Bella Bella

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Images with the accession 1976.001 are part of the Portraits collection.

Images with the accession 1993.049 are part of the From Mission to Partnership Photograph collection.

Images with the accession 1996.095 are part of the United Church of Canada. Division of Mission in Canada fonds.

50 images

Dr. and Mrs. Darby

Bella Coola, [ca. 1940]

Dr. and Mrs. George Darby in front of the R.W. Large Memorial Hospital, Bella Bella.

UCCA, 1976.001P/1417

Three Kimsquit women coming to Bella Bella for medical treatment

Bella Bella, 1909

First Nation: Nuxalk

Photographer: [Dr. R.W. Large]

"... This year the supply was abundant, and some brought home boat loads of the branches, or of seaweed, covered with the eggs & dried them on fences, Verandahs or improvised racks ... The two women in front are from Kimsquit - 75 miles North-East of here are mother & daughter. Grandma, who has the suggestive name of "Whiskey Mary" - is holding her only grandchild... "

UCCA, 1993.049P/31

R.W. Large Memorial Hospital

Bella Bella, 1966

Photographer: Berkeley Studio, United Church of Canada

Quiet Sunday afternoon, R.W. Large Memorial Hospital, Bella Bella

UCCA, 1993.049P/38

Old Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and old Jacob White, Bella Bella

Bella Bella, [between 1898 and 1910]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: [Dr. R.W. Large]

UCCA, 1993.049P/24N

Bella Bella Hospital

Bella Bella, [1909?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large

"Opened October 1902. The Indians gave labour." - note on back of photograph.

UCCA, 1993.049P/240N

Staff of the Bella Bella Hospital

Bella Bella, [190-?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/241

Staff of the Bella Bella Hospital

Bella Bella, [190-?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/242

Telephone pole carries light and telephone to mission house

Bella Bella, [19--]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/243

Flag pole being presented to the new hospital at Bella Bella

Bella Bella, [1918?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/244

Tubercular cottage, Bella Bella

Bella Bella, 1909

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large

"While results among Indians are always unsatisfactory when they are Tubercular ... A Hindo from the Rivers Inlet Sawmill is the present occupant, and before he came, we had a ... Japanese ... He has since been sent home to Japan." -- note on back of photograph.

UCCA, 1993.049P/245