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2012.13.2.16.19.2 · Item · [2001?]
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

The item is a photograph depicting a wooden privy in a field where the site of the Sylvan Glade elementary school was located at Vivian Lake. Annotation on reverse side of photograph states, "Sylvan Glade school site #2, privy."

2012.13.2.16.19.1 · Item · [2001?]
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

The item is a photograph depicting a field where the site where the Sylvan Glade elementary school was located at Vivian Lake. Annotation on reverse side of photograph states, "Sylvan Glade school site #1."

Switcher and caboose
2013.6.36.1.098.04 · Item · Aug. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts switcher #8106 and caboose #434612 that just arrived with a loaded train from a pulp mill. To the left lay the main track to Nelson.

Switcher #8106
2013.6.36.1.098.05 · Item · Aug. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts switcher #8106 that served the 3 mile branch to a pulp mill. The switcher pulled with heavy string of loaded cars from the mill. The trip was a caboose run. Locomotive built in 1958 as part of a batch of 31. 17 of them remained in 1997.

2013.6.36.1.016.21 · Item · 9 Oct. 1971
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR swing bridge crossing the Harrison River at Harrison Mills. It is a plate girder bridge carrying a double track. The bridge tender occupied a shanty at the east end of the bridge at mile 68.3 from North Bend. The timetable states that trains may proceed at restricted speed after stopping, if the tender fails to appear after 4 whistle signals and the hone signals show stop.

2013.6.36.1.003.087 · Item · Jan. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a swimming pool at Second Beach in Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. The snow in the foreground is 16 inches deep and there is a gathering snowstorm in the background coming in from the west.

Swimming in a Lake
2012.13.1.84.35 · Item · 1994
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts numerous unknown individuals swimming in a lake or standing on a dock at an uncertain location.

2004.1.2.2.1 · Item · 21 October 1931
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Caption: The riff-ruff of Swannells' Party. J.R.M., Thorne Forrest, F. Jorgenson, A.H. Phipps, J.O. Davids, Mutt, Mrs. Forfars, Fort St. James, F.C. Swannell
Item is a group photograph taken in front of Forfars Hotel in Fort St. James.

2021.06.055 · Item · [June 1931 or July 1931]
Part of Emil Bronlund Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a group portrait of Frank Swannell's and Emil Bronlund's crews surrounded by camping supplies, dogs, and a horse along the shore of Thutade Lake. Skook Davidson is in the back row in front of the horse. Frank Swannell is in the front row 3rd from left, petting a dog.

Swamper on Shovel
2005.3.41 · Item · [ca. 1945]
Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a man seated on cab floor of dragline crane with " CAMPBELL CONSTRUCTION Co. LIMITED" on its side door. The crane is elevated on a man-made dirt hill (see also item 2005.3.40), with forest in background. Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Swamper on Shovel".

2008.3.1.207.5 · Item · Aug. 1996
Part of Bridget Moran fonds

Audio cassette contains a recorded interview with Bridget Moran for a Social Work class, possibly at UNBC, with questions asked by the instructor and individual students.

Audiocassette Summary
Context: Interview with Bridget Moran for a Social Work class [UNBC?] with questions asked by instructor [Rosalie?] and individual students

Scope and Content:

  • Interviewer asks what kept Bridget in social work? – “Not a profession but an addiction”
  • Possibility of addiction to social work possibly contributed to the breakup of her marriage – “married a charming Irishman who could not keep his charm at home”
  • Likes to take the pain of the job home
  • Social work students sometimes afraid to get emotionally involved
  • “translate your private concerns into public actions”
  • Social workers have to be aware of First Nations culture
  • Social workers need to a part of the society in which they are living; Bridget could relate because she was on welfare when she was a child
  • Psychologically prepared for the repercussions of her social actions towards the W.A.C. Bennett government; Bridget notes her actions reflected the frustrations of the group of social workers in Prince George at the time – but that she didn’t involve anyone else – if it had it might have been more successful
  • Important to provide a sense of empowerment to your social work clients
  • Speaks about the response to her book A Little Rebellion
  • Speaks about how the book Stoney Creek Woman was initiated by Mary John’s daughter Helen
  • Speaks about how the inquest into the death of Coreen Thomas, inspired her to write Judgment at Stoney Creek
  • Discusses her book about Justa Monk
  • Native people can only “heal themselves through their own culture”
  • Discusses her Writers Workshop series
  • Re: Oath of confidentiality – ethical dilemmas for social workers - Didn’t mean to break her oath of office but because she did violate it [in the governments view] therefore felt she had to resign