Photograph depicts a woman, possibly Ada Yovanovich or Blanche MacDonald, sitting at a table in Skidegate with Dempsey Collinson, possibly Wylie Brillon or Ed Wempler, and an unknown man.
Photograph depicts Jamie Sterrit wearing a button blanket and holding a piece of paper on stage with women wearing button blankets at an event in Skidegate.
Photograph depicts Jamie Sterrit wearing a button blanket and holding a piece of paper on stage with women wearing button blankets and feather headbands at an event in Skidegate.
Photograph depicts men on stage with a woman, possibly Ada Yovanovich or Blanche MacDonald, wearing button blankets at an event in Skidegate.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo on stage with Dempsey Collinson and an unknown man wearing button blankets at an event in Skidegate.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo with two First Nations men outside a house.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo with three First Nations women and a button blanket.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo with three First Nations women and a button blanket.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo visiting with students in a classroom at a predominantly First Nations school, possibly in Atlin or the Nass Valley.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo visiting with students in a classroom at a predominantly First Nations school, possibly in Atlin or the Nass Valley.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo interacting with students in a classroom at a predominantly First Nations school, possibly in Atlin or the Nass Valley.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo visiting with students seated at desks at a predominantly First Nations school, possibly in Atlin or the Nass Valley.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo visiting with students seated at desks in a classroom at a predominantly First Nations school, possibly in Atlin or the Nass Valley.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and possibly James Gosnell with Nishga Tribal Council members in a school gym wearing a “Nishga Land is Not For Sale” button at the Nishga Tribal Council 22nd Annual Convention.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo with Nishga Tribal Council members in a school gym wearing a “Nishga Land is Not For Sale” button at the Nishga Tribal Council 22nd Annual Convention. The man to the right of Iona is opssibly James Gosnell.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo wearing a “Nishga Land is Not For Sale” button with Nishga Tribal Council member James Gosnell and others in a school gym at the Nishga Tribal Council 22nd Annual Convention.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo sitting with Nishga Tribal Council member James Gosnell and an unknown man at the Nishga Tribal Council 22nd Annual Convention.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo sitting with Nishga Tribal Council member James Gosnell and an unknown man at the Nishga Tribal Council 22nd Annual Convention.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo speaking with Nishga Tribal Council members at the Nishga Tribal Council 22nd Annual Convention.
Photograph depicts First Nations children wearing button blankets while performing at a community banquet held at a Terrace school.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo holding hands with Nadine Sante at a community banquet held at a Terrace school.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo smiling and holding hands with Nadine Sante at a community banquet held at a Terrace school.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo smiling and holding hands with Nadine Sante while others clap at a community banquet held at a Terrace school.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo in her Ottawa office looking at drawings of fish with members of Glen Vowell First Nations.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo in her Ottawa office looking at drawings of fish with members of Glen Vowell First Nations.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo in her Ottawa office looking at drawings of fish with members of Glen Vowell First Nations while an unknown man talks about the pictures.
File consists of programs and correspondence relating to First Nations. Includes:
- Theatre Program: Roots & Wings and the Teme-Augama Anishnabai (The Deep Water People)
- Theatre Program: Roots & Wings Youth Theatre Company presents “N’Daki-Menan”
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from William Clancey re: elimination of First Nations compensation for land theft
File consists of correspondence, publications, press releases, newspaper clippings, guidelines, and speeches. Includes:
- Copy of Nisga’a Nation 35th Annual Convention, Convention Book
- Publication: “Nisga’a: People of the Mighty River”
- Computer printout: “Nisga’a, British Columbia and Canada sign Agreement-in-Principle, February 15, 1996
- Nisga’a Treaty Negotiations, Agreement-in-Principle in Brief
- Chronology of events leading to an Agreement-in-Principle with the Nisga’a Tribal Council
- Nisga’a, British Columbia and Canada release historic Agreement-in-Principle
- Lock-up Guidelines, Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle
- Speaking notes for the Honourable Ronald A. Irwin, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development re: Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, February 15, 1996
- Publication: Treaty No.8 Made June 21, 1899 and Adhesions, Reports, etc
- Publication: Treaty No.11 (June 27, 1921) and Adhesion (July 17, 1922) with Reports, etc.
- Publication: Indian Act, September, 1989
- Handwritten note: “The view only changes for the land (?)”
