The Fred Jeffery Collection consists of three photograph albums comprising a total of 303 b&w photographs all dating from ca.1924-1933. The subject matter of these images consist primarily of the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, machinery, boats) on the Nass River and North Pacific Coast. Notable are the photographs depicting indigenous (Nisga'a) people and places and Chinese and Japanese cannery workers. Identified canneries featured in these photographs include: Mill Bay Cannery, Namu Cannery, Klemtu Cannery, Shushartie Bay Cannery, Balmoral Cannery, North Pacific Cannery, Nass Harbour Cannery, Port Essington Cannery, Kitwanga Cannery, Port Nelson Cannery, Alert Bay Cannery, Dominion Cannery and ABC Co. Cannery. Photographs also include images of the Canadian Pacific Railway in both Vancouver and Sicamous, BC., as well as, images of the Legislative Assembly buildings in Victoria, the 1924 Special Service Squadron ships in Vancouver, early construction of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and town overviews of Yokohama, Japan (pre WWII).
Jeffery, Fred
Photograph depicts deep snow on buildings. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "March snow, 1925".
Photograph depicts a man standing beside a building, outdoors on a boardwalk, snowy trees and hillside in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "spring thaw wanted".
Photograph depicts palm trees and houses behind. Handwritten annotation reads, "California Palms".
Photograph depicts three women and three girls, possibly in Nass Harbour Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Native ladies".
Photograph depicts a man wearing rubber boots, standing on a board walk, a house in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Sweet Wm Smith".
Photograph depicts a large cluster of building with a wide smoke stack in the centre. Water in the foreground, dense forest and mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Mill at Swanson Bay".
Photograph depicts sand and gravel on top of snow. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "as above, sand and gravel on snow".
Photograph depicts a group of people watching an outdoor event featuring a flag, possibly at Nass Harbour. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Gospel shouters and rubber necks".
Photograph depicts an apple tree in bloom. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Apple tree in bloom".
Photograph depicts looking toward a treed shoreline from the water. Klemtu was also known as China Hat due to the shape of Cone Island, which protects it from the open water. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Bay at China Hat, BC Coast".
Photograph depicts a village on the coast line, dense forest and treed mountainside behind. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Indian village".
Photograph depicts a low rock in deep waters. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Holland Rock light".
Photograph depicts a view of the Canadian Pacific Railway hotel from the hillside looking down to the hotel, railroad and lake. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Sicamous junction, BC as above".
Photograph depicts the Canadian Pacific Railway station and hotel at Sicamous, BC.
Photograph depicts a road and walkway that borders the beach. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "beach on 1st narrows, Vancouver Jan. 1926".
Photograph depicts totem poles at Kedix Nass River, BC. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Totem poles at Kedix Naas River, BC. 11/4/26".
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.)"
Photograph depicts a view the wharf in the foreground, cannery and housing in the midground and snowy mountains in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "N. H. Warf & Cannery".
Photograph depicts two rows of small homes near the shoreline. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Indian Village May 1923".
Photograph depicts a view from the water looking at several small homes near the water's edge. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Fishery Bay, BC".
Photograph depicts a row of small fish boats following behind a larger boat. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Starting out for the fishing grounds."
Photograph depicts a cluster of small homes built near a dock. There is a church spire in the back of the photograph, treed mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Kincoolith Village".
Photograph depicts cannery machinery including a gang knife and engine. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Gang knife and engine".
Photograph depicts a large stack of cans. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "830 cases of tall cans".
Photograph depicts ten or more small fish boats tied near the wharf, tanks to hold fish are on the wharf. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Fish boat at the net tanks".
Photograph depicts three First Nations men and one First Nations woman standing on a dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Just-plain-natives".
Photograph depicts a spring salmon. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "A Spring Salmon four feet six inches long, 67 pound weight". Donor identifies the man in the photograph as Fred Jeffreys.
Photograph depicts a view looking out to the ocean and island. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "View off Inverness". Caption may refer to Inverness Cannery on the Skeena River or Inverness Passage.
Photograph depicts a view from the water looking toward several cannery buildings built on a dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Dominion Cannery Skeena River, BC".
Photograph depicts a view of a walkway and slew, power poles, city buildings and mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Portion of Rupert".
Photograph depicts an adolescent boy standing on the edge of the water with a stick. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Jack Child".
Photograph depicts a ship in route to China. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Asia, leaving for China".
Photograph depicts a large ship in open water. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Empress of Asia - Vancouver Harbour, BC".
Photograph depicts a ship at the dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Princess Louise - C.P.R. Ferry Van. Pier".
Photograph depicts a small boat called the "Algoma" tied near the shore, treed shores in the background.
Photograph depicts the boats Chiquita and Fisher moored at dock during low tide. Below this photo is the following handwritten annotation: "1/8/32 Freak's".
Photograph depicts a boat named Idledays tied to a pier. Handwritten annotation below the image reads, "Later Algoma".
Photograph depicts a boat. Handwritten annotation below the photograph reads, "B.S. Bay". Boat is the "Coaster" owned by H. Weldar.
Photograph depicts a steamship in Victoria Harbour with shoreline and buildings in the background. Johnson Street Bridge can be seen behind. Handwritten annotation below the photograph reads, "Princess Royal July 2, 1927 soldiers on Board"
Photograph depicts a pier. Handwritten annotation below the photograph reads, "as above. taken from Howe street"
Photograph depicts a wreckage of a small airplane. The wreckage is adjacent to a home. Handwritten annotation reads, "same as above 1926". This photograph may depict the plane crash that occurred in October 1926 in which a Victoria-to-Seattle airmail plane piloted by Gerald Smith crashed into the home of Senator Robert F. Green on 502 Rupert Street in Victoria, BC.
Photograph depicts the Canadian Pacific Railway's Pier B and C in Vancouver. Handwritten annotation reads, "taken from pier D. outer end of BC Pier".
Photograph depicts a cluster of small buildings on a hill. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Houses of "Ned" & Barney".
Photograph depicts the Hardy Bay pier. Handwritten annotation below the photograph reads, "Hardy Bay. Vancouver Island".
Photograph depicts rows of small bunk houses, smoke rises from some of the chimneys, forest in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Cabins of Crew and Indian Houses".
Photograph depicts seven unnamed adults and four unnamed children standing on a beach with water and forest in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Naas Harbour Cannery picnic party August 1927".
Photograph depicts a bird perched on a nest build on the side of a building. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Robins nest June 1928-N.H."
Photograph depicts a tall totem pole, there is a forest in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Totem at Kedix".
Photograph depicts a man in a business suit standing on a boardwalk, lawn and fence in the midground, treed forest in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Mr. G. Chambers".