| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1680 | | TITLE: | Ralph Burchnall fonds | | CREATOR: | Burchnall, Ralph | | DATE RANGE: | 1916-1918 | | EXTENT: | 1 photograph album. – 5 postcards. – 1 photograph | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Ralph Burchnall was a surveyor, likely originally from Ontario. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Ken R. Macpherson, of the Archives of Ontario, on behalf of Marilyn Wilson, deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1986. Ralph Burchnall was Marilyn Wilson’s uncle. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of a photograph album including 175 photographs primarily from the Peace River district and along the Athabasca River, of First Nations graves, boy scouts, labourers, houses, farms, rivers, mountains, trees, valleys, pack horses, cars, horses, logging and hunting; and postcards of the Twin Falls in Yoho Valley and views of Vancouver, British Columbia including Capilano Canyon and Stanley Park.
| | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from the records.
The photographs can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.14,208 to A.14,252.
Accession PR1986.0295 includes the following discrete item: a photograph of four cowboys. This image was sent from the Archives of Ontario with album, but was an image from an album belonging to Ken R. Macpherson’s mother. The photograph can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the number A.14,207.
| | RELATED ITEMS: | A14207 (Four cowboys on horseback)
A14208 (Camp with wagons and tipis [Peace River district])
A14209 (Indian grave, Peace River)
A14210 (Alberta Hotel, Red Deer)
A14211 (Ferry, [Peace River district])
A14212 (Surveying, Peace River valley)
A14213 (Boat from Peace River to Fort St. John, B.C.)
A14214 (Bathing in an outdoor tub, Peace River district)
A14215 (Breaking land with horse drawn plow, [Peace River district])
A14216 (Leveller, survey party, Peace River district)
A14217 (Surveyor's camp, Peace River district)
A14218 (Earth moving machine, Peace River district)
A14219 (Indian grave, Peace River district)
A14220 (Interior of cabin, Peace River district)
A14221 (Testing chains, surveyor's party, Peace River district)
A14222 (Surveyors, Peace River district)
A14223 (Group of people with gramophone outside shack, Peace River district)
A14224 (Automobile, Peace River district)
A14225 (Portable sawmill, Peace River district)
A14226 (Earth moving machine, Peace River district)
A14227 (R.C.M.P. barracks, Calgary)
A14228 (Old City Hall, Calgary)
A14229 (Surveyor's camp, Peace River district)
A14230 (Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway bridge over Athabasca River, Peace River district)
A14231 (G. J. Longham, Dominion Land Surveyor and party in canoes on the Athabasca River, Peace River district)
A14232 (Interior of cabin with organ, [Peace River district])
A14233 (Portable sawmill, [Peace River district])
A14234 (Surveyor's camp, [Peace River district])
A14235 (Portable sawmill, [Peace River district])
A14236 (Ferry, [Peace River district])
A14237 (Surveyor's party, [Peace River district])
A14238 (Surveyors, Peace River district)
A14239 (Surveyor's camp, Peace River district)
A14240 (Edmonton, Dunvegan, and British Columbia Railway bridge over Athabasca River, Peace River district)
A14241 (Surveyors transit and levelling party, Peace River district)
A14242 (Washday, surveyors camp, Peace River district)
A14243 (Indian cache and graves, Peace River district)
A14244 (Surveyor's party on way to Fort St. John, B.C., Peace River district)
A14245 (Makeshift engine hoist over car, Peace River district)
A14246 (Man playing organ, Peace River district)
A14247 (Surveyor's camp, Peace River district)
A14248 (Indian graves, Peace River district)
A14249 (Case tractor and plow, [Peace River district])
A14250 (Surveyor, Peace River district)
A14251 (Surveyor's camp, Peace River district)
A14252 (Plowing, Peace River district)
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