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Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of a stack of saw logs.
Fonds consists of photographs, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and memorabilia, correspondence, reports and other textual material. The photographs relate to Mr. Williston’s life from childhood to the late 1990s, the scrapbooks document Mr. Williston’s years in political office, and the textual materials relate to both Mr. Williston’s public life and private interests.
Williston, Ray Gillis
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Series consists of photographs relating to Ray Williston's life from childhood to recent times, air photographs of Prince George, photographs of Bangladesh, and a listing of photographs slated for use in Mr. Williston's biography "Forests, power and policy: the legacy of Ray Williston" written by Eileen Williston and Betty Keller.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Ray Williston, born in 1914, sitting on the lap of his maternal grandfather Peter McCalman. Mr. Williston's brother Norman and father Hubert are also in the photograph.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the Boy’s Parliament taken on the steps of the Legislature in Victoria. Mr. Williston is on the left in the second row from the front.
Girls basketball team, Salmon Arm
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the girls basketball team in Salmon Arm. Ray Williston is on the left.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Islay McCalman Williston, Mr. Williston’s mother.
Ray Williston and his grade 5 class
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the grade 5 class with their teacher Mr. Williston in Princeton School in 1937.
Roy and yours truly at economics
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston and Roy Thorstenson studying together in Princeton in 1938.
Princeton cast of “Whatever happened to Jones”
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the Princeton cast of the play “Whatever happened to Jones”. Mr. Williston is on the far left.
Princeton Basketball Team 1938, B.C. Senior Champions 1937-38
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the 1938 Princeton Basketball Team which won the 1937-38 men’s B.C. Senior Championship. Ray Williston is third from the left in the front row.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the Princeton School grade 8 class in 1939 with Mr. Williston their teacher.
Ray and Gladys Williston in front of their first Princeton home
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Ray and Gladys Williston in front of their home in Princeton.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Gladys Williston sitting at a campfire during her and Mr. Williston’s Hope to Princeton trek in the summer of 1939.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the elementary and secondary school staff in Princeton in June 1939. Mr. Williston is first on the left in the front row. Bill Lucas (centre front row) and Cecil Ritchie (second from the left back row) also became school superintendents.
Ray and Gladys Williston sitting on steps
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Ray and Gladys Williston sitting on the steps of their home in Princeton on March 30, 1940.
Officers and NCO’s Princeton Junior-Senior High School
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the Princeton High School Cadet Corp in May 1941.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the grade 8 class at Princeton Junior High School taken in May of 1941 with their teacher Ray Williston.
Staff – Princeton Schools – May 1941
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the teaching staff in Princeton in May 1941. Mr. Williston is in the front row second from the right. -
Initial training school graduates
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the graduating class of the Initial Training School in Edmonton in the spring of 1944. Mr. Williston is second from the left in the front row.
Service flying training school
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of graduates of the Service Flying Training school in Calgary taken on October 27, 1944. Ray Williston is third from the left in the front row.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of flight sergeants. Ray Williston is in the front row, second from the left.
Air photograph of Prince George 2
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Prince George taken from the air.
Teaching staff – Prince George Junior Senior High school
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston with the teaching staff of the Prince George Junior Senior High School in 1946. Mr. Williston is seated front row centre.
Mr. Williston in the kitchen of the Prince George School dormitory
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston washing dishes with Mrs. Evelyn Yost, Dormitory Matron, and Mrs. Houghtaling, Chief Cook, in the kitchen of the renovated army barracks which became the Prince George School’s first dormitory. The dormitory was the first of its kind in B.C.
Air photograph of Prince George 3
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Prince George taken from the air.
School house in front of mountain 1
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of an unidentified school house.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
File contains miscellaneous memos and letters by and to Mr. Williston in private life.
School house in front of mountain 2
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of an unidentified school house.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Series consists of one file of miscellaneous memos, correspondence and carbon copies of letters written by and directed to Mr. Williston as a private citizen.
