Cedar log that has split a tree

Details
Title

Cedar log that has split a tree

Contributor(s)

Gunterman, Ida Madeline Warner (Mattie) (Photographer)

Project Title

Mattie Gunterman Collection

Project Partner

Mr. Derek Lukin Johnston and family

Type of Resource

still image

Genre

photographs

Date Created

1901

Publisher

Vancouver Public Library

Place

Vancouver

Description

Log - snag splits tree. William (Bill) Gunterman sitting on a cedar log which has pierced another log as a result of a snow slide on trail between Beaton and Camborne - Madeline (Mattie) Gunterman standing below. Note on glass negative envelope credited to F. Lade, 'On stage road entrance to Cambourne - snow slide shoved cedar right through tree.' Mattie's writing on negative reads 'Mrs. MG Aug 1901'. The famous Pierced Tree on the Comaplix to Camborne trail -from book 'Flapjacks and Photographs' by Henri Robideau 1995 p.68

VPL Accession Number

2329

Form

Photograph

Digital Origin

Reformatted Digital

Subject(s)

Forests and forestry
Portraits, Group
Avalanches
Gunterman, William
Gunterman, Mattie, 1872-1945

Location(s)

British Columbia - Lardeau River Valley
British Columbia - Beaton
British Columbia - Camborne

Time Period

1900s

Use and Reproduction

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