Inventory to the records of the WILKINSON FAMILY FONDS Accession #86/50 Yukon Archives December 1996 Cover photograph: Wilkinson family fonds, photograph #14247. Home Sick To night I lay dreaming Of a place far a way. With my heart a longing To go back some day, Of a little log cabin On a snow fed stream. Where the mountain sides All scarlet and a gleam. Oh to hear and to see Winging ducks in the sky. And all through the night Hear the lonesome coyotes cry. By a camp fire bright And hunting out in the fall. From a way out there comes The bull moose’s call. It’s the end of a perfect day The sun’s sinking in the west. And the trout are leaping high That’s the time I love best. My heart stays in the Yukon With a love that lingers on and on. To soon the morning comes Then my dreams fade and are gone. J.C. Wilkinson i TABLE OF CONTENTS FONDS DESCRIPTION................................................................................................................... 1 SERIES DESCRIPTIONS SERIES I: WILKINSON FAMILY JOURNALS................................................................................ 3 1. Lura Wilkinson journals. – 1934-1958................................................................................. 3 2. Ethel Porterfield journal. – 1968-1969. ............................................................................... 3 3. J.C. Wilkinson journals. – 1969-1972. ................................................................................. 4 4. Jared Wilkinson journals. – 1937-1978. ............................................................................... 4 SERIES II: WILKINSON FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, POETRY AND CLIPPINGS.................. 7 1. Wilkinson family correspondence. – 1927-1970.................................................................. 7 2. Jared Wilkinson correspondence. – 1946-1971 .................................................................... 7 3. J.C. Wilkinson poetry. – [196-]-1972.................................................................................. 8 4. Wilkinson family clippings : 1912-1976. – Photocopied 1993............................................. 8 SERIES III: ETHEL AND ANDY PORTERFIELD CORRESPONDENCE. – 1892-1982 ; (predominant 1970-1982)............................................................................................................... 9 SERIES IV: WILKINSON FAMILY FORT SELKIRK, PLATEAU MOUNTAIN AND PELLY FARM PHOTOGRAPHS. .............................................................................................................. 11 1. Wilkinson family Fort Selkirk photographs. – [ca. 1920-1927]. ........................................ 11 2. Wilkinson family Fort Selkirk & Plateau Mountain photograph album. – [ca. 1927-1940] 13 3.Wilkinson family Plateau Mountain and Pelly Farm photograph album . – [ca. 1927-1945]15 4. Wilkinson family Plateau Mountain and Pelly Farm photograph album. – [ca. 1927-1954]20 5. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Plateau Mountain hunting trip photographs. – [ca. 194-].......... 22 6. Wilkinson family photographs of men hunting around the MacMillan River, near Plateau Mountain. – [ca. 193-]........................................................................................................... 23 7. Wilkinson family Pelly Farm photograph album. – [ca. 1940-1954.]................................. 23 8. Wilkinson family Pelly Farm photograph album. – [ca. 1940-1954].................................. 29 iii CONTENTS 9. Wilkinson family Pelly Farm photograph album. – [ca. 1940-1954]...................................31 10. Wilkinson family Pelly Farm photograph album. – [ca. 1940-1954].................................33 11. Wilkinson family Pelly Farm photographs. – [ca. 1940-1954]. ........................................38 12. Wilkinson family Pelly Farm photographs. – [ca. 1940-1954]. ........................................47 SERIES V: WILKINSON FAMILY PELLY CROSSING AND BRITISH COLUMBIA PHOTOGRAPHS. ..........................................................................................................................51 1. Wilkinson family Pelly Crossing photographs. – 1954-1955. .............................................51 2. Jared Wilkinson Alberta trip photographs. – 1954..............................................................52 3. Wilkinson family Pelly Crossing photographs. – 1954-1960. .............................................53 4. J.C. and Lura Wilkinson Seattle, Washington photographs. – 1960.....................................60 5. Wilkinson family British Columbia and Yukon photographs. – [ca. 1960]. .........................61 6. Wilkinson family British Columbia and Mississippi photographs. – 1961............................62 7. Wilkinson family British Columbia photographs. – 1961-1964...........................................64 SERIES VI: WILKINSON FAMILY PELLY RIVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA AND LANSING PHOTOGRAPHS. ..........................................................................................................................69 1. