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Cabin home of H.H. Welda
2009.10.1.48 · Item · Mar. 1928
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a small wood frame cabin with a lean to porch. Smoke is rising from the lean to chimney. There is a large snow pile in the foreground and snowy forest in the background. Possible location is Nass Harbour. Handwritten annotation below the photograph reads, "Cabin Home - H. H. Welda's 3/28"

Cannery bunkhouses
2009.10.1.41 · Item · [July 1926]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

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".

2023.7.2.09 · File · 1986
Part of Grant Hazelwood fonds

File consists notes, correspondence, summary reports, inventory data, and a map regarding capability classification for Bowser Lake. The map is a "clean copy" of Grant Hazelwood's ungulate biophysical map without symbols. Summary reports include:

  • Grant Hazelwood, "Ungulate Capability Classification"
  • Grant Hazelwood, "Winter Flights, February 1986"
  • "Ungulate Biophysical Mapping in the Stikine-Iskut Area"
2009.7.1.104 · Item · [ca. 1878 - ca. 1915]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Photograph depicts two men standing at base of totem pole in front of large elaborate lodge building with post reading "MINESQU". Smaller structure stands in background (elevated cache?).

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Chapter XXIV. No. 3. A chief's lodge and totem Nass River."

2009.7.1.102 · Item · [ca. 1878 - ca. 1915]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Photograph depicts a totem pole supported by smaller poles, and a second totem pole standing straight in background. Beach in foreground, fence and hills in distance.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Falling greatness, Chapt. XXI No. 5, A Chief's Totem Pole inclined to fall. [Gitaix?] Encampment, Nass River. Five illustration for Chapt. XXI."

2009.10.1.47 · Item · Aug. 1927
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts four unnamed women standing on a beach posing for a photo. There is driftwood, water and forest in the background. Handwritten annotation below the photograph reads, "the girls are out on a picnic - 8/27"

2009.10 · Collection · 1921-1933

The Fred Jeffery Collection consists of three photograph albums comprising a total of 303 b&w photographs all dating from ca.1924-1933. The subject matter of these images consist primarily of the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, machinery, boats) on the Nass River and North Pacific Coast. Notable are the photographs depicting indigenous (Nisga'a) people and places and Chinese and Japanese cannery workers. Identified canneries featured in these photographs include: Mill Bay Cannery, Namu Cannery, Klemtu Cannery, Shushartie Bay Cannery, Balmoral Cannery, North Pacific Cannery, Nass Harbour Cannery, Port Essington Cannery, Kitwanga Cannery, Port Nelson Cannery, Alert Bay Cannery, Dominion Cannery and ABC Co. Cannery. Photographs also include images of the Canadian Pacific Railway in both Vancouver and Sicamous, BC., as well as, images of the Legislative Assembly buildings in Victoria, the 1924 Special Service Squadron ships in Vancouver, early construction of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and town overviews of Yokohama, Japan (pre WWII).

Jeffery, Fred
"Hagaga : Special Edition"
2009.7.4.11 · Item · April 1895
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Newspaper consists of the recto and verso of 2 pages (p. 1-4). It was published in Aiyansh on the Nass River in British Columbia in April 1895 and presents a missionary's perspective of regional First Nations traditions and current affairs of the day.

2009.7.1.133 · Item · [ca. 1910?]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Photographs depict groups of men gathered on ice. Herbert leans over behind two friends seated on ice sled (son of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison). Pile of caught fish can be seen in foreground behind large whole in ice.

Handwritten annotations on verso read: "Oolichan Fishing Fishing Bay Nass River"; "Uncle Herbert with Indian friends fishing for oolichan through the ice."

2009.7.1.138 · Item · September 1933
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Boat floats close to shore in foreground, forest and hills on opposite shore in background. Joyce is the daughter of Bertha and W.E. Collison, and the granddaughter of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Upper Nass River Sept. 1933. Joyce with Tom Moorhouse & the medical officer".

2009.7.1.101 · Item · [ca. 1878 - ca. 1915]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Photograph depicts totem poles (crest poles?) in front of lodge buildings on river shore. Canoes can be seen floating in foreground, hills in background.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Chapter XII. Number 1. Section of Indian Village on Nass River showing lodges and totems".

2009.7.1.115 · Item · [ca. 1878 - ca. 1919]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Photograph depicts tall building, with long shorter section crossing midground in front. Path runs through garden in foreground.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Back of Mission House Kincolith".

2023.7.2.06 · File · Apr. 1985
Part of Grant Hazelwood fonds

File consists of an original "Mount Klappan Access Road Study" proposal for consulting services to the BC Ministry of Industry and Small Business Development by Phillips Barratt Kaiser Engineering Ltd. in association with Associated Engineering (B.C.) Ltd.

2023.7.2.05 · File · Oct. 1984
Part of Grant Hazelwood fonds

File consists of an original "Mount Klappan Anthracite Project" document by Gulf Canada Resources Ltd. Includes accompanying map entitled "Gulf Canada Resources Inc.: Northwest British Columbia" that shows proposed coal mine sites in the Mount Klappan area, near Spatsizi Wilderness Park and Tatlatui Provincial Park.

Nass Harbour cannery
2009.10.1.40 · Item · [July 1926]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

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".

2009.10.1.44 · Item · Aug. 1927
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts seven unnamed adults and four unnamed children standing on a beach with water and forest in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Naas Harbour Cannery picnic party August 1927".