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.
Whaling station
Clayoquot, Vancouver Island, [19--]
Photographer: Dr. R.W. Large
Whaling station west coast of Vancouver Island - south of Clayoquot. "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.
Drying the nets
Port Essington. [between 1905 and 1909]
Photographer: [Dr. R.W. Large]
A splendid picture of drying the nets at Pt. Essington, B.C. also a few fishing boats. " ... The canning industry is carried on extensively here. Indians, Chinamen, and Japanese are principally employed in the work. The Indians 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 Indian fisherman in his boat holding net.
A collector uploading at the cannery
Rivers Inlet, 1930
Photographer: Mr H. Doney, Toronto
(Dr. Darby on the dock), Rivers Inlet, B.C.
Freighting boat, B.C.
[ca. 1913]
Photographer: Belongs to W.P. McRae, Vancouver, B.C.
After Fernie fire
Fernie, [1908]
After Fernie fire : one of the lucky families, they saved two blankets & two trunks
Fernie after the fire had passed over: fire receding to the hills
Fernie, [1908]
[Views of Fernie, B.C. after the fire of 1908]
Fernie, 1908 August 6
Photographer: D.A. Mitchell
[Views of Fernie, B.C. after the fire of 1908]
Fernie, 1908 August 6
Photographer: D.A. Mitchell
[Views of Fernie, B.C. after the fire of 1908]
Fernie, 1908 August 6
Photographer: D.A. Mitchell
[Views of Fernie, B.C. after the fire of 1908]
Fernie, 1908 August 6
Photographer: D.A. Mitchell
[Views of Fernie, B.C. after the fire of 1908]
Fernie, 1908 August 6
Photographer: D.A. Mitchell
Fraser River Mills, New Westminster, B.C.
New Westminster, [between 1905 and 1908]
Photographer: Rev. W.H. Barraclough
Fraser River Mills, New Westminster, B.C., the largest on the Pacific Coast
New Westminster, [between 1905 and 1908]
Photographer: Rev. W.H. Barraclough
Fraser River Mills, New Westminster, B.C., the largest on the Pacific Coast
[A man washing clothes at the river, B.C.]
[19--]
Photographer: Rev. W.H. Barraclough
[Log cabin in the bush, B.C.]
[19--]
Photographer: Rev. W.H. Barraclough
[Passenger ship, New Westminster, B.C.]
New Westminster, [between 1905 and 1908]
Photographer: Rev. W.H. Barraclough
Engine ditched at Agassiz
Agassiz, 1910
Photographer: From W.C. Frank, Agassiz
[People swimming at a beach, B.C.]
[19--]
Photographer: Rev. W.H. Gibson
[People swimming at a beach, B.C.]
[19--]
Photographer: Rev. W.H. Gibson