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
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
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
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
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
Tinted head shot of an Indigenous person that is oval framed.

[Portrait of an Indigenous person]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/1935S
Profile head shot of Indigenous person with moustache.

[Profile of an Indigenous person]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/1936S
A person is standing in shadow undeneath a large outdoor drying rack. Fish are hanging from the top.

[Indigenous Peoples drying fish, B.C.]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/1948S
Wooden buildings are lined along the coast with stairs in front of each leading to the water. Trees are behind the building.

[Indigenous village, B.C. coast]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/1949S
Colour tinted group portraitof Indigenous people, sitting and standing, wearing ceremonial clothing, hats, masks and face paint.

[Indigenous Peoples in ceremonial dress with faces painted or masked, British Columbia]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/1951S
Colour tinted image of congregation standing outside church building in Cape Mudge

Minister and [We Wai Kai] congregation, Cape Mudge

Cape Mudge, [19--]

First Nation: Kwakwaka'wakw

UCCA, 1993.049P/1960S
Two ministers are sitting with legs crossed in wooden chairs against church wall. A banner reading Golden Jubilee is hanging above their heads.

Rev. [W.H.] Pierce and Rev. [P.R.] Kelly, Bella Coola mission Golden Jubilee

Bella Coola, 1932

First Nation: Nuxalk

Rev. W.H. Pierce and Rev. P.R. Kelly, Bella Coola mission Golden Jubilee

UCCA, 1993.049P/1961S
Colour tinted group portrait of congregation standing outside the church door. Mountains are visible in the distance.

Bella Coola congregation

Bella Coola, [193-?]

First Nation: Nuxalk

UCCA, 1993.049P/1962S
Colout tinted landscape of cannery buildings along shore. Mountains are in the distance.

Namu Cannery

Namu, [19--]

UCCA, 1993.049P/1975S
Exterior view of church building, showing side wall with large window.

[Spencer Memorial United Church , Skidegate]

Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, [19--]

First Nation: Haida

UCCA, 1993.049P/1983S
A colour tinted image of an orca carving in the woods.

The killer whale

Tsimshian, [19--]

UCCA, 1993.049P/2014S
Two boats are in the water. A group of fishermen are loading a net of fish from one boat to another.

[Fishermen pulling catch into a fishing boat]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/2285
Close shot of net of fish held by fisherman. Others are standing around the net.

[Fishermen pulling catch into a fishing boat]

[19--]

First Nation: Unidentified

UCCA, 1993.049P/2286N
Portrait of bearded person. Etched into the image are the words in script: life and adventures of Dr. Thomas Crosby, missionary to the savage tribes of the Pacific Coast.

Rev. Thomas Crosby

[19--]

UCCA, 1993.049P/2481S
Two people - one in a long dress and the other in a shirt and tie and pants - are standing on rocks next to water.

Canyon at Hudson's Hope, home of rainbow trout

Hudson's Hope, [between 1915 and 1917]

Photographer: [Rev. T.D. Jones]

UCCA, 1993.049P/2542