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Don Hamilton fonds
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103 photographs
2 photograph albums
10 negatives
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Don Hamilton was born on December 16, 1926 in Vancouver. He grew up in Vancouver, graduated in 1945 from Grandview High School, and went on to work at various canneries for Canadian Fishing Company: Bones Bay, Alert Bay (1945-1946), Carlisle Cannery (1947-1948), Butedale (1949-1952), Atlin Fish in Prince Rupert (Winter 1952), Porcher Island (1953-1954), Westminster Fish (1955), New England Fish Company in Ketchikan, Alaska (1956-1957) Cordova (1958-1959) Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands (1958-1959). From 1959 to 1968 he served in the United States Army and has lived in Oakland, California since 1968.
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The fonds consists of both black and white and colour photographs with 2 photograph albums taken by Don Hamilton during the 1940s and 1950s when he worked in various fish plants in British Columbia. They include photographs of operations at Carlisle, Bones Bay, and Butedale canneries. There are some photographs depicting family and friends, Claire Salter, Norman Christenson, Charles McMillan, William Malcom, and Sylvester Anthony MacDonald in a way of life enjoyed by people living at the canneries. There are also photographs of the RCAF MTB Rescue Boat M-234, five vessels named Mary K, Venture, Sambo Point, Coquitlam, and Cape Calvert, as well as helicopters and float planes used for a rescue operation when a U.S. Bomber crew ditched on Princess Royal Island in the 1950s (Broken Arrow). Also includes a hand painted photograph of a paddle wheeler, and photographs of Vancouver.
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Don Hamilton donated the photographs to the archives in June 2003, December 13, 2004 and April 7, 2006.
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Created on November 22, 2013
Revised by BCANS Coordinator, Feb 10, 2014