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United States Armed Forces Northwest Service Command fonds

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  • Fonds
  • Microfilmed 1974 (originally created 1940-1946)

The fonds consists of records of the United States Army, Northwest Service Command and 6th Service Command dealing with the Canol Project and the Alaska Highway Project activity in the Yukon. Included are reports, general orders, histories, maps and charts, minutes of meetings and conferences, and demobilization plans. These records also contain international agreements between Canada and the United States.

United States Armed Forces Northwest Service Command

United States Army, Corps of Engineers fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1942

The fonds consists of photographs taken by the United States Army, Corp of Engineers in 1942, documenting the construction of the Alaska Highway and scenery along the route.

United States Army, Corps of Engineers

University of Alaska Archives photograph collection

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  • Collection
  • 1895-1948, predominant 1897-1902

The collection consists of copy prints of the Yukon from 1895 to 1948 taken by professional and amateur photographers such as E. A. Hegg, Larss & Duclos, Kinsey and Kinsey, F. N. Nowell, Anton Vogee, Cantwell, C. W. Faulkner, Darms, and Goetzman. Scenes include Dawson City streets, river front, businesses, residences, government buildings, and celebrations, miners and mining activities on Bonanza Creek, Eldorado, Dominion, Gold Run, and Last Chance Creeks, First Nations people and activities at New Rampart House (1913-1917), sternwheelers, Caribou Village, Bennett, Skagway and Yukon Order of Pioneers (YOOP).

University of Alaska Archives

Vic and Katie Johnson collection

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  • Collection
  • Copied 1993 (originally created 1938-1964)

The collection consists of material collected by the Johnsons, including a photograph of Vic Johnson taken on June 17, 1948. The original was made into a tourist postcard. There is also a copy of a hand-coloured photograph of Johnson, sitting on the first tractor ever brought to Watson Lake, in 1939. The collection also includes an original letter sent to Vic Johnson in 1938 from G.W.G. McConachie regarding establishing a radio station at Watson Lake. There are newspapers from the 1960s: "Northern Light", 1961-1962; "The Watson Laker", Oct. 7, 1964; "Fort Nelson News", Dec. 24, 1963.

Johnson, Vic, 1901-1986

Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1991

The fonds consists of correspondence created and received by Linda Bonnefoy-Tate, Co-ordinator of the Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre in 1991.

Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre

W.A. Hayward collection

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  • Collection
  • Copied 1991 (originally created 1898-1909)

The collection consists of copy prints and negatives of photographs collected by W.A. Hayward. The photographs include views of Dawson City, Yukon and area, Bennett, Whitehorse, Miles Canyon and the Chilkoot Pass. The images include shots of W.A. Hayward. The photographs were taken by E.O. Ellingsen, E.A. Hegg, and Larss & Duclos.

Hayward, W.A., 18? - 19?

W.C. Cameron fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1942-1943

The fonds consists of one album with 84 b&w photographs belonging to W.C. Cameron. The photographs document Whitehorse and Dawson City, Yukon, including military personnel, social gatherings, fishing, street scenes, boxing matches, rivers, trains and planes. Also included in the album are newspaper clippings of a series entitled "Doing the Alaska Highway".

Cameron, W.C., ca. 188- -

W.J. Hamilton fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1943

The fonds consists of photographs taken during the construction of the Alaska Highway as W.J. accompanied her father's catering business.

Hamilton, W.J.

W.P. Grainger fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1900-1907

The fonds consists of correspondence between Grainger and the Cannon brothers, regarding their financial arrangements. Financial statements and cancelled cheques accompany the letters. There is also a small photograph of a woman, which was attached to the April 11, 1907 letter from H.C.H. Cannon.

Grainger, W.P.

Walter R. Hamilton fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1897-1964

Fonds consists of photographs of Dawson City, its citizens (especially government employees) and buildings, and Atlin, B.C. The photographers include Wolfe, Larss and Duclos, Hamilton, Ellingson and Cantwell. Many of the photographs were used in his book, "The Yukon Story". Textual records consist of personal papers of Walter Hamilton including letters to him from Victoria Faulkner and Margaret Ogilvie, photocopies of newspaper clippings about Hamilton, an annotated constitution for The Canadian Club, membership tickets for D.A.A.A., invitations to balls, business and campaign cards, a pass for the K.M.R. and a receipt for the Dawson Curling Club. Also included are pamphlets, programs and menus relating to Hamilton's stay in Dawson City.

Hamilton, Walter R.

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