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Photograph depicts the MV Aorangi docked at Vancouver pier. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Vancouver to Australia".

Photograph depicts a view of a boiler room at University of British Columbia. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Sterling boiler, University of B.C.".

Photograph depicts a view of a pile driver docked next to the Canadian Pacific Railway Pier at Vancouver, B.C. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Pile driver C.P.R. Pier Vancouver, B.C.".

Photograph depicts a view of the sun on the ocean with the ship's bow in the foreground. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Summer at sea".

Photograph depicts a small fishing boat tied to a dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Seine boat maybe".

Photograph depicts a few scattered buildings, shoreline in the foreground and forest behind. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Echo Cove, 1925 Oct.".

Photograph depicts a creek with lush vegetation on both banks, a snow-capped mountain in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "View on Barton's Creek - Naas River".

Photograph depicts the workings of a boiler. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "600 H.P. Sterling Boiler".

Photograph depicts looking down on a gathering of men around a table. The men appear to be gambling. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Earnest Amusement".

Photograph depicts the Canadian National Railway Station in Vancouver. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Can National Station, Vancouver".

Photograph depicts the North Pacific Cannery in Port Edward with a cannery building on a pier next to the shore, water in the foreground, treed hillside in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "North Pacific Cannery - Skeena".

Photograph depicts several homes and building constructed on and near the water, treed hills and snowy mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Part of the bergh of Port Essington".

Photograph depicts a small shed constructed of lumber, three boats, with scattered logs and lumber. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Charcoal Charley's Ship Yard"

Photograph depicts piles of new snow between buildings. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "snowed in a little"

Photograph depicts a road and walkway that borders the beach. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "beach on 1st narrows, Vancouver Jan. 1926".

Photograph depicts totem poles at Kedix Nass River, BC. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Totem poles at Kedix Naas River, BC. 11/4/26".

Photograph depicts several people posing for a photograph on the porch. Handwritten annotation on verso reads, "The whole gang in front of our house last summer. Left to Right, top row: myself, Harold Hague, Mother, 2nd row: Lloyd Hague Sr., Alton Pearce, Dorothy & Fanny Pearce, 3rd row Anna Hague, Nellie Jeffery & Baby Patricia Lee, John Pearce, Margaret Pearce. Bottom row: Martyn Jeffery, Bill Rundle and Lloyd Hague Jr. (Bill Rundle is John Pearce's nephew and the baby Lee belongs to a friend.)"

Photograph depicts a view the wharf in the foreground, cannery and housing in the midground and snowy mountains in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "N. H. Warf & Cannery".

Photograph depicts a view from the water looking at several small homes near the water's edge. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Fishery Bay, BC".

Photograph depicts a row of small fish boats following behind a larger boat. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Starting out for the fishing grounds."

Photograph depicts a cluster of small homes built near a dock. There is a church spire in the back of the photograph, treed mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Kincoolith Village".

Photograph depicts cannery machinery including a gang knife and engine. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Gang knife and engine".

Photograph depicts a large stack of cans. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "830 cases of tall cans".

Photograph depicts ten or more small fish boats tied near the wharf, tanks to hold fish are on the wharf. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Fish boat at the net tanks".

Photograph depicts three First Nations men and one First Nations woman standing on a dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Just-plain-natives".

Photograph depicts a spring salmon. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "A Spring Salmon four feet six inches long, 67 pound weight". Donor identifies the man in the photograph as Fred Jeffreys.

Photograph depicts a view looking out to the ocean and island. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "View off Inverness". Caption may refer to Inverness Cannery on the Skeena River or Inverness Passage.

Photograph depicts a view from the water looking toward several cannery buildings built on a dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Dominion Cannery Skeena River, BC".

Photograph depicts a view of a walkway and slew, power poles, city buildings and mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Portion of Rupert".

Photograph depicts an adolescent boy standing on the edge of the water with a stick. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Jack Child".

Photograph depicts a ship in route to China. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Asia, leaving for China".

Photograph depicts a large ship in open water. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Empress of Asia - Vancouver Harbour, BC".

Photograph depicts a ship at the dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Princess Louise - C.P.R. Ferry Van. Pier".

Photograph depicts a small boat called the "Algoma" tied near the shore, treed shores in the background.

Photograph depicts a wreckage of a small airplane. The wreckage is adjacent to a home. Handwritten annotation reads, "same as above 1926". This photograph may depict the plane crash that occurred in October 1926 in which a Victoria-to-Seattle airmail plane piloted by Gerald Smith crashed into the home of Senator Robert F. Green on 502 Rupert Street in Victoria, BC.

Photograph depicts rows of small bunk houses, smoke rises from some of the chimneys, forest in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Cabins of Crew and Indian Houses".

Photograph depicts an aerial view of a large cannery. There is a dense forest and a river in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Naas Harbour Cannery July 1926".

Photograph depicts a chimney in place at Nass Harbour cannery. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "up in place, Naas Harbour Cannery.

Photograph depicts a grain elevator at Prince Rupert, BC. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "elevator at Rupert Oct. 1926".

Photograph depicts a large boat. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Government snag boat Bobolink 1/5/26".

Photograph depicts large flocks of sea gulls flying over ice at Fishery Bay, Nass River, BC. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, Sea Gulls & Ice off Fishery Bay - Naas River".

Photograph depicts a small fishing boat near dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Halibut fishing boat".

Photograph depicts a small boat tied near the shore. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Camp Scow BC Packers Naas River".

Photograph depicts a view of the wide expanse of the Nass river. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "The Nass River below Greenville".

Photograph depicts a man standing beside a rustic cart. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Job Clark and a punch hard cart". Job Clark (1890-1969) was Job Henry Clark, Chief Long Arm (Na-qua-oon), patriarch and leading hereditary chief of the Nishga tribe of the Nass River. Job Clark's father, Frank Roundy, was the founder of Alice Arm and owner and operator of the first operating mine there, the Esperanza. Roundy was also one of the founders of Silver City near which the present BC Molybdenum mine operates. Chief Job Clark had 6 children, one of whom was Frank Calder.

Photograph depicts two men standing beside very tall fish drying racks. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Drying oolichans Fishery Bay, BC".

Photograph depicts a view of Nass Harbour Cannery. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Naas Harbour Cannery west side view".

Photograph depicts Nass Harbour dock at low tide, shoreline and dock in the foreground, Snow capped mountains in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Wharf at Naas Harbour 22' tide out".

Photograph depicts a street view looking toward homes build next to a boardwalk, dirt street in the foreground, homes in midground, treed hillsides in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Houses at Naas Harbour".