Image depicts a view of the coast of Haida Gwaii.
Profile drawing of the proposed museum on the Queen Charlotte Islands showing the elevation and sections of the building.
Floor plan drawing of the proposed Queen Charlotte Islands Museum. Notable rooms include: display areas, lounge, lobby, meeting space, library and archives, workroom, storage, and native arts classrooms.
Photograph depicts a snow covered cemetery with gravestones, tombstones, and monuments.
Photograph depicts a dock and building near the water. A few buildings are being constructed on some newly cleared land nearby.
File consists of records created and accumulated by Gary Runka over the course of his consultancy work for Queen Charlotte Islands Forest District for the "Facilitation and Mediation of Local Resource Use Plan for Tlell Watershed" project in Tlell River. This file was numbered as G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. client file #539; that client number may be seen referenced elsewhere in the G. Gary Runka fonds. The Land Sense Ltd. client files generally include records such as correspondence, contracts, invoices, project reports, publications, ephemera, memoranda, maps or map excerpts, legal documents, meeting materials, clippings, and handwritten notes.
Maps include:
Japanese fishing float probably found or received by Minister Iona Campagnolo in Haida Gwaii.
File contains slides depicting places on Haida Gwaii, formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Image depicts a woman standing on a rocky shore somewhere on Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts Kent Sedgwick walking along the coastline of Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts numerous trees in the coastal forest of Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts numerous trees in the coastal forest of Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts Kent Sedgwick sitting with a dog on a log on the shore of Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts a downward view of a small section of the shore of Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts an aerial view of the coastline of Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts the waters of the Hecate Strait.
Image depicts the waters of the Hecate Strait, possibly on approach to Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts a row of houses in the village of Masset on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a tall pine tree somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts an individual walking on a path through a forest somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a view of the coast of Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a shed on the shore somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a pile of dead trees in a forest somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a slug on the forest floor somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a trail through the forest somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a house on the shore somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts the community of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii.
File consists of documents recording the founding, funding, explorations, and investments of the pioneering Queen Charlotte Islands General Development Company, Ltd. (London, England). Includes approximately 150 pages of manuscript and the following items of interest:
Photograph depicts a totem pole in a British Columbia rainforest, possibly on Haida Gwaii.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo presenting a New Horizons program cheque to Queen Charlotte Islands senior citizens in Masset. The grant was made for the preparation of a written history of the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Photograph depicts three Haida totem poles, partially obscured by grass and young trees.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo looking at a fallen Haida totem pole with Peter Jones in Ninstints, Anthony Island, Haida Gwaii. The totem pole is in the foreground. Peter Jones may have accompanied Campagnolo on her Skeena riding tour as a photographer.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo standing beside a map of British Columbia and talking to a class of elementary school children in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. The children are in the foreground with their backs to the camera.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and an unidentified teacher talking to a class of elementary school children in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. The children are in the foreground and the majority are not facing the camera.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking to a class of elementary school children in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. Several of the children are raising their hands.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking to a class of elementary school children about the Canada Fitness Award program in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. An unidentified adult (possibly a teacher) is in the far right corner.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo standing outside the school and signing an autograph for an unidentified female student during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with unidentified constituents at a community meeting in an auditorium. The constituents, with their backs to the camera, are in the foreground. Taken during Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo signing the cast of an unidentified constituent. Several other unidentified constituents surround them. Taken during Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo standing and talking in a group of unidentified seated constituents. Taken during Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
File contains linguistic notes prepared by W.H. Collison and sermons written by W.H. Collison in various First Nations languages.
Maps within this series document the placer streams, islands and harbours of the Queen Charlotte Islands; as well as the mining properties located within the vicinity of Stewart, BC.
Series contains publications on the following subjects: linguistics, First Nations studies, anthropology, museum studies, the Missionary Society of the Church of England, the Metlakatla Inquiry, material culture and Canadian geography. It is believed that items published prior to 1922 had been collected by the Archdeacon W.H. Collison, while those published post 1922 (the year W.H. Collison passed away) were collected by both his son W.E. Collison and then his grandaughter Joyce Collison.
Photograph depicts village buildings along shore.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "67 Section of Massett as it is".
The pair sits on ground beside large totem pole, Bertha on left (wife of W.E. Collison). Log fence can be seen in front of forest in right background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Mother & Josie Edenshaw at Massett".
The pair stands on beach, Joyce leaning down in foreground (daughter of Bertha and Reverend W.E. Collison, and granddaughter of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison). Water and shoreline in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Joyce & Col. [Pragnell?] on North Beach QCIs (Old Massett)."
Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of a line of houses. Blanketed canoes sit on beach in right foreground; forest in background.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: “Haida Encampment [crossed through with line]"; "Skidegate Queen Charlottes Islands / To illustrate Introduction / Introduction Trophies from a Song [Trail?] Page 1 Heading."
Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of wood building, hills visible in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Poles on QC Isl."
Two carved wooden figures stand side by side to mark the burial of a Haida medicine man. Each figure has one arm up with a hand under or over the chin, while the other arm is down. Carved chiefly headdresses adorn each of their heads.
Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “Shaman’s grave nr. --Masset QCIs.”
Model totem pole standing upright in front of a blanket backdrop. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “Dad’s totem pole (W.E. Collison)”