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Job Clark with push cart
2009.10.3.26 · Item · [between 1923 and 1926]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a man standing beside a rustic cart. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Job Clark and a punch hard cart". Job Clark (1890-1969) was Job Henry Clark, Chief Long Arm (Na-qua-oon), patriarch and leading hereditary chief of the Nishga tribe of the Nass River. Job Clark's father, Frank Roundy, was the founder of Alice Arm and owner and operator of the first operating mine there, the Esperanza. Roundy was also one of the founders of Silver City near which the present BC Molybdenum mine operates. Chief Job Clark had 6 children, one of whom was Frank Calder.

2013.6.36.1.053.07 · Item · 7 Dec. 1969
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts what was believed to be the engine house of a private spur belong to the former Jingle Pot Coal Mine. The turning wye was retained by the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway and was lcoated behind the photograph at another 150 yards of track.

2013.6.36.1.053.12 · Item · 7 Dec. 1969
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts what was believed to be a commencement of the private line to the Jingle Pot Coal Mine that had long since been closed. At the point where the cars disappear, line diverges into a wye which meets the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway tracks at the Wellington depot.

2013.6.36.1.053.04 · Item · [16 May 1970]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a two road engine house, located about 300 yards west of the Wellington flag stop on the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway. Visible is a house that was believed to be a part of a private railway operated by the Jingle Pot Colliery.

2013.6.36.1.053.05 · Item · [16 May 1970]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the interior of an engine house which may have been the property of Jingle Pot Colliery. It was located 300 yards west of the Wellington flag stop of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway.

2007.1.25.7.75 · Item · 1936
Part of Aleza Lake Research Forest fonds

Item is a photograph of a copy print that has been reproduced as a slide, resulting in low photographic quality. Location of original photograph unknown.

"The Y.M.F.T.P. (Young Men's Forestry Training Plan) supported a big crew at Aleza Lake in 1936. Jim Kinghorn's dad [H.C. Kinghorn] was the foreman. Many improvements were made at Aleza. Jim Kinghorn (10 years old) is sitting on the newly constructed dam." -- from the notes of Ralph Schmidt in accompanying file

2009.10.2.125 · Item · [between 1923 and 1926]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts several people posing for a photograph on the porch. Handwritten annotation on verso reads, "The whole gang in front of our house last summer. Left to Right, top row: myself, Harold Hague, Mother, 2nd row: Lloyd Hague Sr., Alton Pearce, Dorothy & Fanny Pearce, 3rd row Anna Hague, Nellie Jeffery & Baby Patricia Lee, John Pearce, Margaret Pearce. Bottom row: Martyn Jeffery, Bill Rundle and Lloyd Hague Jr. (Bill Rundle is John Pearce's nephew and the baby Lee belongs to a friend.)"

Jean's Apple Tree
2009.5.3.123 · Item · [ca. 1920]
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Photograph features one apple tree, field in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "This shows size of trees." It is believed that this photograph was given to Lillian & A.K. Bourchier by their niece Jean.

Jean with Young Colt
2009.5.3.115 · Item · [ca. 1915]
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a young woman believed to A.K. Bourchier's niece Jean. Young colt stands on right, picket fence and porch to wood building in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "To my dearest Uncle Alan. This is little Betty Beauty's little colt. I broke her in to lead myself so I feel quite proud."

Jean in Bear Skin Coat
2009.5.3.120 · Item · [ca. 1920]
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts Jean in foreground, standing in front of wood house, miscellaneous items and furniture crossing midground. Picket fence on left, bushes in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Why didn't you drop off and see us when you were home? Dad came home an told me to guess whom he had seen in Edmonton and right away I said 'Uncle Alan.' Wishing you a very Merry Xmas and Happy New Year. Lots of love to both. Jean. See what lovely cuffs and collar the bear skin you sent for me some years ago made for me this winter. Nobody knows me with it on and everyone admires it." (See item 2009.5.3.100 for photograph depicting bear skin.)

2009.5.1.78 · Item · 1909
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts men loading a line of approximately twenty mules facing large building in background with the sign: "[WBBAILEY?] ANDCO'S OFFICE." A second sign is posted on deck of building: "ALWAYS CURES! CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY." More men wearing suits watch from deck. Small building in hillside can be seen in background. Annotation along bottom recto of photograph reads: "Last Pack Train leaving Ashcroft for Hazelton -1909." Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "CATALINE 1909".

