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Rutherford Gilbert Caley fonds
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ca. 1163 photographs and other material
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Custodial history
Dr. Michael Caley, a son of Rutherford Gilbert Caley, deposited these records in the Provincial Archives in two separate accessions, one each in 1983 and 1984.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of three scrapbooks compiled by Rutherford Gilbert Caley during the time he worked on the construction of the Alaska Highway and includes correspondence, postcards, newspaper clippings, programmes, poems, purchase orders, commemorative stamps, menus, telegrams, and postcards. Fonds also includes photographs depicting Rutherford Gilbert Caley, British American Oil employees, oil sands extraction plants and equipment, First Nations trapping parties and camps, ferries, army vehicles and convoys, soldiers and other army personnel, dogsledding teams, tankers, fires, lakes, camps and storage depots, roads, buses, airplanes, wildlife, ships, aerial views, Hudson's Bay Company posts, automobile accidents, Inuit, and various other people, buildings, equipment and vehicles involved in the construction of the Alaska Highway.
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Fonds also includes 3 negatives, 0.01 m of textual records, and 1 map.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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No inventory/file list available.
Associated materials
Other records pertaining to Rutherford Gilbert Caley can be found in PR0746 Caley, English family fonds.
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Further accruals are not expected.
General note
Information for the biographical sketch was taken from the records.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1984.0112<br><br>
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- Caley, Rutherford Gilbert (Subject)