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
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
Pesron sitting on a wooden chair on a veranda and looking at their lap. A door is ajar behind them.

[Bessie French sitting on chair on a veranda, 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/1-69
Two people in summer dresses are pushing a wheelbarrow on a dirt road, trees and grass on either side of the road. There is a large item in the wheelbarrow that is covered with a coat or blanket.

[Violet Deeprose and another person pushing a wheelbarrow, 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/1-70
Blurry image of three people in the snow.

[Children and Bessie French having a snowball fight, 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/1-71
Closeup of one adult and three children shovelling snow with water in the background.

[Violet Deeprose and children shoveling snow, 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/1-72
Blurry image of one adult and three youth behind a snowcovered mound.

[Children and Bessie French making snowballs, 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/1-73
An adult stands with a group of Indigenous children, some wearing uniform skirts and ties kneeling or sitting on ground. A wooden fence is in the background.

[Staff with mission band, some children are wearing Canadian Girls in Training uniforms, 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/1-74
A white teacher and group of Indigenous children, all wearing uniforms and holding school books in their right hands outdoors.

[A group of youth and a staff member in uniforms holding bundles of books, 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/1-75
Groups of adults and Indigenous children stand in dress clothes and coats in on wooden steps of church building.

[Teaching staff, including Bessie French and Violet Deeprose, with children from Port Simpson Residential School on stairs of Grace United Church, 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/1-76
Blurred image of group of Indigenous students and white group leaders in uniforms standing near residential building. Two adults are shown on the edge of the image.

[Canadian Girls in Training and group leaders, 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/1-77
Adult standing behind three Indigenous youth dressed in flowered dresses and white ankle socks outdoors in front of tree.

[Three youth and Bessie French, 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/1-78
Three Indigenous youth wearing same skirt, shirt and cardigan stand link armed at the end of a buildings. Water is showing in the background.

[Three youth, 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/1-79