Crosby Girls’ Home – Port Simpson

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Images with the accession 1993.049 are part of the From Mission to Partnership Photograph collection.

Images with the accession 1998.165 are part of the Bessie French fonds.

184 images
Person wearing a flowered dress and wearing glasses is standing next to a table outdoors with a rolled paper in their hand. The table has flower arrangements on it.

[Staff member holding a rolled paper by a table outdoors with large floral arrangement, Port Simpson Residential School, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-49
Large group of people sitting at table for a formal meal outdoors in a grassy field.

[Group of staff, including Violet Deeprose, seated at large table outdoors, Port Simpson Residential School, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-50
Closeup corner view of large group of people are sitting at table outdoors. There are flower arrangements on the table.

[Group of staff seated at large table outdoors with large floral arrangement, Port Simpson Residential School, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-51
Seven people dressed in costumes outdoors. One is wearing a fake beard and mask, three are wearing signs around their necks.

[Staff performing in skit in garden, costumed and wearing signs, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-52
Exterior view of residential building on hill showing steps and front entrance.

[Port Simpson Residential School building and driveway, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-53
Three people wearing dresses standing in front of a large hedge.

[Three people by large hedge, possibly Lax Kw'alaams community members, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-54
Underexposed image of children in classroom taken from behind the teachers desk. Books are in the middle of the desk.

[Children at desks in a classroom, Port Simpson Residential School, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-55
Empty charis around dinner tables. Dishes are on the table. Image is overexposured from light coming from the window.

[Empty chairs in a classroom, Port Simpson Residential School, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-56
Three Indigenous people, two are older, are sitting in a garden with a chain fence behind them.

[Three older adults, possibly from the Lax Kw'alaams community, sitting in a garden, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-57
Top of two totem poles taken from below.

[Sealion pole and [iTipon] pole, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-58
Totem poles near building in front of harbour.

[Snowing Beaver pole, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-59
Totem poles, one showing beaveer at the bottom near a building in front of harbour.

[Snowing Beaver pole, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-60
Winter landscape with snowcovered evergreen trees in front of harbour.

[View of ocean and snow covered conifers, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-61
Winter scene with snow covered evergreen trees. There appears to be a structure in the distance, in centre.

[Snow covered conifers, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-62
Close up of snow covered evergreen trees. There is a snow covered fence in the lower corner of the image.

[Snow covered conifers, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-63
Closeup image of person in a suit or uniform reading papers in the wheelhouse of a boat.

[Port Simpson Residential School staff member reading papers in wheelhouse of boat, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-64
Landscape of beach and water with trees and mountains in the background.

[Beach, trees, and mountains, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-65
Black and white image of chapel with three stained glass windows in the back wall. There is a faint outline of a person, head bowed in the right hand corner and a faint outline of a person at the pulpit.

[Inside the Grace United Church chapel with stained glass windows, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-66
Eight children wearing white dress, some with arms raised, stand around a light cross and ferns.

[Children wearing white dresses participating in a religious ceremony, Port Simpson Residential School, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-67
A person in a long coat stands in the centre, holding a wheelbarrow outdoors on dirt road. To the right there is a small Indigenous child in a fur trimmed coat and to the left there is an arm of a person out of frame.

[Violet Deeprose holding a wheelbarrow next to child, Port Simpson Residential School, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia]

Port Simpson, [194?]

This photograph is contained in Bessie French's scrapbook illustrating her time in Port Simpson at the Crosby Girls' Home.

UCCA, 1998.165P/1-68