All Images – General Mission Work

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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.

511 images
An Indigenous person is standing on stairs with a child.

My friend Christine : She is the only person in B.L. and District who is familiar enough with me to call me [by first name]

Burns Lake, [ca. 1932]

Photographer: Edna Haines

UCCA, 1993.049P724
A team of dogs are harnessed to a wooden cart on a dirt road. A person is standing behind them on a ramp. Wooden buildings are around them.

Atlin's canine waterworks, Atlin, B.C.

Atlin, [19--]

Photographer: Publ. by C.R. Bourne, Atlin, B.C.

UCCA, 1993.049P/725
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
A photograph of a page showing oval shaped images of people, some of whom are wearing clerical collars.

[Pioneer missionaries to the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia]

[19--]

Rev. C.M. Tate; Rev. A.E. Green; Rev. G.H. Raley; A.E. Bolton, M.D.; Rev. J.A. Jackson, M.D.; Rev. J.C. Spencer, M.D.; W.T. Rush, M.D.; Rev. R.W. Large, M.D.; Rev. H.C. Wrinch, M.D.

UCCA, 1993.049P/728
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
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

[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
A group of Indigenous people are sitting around a fire, two with blankets around their shoulders in a wooden structure. Pelts or plants are hanging above them

Interior of [Indigenous] trading tent [B.C.]

[19--?]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/745N
A person wearing a dress and a shawl is stanind on a wooden walkway with a small child dressed in a bonnet and dress standing beside her. The image is a small part of a larger piece of paper and the words Mrs. Peter Elliott and baby are handwritten below the image.

[Mrs. Peter Elliot and baby, B.C.]

[19--?]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/746
Close shot of an Indigenous person with long beard and cap taken from side view.

[Elderly Indigenous person, British Columbia]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/747N
Close shot of older Indigenous person wearing a headscarf and striped shawl.

[Elderly Indigenous person, B.C.]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/748
Four adults and two children are standing in front of a wooden building. Two dogs are also in the image.

[Group in front of restaurant, Pouce Coupe]

Pouce Coupe, B.C., [ca. 1920]

UCCA, 1993.049P/1100