From Mission to Partnership Photograph collection

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822 images

Non-indigenous person is examining teeth of an Indigenous child outside of wooden house. Other children and adults are standing around.

Dental work at Smith's Inlet Cannery

Rivers Inlet, 1930

First Nation: Wuikinuxv

Photographer: H. Doney, Toronto

UCCA, 1993.049P/231

A non-Indigenous person is examining Indigenous youth outside wooden house. Other children and youth are standing around them.

A very interesting case at Wadham's, Rivers Inlet, B.C.

Rivers Inlet, 1930

First Nation: Wuikinuxv

Photographer: H. Doney, Toronto

UCCA, 1993.049P/232

View of operating room with tables and stools.

Operating room, Rivers Inlet Hospital

Rivers Inlet, 1930

Photographer: H. Doney, Toronto

UCCA, 1993.049P/233

Two Asian men standing outside building, one is holding up a plant.

Rivers Inlet Hospital kitchen staff: Wu Sun and Wu Get

Rivers Inlet, 1930

Photographer: H. Doney, Toronto

UCCA, 1993.049P/234

Side exterior view of church building, showing steele. There are stains on right side of image.

Church at Bella Bella, B.C.

Bella Bella, 1892

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: E. Robson

UCCA, 1993.049P/235

First school house, Bella Bella, B.C.

Bella Bella, [19--]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/236

Exterior view of school house with Indigenous children standing around the building.

[Bella Bella Day Institution]

Bella Bella, 1909

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/237

Faded image of wooden house with porch. Tape marks shown on right side.

Parsonage, Bella Bella, B.C.

Bella Bella, [190-?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/238

A sawmill is situated near the water. Beach is prominently shown in the forefront.

Bella Bella sawmill

Bella Bella, 1909

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large

Note on back of photograph indicates "This steam sawmill cost the..."[Community]

UCCA, 1993.049P/239N

Bella Bella Hospital

Bella Bella, [1909?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large

Note on back of the photograph indicates that the building opened October 1902 and that the Community "gave labour".

UCCA, 1993.049P/240N

A small group of people are standing and sitting on stairs of a wooden hospital building. The image is blurry.

Staff of the Bella Bella Hospital

Bella Bella, [190-?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/241

Five adults and one child standing on the stairs of wooden hospital building, surrounded by snow.

Staff of the Bella Bella Hospital

Bella Bella, [190-?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/242

Interior view of room with a table and a cabinet. A light bulb is hanging down from ceiling.

Telephone pole carries light and telephone to mission house

Bella Bella, [19--]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/243

A group of people walking on road in front of wooden hospital building and surrounding buildings. A bicycle is lying on grass in front of road.

Flag pole being presented to the new hospital at Bella Bella

Bella Bella, [1918?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/244

A wooden building with wooden shutters is surrounded by boardwalks. Water is behind in the building.

Tubercular cottage, Bella Bella

Bella Bella, 1909

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large

Note on back of photograph indicates "While results among [Indigenous people] 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."

UCCA, 1993.049P/245

House behind a white fence in front of planked road. A person is walking on the road.

[Indigenous home : Moses Knight, Bella Bella]

Bella Bella, [190-?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: [Dr. R.W. Large]

UCCA, 1993.049P/246N

View of wharf and inlet with mountains in the background.

The wharf and inlet as viewed from the mission house

Bella Bella, 1910

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large

UCCA, 1993.049P/247

Image of house with covered porch and side addition.

Bella Bella mission house

Bella Bella, [190-?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large

UCCA, 1993.049P/248

View of village along the water and surrounded by trees. A church is on the hill.

The village front : Temperance Hall on the hill, church down on the left, the now defunct feast-house in the fore (the octagonal building)

Bella Bella, 1910

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large

UCCA, 1993.049P/249

View of village buildings from water, showing mountains in the distance.

[A part of Bella Bella village showing the mission property including beach house, tubercular tent cottage, hospital, mission house, and church (the day institution is hidden by the mission house)]

Bella Bella, [190-?]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large

A part of Bella Bella village showing the mission property including beach house, tubercular tent cottage, hospital, mission house, and church (the school is hidden by the mission house)

UCCA, 1993.049P/250