34 1/2 Mile

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7 archival descriptions results for 34 1/2 Mile

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Hippopotamus in Breckenridge Park

Postcard labelled "Hippopotamus in Breckenridge Park, San Antonio, Texas," sent from [Aunt?] to Mr. Bob Neilan [sic]. The front of the card has a tinted photograph of a hippo in a zoo exhibit, with crowds of people watching from across a pool. On the back of the card is a handwritten message from the sender in San Antonio to Robert Jardine-Neiland at 34 1/2 Mile. There is a printed blurb about Breckenridge Park in the top left. A green one-cent American stamp is in the top right corner. The card was postmarked at 9:30 PM, March 9 1934, in San Antonio, Texas.

Letter from Jenny Jardine to Echo-Marie Fawks (nee Betts) and her husband, Don - April 7, 1995

Letter from Jenny Jardine to Echo-Marie Fawks (nee Betts) and her husband, Don, written on April 7, 1995. In the letter, Jenny recounts her and her family's life living in the Whistler Valley between the 1900s and the 1940s - at Rainbow Lodge, Mons, Alpha Lake, and finally at 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area]. Stories she recounts include their relationship with the Philips and Harry Horstman, hikes on Sproatt Mountain and to Cheakamus Lake, mail delivery, schooling, scavenging berries along the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, and Howard Gebhart and her brothers' serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. She finishes the letter talking about her recent trip to Northern BC, the Yukon, and Alaska. The letter was enclosed in an envelope with notes written by Louise Smith regarding the letter's custodial history. The letter was given to Louise by Echo-Marie (Louise's cousin), who lived with her husband, Don, in Whistler from c. 1990 to c. 2012.

Mürren, Grosshorn, Breithorn und Tschingelhorn

Postcard labelled "Mürren, Grosshorn, Breithorn und Tschingelhorn," sent from [Jessie? Lizzie?] Jardine in Mürren, Switzerland to Miss J. J. Neiland (Jenny Jardine-Neiland) at 34 1/2 Mile. The front of the card has a tinted photograph of a village among the Swiss peaks.

On the back of the card is a handwritten message from sender to Jenny Jardine, dated and postmarked August 17, 1927. A red Swiss stamp is in the top right corner.

Summerland Rd.

Postcard labelled "Summerland Rd." sent from Jack Jardine to his mother, Lizzie Neiland. On the front of the card is a black and white photograph of Summerland Road, with an automobile driving along it. There are high cliffs on one side of the road and a flat expanse (possibly a lake or a field) on the other.

On the back of the card is a handwritten message from "Jack" to his mother at Mile 34 1/2. He mentions his siblings Bob and Jenny. There is a purple three-cent Canadian stamp in the top right corner. The card is postmarked August 15 1944 in Penticton, British Columbia.

The Breakwater, Bude

Postcard labelled "The Breakwater, Bude," from [Coreen?] to Mrs. (Lizzie) Neiland. On the front of the postcard is a black and white photograph of the ocean and coastline at Bude, Cornwall, England. On the back of the card is a handwritten message from the sender to Lizzie Jardine-Neiland at 34 1/2 Mile. There is a red British postage stamp in the top right corner. The card is postmarked 10 AM September 9, 1945 at Harrow, Middlesex.

WA_2018_039 - Postcards and Textual Documents

Series consists of letters, bankruptcy papers, receipts, cheque stubs, postcards, a booklet, and a letter bill relating to the life of the Jardine-Neiland family at Alta Lake, as well as travels abroad. The postcards have been designated as a separate file.

  • File 001 - 16 postcards to members of the Jardine-Neiland family from friends and relatives in Europe, the USA and Canada, c. early 1900s-1946.
  • 002: letter from Pat O'Neil (in Winnipeg, Manitoba) to Jack Jardine, March 10 1940.
  • 003: Function Junction Mill bankruptcy papers.
  • 004: receipt from Alex Philip general store, W.O. Betts, February 10 1938.
  • 005: receipt from Alex Philip general store, W.O. Betts, March 2 1938.
  • 006: letter to Lizzie Neiland from niece Ann (in New Westminster), postmarked February 1931.
  • 007: cheque stub, September 27 1938 to mid-1939.
  • 008: cheque stub, July 25 to October 26 1939.
  • 009: booklet, "Picture Taking with the No. 1A Kodak Junior," owned by Grace Archibald, 1914.
  • 010: letter bill, to W.O. Betts from Buckerfield's Ltd., December 24 1937.

WA_2020_025 - Textual Material

Textual materials donated by Louise Smith on August 13, 2020 regarding the history of the Jardine-Neiland and Betts families, including memoirs by her mother, Jenny Betts (nee Jardine), a Christmas card from Grace Archibald to Jenny Jardine dated 1937, and a Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company track tie order for November 22, 1937 addressed to Wallace Betts.