerce (Dawson City) collection

  • CA yuk yuk-190
  • Collection
  • Copied 1976 (originally created [ca. 1898-1915])

The Canadian Bank of Commerce (Dawson City) collection consists of 30 copy prints, 20 x 25 cm. Images are of the Canadian Bank of Commerce employees and the bank building in Dawson City, Yukon ca. 1898-1915. Included in the photographs of the bank are those taken after the fire of January 10, 1900. There are various street scenes of Dawson City, and of settlements or communities thought to be around the Dawson City area. Some images include North West Mounted Police (NWMP) stations. Also included are images of mining activities in the Dawson City area and of buildings in Grand Forks.

Canadian Bank of Commerce (Dawson Branch)

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