Head on shot of steam engine traveling through a pass with mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: "First Passenger Engine to reach Prince Rupert." Annotation on recto reads: "First Passenger Engine at Prince Rupert." Photographer' stamp in bottom right corner of recto reads : "Allen Photo."
Several large buildings on a rocky shore. Wood piles and a crane are visible in the background. Annotation on recto reads: "Prince Rupert BC"
Photograph of a marching band performing down a wooden road. Spectators can be seen in the foreground and various businesses are in the background. Annotation on recto reads: "Prince Rupert BC."
Photograph shows two men and a cart full of lumber at a street intersection. Various residential buildings are visible in the background and atop a large clear cut hill. Annotation on recto reads: "3rd, 4th Aves and Fullton St. Prince Rupert. BC. Allen Photo 8/Aug/09."
Illustration of a large ocean liner in dry dock. The name "Minnesota" is inscribed on the top right side of vessel. Annotation on recto reads: "William T. Donnelly Consulting Engineer 17 Battery Place Tel. Rector 1491 20000 tons pontoon floating dry dock Prince Rupert, BC"
Photograph of a partially sunken sailboat near a harbour. Individuals on debris and in a rowboat are surveying the damage. Annotation on recto reads: "GTP. SS Prince Rupert Sept 28th 1920 McRae." Handwritten annotation on verso reads "CTP "Prince Rupert" Sunk at Prince Rupert BC 1920."
Side view photograph of a small harbor close by a shoreline littered in organic debris. A foggy mountain range is visible in the background. Annotation on recto reads: "Wharf and Harbor Prince Rupert. May 1908 JDA."
Photograph of the bay at dusk. Trees and distant machinery are silhouetted against a cloudy sky and dark waterfront. Annotation on recto reads: "Across the Bay, Prince Rupert, BC No 4466."
Wide angle photograph showing 3rd and 2nd Avenue in Prince Rupert. Many buildings, both commercial and residential, and some tents are situated along the wooden roads. Annotation on recto reads: "Prince Rupert, BC. 3rd Avenue 2nd Avenue Allen Photo Aug 6/09."
Photograph of Archdeacon WH Collison reclining against a large tree with a group of friends and family. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Arch. Collison with sons Max & Arthur & friends in mountains above Portland [?] Canal Me."
Photograph of a small marching band parading down Second Avenue in Prince Rupert. A large crowd is gathered. Annotation on recto reads: "Photo by MacRae Bros Prince Rupert BC 2nd Ave Prince Rupert BC."
Photograph of a large waterfront factory. Annotation on recto reads: "Pacific Mills, Ocean Falls, BC. No. 2935."
Wide angle view of mountains and small residential buildings. A large dock is visible in the foreground. Annotation on recto reads: "Stewart, BC., from Government Wharf."
Photograph of several vessels within Victoria's outer wharf. Annotation on recto reads: "Empire Series. Outer Wharf, Victoria, BC."
A monthly journal published by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) featuring the work of CMS missionaries around the world.
"The Geography of the Tsimshian Indians." G.A. Dorsey. Reprint from The American Antiquarian, October 1897.
The Caledonia Interchange, No. 5, Oct. 31, 1900.
The Letter Leaflet. Vol. XVIX, No. 4. February 1908. The Organ of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada
A Cruise Among Haida and Tlingit Villages About Dixon's Entrance. George A. Dorsey. Reprinted from Appletons’ Popular Science Monthly for June 1898.
The Pacific Salmon. John Pease Babcock. Victoria: The Province of British Columbia, Provincial Fisheries Dept., 1931.
Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the Year 1930. Province of British Columbia. Victoria: 1931.
The Modern Growth of the Totem Pole on the Northwest Coast. Marius Barbeau. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1940. Signed by author, gift to W.E. Collison.
Totem Poles of the Gitksan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia. Bulletin No. 61, Anthropological Series No. 12. Marius Barbeau. Ottawa: Department of Mines, 1929.
Group of five unidentified men stand on shore to right of large dugout canoe, handling their rifles. Forest and snow-capped mountains stand on opposite shore in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Mrs Collison (wife of Arch. Collison in Canoe en route to Hazelton B.C."
Photograph depicts Archdeacon William Henry Collison to left of wife Marion, who stands bent over garden on right. Church steeple visible behind wood fence in background. Hills can be seen in distance.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Grandad & Grannie in garden at Kincolith".
