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Edward Ned Bolton fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1942-1980

The fonds consists of textual records of Edward Ned Bolton. It includes business correspondence (1951-52); invoices for the Essington Fish Camp and Cassiar Packing Company Ltd. (1949-1966); a provincial act, agenda, correspondence, minutes, and annual reports for the Provincial Advisory on Indian Affairs in British Columbia (1942-1969); a receipt book for H. Brew, Haysport (1957), and miscellaneous documents (1966-1980) including an assessment notice (1969), salmon price negotiations list (1980), and letterhead for Port Essington Special Reserve, Native Brotherhood of B.C. bearing Edward's name, and the Indian Inquiry Committee.

Bolton, Edward Ned

Ernest A. Woods collection

  • Collection
  • 1906-1924

The fonds consists of photographs of early Prince Rupert showing the building of the town site from the first pile driven to build the wharf in 1906, the first grade of the railway in 1908, the first GTP passenger train, and scenes of early Prince Rupert and the surrounding area up until to the 1920s. There are photographs of people in Prince Rupert, including family and colleagues, nurses during WWI, the drydock, planes, parades, boats, steamships, reservoirs, the Skeena River, Ocean Falls, the cold storage plant, football games, picnics, fire trucks, one photograph of native children in Metlakatla, and a logging camp at Alice Arm. It also includes a certificate of appointment from when Ernest was made a Notary Public on September 21, 1909 and a postcard received by Ernest in Prince Rupert in July 1907, mailed from England June 3, 1907.

Woods, Ernest A.

Ernestine Marion Milnes fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1938- 1993

The fonds consists of textual records, scrapbooks, and photo albums regarding the years Erna spent as a Brownie and Guide leader in Prince Rupert and Smithers. It includes photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, health forms, and her leadership training course work.

Milnes, Ernestine Marion

Eugene E. Deiss collection

  • Collection
  • 1943- 1945

The fonds consists of photographs and textual records during the Second World War in Prince Rupert. It includes 73 photographs (1943-1945) of scenes in Port Edward, Prince Rupert, and the surrounding areas, Hagwilget Canyon, , Khatada Lake, and Chicamon Glacier. US Army scenes include an aerial view of Acropolis Hill, Eugene with a bear cub, post theatre, barracks, the day room, a Christmas Party (1944), the administration office, chapels at Port Edward and Prince Rupert, field house, reveille, mail call, U.S. Army Post Softball Team (1943-45), army PX, Military Personnel Office (1945), basketball games, dances, V-J Day parade and speeches at city hall, USO Shows, Ingrid Bergman at USO show. There is also a photograph of Eugene salmon fishing near Port Edward and typed lyrics to a song "Don't Ship Me Out" dedicated to the men of APO 997.

Deiss, Eugene E.

First United Church (Prince Rupert, B.C.) fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1909 - 1995

Fonds consists of records from Prince Rupert Methodist Church, First United Church (Prince Rupert, B.C.) and Rupert East United Church. Records include Baptism registers (1909-1995), Marriage registers (1909-1987), and Burial registers (1910-1984); Membership records (1910-1988); Board and committee records (1908-1987); Women's group records (1926-1942); Men's group records (1912-1914); Sunday School records (1909-1928); Youth group records (1952-1958); Records of other groups (1917-1940); and Annual reports (1942-1991).

First United Church (Prince Rupert, B.C.)

Francis Richard C. Brown family collection

  • Collection
  • 1911-1917

The collection consists of photographs that were collected by Francis and Lily Brown when they lived in Prince Rupert from 1911 to 1917. Some of the photographs are originals, some are postcards and others are copies of the originals still held by the family. The photographs include scenes such as Crippen Cove, the arrival of the Duke of Connaught on the Princess Alice in September 1912, blasting of areas for expanding the city, 3rd Avenue in 1911 and the arrival of the first train from Winnipeg in 1914.

Brown, F.R.C. (family)

Fred Button fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1909- 1918

The fonds consists of nitrate negatives taken by Fred Button between 1909 and 1918, depicting scenes of Prince Rupert and area. Also included are two photographs of the Methodist Church picnic at Metlakatla, and 4 glass plate negatives depicting Mt. Morse, the Battle of Kelly's Cut, and a patent for an invention by Fred Button.

Button, Fred

Fred Dowdie collection

  • Collection
  • 1959-1987

The fonds consists of coloured slides of Prince Rupert and the surrounding area including the airport in 1959, Oval Bay, 800 2nd Ave. West, Salt Lakes,
Skeena River, CNR Dock Fire, fishing boats, Metlakatla, a tombstone from Port Essington, Fred & Montana Dowdie, Ksan, Kitwanga and the BC Ferry.

Frederick Redvers Peagam collection

  • Collection
  • 1932

The collection consists of two photographs of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in front of the RCNVR building at the CN Dock in the 1930s.

Peagam, Frederick Redvers

G. Percy Tinker fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1922-1954

The fonds consists of photographs from G. Percy Tinker. It includes the Tinker cottage in Naramata, the bow of the ship Northern Cross, people on a beach, G. Percy Tinker in front of his real estate office, and J.C. McLean's House at 1809 7th Avenue East.

Tinker, George Percy

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