Subject areas identified in this collection include: church and hospital buildings (including nurses quarters); group photos featuring doctors, nurses, and hospital workers; grave markers; landscapes; processing of oolichan fish; and various churc...
Group photo featuring a young First Nations bride, her father, flower girl and attendants in front of a house just before leaving for the Church. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "A Native bride leaving her home with some of her attenda...
Three women, two wearing hats and pants and one in a dress, stand together in front of what is possibly the Hudson's Bay Store. The woman on the left is Mrs. Huston, wife of the Hudson's Bay Company store manager. Handwritten annotation ...
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Ooligans hung for drying, near the Nass River. Mr. Huston, manager of the Hudson Bay Store, Port Simpson, 1932."
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Front row: Miss Lydia Farrow, ? , Ena Complice (?), Miss Grace Mercer, Miss Grace Bedford matron. The lady at the back is Miss Grace Bedford who had been a missionary in China for many years, also at Er...
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Port Simpson Hospital & Nurses residence. The peaked roof at the back was the laundry shed, we had a badminton court in there."
A collection of postcard photographs of Port Essington BC, Port Simpson BC, Atlin, Quesnel, McBride, Hagwilget Village, Giscome, Likely, Kitwanga, Smithers, Prince Rupert BC, Prince (Fort) George BC Images depict street scenes, water scenes, commu...
Photo of 2 men working with hand tools. Printed captions on verso read: "S.P.G. Missionary Post Card - No. 14.", "ERECTING A TENT CHURCH IN CALEDONIA.", "THE S.P.G. supports work in many of the dioceses of N.-W. Canada. Th...
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. [...?]&q...
View of Pier and cluster of houses with trees in the background. Water crosses midground, canoes on beach in foreground. Printed annotation on verso reads: “Port Simpson.", handwritten in pencil: “B.C. 1907”.
Photograph of a person chopping down firewood in a forest. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Chopping Fire-Wood, near Fort Simpson, 1118." Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "55 Avenell Road, N. 29-2-'08 I wanted to write...
Photograph depicts a figure with two heads standing above stone reading "Here lies the last but not the least because He is the last of all his line the [?] Tribe ABEL WARD SOLOMON WARD". Bushes, building, and hill visible in background...
Tall monument featuring a man's profile stands in foreground. Base of monument features writing on plaques.Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "No. 30 Paul [Segaics?] Monument at Port Simpson".
Photograph depicts Port Simpson in winter. Water and shoreline in foreground, hill in distance.Handwritten photo caption below image reads: "Port Simpson".
Photograph depicts sternwheeler, smaller boat, and canoe in foreground. Second sternwheeler named the 'Caledonia' can be seen anchored to shore in background. Town buildings stand on hill in background. Photo believed to have been taken ...
Ten women sitting or standing in a fishing boat at dock. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Nurses & school teachers of Port Simpson on a trip to a Light House. Lady at Light House really thrilled to see so many women. Hadent (sic) b...
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Native Lucaie (aka: Legaic or Ligeex) Head Chief at Pt. Simpson, tomb stone on the beach." Text on headstone reads: "In memory of First Lecaie, A Head Chief, died a long time ago before the wh...
Hudson's Bay Company store visible at the end of a long wharf. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Hudson Bay store at end of wharf, Port Simpson, 1932 ."
Fourteen women pose for a photo on the veranda of the Port Simpson Hospital(?). Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Entire female population of Port Simpson in early thirties."
File contains postcard photographs portraying life in various Northern BC Communities. Images depict buildings and streets, church structures, harbours and docks, and views of the shore from the water to name a few.
Clah or T'amks [Tsimshian name] stands on wood platform in front of shovel and pickaxe leaning against building. Clah was a hereditary chief and Hudson Bay Company employee who helped missionary William Duncan learn the Tsimshian language.Han...
Unidentified man stands on a log while spreading fish across beach with a poll in preparation for boiling. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Ooligans spread over the beach ready to go into the boiling tanks, near the Nass River, 1932.&q...
Scenic landscape featuring mountains and water in background and treetops in foreground. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "View of Bay from Hospital which was high upon a hill."
Clergy standing at the entryway to Grace United Church speaking to a crowd gathered to witness the opening of this newly reconstructed church. The original Grace Methodist Church had been dedicated in the late 1800s and had its name changed to Gra...
View of pier, cluster of houses and trees with snow topped mountains in background. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Hospital” with an arrow pointing to the building. Postage cancelation stamp on verso reads: "PORT ESSINGTON B.C. JUL 7...
Hand coloured overhead photograph of many residential buildings in Port Simpson. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Indian Village, Port Simpson, B.C."
Photograph depicts Port Simpson in winter. Water crosses midground, hills stand in background.Handwritten photo caption below image reads: "Port Simpson".
Contains photographs generally depicting landscapes, water scenes, and views of towns on British Columbia's north coast. Includes images featuring sternwheelers and other boats, canneries, fisheries, and individuals. Locations depicted includ...
Scenic landscape featuring Port Simpson village framed by mountains, water and tree tops. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "View of the Port Simpson Bay & some of the village."
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "In the foreground is the boiling tanks for the ooligans. A fire is lit in the tanks then big stones heated red hot. When the water becomes boiling hot then the ooligans are shoveled in & left over n...
Clergy standing at the entryway to the newly reconstructed church as the choir walks towards them in two lines. The attendant congregation watches. The original Grace Methodist Church had been dedicated in the late 1800s and had its name changed t...
Pier, house, and tress with snowcapped mountains in background. Image has been cropped to oval shape. Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Port Simpson B. C. showing magnificent background in the distance”, on recto: "W. I. O...
Series 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.
Photograph depicts town buildings on opposite shore. Beach and dock can be seen in foreground.Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Chapter XXII, No 1. Eastern Section of Port Simpson as christianized."
Photograph depicts ship resting almost entirely out of water.Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "A slight steering problem? Union SS Catala on reef off Port Simpson".
Consists of 165 black and white photographs depicting Northwest Coast communities including Bella Bella, Rivers Inlet, Port Simpson, and Prince Rupert between approximately 1900 and 1920. Also includes postcard images of ships and boats on the Nor...