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Pelly River photographs. – 1964...............................................69 2. Wilkinson family British Columbia photographs. – 1965....................................................72 3. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Pelly River photographs. – 1965-1968......................................73 4. Wilkinson family British Columbia photographs. – 1968....................................................77 5. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Pelly River photographs. – 1968...............................................77 6. J.C. Wilkinson Seattle, Washington photographs. – 1969...................................................80 7. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Pelly River photographs. – 1969...............................................81 8. Wilkinson and Porterfield British Columbia photographs. – 1969.......................................83 9. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Pelly River photographs. – [ca. 1969-1970]..............................84 10. Wilkinson family and Ethel and Andy Porterfield British Columbia and Washington photographs. – [ca. 1970].......................................................................................................89 11. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Pelly River photographs. – 1971-1972....................................90 iv CONTENTS 12. J.C. Wilkinsons and Ethel and Andy Porterfield British Columbia and Washington photographs. – 1973-1974..................................................................................................... 93 13. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Pelly River photographs. – [ca. 1973-1976]........................... 94 14. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Pelly River photograph album. – 1976.................................. 101 16. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Pelly River photograph album. – [ca. 1974-1976]. ............... 107 17. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Pelly River photograph album. – [ca. 1976.]......................... 110 18. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Lansing photograph album. – 1977....................................... 111 19. Jared and Eddie Wilkinson Lansing photographs. – 1977................................................ 112 20. Jared Wilkinson Lansing photograph album. – [ca. 1977]............................................... 115 21. Jared Wilkinson Lansing and Canoe, B.C. photographs. – 1977-1978. ........................... 116 22. Jared Wilkinson Lansing photograph album. – [ca. 1978-1979]. .................................... 117 23. Jared Wilkinson Fort Selkirk and Lansing photographs. – 1979...................................... 119 24. Ethel and Andy Porterfield Canoe, B.C. photographs and Jared Wilkinson Vancouver photographs. – 1980............................................................................................................ 121 SERIES VII: WILKINSON FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANCESTORS, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. – [ca. 1860-1960]. ..................................................................................................... 125 SERIES VIII: PORTERFIELD FAMILY BRITSH COLUMBIA, ONTARIO AND YUKON PHOTOGRAPHS......................................................................................................................... 139 1. Porterfield family photograph album. – [ca. 194-]. .......................................................... 139 2. Andy Porterfield Yukon photograph album. – [ca. 1955-1957]........................................ 139 3. Porterfield family photograph album. – 1957-1958 ......................................................... 140 4. Porterfield family photographs. – [ca. 1940-1969].......................................................... 140 SERIES IX: JARED WILKINSON PELLY FARM AND PELLY CROSSING FILM REELS. ........ 145 1. Jared Wilkinson Pelly Farm and Pelly Crossing film. – [ca. 1954].................................... 145 2. Jared Wilkinson Pelly Crossing film. – [ca. 1956]. ........................................................... 148 3. Jared Wilkinson Pelly Crossing film. – [ca. 1956]. ........................................................... 151 4. Jared Wilkinson Pelly Crossing and Fort Selkirk film. – [ca. 1956]................................... 154 v CONTENTS SERIES X: EDDIE WILKINSON FILM REEL. ............................................................................159 1. Eddie Wilkinson Pelly River and Dawson film. – [ca. 1956]..............................................159 SERIES XI: JARED AND EDDIE WILKINSON PELLY CROSSING AND DAWSON CITY FILM REELS .........................................................................................................................................163