Group can be seen in distance by canoe close to trees and cliff on opposite shore. Rocky shore of river in foreground.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: " 'The Place of Echoes' The Big Creek at Kincolith. Dad, Jack, Joyce & Bob Stewart". Believed to be present in image are the son, grandson, and granddaughter of Archdeacon W.H. Collison, respectively: Rev. W.E. Collison, John (Jack) Macdonald and Joyce Collison.
Photograph depicts Bertha Collison standing with daughters Katherine and Muriel on front steps of large house. Boardwalk in foreground.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Our house at Prince Rupert 1912 (Just completed).
Group of men and women pose by large building. W.H. Collison sits second from left in front, W.E. Collison stands third from right in back.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Anglican Church Synod / Prince Rupert".
Canoe with mast floats close to shore in foreground, mountains visible across river in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Arch. W.H. Collison & wife with native friends en route up Skeena River."
Five unidentified men sit with dog in canoe. One man stands on dock in foreground.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Freighting by canoe on skeena river".
Three men stand in centre, each wearing a chief's dress and head-dress. Family members stand and sit on either side. Carved boxes and masks are positioned in foreground. The group poses in front of drapery hung against tall wooden wall.
Community members have stated that the people in this photo are from the Gitwilluyaxw clan from the wolf tribal house of Ksdiyaawak. The photo was taken at Gitlax̱t’aamiks along the Nass River.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Tsimpshian Chiefs & family. Goods [for or fr.] Potlatch".
Photograph depicts a large totem pole next to groomed dirt paths. Power poles and river visible in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Edenshaw pole in park at Prince Rupert."
Several unidentified individuals can be seen on front steps of church and a group of small children in white stand in line below steps. Other community buildings are visible in background, white fence crosses foreground. Photograph depicts the first church built in Metlakatla, which was burned in a fire in 1901, and replaced in 1903.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Old church at Metlakatla Before fire. Built by Fr. Duncan & the village people".
Photograph depicts buildings along shore; bridge and boardwalk cross forest in right foreground. Hills visible in distance.
Handwritten annotation below image reads: "Port Essington from bridge"; on verso: "Heading or full page Illustration Chapter XXIII No2".
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.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Port Simpson BC".
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.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: " 'Clah' or the pioneer missionary's [...?]"
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".
Photograph depicts village buildings along shore.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "67 Section of Massett as it is".
The pair sits on ground beside large totem pole, Bertha on left (wife of W.E. Collison). Log fence can be seen in front of forest in right background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Mother & Josie Edenshaw at Massett".
The pair stands on beach, Joyce leaning down in foreground (daughter of Bertha and Reverend W.E. Collison, and granddaughter of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison). Water and shoreline in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Joyce & Col. [Pragnell?] on North Beach QCIs (Old Massett)."
Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of a line of houses. Blanketed canoes sit on beach in right foreground; forest in background.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: “Haida Encampment [crossed through with line]"; "Skidegate Queen Charlottes Islands / To illustrate Introduction / Introduction Trophies from a Song [Trail?] Page 1 Heading."
Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of wood building, hills visible in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Poles on QC Isl."
Photograph depicts two men standing at base of totem pole in front of large elaborate lodge building with post reading "MINESQU". Smaller structure stands in background (elevated cache?).
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Chapter XXIV. No. 3. A chief's lodge and totem Nass River."
Four women sit in foreground at a porch partially covered with foliage.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: "Honoured elders of porch of Mission House at Kincolith, Nass River"; "sun set or legend of the past".
Three women sit in foreground at a porch partially covered with foliage.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: "Elders at Mission House Kincolith Nass River BC".
The pair sits with books on bench in unknown room, Collison on right.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: "Archdeacon Collison giving of reading lesson at Kincolith BC"; "'line upon line' or teaching the way of God more perfect [...]"
Donald Macdonald and John Maxwell Collison stand on either side of large log using two-handled saw. Donald married the Archdeacon's daughter Emily in 1910.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Uncle Don, Uncle Max & Grandad Hauling wood off [beach?] at Kincolith".
Village can be seen in distance. Large church building stands in centre, hills in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Grand Dad on beach at Kincolith".
Three men can be seen on deck of small boat. Rocky shore in foreground, forest and hills on opposite shore in background.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: "Dad - en route up Nass River on official business. (hence the flag & business suit!)"; "Going up the Nass. Dad (Indian Agent) Cap Barry (Inspect. of Schools) travelling up the Nass River to Aiyansh".
Hills on opposite shore in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Early steamship off mouth of Nass River".