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Thompson (river)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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Growing cucumbers, British Columbia , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/221
Scope and Contents

Showing Japanese-Canadian women working in a field covered in cucumber frames overlooking the North Thompson River near Kamloops. Photograph by National Film Board.

Dates: 1950 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kamloops looking east, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069B/8
Scope and Contents 245 x 191 mm. A view looking along the banks of the South Thompson River and showing the town of Kamloops in its infancy. The town itself consists merely of one street of wooden houses along the riverbank, with the railway line itself passing through the main street. Kamloops, which started life as a small trading-post, had a brief boom during the gold-rushes of the 1860s. The arrival of the railway and the decision to make Kamloops a divisional headquarters, assured the town of further...
Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View down the Thompson River near Drynock, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069B/17
Scope and Contents

240 x 190 mm. A view looking along the river with railway embankments following its course at the left of the picture.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View toward the west near Drynock, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069B/16
Scope and Contents

245 x 191 mm. A view showing the Thompson River and hills beyond. Drynock lies about 30 miles north-east of the junction of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).