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Album No. 3
2009.10.3 · File · [between 1923 and 1926]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Images within album consist primarily of fishery industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, boats) on the Nass River and North Pacific Coast, ca.1924-1926. Each photograph is accompanied by a handwritten description glued below or beside the image.

Album No. 2
2009.10.2 · File · 1921-1926
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

This bound photo album comprises 122 photographic images featuring the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, boats, machinery) and First Nations Peoples on the Nass & Skeena Rivers and North Pacific Coast. Images also include warships, freighters, automobiles, railway stations and trains, and some photographs of Yokohama, Japan and California ca.1924-25. Includes photographs of the 1924 Special Service Squadron World Cruise in Vancouver. Each photograph is accompanied by a handwritten description glued below or beside the image and each image is glued to the album page at its corners. The verso of front cover has a handwritten name plate:

Album No. 1
2009.10.1 · File · 1926-1933
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Images within this album consist primarily of the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, boats) on the Nass River and North Pacific Coast, ca.1926-1933. Images also feature indigenous First Nations peoples, totem poles, the parliament buildings in Victoria, B.C., and the C.P.R. Pier in Vancouver, B.C. Each photograph is accompanied by a handwritten description glued below or beside the image.

2006.25 · Collection · 1961 - 2000, predominant 1961-1967

Fonds consists of original, silent 16mm reels that portray the natural, social and land use history of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin regions named the "Natural and Guiding History of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin Regions".

Possible locations that Al Elsey filmed include: Bella Coola, Bella Bella, Anahim Lake, Alert Bay, Nimpo Lake, Bulkey Valley, the Rainbow Mountains, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, Dean River, Bella Coola River, Tchaha Lake, the Chilcotin region, the Ulkatcho Mountains, Lassard Lake, Fenton Lake, Atnarko River, Wells Gray Park, and Holt Homestead.

Ah Yee at Giscome
2009.5.3.16 · Item · [ca. 1913]
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts four men standing in front of two log cabins. It is believed that these men are also featured at Meikle's Cabin in item 2009.5.3.17. Forest in background, miscellaneous items on ground in yard. Handwritten photo caption on verso and recto of this photo reads: "at Ah Yee at Giscome." It is believed that Ah Yee was the first Chinese store keeper at Giscome Portage in 1910.

Administration material
2002.14.4.35 · File · 2001-2002
Part of Marianne (Marika) Ainley fonds

File contains administrative material for Ainley's research project, "Re-explorations: science and environment in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia." It consists of thematic analyses, correspondence relating to analyzing and organizing research, planning and research coding documents, summaries of her research, notes on Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, a short biography of Kata Dalstrom and other administrative material.

2002.14.4.05 · File · 1994-2002
Part of Marianne (Marika) Ainley fonds

File consists of speaking notes for a presentation of Ainley's research for her Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded project, "Engendering Canadian Science: Biographies of Women Scientists"; an abstract for Ainley's article "British Scientists in Canadian fields: Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899)"; and a draft section from "Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980."

Abstracts
2002.14.1.09.071 · File · 2001
Part of Marianne (Marika) Ainley fonds

File consists of research materials on First Nations including book reviews, book lists, catalogue entries, and archival website printouts and finding aids.

2008.3.1.057 · File · 1996-1998
Part of Bridget Moran fonds

File consists of a letter re: 1998 Order of British Columbia Recipients from Dagmar Beiman, Coordinator Honours and Awards Secretariat to Bridget Moran (May 11, 1998), a letter from Daniel Birkenbach to Bridget Moran re: a paper he wrote (Aug. 2, 1996), and a copy of paper written by Daniel Birkenbach: "Canada - Life and Development of the Canadian Indians (past and present)."

2011.7 · Collection · 2001-2002

Collection consists of eight interviews with experts reviewing A Guidebook for Improving Aboriginal Participation in Forest Management Decision-Making, later published with the title The Aboriginal Forest Planning Process: A Guidebook for Identifying Community-Level Criteria and Indicators by Melanie Karjala, Erin Sherry, and Stephen Dewhurst in 2003. The reviewers were chosen based on their expertise and interest in Aboriginal participation in forest management decision-making. They were asked to provide their opinions on issues related to Aboriginal participation in decision-making processes in BC, as well as feedback on the Aboriginal Forest Planning Process (AFPP) Guidebook. Reviewers had the option to make their review confidential resulting in the return or destruction of the interview. Eight of the original twenty-nine interviews are archived in this collection; the remainder are no longer extant.

The Aboriginal Forest Planning Process: A Guidebook for Identifying Community-Level Criteria and Indicators can be found:

2007.17.6.11 · Item · [ca. 1960]
Part of James Joseph Claxton Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a man in uniform and a woman posing for a photo on a road situated between a fenced area featuring totem poles. Along the water’s edge in the background there is a float plane, wharf and the Camosun vessel. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Alert Bay B.C. Union Steamships Ltd.”; “Alert Bay BC”; photographer’s stamp on verso states: “W.E. Nicholson, 268 E. 10th, Vancouver 10, B.C.”

2001.1.051 · Item · 1958
Part of NBCA Document and Ephemera Collection

This 16 page booklet includes illustrations and a program of events, along with a short history of Williams Lake, a short history of stampedes, a "Dude Dictionary", and a poem entitled "The Old Cow Puncher". Also includes a summary about the "Cariboo Indians" (possibly referring to the Secwepemc Nation and other First Nations near the Williams Lake area) contemporary to the time that contains information that is now considered inaccurate.