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Gaol Jail
N-1986-012: 5-20 · File · 1964
Part of John Anderson-Thomson fonds

The file consists of a job file for a survey of the jail site in Yellowknife. The records include field notes, contract statement, correspondence, and survey instructions. [Yellowknife Correctional Centre facility]

Stevens Franks Channel
N-1986-012: 5-22 · File · 1965
Part of John Anderson-Thomson fonds

The file consists of a job file for a survey of a lease held by C.D. Stevens near Frank Channel. The records include correspondence, survey instructions, field notes, sketches, draft and annotated plans, and an invoice.

Lot 30. Blk 60. Yellowknife
N-1986-012: 5-21 · File · 1965
Part of John Anderson-Thomson fonds

The file consists of a job file for a survey of Lot 30, Block 60 in Yellowknife. The records include survey instructions, correspondence, a sketch, and an invoice.

Lot 8 Blk 19
N-1986-012: 5-19 · File · 1963-1964
Part of John Anderson-Thomson fonds

The file consists of a job file for a survey of Lot 8, Block 19 in Yellowknife. The records include correspondence, survey instructions, field notes, an invoice, several sketches (for this job and others), and survey data.

Frontier Fishing Tours
N-1986-012: 5-17 · File · 1961
Part of John Anderson-Thomson fonds

The file consists of a job file for a survey for Frontier Fishing Tours Limited. The records include correspondence, 2 reference sketches, and survey instructions.

O'Callaghan Farm
N-1986-012: 5-14 · File · [ca. 1960]
Part of John Anderson-Thomson fonds

The file consists of a job file for a survey of the O'Callaghan Farm, near Yellowknife. The records include sketches and survey data.

N-1986-012: 5-3 · File · 1944-1947
Part of John Anderson-Thomson fonds

The file consists of correspondence, a record of a mineral claim, a receipt, and agreements related to the Freda Claim owned by E. Sutherland and optioned to various interests.

Survey Posts
N-1986-012: 5-1 · File · [ca. 1978]
Part of John Anderson-Thomson fonds

The file consists of correspondence and sample drawings relating to the design of survey posts. File title imposed by Archivist.

John Anderson-Thomson
N-1986-012 · Accession · 1936-1984
Part of John Anderson-Thomson fonds

The material reflects several facets of John Anderson-Thomson's life in the Northwest Territories, including his geological and surveying business, his and Janet's personal and leisure activities, and his role as commanding officer of No. 7 Company Canadian Rangers, Magistrate and Justice of the Peace, and commissioner on the Great Slave Railway Royal Commission. The records include financial records, correspondence, field notes, survey and reference plans, survey instructions, photographs and scrapbooks, certificates, and articles.
The records have been arranged by the Archivist, usually in topical, then roughly chronological order where the original order was not apparent. File divisions and titles, where apparent, have been mostly retained.

Royal Commission Scrapbooks
N-1986-012: 1-14 · File · 1959
Part of John Anderson-Thomson fonds

The file consists of two scrapbooks of newspaper articles relating to the Manning Royal Commission which studied routes for a railway from Northern Alberta to Great Slave Lake and of which John Anderson-Thomson was a member. The file also contains a copy of a CBC Broadcast for the Overseas Service written by Florence Whyard and titled "Road to Yellowknife." Title imposed by Archivist.

Ridley Mines
N-1986-012: 4-17 · File · 1954
Part of John Anderson-Thomson fonds

The file consists of correspondence, drill hole records, and survey field notes for the Ridley Mines property. [Near Stark Lake]