Item is a photograph of a stack of saw logs.
Item is a photograph of Ray Williston, born in 1914, sitting on the lap of his maternal grandfather Peter McCalman. Mr. Williston's brother Norman and father Hubert are also in the photograph.
Item is a photograph of the Boy’s Parliament taken on the steps of the Legislature in Victoria. Mr. Williston is on the left in the second row from the front.
Item is a photograph of the girls basketball team in Salmon Arm. Ray Williston is on the left.
Item is a photograph of Islay McCalman Williston, Mr. Williston’s mother.
Item is a photograph of the grade 5 class with their teacher Mr. Williston in Princeton School in 1937.
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston and Roy Thorstenson studying together in Princeton in 1938.
Item is a photograph of the Princeton cast of the play “Whatever happened to Jones”. Mr. Williston is on the far left.
Item is a photograph of the 1938 Princeton Basketball Team which won the 1937-38 men’s B.C. Senior Championship. Ray Williston is third from the left in the front row.
Item is a photograph of the Princeton School grade 8 class in 1939 with Mr. Williston their teacher.
Item is a photograph of Ray and Gladys Williston in front of their home in Princeton.
Item is a photograph of Gladys Williston sitting at a campfire during her and Mr. Williston’s Hope to Princeton trek in the summer of 1939.
Item is a photograph of the elementary and secondary school staff in Princeton in June 1939. Mr. Williston is first on the left in the front row. Bill Lucas (centre front row) and Cecil Ritchie (second from the left back row) also became school superintendents.
Item is a photograph of Ray and Gladys Williston sitting on the steps of their home in Princeton on March 30, 1940.
Item is a photograph of the Princeton High School Cadet Corp in May 1941.
Item is a photograph of the grade 8 class at Princeton Junior High School taken in May of 1941 with their teacher Ray Williston.
Item is a photograph of the teaching staff in Princeton in May 1941. Mr. Williston is in the front row second from the right. -
Item is a photograph of the graduating class of the Initial Training School in Edmonton in the spring of 1944. Mr. Williston is second from the left in the front row.
Item is a photograph of graduates of the Service Flying Training school in Calgary taken on October 27, 1944. Ray Williston is third from the left in the front row.
Item is a photograph of flight sergeants. Ray Williston is in the front row, second from the left.
Item is a photograph of Prince George taken from the air.
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston with the teaching staff of the Prince George Junior Senior High School in 1946. Mr. Williston is seated front row centre.
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston washing dishes with Mrs. Evelyn Yost, Dormitory Matron, and Mrs. Houghtaling, Chief Cook, in the kitchen of the renovated army barracks which became the Prince George School’s first dormitory. The dormitory was the first of its kind in B.C.
Item is a photograph of Prince George taken from the air.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified school house.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified school house.
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston signing the register after being sworn in as Minister of Education at Government House on April 14, 1954. Aide-de-Camp Pennington is standing on Mr. Williston’s right and Lieutenant-Governor Clarence Wallace on his left.
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston being sworn as Minister of Education on April 14, 1954. From left: Aide-de-Camp Pennington, Lieutenant-Governor Clarence Wallace, Mrs. Wallace, unknown, Mr. Williston, Premier W.A.C. Bennett and Provincial Secretary Wesley Black.
Item is a photograph of Prince George taken from the air.
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston speaking at a graduation ceremony.
Item is a photograph of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko entertaining, from left, unknown, Don Brothers ?, Mr. Williston, Ken Kiernan, Ralph Loffmark and Premier Bennett.
Item is a photograph of a bulldozer removing debris from train tracks on August 27, 1956 location unknown.
Item is a photograph of the Cabinet taken in late February 1956 days before the resignation of Lands & Forests Minister Robert Sommers. From left: Highways Minister P.A. Gaglardi; Education Minister Ray Williston; Trade, Industry & Fisheries Minister R. Chetwynd; Health Minister Eric Martin; Agriculture Minister Ken Kiernan; Premier Bennett; Attorney-General R. Bonner; Provincial Secretary W. Black; Mr. Sommers; Labour Minister L. Wicks and Public Works Minister W. Chant.
Item is a photograph of Finlay Forks trader Roy McGregor, pilot Ian Watt and British resource development designer Percy Gray in March 1957 after the first leg of Grey’s flight over the Rocky Mountain Trench.
Item is a photograph of the BC Centennial Committee Board of Directors, wearing their centennial blazers, taken with Lieutenant-Governor Frank Ross in 1957. From left: Mr. Williston, Provincial Archivist Willard Ireland, Alderman Bill Orr of Vancouver, Mr. Ross, Deputy provincial secretary Laurie Wallace, Assistant to Mr. Wallace name unknown, Theodore Adams representing BC Municipalities, Minister of Mines Ken Kiernan and UBC Professor Dr. Malcolm McGregor.
Item is a photograph of Percy Gray and pilot Ian Watt gassing up their plane at Finlay Forks before continuing their survey of the Rocky Mountain Trench in March 1957.
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston speaking at a rally in Mount Robson Park to encourage government support for the Jasper - Prince George highway on June 2, 1957.
Item is a photograph of Bert Leboe, MP for Peace River, watching the construction of a trading boat traditionally used in the Peace / Parsnip area. These boats were used to conduct surveys and transport supplies during the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.
Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret arriving by Canadian Air Forces jet at Prince George. Lieutenant-Governor Frank Ross is walking beside the Princess.
Originally mounted on a poster with photographs 115, 115.2, 115.3.
Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret on the back deck of the Royal train's caboose just prior to her departure from Prince George during her 1958 visit to British Columbia.
Originally mounted on a poster with photographs 115, 115.2, 115.3.
Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret with Mr. Williston on her right.
Item is a photograph of Prince George taken from the air.
Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret on July 17, 1958 at an event staged in the Prince George railway yards. Alex Moffat dressed as a prospector demonstrates panning for previously salted gold nuggets, which were later given to the Princess.
Item is a photograph of Alex Moffat dressed as a prospector holding gold nuggets he salted into a gravel bed and later panned out and gave to Princess Margaret.
Item is a photograph of Premier W.A.C. Bennett, members of the cabinet and other officials on the engine of a Pacific Great Eastern Railway train during inaugural run celebrations in Fort St. John on October 4, 1958. Mr. Williston is second from the right, his face partially hidden by the camera he is holding.
Item is a photograph of Premier W.A.C. Bennett, members of the cabinet and other officials on the engine of a Pacific Great Eastern Railway train during inaugural run celebrations in Fort St. John on October 4, 1958. Mr. Williston is on the extreme right.
Item is a photograph of Ray Williston and other cabinet ministers paddling a birch bark canoe in the grass during BC Centennial celebrations in Prince George.
Originally mounted on poster with photographs 115.1, 115.2, 115.3.
Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret arriving by Canadian Air Forces jet at Prince George. Lieutenant-Governor Frank Ross is walking beside the Princess.
Originally mounted on a poster with photographs 115, 115.2, 115.3.
Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret with Lieutenant-Governor Frank Ross and Mr. Williston taken on July 17, 1958 after disembarking in Prince George from a Canadian Forces plane.
Item is a studio portrait of Ray Williston.