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Adams and Larkin fonds

  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900]

The fonds consists of photographs depicting towns and scenery in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Fonds also includes photographs of Adams and Company and of E.C. Adams.

Adams and Larkin (Firm)

Collins family fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1910-1985

The fonds consists of personal and professional records from the Collins family. It includes family photographs and negatives taken in Prince Rupert, England, Alaska, and Panama. There are also photographs of soliders taken during the Second World War in Japan, a photograph of the cargo ship Earlscourt Park which was built in 1944 at the Prince Rupert Drydock, and Thomas W. senior on a fishing trip with Bing Crosby. There are 105 architectural drawings including blueprints, plans, and maps pertaining to the drydock in Prince Rupert and the City of Prince Rupert's engineering department. Personal documents for Thomas W. Sr. include correspondence (1956), postcards addressed to Thomas and Agnes (1910, 1920, 1939, 1952), a wedding invitation, statement of service with CNR at the drydock (1921- 1939), Canadian Gangway Pass (1963), Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Line card (1919), unemployment insurance commission card (1943), Active Service Book - Canadian Pay (1918), Indenture to Apprentice (1901), Canadian Expeditionary Force Discharge Certificate (1919), a Sick Furlough form and a fortnightly time book for payments made to dock employees with lists of names and payments pencilled in. Documents for Jack include certificates for perfect attendance at Sunday School (1930) and the Introductory Examination for the Toronto Conservatory of Music (1934), correspondence including three hand-written letters; two written to his father in 1963 and one regarding the Queen Charlotte Canners Ltd. (1950), and a postcard (1939). Also includes an Unemployment Insurance Commission form (1963) Kincolith Preceptory No. 59 Freemason's constitution and Bylaws, a notice of motion, Masonic ephemera, an autograph book (1934), and a Wartime Merchant Shipping Limited Shipyard Terms booklet. Documents for Thomas W. Jr. include a postcard, 3 Booth Memorial High School Student Association cards (1938, 1940-42), a War Dept. report at the Sub-Port in Prince Rupert (1944), and a handwritten diary of his time served on the U.S.S. destroyers McKean and Henry W. Tucker from 1945 to 1946. The diary ends on October 31, 1946 where he notes that he has been away for two years.

Collins (family)

Copper Valley School fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1956-1971

The fonds consists of house chronicles, local council minutes, registers for local receipts and expenses; school policy booklet, year books, Newswheel, professional publications, newspaper articles, Order of Truck Rollers information, reference and subject files.

Copper Valley School (Glennallen, Alaska)

Copper Valley School photograph collection

  • Fonds
  • 1956-1971

The collection consists of b&w photos of the ongoing construction of the school, action shots of the workers, student activities: picnics, proms, graduations, travels. Events recorded by Kenneth Stone form a major part of the 4 cm of pages of transparencies. Coloured photographs of some of the Copper Valley School Association annual alumni/ae reunions add to the collection.

E.A. Hegg fonds

  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1898-1900], [ca. 1920]

The fonds consists of photographs of the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway (ca. 1898-1900) and of the Copper River and Northwest Railroad (ca. 1920) in Alaska.

Hegg, Eric A.

Ernest F. Keir fonds

  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900]

The fonds consists of Keir's photographs depicting mining in the Yukon and scenes of Dawson City and the Chilkoot Pass.

Keir, Ernest F.

H.C. Barley fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1898-1899

The fonds consists of photographs of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, depicting scenery, ships, railways, the White Pass and Yukon Route, and the town of Skagway.

Barley, H.C.

Holy Cross Mission (Holy Cross, Alaska) fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1888-1957, 1965-1969, 1973, 1987-1993

The fonds consists of script house chronicles (1888-1957), local house minutes, accounts, visitation reports, historical magazine and newspaper articles, newsletters, missionary biographical information, school artwork, notebooks about fish-cutting and fur work, jubilee booklets and programs, post-mission data, photocopies of early correspondence stored at Mother House of Sisters of St. Ann, anthropology articles *Van Stone re Ingalik), general reference and subject files.

Holy Cross Mission (Holy Cross, Alaska)

Holy Cross Mission (Holy Cross, Alaska) photograph collection

  • Fonds
  • 1888-1957, 1965-1969, 1973, 1987-1993

The collection mainly consists of b&w photographs of the area, buildings, staff, students, and village. Photographs of the 1980s and 1990s are usually coloured and record particular activities: church, school, social. Several albums feature creative covers, handmade by students or villagers. Some of the photographs were developed at the mission itself. About 7 cm of pages of coloured transparencies record scenery, buildings, and people.

Our Lady of the Snows Mission (Nulato, Alaska) fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1899-1969, 1972, 1979-1983

The fonds consists of house chronicles, local council minutes, and local visitation reports; school attendance records (1910-1958), monograph (1950), class records (1944-1948), monograph of St. Peter Claver Mission, Sunday School hymn book (1885), newspaper articles, year books and local calendars, articles about the Koyukokan Stick Dance, adult education efforts, reference and subject files.

Our Lady of the Snows Mission (Nulato, Alaska)

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