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01From the archives

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Handwritten page from James Hector's 1858 field notebook: compass bearings, distances, and an ink sketch of a line of hills
The handwriting. James Hector's field notebook, July 1858 — bearings, distances, and a horizon sketch, from the Palliser Expedition season that reached Kicking Horse Pass. Hocken Collections, University of Otago, MS-0443. Public domain.
Jean Habel's 1897 hand-drawn sketch map of the valley of the north fork of the Wapta River
The map. Jean Habel's sketch map of the Wapta valley, drawn in the field in 1897 and published in Appalachia Vol. VIII. Public domain.
Hand-tinted postcard of Emerald Lake and Mt. Burgess, Yoho National Park, B.C.
The image. Emerald Lake and Mt. Burgess, a hand-tinted postcard from a Byron Harmon photograph. Harmon died in 1942; his work is public domain in Canada. Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

Journals, field notes, sketch maps, patrol reports, photographs — unprocessed, sitting in local archives. We turn them into searchable text, structured records, georeferenced maps, and stories a place can sell.