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822 images
Side view of a wooden building with a bell near the front entrance. A wooden shed is the back.

School house, Meanskinisht

Cedarvale, [19--]

First Nation: Nisga'a

UCCA, 1993.049P/1809N
Blurred image of grass in the forefront and multiple wooden buldings in teh centre in front of trees.

[Longhouse at Takush, B.C.]

Takush, [19--]

First Nation: Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw

Photographer: Miss Patten

UCCA, 1993.049P/1811N
Three wooden buildings are lined near the water. The middle building is a school building. The image has been torn.

[Smith's Inlet Day School]

Takush, [19--]

First Nation: Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw

UCCA, 1993.049P/1812
View of lighthouse buildings from below, showing rocks in the forefront. Five people are climbing the rocks.

Ivory Island lighthouse, B.C.

Ivory Island, [19--]

UCCA, 1993.049P/1813
Seven Indigenous children sitting on wooden dock, two are smiling and laughing and the others are looking straight ahead.. Mountains are behind them.

[Indigenous children at Bella Coola]

Bella Coola, [19--?]

First Nation: Ulkatcho Carrier

UCCA, 1993.049P/1816
An Indigenous child in dress and bare feet is standing against a wooden building and looking around the corner.

[Indigenous child, Bella Coola]

Bella Coola, [19-?]

First Nation: Ulkatcho Carrier

UCCA, 1993.049P/1818
Stick First Nation child

Stick Indian child, Bella Coola

Bella Coola, [19-?]

First Nation: Ulkatcho Carrier

Photographer: Rev. R.C. Scott, Ocean Falls, B.C.

"These people came down the Bella Coola River from the Interior of British Columbia : note way in which Baby is laced into framework of willows : Coast Indians have abandoned such practices." - note on back of photograph.

UCCA, 1993.049P/1817
Two adults in long dresses stadning on wooden walkway, one is holding an infant swaddled. A child is standing next to the infant.

[Woman with infant laced in cradle, Bella Bella, B.C.]

Bella Bella, [19--]

First Nation: Heiltsuk

UCCA, 1993.049P/1819
View of buildings on hill from water.

Bamfield Creek : Pacific station for cable going to our missions across the sea

Banfield Creek, [190-?]

Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large

UCCA, 1993.049P/1833
Samll two door building on hill with wooden stairs leading to it. A sign reading emergency hospital is at the base of the stairs. The building is surrounded by trees.

North Pacific emergency hospital

1931

Photographer: Dr. Large and Mr. Thomas

UCCA, 1993.049P/1834
A group of Indigenous children and youth in dresses and brimmed hats are standing in two lines on wooden walkway. A building is to their left. Mountains are in the distance.

[Children in hats from Kitimaat Residential School lined up along a boardwalk with the (Kitimaat Day School) in the background]

Kitammat, 1910

First Nation: Haisla

UCCA, 1993.049P/1835
Small wooden buildings line the bottom of a rocky hill. Snow is covering the ground. Wooden boxes and other debris is laying in the snow.

Fisherby [i.e. Fishery] Bay

Fisherby Bay, [ca. 1903]

First Nation: Unidentified

Photographer: Rev. R.A. Spencer

UCCA, 1993.049P/1836
Colour tinted group of Indigenous children and youth are posed sitting on stairs in front of Kitamaat Residential School

[Youth and children of the Woman's Missionary Society Indian Home (Kitimaat Residential School), Kitamaat Villiage]

Kitamaat, [19--]

UCCA, 1993.049P/1926S
Colour tinted group of Indigenous adults, youth and children standing outdoors. One child is lying down sleeping in the forefront.

[Church picnic at the Andersons, Kitimaat]

Kitamaat, [19--]

Possibly the Elizabeth Long Memorial Home, Kitamaat

UCCA, 1993.049P/1927S
Six Indigenous youth are holding on to ropes, pulling a round, hollwo ground tamper. Two White adults are pushing the tamper while one youth appears to be inside the tamper's hole.

[Children who were taken to Kitimaat Girls' Home (Kitimaat Residential School) with staff levelling ground]

Kitamaat, [19--]

Elizabeth Long Memorial Home, Kitamaat

UCCA, 1993.049P/1928S
Tinted image of Indigenous person standing next to an elder who is sitting and holding a ane and basket.

A God-mother and granddaughter, Kitimaat

Kitamaat, [19--]

First Nation: Haisla

UCCA, 1993.049P/1929S
Colout tintedimage of two Indigenous children sittingwith two Indigenous infants. A large basket held by an adult is behind them.

[Coast Salish] children, Sardis, B.C.

Sardis, [19--]

First Nation: Coast Salish

UCCA, 1993.049P/1931S
Three Indigenous youth in dresses are standing around a metal wah bin next to building walls. The image has been colour tinted.

[Three Coast Salish youths standing around a wash tub, Sardis, B.C.]

Sardis, [19--]

First Nation: Coast Salish

UCCA, 1993.049P/1932S
An older Indigenous person wrapped in a patterned shawl is standing in front of a wooden building. A number 8 is marked on the building.

An [older Indigenous person]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/1933S
Two Indigenous youth are standing on either side of a wicker carriage holding an infant. They are stadning on a wooden boardwalk with houses behind them.

[Two girls watching over an infant in carriage]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/1934S