All Images – First Nations

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Images with the accession 1986.229 are part of the Denzil Ridout fonds.

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.

Images with the accession 1998.165 are part of the Bessie French fonds.

661 images

Methodist church and mission house, Skidegate

Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, [19--?]

First Nation: Haida

UCCA, 1993.049P/683

School children, Skidegate mission

Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, [18--?]

First Nation: Haida

UCCA, 1993.049P/684N

Greenville, Naas River

Greenville, [18--]

First Nation: Nisga'a

Photographer: Rev. T. Crosby

UCCA, 1993.049P/687

Methodist First Nation mission at centre

[Port Simpson, B.C.: Methodist Indian mission at centre]

Port Simpson, [19--?]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

UCCA, 1993.049P/688

Kitkatla : Christian Indian village near Metlakatla

Kitkatla, [19--]

First Nation: Tsimshian

UCCA, 1993.049P/689

Old W.M.S. hospital, Burns Lake, B.C.

Kitamaat, [190-]

First Nation: Haisla

UCCA, 1993.049P/691

An Indigneous person is sitting in the yard, holding a wooden stick. A wooden cabin is behind to the right with clothes hanging on a bench and to her left is a outdoor log cooking stand. Trees are in the distance.

Old style house, Williams Lake Reserve, B.C.

Williams Lake, [19--?]

First Nation: Secwepemc

UCCA, 1993.049P/726

A group portrait of an Indigenous family with two children behind their seated parents. Three kids are in front.

Tsimshian family, Metlakatla, B.C.

Metlakatla, [19--?]

First Nation: Tsimshian

UCCA, 1993.049P/727

Close shot of older Indigenous person holding a swaddled infant who is crying.

[Indigenous parent and child, interior of B.C.]

1901

First Nation: Unidentified

Photographer: L.E. White

UCCA, 1993.049P/729N

Close shot of older Indigenous person holding a swaddled infant who is sucking on their fingers. A beaded head piece is attached on swaddle.

[Indigenous parent and child, interior of B.C.]

1901

First Nation: Unidentified

Photographer: L.E. White

UCCA, 1993.049P/730

Close shot of Indigenous person on horseback showing from behind. There is a child wrapped to the person's back. A infant is dangling in a carrier to the person's side. Background is blurred.

[Indigenous parent and children travelling on horseback, interior of B.C.]

1901

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/733

Close shot of three Indigenous people on horseback, with only one horse showing.

[Three Indigenous Peoples from the interior of B.C. on horseback]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/734N

Two Indigenous children wearing dresses are standing back to back in front of a hanging patterned textile. Each is holding one hand over their heads.

[Indigenous students playing games], British Columbia

Unidentified, [19--?]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/735N

Two Indigenous children wearing dresses and white aprons are kneeling around a table with a play tea set. A pattern textile is hanging behind them.

[Indigenous students playing games], British Columbia

Unidentified, [19--?]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/736N

An image of a slide showing multiple totem poles with a label on either side of the image.

[Totem poles, Haida Gwaii]

Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, 1889

First Nation: Haida

UCCA, 1993.049/P737N

Three Indigenous people are standing in between two totem poles. A label indiciating the image is a slide from F.C. Stephenson, Secretary of Y.P.M.E. Toronto is on the left side.

[Totem poles and Haida, Haida Gwaii]

Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, [19--]

First Nation: Haida

UCCA, 1993.049P/738N

[Longhouse, B.C.]

[18--?]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/739N

A group of peopel gathered outside of a structure. Image is blurry.

[Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch, B.C.]

[19--]

First Nation: Kwakwaka'wakw

UCCA, 1993.049P/741a

View of a wooden landscape, showing one tree trunk with a carving of what looks like a person at its base. A fenced walkway is going through the landscape.

Totem carved in trunk of living tree, British Columbia

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/743

A wooden building with a long covered porch is situated around mounds of dirt and cleared land. Three people are standing on the proch with long logs.

[Indigenous workers] sawing, B.C.

[19--?]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/744