Port Simpson Residential School (Crosby Girls’ Home)

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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.

192 images

Ten children sit alongside teacher, likely Margaret Reid, inside institution classroom.

[Port Simpson Residential School : primary classroom]

Lax Kw'alaams, [1932]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

Photographer: [Denzil G. Ridout]

This photograph forms part of an album. See also Denzil Ridout's personal papers (Fonds 3220).

UCCA, 1986.229P/5-438

[Port Simpson Residential School : primary classroom]

Lax Kw'alaams, [1932]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

Photographer: [Denzil G. Ridout]

This photograph forms part of an album. See also Denzil Ridout's personal papers (Fonds 3220).

UCCA, 1986.229P/5-439

Seven youth sit alongside teacher, likely Lottie M. Deacon, inside institution classroom. Some are wearing C.G.I.T. uniforms.

[Port Simpson Residential School : senior classroom]

Lax Kw'alaams, [1932]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

Photographer: [Denzil G. Ridout]

This photograph forms part of an album. See also Denzil Ridout's personal papers (Fonds 3220).

UCCA, 1986.229P/5-440

Seven youth sit alongside teacher, likely Lottie M. Deacon, inside institution classroom

[Port Simpson Residential School : senior classroom]

Lax Kw'alaams, [1932]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

Photographer: [Denzil G. Ridout]

This photograph forms part of an album. See also Denzil Ridout's personal papers (Fonds 3220).

UCCA, 1986.229P/5-441

Seventeen Indigenous children and youth stand outside with two white residential institution teachers.

[Port Simpson Residential School : children, youth, and staff]

p>Lax Kw'alaams, [1932]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

Photographer: [Denzil G. Ridout]

This photograph forms part of an album. See also Denzil Ridout's personal papers (Fonds 3220).

UCCA, 1986.229P/5-442

On the grounds of Port Simpson Residential School, Indigenous children and youth stand with two teachers and four missionaries, including Capt. R. C. Scott and Margaret Sansum.

[Port Simpson Residential School : staff, children, and youth with missionaries including Margaret Sansum and R.C. Scott]

p>Lax Kw'alaams, [1932]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

Photographer: [Denzil G. Ridout]

This photograph forms part of an album. See also Denzil Ridout's personal papers (Fonds 3220).

UCCA, 1986.229P/5-443

Seventeen Indigenous children and youth, dressed in outerwear, stand around the tombstone of Chief Paul Legaic.

[Children who were taken to Port Simpson Residential School visiting Paul Legaic's tombstone]

p>Lax Kw'alaams, [1932]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

Photographer: [Denzil G. Ridout]

This photograph forms part of an album. See also Denzil Ridout's personal papers (Fonds 3220).

UCCA, 1986.229P/5-444

On a wharf, a group of white teachers and Indigenous children and youth stand together.

[Staff, children and youth saying goodbye to departing missionaries aboard the Thomas Crosby, Port Simpson Residential School]

Lax Kw'alaams, [1932]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

Photographer: [Denzil G. Ridout]

This photograph forms part of an album. See also Denzil Ridout's personal papers (Fonds 3220).

UCCA, 1986.229P/5-451

On a boardwalk, a group of white teachers and Indigenous children and youth stand together and are waving.

[Staff, children and youth saying goodbye to departing missionaries aboard the Thomas Crosby, Port Simpson Residential School]

Lax Kw'alaams, [1932]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

Photographer: [Denzil G. Ridout]

This photograph forms part of an album. See also Denzil Ridout's personal papers (Fonds 3220).

UCCA, 1986.229P/5-452

Group of children sitting on grass in front of residential building. Some adults are standing on porch of the building.

[Rev. Thomas Crosby, Emma Crosby and Agnes Knight, on the porch, with children who were taken to Crosby Girls' Home (Port Simpson Residential School) gathered on the grass in front of the building]

Port Simpson, [1888]

UCCA, 1993.049P/139N

Group of portrait of Indigenous children and youth on steps.

[Rev. Thomas Crosby and Margaret Hargraves, institution staff, with Henry Tate, interpreter and assistant staff, and children of the Port Simpson Residential School, on the steps of the Church, Port Simpson, B.C.]

Port Simpson, [ca. 1880]

UCCA, 1993.049P/142

Group of Indigenous children and youth wearing dresses sitting on steps. Some have numbers inscribed by them.

[Institution staff, Rev. Thomas Crosby, Emma Crosby, and Susanna Lawrence, with children taken to Port Simpson Residential School, B.C.]

Port Simpson, [not after 1882]

UCCA, 1993.049P/143N

A group of Indigenous children and youth wearing dresses are standing on steps of building. Some adults in are in the group.

[Staff and children on the steps of Crosby Girls' Home (Port Simpson Residential School).]

Port Simpson, 1892

UCCA, 1993.049P/144

Image of a large residential building with front porch surrounded by picket fence and trees.

[Image of the Crosby Girls' Home (Port Simpson Residential School) building]

Port Simpson, [19--]

UCCA, 1993.049P/145N

Oval image of five people wearing long coats and hats in front of water. There is a thick border around image.

Staff of Crosby Girls' Home [Port Simpson Residential School] as they looked when leaving Port Simpson

Port Simpson, 1921 January 27

UCCA, 1993.049P/146N

Four people in long dresses are standing on porch.

Staff of the Crosby Girls' Home [Port Simpson Residential School], 1902-1903

Port Simpson, [ca. 1903]

Photographer: [Rev. R.A. Spencer]

UCCA, 1993.049P/147N

A group of Indigenous youth with non-Indigenous adults stand by fence, all wearing long coats and hats. Some are carrying buckets.

Staff and [children taken to] Crosby Girls' Home (Port Simpson Residential School), dressed in hats and overcoats, Port Simpson, B.C.

Port Simpson, [19--]

UCCA, 1993.049P/149N

Image of a white residential buidling and grass yard. Another building is shown to its left.

[Boys' Home (Port Simpson Residential School) with mission house seen in the background.]

Port Simpson, 1897

UCCA, 1993.049P/150

Wooden school house with vertical siding is mounted on black paper with a label with the title on the bottom.

Mission school house, [Port Simpson Residential School (Lax Kw'alaams)]

Port Simpson, [18--?]

First Nation: Lax Kw'alaams

Photographer: [Rev. E. Robson]

UCCA, 1993.049P/161N

Indigenous children wearind dressses and white aprons are setting dishes on three tables in the yard. The front table has five empty chairs.

[Children setting tables for the May 24th picnic, Port Simpson Residential School (Lax Kw'alaams, B.C.)]

Port Simpson, 1912

Photographer: Ema Black

Girls setting tables

UCCA, 1993.049P/162