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Hon. Ronald A. Irwin re: thank you for support of Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, April 18, 1996
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Prime Minister Jean Chrétien re: thank you for support of Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, April 15, 1996
- Faxed letter to Ms. Marjorie Percival, Land Claims Secretary, Nisga’a Tribal Council, from Iona Campagnolo re: Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony and 39th Annual Convention, March 19, 1996
- Faxed letter to Chief Harry Nyce, Nisga’a Tribal Council, from Iona Campagnolo re: regrets for Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony, March 18, 1996
- Faxed letter to Iona Campagnolo from to Ms. Marjorie Percival, Land Claims Secretary, Nisga’a Tribal Council, re: Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony and 39th Annual Convention, March 18, 1996
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Paulette Francoeur, Head, Correspondence Unit, Office of the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, re: letter of acknowledgement, February 23, 1996
- Faxed letter to Ms. Megan Olesky, Federal Treaty Negotiation Office, from Iona Campagnolo re: event attendance, February 14, 1996
- Handwritten notes re: Nisga’a
- Handwritten notes re: First Nations Summit and Nisga’a
- Faxed letter to Iona Campagnolo from Doreen Mullings, Executive Director, Federal Treaty Negotiation Office and Joy Illington, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs re: Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle and News Conference Invitation, February 14, 1996
- Fax to Iona Campagnolo re: “Talking points on the Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle”, February 15, 1996
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Honourable Ronald A. Irwin, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development re: Nisga’a treaty negotiations, October 20, 1995
- Letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from Iona Campagnolo re: appreciation of government in support of Nisga’a treaty negotiations, February 12, 1996
- Letter to John Watson, Regional Director General, Indian Affairs and Northern Development from Iona Campagnolo re: thank you for briefing on Nisga’a Agreement, October 1, 1997
- Letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from Iona Campagnolo re: commendation of John Watson, and the Nisga’a people towards determining an Agreement, October 1, 1997
- Letter to Hon. Jane Stewart, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development from Iona Campagnolo re: commendation of her leadership, October 1, 1997
- Newspaper clippings:
- “Guujaaw: A man of his people” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Found Haida tattoo kit comes to light” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “A culture rises again” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Balance of power” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Voices of Haida Gwaii” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Selling a philosophy of peace in Indian Country” The Globe and Mail, March 2, 1996
- Letters to the Editor, The Globe and Mail, March 2, 1996
- “Caution surrounds Nisga’a signing” The Globe and Mail, March 22, 1996
- “At last! A settlement in native land claims” Times Colonist, February 25, 1996
- “The Nisga’a agreement: a great deal or a great steal?” The Globe and Mail, March 5, 1996
- “Natives denied land-claims justice” Times Colonist, September 15, 1990
- “B.C. land-claim deal sails into storm” The Globe and Mail, February 16, 1996
- “Beyond the thunder of dissent lies the fire of revolution” The Vancouver Sun (undated)
- “The fallout will be far-reaching from the B.C. ruling on aboriginal rights” The Globe and Mail (undated)
- “Judge the Nisga’a deal on its practical merits” The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1996
- “The B.C. government must deal in good faith with the Nisga’a” The Globe and Mail, 1995
- “Nisga’a negotiate an exemplary land-claim agreement in principle” The Globe and Mail, (undated)
- “Native goals more in harmony with populist mood” (unidentified)
- “No quick fixes expected from Nisga’a settlement” The Globe and Mail, March 25, 1996
- “Nisga’a deal an honourable settlement” The Globe and Mail, February 24, 1996
- “Lessons from the Nisga’a” Simon Fraser News, March 7, 1996
File consists of one magazine clipping:
- Magazine clipping: “Time for amends: a land-claims referendum could derail key negotiations with B.C.’s natives” Macleans magazine, September 3, 2001
The Archdeacon W.H. Collison fonds consists of textual materials, maps, published materials and photographs all documenting Collison’s life and work with North Coastal First Nations communities in British Columbia. Types of records found within this fonds include manuscripts, sermon notes, correspondence, oral history summaries, monographs, cartographic items, photographs and postcards. The Collison fonds also includes some records created by his children and grandchildren as well as a family tree created in 1986. The Collison fonds has been divided into four series.
Sans titreSeries consists of images pertaining the Collison family, North Coastal First Nations communities, means of transportation along North Coastal British Columbia, and various church structures and religious events.
Large group of women, men, and children pose on front steps of church. Some men standing in back hold brass instruments. Bishop Ridley (with long beard) sits in front centre between W.H. Collison (on right) and his son W.E. Collison. Photograph depicts the first church built in Metlakatla, which was burned in a fire in 1901, and replaced in 1903.
