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.
Sunnyside Cannery, B.C.
Skeena River, 1931
Photographer: Dr. Large and Mr. Thomas
Canned salmon at dock, B.C.
1931
Photographer: Dr. Large and Mr. Thomas
Interior of cannery, B.C.
[1931?]
Photographer: Dr. Large and Mr. Thomas
Interior of cannery, Skeena River, B.C.
Skeena River, 1931
Photographer: Dr. Large and Mr. Thomas
Bridge across the Fraser River at New Westminster, B.C. costing ... one million dollars
New Westminster, [19--]
Photographer: Rev. W.H. Gibson
Bridge across the Fraser River at New Westminster, B.C. costing ... one million dollars
New Westminster, [19--]
Photographer: Rev. W.H. Gibson
Bridge across the Fraser River at New Westminster, B.C. costing ... one million dollars
New Westminster, [19--]
Photographer: Rev. W.H. Gibson
In a salmon cannery: salmon on cannery floor
1909
In a salmon cannery: fishers' cabins
1909
In a salmon cannery: cutting machine
1909
In a salmon cannery: soldering the cans
1909
In a salmon cannery: cooling room
1909
Cannery at Rivers Inlet
Rivers Inlet, [19--]
Whaling station west coast of Vancouver Island - south of Clayoquot
Clayoquot, Vancouver Island, [19--]
Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large
"The building with the canvas end, is where the whale is drawn up a slip from the sea & cut up before being boiled down. No waste - oil used for soap & cod liver oil! The flesh & bones made into fertilizer. Now experimenting with salting some of the meat as salt beef! Canning it also & it tastes very good." -- note on back of photograph.
A splendid picture of drying the nets at Pt. Essington, B.C. also a few fishing boats
Port Essington. [between 1905 and 1909]
Photographer: [Dr. R.W. Large]
" ... The canning industry is carried on extensively here. Indians, Chinamen, and Japanese are principally employed in the work. The [Indigenous peoples] come here from the Skeena River, Queen Charlotte Islands, Kitamaat, and Pt. Simpson to work during the summer. Numerous hotels however prove a great and sad disadvantage often robbing them not only of their hard earned money, by their manhood also. Rev. Mr. Freeman, Meth. Missionary there school, church and hospital." -- note on back of photograph.
The same with net
Skeena River, [19--]
First Nation: Unidentified
Photographer: Miss Blackwood
An Indigenous fisherman in his boat holding net.
A collector unloading at the cannery (Dr. Darby on the dock), River's Inlet, B.C.
Rivers Inlet, 1930
Photographer: Mr H. Doney, Toronto
Freighting boat, B.C.
[ca. 1913]
Photographer: Belongs to W.P. McRae, Vancouver, B.C.
After Fernie fire : one of the lucky families, they saved two blankets & two trunks
Fernie, [1908]
Fernie after the fire had passed over: fire receding to the hills
Fernie, [1908]