Jean Caux's Pack Train
2009.5.1.77 · Item · 1897
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Photograph consists of Jean Caux and several men loading supplies onto a horse and mule pack train. Large building in background. Annotation along bottom recto of photograph reads: "Jean Caux's Pack Train, loading at Harvey Baileys for Babine Lake - 1897." Handwritten annotations on recto of photograph: "CATALINE 1897" "Born in 1856 in Mexico on Spanish border. Died at Hazelton 1922 burried in old cemetery."

2004.8.1.80 · Item · [ca. 1935]
Part of Alexander Manson mining collection

Photograph depicts a man panning for gold in a shallow river with a forested landscape in the background. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Jas Ferguson testing values by panning - Germansen Placer Ltd."

2009.10.3.40 · Item · [between 1923 and 1926]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts several home built on a piling at the water's edge, water in foreground, homes in midground and treed hillsides in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Jap houses Nass Harbour cannery".

2009.10.2.011 · Item · [Feb. 1925]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts the Japanese cruiser Izumo and rescue boats in the harbour in Vancouver. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, " Dragging for two drowned sailors and Jap squadron". On February 8, 1925 seventeen Japanese sailors drowned in Vancouver harbour when the motor launch pinnance in which they were returning from shore leave to the cruiser Idzumo collided with the Canadian Pacific tug Nanoose. The event is described in the New York Times on February 9, 1925: "The bodies of the officer, petty officers and five seamen have been recovered. Nine others are still missing. The men had been attending a dinner ashore and left the dock in the pinnace, which towed a ship's barge with eighty men in it. As the pinnace neared the three visiting Japanese cruisers, the Canadian Pacific tug with a car barge in tow, came up the harbor. Strong winds and currents prevailed and navigation with the tow was difficult. As the pinnace and car barge came together the tow line to the barge of men broke, thus saving the lives in that craft. Searchlights played on the scene of rescue all night, but outside of the eight men picked up, no more came to the surface. Today dragging operations to locate the pinnace have been conducted by boats of the fleet with four divers, three from the squadron and one provided by the Harbor Board, but up to the present the little steam carrier has not been hooked. A derrick stands by to lift the boat when located....In the meantime, dragging operations are being continued to locate the pinnace and men."

2013.6.36.1.068.16 · Item · [June 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a Japanese cadet sailing ship called "Kaiuo Maru" at Centennial Pier, Vancouver. Its visit was part of 1966 Vancouver Sea Festival and the ship was open to the public for inspection. Note the radar apparatus on the foremast.

"Japan Line"
2013.6.36.1.068.21 · Item · 23 Nov. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a steam floating derrick (owned by Mckenzie Barge and Derrick Co. Ltd.) loading contariners from a scow into the hold of "Japan Line." Use of the crane on the non-deck side of a ship was unusual and the use a steam crane was quite exceptional, Davies notes.

"Japan Line"
2013.6.36.1.068.05 · Item · 23 Nov. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts containers being hoisted onto "Japan Line" by means of a steam derrick (owned by Mckenzie Barge and Derrick Co. Ltd.) tied alongside scow holding containers. Davies notes that this was an unusual sight.

2009.6.13.49.0444 · Item · ca. 1978
Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

Photograph depicts Jan Kapicky, second from right, with a line of unidentified people standing in front of a stage at an unidentified arena, possibly in Cassiar. An unidentified man wearing a suit and tie is talking into a microphone in the foreground, along with other unidentified people sitting in chairs. Likely taken during or before the 1978 Northern BC winter games.

2007.17.4.28 · Item · [ca. 1960]
Part of James Joseph Claxton Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts James Joseph Claxton wearing a Cowichan sweater and military hat standing on the deck of the M.S. Columbia with a forested mountain visible in the background. Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “JJ. Claxton (JJC), Sweter [sic]: woolspun sweater knit by JJC’s sister Eileen Jackson My mother. SKJ Kelowna. My sister Barb LeDuc Kamloops has the sweater now.”