Handwritten annotation below image reads: "A gathering of Missionaries and Indians in front of Metlakahtla Church During Synod"; on verso: "[Ven?] Arch Collison & Mrs Collison".
Banner at front of sanctuary reads "Do this in remembrance of Me".
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Interior of old church. Built by natives themselves".
Canoe with mast floats close to shore in foreground, mountains visible across river in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Arch. W.H. Collison & wife with native friends en route up Skeena River."
Three men stand in centre, each wearing a chief's dress and head-dress. Family members stand and sit on either side. Carved boxes and masks are positioned in foreground. The group poses in front of drapery hung against tall wooden wall.
Community members have stated that the people in this photo are from the Gitwilluyaxw clan from the wolf tribal house of Ksdiyaawak. The photo was taken at Gitlax̱t’aamiks along the Nass River.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Tsimpshian Chiefs & family. Goods [for or fr.] Potlatch".
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "A very old Tsimpsion women - said to be over 110 yrs old."
Groups of men and women can be seen gathered on paths between two large totem poles.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Totem Park Pr Rupert park."
Photograph depicts a large totem pole next to groomed dirt paths. Power poles and river visible in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Edenshaw pole in park at Prince Rupert."
Photograph depicts a totem pole standing on what appears to be a large wooden deck or boardwalk, view of the city in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Totem pole in park in Prince Rupert".
Photograph depicts a row of houses and fenced yards on right, separated from more buildings on left by grassy area.
Printed on image: "Metlakahtla Nr. Prince Rupert. Allen Photo June '11"; handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Metlakatla B.C. North West Coast of America / Collison".
Photograph depicts large buildings on shore. Three unidentified individuals can be seen walking on dock in foreground.
Printed on image: "METLAKATLA B.C. / McRAE BROS"; handwritten annotation on verso reads: "A section of Metlakahtla, showing Church & Schoolhouse." See also item 2009.7.1.58 for similar image also featuring the new church building at Metlakatla, B.C.
Several unidentified individuals can be seen on front steps of church and a group of small children in white stand in line below steps. Other community buildings are visible in background, white fence crosses foreground. Photograph depicts the first church built in Metlakatla, which was burned in a fire in 1901, and replaced in 1903.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Church (of England) at Metlakahtla - British Columbia. Built by the people of the village - largest church then on the pacific coast."
Several unidentified individuals can be seen on front steps of church and a group of small children in white stand in line below steps. Other community buildings are visible in background, white fence crosses foreground. Photograph depicts the first church built in Metlakatla, which was burned in a fire in 1901, and replaced in 1903.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Old church at Metlakatla Before fire. Built by Fr. Duncan & the village people".
Photograph depicts fenced area in front of church building with turret. Other community buildings can be seen in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Metlakatla Church. Replacement for larger church lost in village fire 1903?" See also item 2009.7.1.55 for similar image depicting new church building at Metlakatla, B.C.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man walking on path in front of Bishop Ridley's home. Several children can be seen in fenced yard in midground.
Handwritten annotation below image reads: "Ridley Home and Mission house Metlakahtla."; on verso: "Chapter XXVII / Heading for Chapter / Ridley Home Metlakahtla".
Photograph depicts a large two-storey building with the sign: "CALEDONIA HOSPITAL". Fence crosses foreground, hills visible in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Mission Hosp at Metlakatla B.C."
Photograph depicts a man and woman standing on steps to a round tower in fenced area. Roofs of other buildings can be seen below on right; water and shore visible in background.
Printed on image: "Indian Jail, Metlatkla".
Photograph depicts a group of children dressed in white walking in a line, and adults and other children watching from behind. Group of six man stand in line on left, one holding a flag, another a drum. Jail tower and large building stand behind fence in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Old Mission House & jail at Metlakatla Before the fire."
Photograph depicts a group of men, women, and children walking across beach towards water. Buildings visible on shore in left background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Funeral party - en route to boat Metlakatla BC (Taking body over to Grave Island".
Photograph has been altered with drawings of people on shore fighting canoes approaching the town. Buildings stand behind fenced and walled areas in background.
Handwritten annotation below image reads: "Drawing by F.A., old Hudson B. [...?]"; on verso: "27. To head Chapter III. No. 2. Tsimshians and Haidas fighting on shore at Fort Simpson."