Bella Coola

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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.

37 images
A group of Indigenous people are standing and sitting on a gravel are, holding pick axes and poles. Coniferous trees are on either side of them and the mountains are in the distance.

[A company of Nuxalk workers : Chief and young men, Bella Coola]

Bella Coola, 1928 July

First Nation: Nuxalk

Photographer: Rev. J.E. Rendle

UCCA, 1993.049P/395
A person smoking a pipe is sitting on a wooden chair with a blanket. A wooden stump is the forefront and cloth is hung around the person.

Head Chief, John Saxeteus

Bella Coola, 1928 July

First Nation: Nuxalk

Photographer: Rev. J.E. Rendle

UCCA, 1993.049P/396
A row of white houses are behind a wooden fence. A planked road is to the right of the houses. Behind the houses, mountains are covered by fog.

[Main street in the Bella Coola village]

Bella Coola, 1928 July

First Nation: Nuxalk

Photographer: Rev. J.E. Rendle

UCCA, 1993.049P/397
Bella Coola scene at end of cannery wharf

Bella Coola scene at end of cannery wharf

Bella Coola, 1928 July

First Nation: Nuxalk

Photographer: Rev. J.E. Rendle

UCCA, 1993.049P/398
Colour tinted image of an adult with three children standing in a field. Two wooden buildings are in the distance, and behind the buildings are snowcapped mountains.

Hospital at Hazelton, B.C.

Hazelton, [191-?]

UCCA, 1993.049P/343
View of wharf over frozen water. Two identical long wooden buildings are built on wharf. Other wooden houses are in the distance.

Bella Coola cannery

Bella Coola, [19--]

First Nation: Nuxalk

UCCA, 1993.049P/400
Wooden wharf crossing water with mountains in the distance. Trees and rocks are in the foreground.

Bella Coola wharf, B.C.

Bella Coola, [19--]

First Nation: Nuxalk

UCCA, 1993.049P/436
A line of wooden houses behind wooden fences are in front of mountains in the distance.

[Nuxalk homes in Bella Coola, B.C.]

Bella Coola, [19--]

First Nation: Nuxalk

UCCA, 1993.049P/437
A line of wooden houses are to the left of wooden fences and road. Mountains are shown in the distance.

[Nuxalk homes in "New Town" Bella Coola, B.C.]

Bella Coola, [19--]

First Nation: Nuxalk

UCCA, 1993.049P/438
Person is standing next to a rock that has been carved with the inscription Alex MacKenzie from Canada by land 22 July 1793.

[Alexander MacKenzie's inscription in the rock near Bella Coola]

Bella Coola, [19--]

UCCA, 1993.049P/606
Two people are standing next to stone monument amongst grass and trees.

A monument erected to Alexander MacKenzie

Bella Coola, 1928 July

Photographer: Rev. J.E. Rendle

UCCA, 1993.049P/609
Viewed from water, a stone monument is on top of grassy rock by shoreline. A boat with six people on deck is in the water and they are all looking towards monument.

Mackenzie's rock

Bella Coola, 1928 July

Photographer: Rev. J.E. Rendle

UCCA, 1993.049P/610
Seven Indigenous children sitting on wooden dock, two are smiling and laughing and the others are looking straight ahead.. Mountains are behind them.

[Indigenous children at Bella Coola]

Bella Coola, [19--?]

First Nation: Ulkatcho Carrier

UCCA, 1993.049P/1816
An Indigenous child in dress and bare feet is standing against a wooden building and looking around the corner.

[Indigenous child, Bella Coola]

Bella Coola, [19-?]

First Nation: Ulkatcho Carrier

UCCA, 1993.049P/1818
Stick First Nation child

Stick Indian child, Bella Coola

Bella Coola, [19-?]

First Nation: Ulkatcho Carrier

Photographer: Rev. R.C. Scott, Ocean Falls, B.C.

"These people came down the Bella Coola River from the Interior of British Columbia : note way in which Baby is laced into framework of willows : Coast Indians have abandoned such practices." - note on back of photograph.

UCCA, 1993.049P/1817
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