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Prince Rupert Fonds
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Peter Davies fonds

  • Fonds
  • [192-] - [194-]

The fonds consists of photographs of the BC coast and scenes of Prince Rupert. Included are photos of lighthouses, the grain elevator, Anyox, Canadian Coastguard ship "Newington," and war ships.

Davies, Peter

Don Hamilton fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1940-[195-]

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.

Hamilton, Don

Currie family fonds

  • Fonds
  • [192-] - [199-]

The fonds consists of photographs taken by the Currie family. It includes photos of family and friends, the tugboat "C.R.C.," and scenes in the Prince Rupert area.

Currie (family : Prince Rupert, B.C.)

Grand Trunk Pacific Development Company Limited fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1909-1910

The fonds consists of maps published by the Grand Trunk Pacific Development Company Limited between 1909 and 1910. It includes maps of Prince Rupert and Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 of Prince Rupert.

Grand Trunk Pacific Development Company Limited

Strathy family fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1907 - 1910

The fonds consists of photographs of early days in Prince Rupert and the surrounding area. They include the Strathy family, the contractor's hospital in Cow Bay, loaded cars on tracks in the main townsite, boardwalk construction, the Union Bank including construction, lifting the vault for the bank on the dock, the bank's interior and employees, the Kayex at Metlakatla and Prince Rupert. It also includes photographs of Port Simpson including the Hudson Bay store, dock, and Birnie Island.

Strathy (family)

Prince Rupert Publicity Club fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1909- 1910

The fonds consists of two pamphlets produced by the Prince Rupert Publicity Club to advertise Prince Rupert.

Prince Rupert Publicity Club

Harrison family fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1909-1910

The fonds consists of correspondence. It includes six letters written by Anna Harrison while living in Prince Rupert to her parents James and Margaret Smellie and sisters Madge and Lucy Traill Henderson back in Glascow, Scotland (1909-1910). There is a paragraph in one letter written by Benjamin Harrison about purchasing a lot in Prince Rupert. It also includes one letter written by Mary Ellen Reddie (1909) to her sister Margaret Smellie (nee Morrison), Anna Harrison's mother. The letters describe life in Prince Rupert at the time and the work of Dr. John Oates Reddie, Benjamin Harris's business Brilliant Signs, Prime Minister Laurier's visit to the city in August 1910, and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company.

Harrison (family)

Reverend Smith Stanley Osterhout fonds

  • Fonds
  • [Between 1893 and 1911]

The fonds consists of 45 glass-plate lantern slides showing scenes from Osterhout’s work with B.C. First Nations, including the Haida, Tsimshian, and Kwakwaka’wakw. The collection includes images of people, totem poles, and landscapes.

Osterhout, Reverend Smith Stanley

J.D. Allen Photographic Company fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1907- 1914

The fonds consists of nitrate negatives and glass negatives that depict the early Prince Rupert town site, pioneers, businesses, scenes, and events. Included is a wedding certificate from 1923 for Ethel Vivian Alabaster and Gus Slane.

J.D. Allen Photographic Company

James A. Brown fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1903- 1918

The fonds consists of correspondence. Included is a letter from Brown's mother, a cancelled cheque from the North Coast Commercial Co. Ltd., and letters from A.R. Williams Machining Co. Limited and Simon Leiser & Co.

Brown, James A.

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