Correspondence received from the Premier’s office
Part of Ray Williston fonds
File contains original letters to Mr. Williston from Premier W.A.C. Bennett and R.B. Worley, Mr. Bennett’s Executive Assistant; as well as, carbon copies of letters from Mr. Williston to Premier Bennett.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Series consists of miscellaneous addresses and speeches given by Mr. Williston and miscellaneous articles and reports written by Mr. Williston.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Series consists of one file of correspondence between BC Premier W.A.C. Bennett and Mr. Williston.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
File contains newspaper clippings, photographs, programmes, cards and other miscellaneous memorabilia relating to Mr. Williston’s public life dated from April 15, 1954 to December 1955.
Scrapbooks and Miscellaneous Ephemera
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Series consists of scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings about Mr. Williston’s political career and invitations, programs, menus and other miscellaneous ephemera accumulated by Mr. Williston and his wife in his role as a government minister. Scrapbooks are arranged in chronological order, the first of which is indexed and paginated.
Ray Williston signing the register after being sworn in as a cabinet minister
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston signing the register after being sworn in as Minister of Education at Government House on April 14, 1954. Aide-de-Camp Pennington is standing on Mr. Williston’s right and Lieutenant-Governor Clarence Wallace on his left.
Ray Williston being sworn in as Minister of Education
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston being sworn as Minister of Education on April 14, 1954. From left: Aide-de-Camp Pennington, Lieutenant-Governor Clarence Wallace, Mrs. Wallace, unknown, Mr. Williston, Premier W.A.C. Bennett and Provincial Secretary Wesley Black.
Air photograph of Prince George 1
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Prince George taken from the air.
Ray Williston as new Minister of Education speaking at graduation ceremonies
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston speaking at a graduation ceremony.
Japanese Crown Prince entertains BC Cabinet Ministers
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko entertaining, from left, unknown, Don Brothers ?, Mr. Williston, Ken Kiernan, Ralph Loffmark and Premier Bennett.
Bulldozer removing rock debris from train tracks
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of a bulldozer removing debris from train tracks on August 27, 1956 location unknown.
Central British Columbia Development Project
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Series consists of biographical material on Axel Wenner-Gren, a memorandum of agreement, correspondence and maps of a proposed project area.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
File contains two memorandum of agreements between Birger Strid and Bernard Gore, acting on behalf of Dr. Wenner-Gren and the Government of the Province of British Columbia.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the Cabinet taken in late February 1956 days before the resignation of Lands & Forests Minister Robert Sommers. From left: Highways Minister P.A. Gaglardi; Education Minister Ray Williston; Trade, Industry & Fisheries Minister R. Chetwynd; Health Minister Eric Martin; Agriculture Minister Ken Kiernan; Premier Bennett; Attorney-General R. Bonner; Provincial Secretary W. Black; Mr. Sommers; Labour Minister L. Wicks and Public Works Minister W. Chant.
Board of Governors BC Centennial Committee
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of the BC Centennial Committee Board of Directors, wearing their centennial blazers, taken with Lieutenant-Governor Frank Ross in 1957. From left: Mr. Williston, Provincial Archivist Willard Ireland, Alderman Bill Orr of Vancouver, Mr. Ross, Deputy provincial secretary Laurie Wallace, Assistant to Mr. Wallace name unknown, Theodore Adams representing BC Municipalities, Minister of Mines Ken Kiernan and UBC Professor Dr. Malcolm McGregor.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Finlay Forks trader Roy McGregor, pilot Ian Watt and British resource development designer Percy Gray in March 1957 after the first leg of Grey’s flight over the Rocky Mountain Trench.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
File contains newspaper clippings, a newsletter and an invitation dated from July 16, 1958 to July 18, 1959 and loose newspaper clippings from November 19, 1957 to March 1, 1958, and an envelope of newspaper clippings from The Sun newspaper from June 6th to 12th, 1959 relating to Mr. Williston’s public life.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
File contains three maps of the Project area.
Ray Williston speaking at Mount Robson Park rally
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston speaking at a rally in Mount Robson Park to encourage government support for the Jasper - Prince George highway on June 2, 1957.
Part of Ray Williston fonds
Item is a photograph of Percy Gray and pilot Ian Watt gassing up their plane at Finlay Forks before continuing their survey of the Rocky Mountain Trench in March 1957.