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Full on photograph of a totem pole in a fenced area. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Indian Totem Poles, Kitwanga, B.C."

Photograph of the dirt road leading to Hagwilget Village. Residential buildings and a church are visible in the background. Printed annotation on recto reads: "W.W.W. Hagwilget Village."

Photograph of a vessel in a large body of water with several mountains visible in the background. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Atlin Mt., Atlin, B.C."

Photograph depicts pier under construction, workers, buildings smokestacks and river with chunks of ice. Handwritten annotation in pencil on recto reads: “S. FT. GEORGE G.T.P. BRIDGE”.

Photo of buildings behind street, fenced on either side. Man and horse can be seen on street. Printed annotation on verso reads: “The Government buildings Fort George B. C.” Handwritten annotation on recto reads: “This is the place I receive my patent from next June.”

View of 5 buildings and 4 tents on land that has been cleared to stumps. Printed annotation on verso reads: “HAMILTON AVE. FORT GEORGE”, added handwritten annotation in ink reads: “1910”.

View of Cluster of buildings with treed hill in the background. Printed annotation on verso reads: “NEAR FORT GEORGE B.C.”

People, boardwalks, and store signs visible in street scene. Printed annotation on recto reads: “6th St. Prince Rupert. B.C.” Handwritten message in ink on verso is addressed to: “Mrs. Loistram Halls Buildings Nicholas St Limerick Ireland”. Verso stamped "PRINCE RUPERT JUN 30 10".

Lofty view of Prince Rupert BC. Water crosses midground, hills stand in background. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Prince Rupert BC McRae Bros”.

Street scene depicts people, boardwalks, and buildings with store signs. Rubble and unknown material lies on ground between boardwalks. Printed annotation on recto reads: “3rd Ave. and 6th St. Prince Rupert. B.C.”

Street scene depicts people, boardwalks, and buildings with store signs. Printed annotation on recto reads: “6th St. Prince Rupert. B.C.” Pencil marking on recto reads: “1912”(incorrect?). Handwritten message on verso in ink is addressed to: “Mrs. Willis Messinger Portland Oregon” Cancelation mark on Canadian 1 cent stamp reads: “Prince Rupert BC MR 11, 12”

Boats, docks, ships and a large building in waterscape. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Prince Rupert B.C.” Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “McRae Bros”.

View of fish boat in water, with net spread and smaller boat on opposing side of net. Several gulls can be seen flying in the air. Rail cars town and treed hills in background. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Herring Fishing In Prince Rupert Harbour McRae Bros.” Handwritten message in ink on verso is addressed to “Mr. H. Smart 2550 Blackwood St. Victoria B.C.”

Lofty view of stern wheeler in river. Scattered buildings and tents in background. Printed annotation on recto reads: “South Fort George Oct 30th 1910”

Postcard photograph depicts sternwheeler, men visible on deck, hills on opposite shore in background.

Printed annotation on recto reads: “B.C. Express Steamer, Fraser River.” Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “BC Express Fraser River BC”.

Rocks and trees on either shore.

Printed annotation on recto reads: “Steamer B.X. Monarch of New B.C. Soda Creek, Quesnel and Fort George”

Postcard photograph depicts lofty view of sternwheeler in river, snow capped mountains in background.

Printed annotation on recto reads: “R.M.S. B.C. Express in Upper Canyon Fraser River.”

Photograph of a mountain on the waterfront. Annotation on recto reads: "Portland & Stewart. New Twin Cities. Portland Canal. June 17th 1910. Button Photo. Prince Rupert, BC."

Rev. William Edwin Collison stands in centre of boat, with wife Bertha and daughters Muriel and Katherine seated behind. Unknown man and woman are also seated in boat, and an unknown man stands on shore holding rope.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Will Collison with wife & children leaving Metlakatla to catch steamship en route to England (1910)".

River crosses midground, hills on distant shores can be seen in background.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "No. 32, First Beginning Prince Rupert, showing Church Hall, with cross. Insert Page 136".

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."

Rev. W.E. Collison sits to left of totem pole, smoking a pipe (oldest son of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison). Log fence can be seen in front of forest in right background.

Handwritten annotations on verso read: “W.E. Collison at Massett, QCIs."; "Dad beside totem pole".

Photograph depicts groups of men gathered on ice. One man sits on ice sled in foreground. Village can be seen on shore in background.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Chapt. II. No. 1. Fishing Bay. Olachan fishery on the ice."

Three Indigenous men stand in a canoe poling their craft along a shoreline while one man sits and steers. An unidentified village is visible along the opposite shore.

Photograph depicts a view of Fort George Canyon.

Photograph depicts a view of Fort George Canyon from the shore. A steamship is in the centre of the river.

Photograph depicts a view from a high hill looking down on the Fraser River near Soda Creek.

Photograph depicts several buildings lining the river bank at Quesnel BC.

Photograph depicts a view of buildings lining the river bank, a steamship is anchored near shore.

Photograph depicts a steamship anchored near the shore of the river. Three or more people are working in a large pile of driftwood on the shore.

Photograph depicts nine or more people watching a steamer navigate the rough waters of Fort George Canyon from the river shore.

Photograph depicts scattered buildings, an outhouse, and tents on a rough clearing. A river and its cutbacks are in the background.

Photograph depicts a view from the river looking at the river bank. There is a canvas tent with forest in the background.

Photograph depicts a view looking across a large creek or small river. Several canvas tents are set up along the river bank. Wood smoke drifts toward the giant trees behind the camp.

Photograph depicts a wide expanse of river in the foreground looking across the water to a narrow clearing along the opposite riverbank. A few building are scattered across the clearing. There is forest in the background.

Photograph depicts a lofty view of a winding river, forest in the foreground, rolling forested hills in the background.

Photograph depicts the bow of a boat in the foreground, lake water and low treed hills in the background.

Photograph depicts reeds and marsh grasses in the foreground, a beaver house at center of photograph with open water and treed shoreline in the distance.

Photograph depicts a small inland lake, trees and low hills border the lake.

Photograph depicts several men and a dog stand on snowy ground, a canvas tent on the left. A rough hewn table on the right background.

Photograph depicts a view from behind five canoes making their way through a narrow strip of open water. Ice and snow on the edges of the river.

Photograph depicts heavy blanket of snow on fallen logs and forest.

Photograph depicts one man kneeling the other sitting on the forest floor. The first man is giving the second man a shave.

Photograph depicts an unidentified Indigenous (Gitksan?) man standing on a porch behind a stone petroglyph found at Kispiox village along the Upper Skeena River. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "Indian stone relic unearthed at Kispaiyeks Indian Village, B.C., Upper Skeena River".

Photograph depicts an elderly Bella Bella First Nations man seated with a pipe. Annotation on verso of photograph states: "Old Bella Bella indian"

Photograph depicts two First Nations boys standing on either side of a First Nations girl on a wooden walkway.

Photograph depicts a cannery on pilings with a body of water in the foreground with a forested area in the background.

Photograph depicts two men seated in front of a row of hanging fish.

Slightly oblique front view of railway cars on a track. Buildings and hills can be seen in the background. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Railway Station and Park Area, McBride, B.C."

Photograph of a large crowd gathered at the McBride train station. Printed annotation on recto reads: "'Rocky Mountain Rangers Band, McBride, B.C.'"