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Don Hamilton fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1940-[195-]

The fonds consists of both black and white and colour photographs with 2 photograph albums taken by Don Hamilton during the 1940s and 1950s when he worked in various fish plants in British Columbia. They include photographs of operations at Carlisle, Bones Bay, and Butedale canneries. There are some photographs depicting family and friends, Claire Salter, Norman Christenson, Charles McMillan, William Malcom, and Sylvester Anthony MacDonald in a way of life enjoyed by people living at the canneries. There are also photographs of the RCAF MTB Rescue Boat M-234, five vessels named Mary K, Venture, Sambo Point, Coquitlam, and Cape Calvert, as well as helicopters and float planes used for a rescue operation when a U.S. Bomber crew ditched on Princess Royal Island in the 1950s (Broken Arrow). Also includes a hand painted photograph of a paddle wheeler, and photographs of Vancouver.

Hamilton, Don

Dutton family collection

  • Collection
  • 1929- 1958

The collection consists of personal and business correspondence, 1929, 1945-
1955, 1962-1971, notebooks from Dorothy's work at Wells Ltd. in 1957, 8 pages from a diary about a family trip, 195- and 1960, documents regarding logging, 1944, 1947 and 1950 and ephemera, 1949 to 1958.

Dutton (family)

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.

Gordon family fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1919-1982

The fonds consists of photographs related to scenes and events in Prince Rupert, on the Skeena River, and in Terrace and records related to the Gordon family, Gordon's Grocery and Gordon's Hardware. It includes 39 photographs depicting train wreck of Engine No. 101 on the Skeena, the opening celebration of the Skeena Highway in Terrace (1944), scenes in Prince Rupert including a man with halibut catch, view of the federal building, Freddi Wingham [ca. 192-], the opening of the Friendship House (1958), Alder Park with totem poles [ca. 193-], CN Park, "Queen of Prince Rupert" and its first visit to the city in June 1966, 2nd Avenue West and 3rd Street, and the Presbyterian Church (1992). It also includes a letter to Mrs. Robert Gordon regarding the opening of the Skeena Highway (1944), a postcard addressed to Olive Mae Gordon (1946), an account ledger for Gordon's Grocery (1919-1920), Profit and Loss Account Ledger for Gordon's Hardware (1945-1946), a certificate for the Tsimpsian Grand Lodge in Vancouver (1930), a certificate for Olive Mae Gordon's graduation from the Prince Rupert General Hospital Nursing School (1930), blueprints for the Gordon's Home at 234 4th Avenue East (for former owner Mr. Maquire), blueprints showing a map of the Skeena River and vicinity of Khatada to Prince Rupert, Location Plan for Terrace, B.C. (1942), Lakelse Lake Lot Plan (1919), and blueprints for Gordon's Hardware. There is a booklet with instructions for mounting and wearing decorations, campaign starts and medals along with a decal, a poster with Instructions to be observed in the event of an enemy attack, a blackout map for Prince Rupert, and an Aurora (1937). Other artifacts include a nursing cape, calendar with themometre from Gordon's Hardware (1958) and a 68th Coast Bty. R.C.A. crest. It also includes the program for the auction sale of Prince Rupert lots in Vancouver on May 25 and 29, 1909 with pencilled numbers and notes, a booklet from 1923 with newspaper pages and section maps of Prince Rupert for the City Assessment Roll, regulations and tariff of fees, rentals and charges under the water act from 1939, maps of Prince Rupert sections 5 and 6 from 1909, and a BC pre-emptors map, from 1929.

Gordon (family : Prince Rupert, B.C.)

Gurvich family fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1912, 1944, 1967

The fonds consists of photographs taken in Prince Rupert and documents relating to Nick Gurvich. It includes photographs of a "Men's Own Basketball Team" (1912), Gyro Club (1948), the fire at Columbia Cellulose (1967) and drawings of the Canadian Government Grain Elevator in camouflage during the Second World War (1944), a Department of Labour Mobilization sheet for Nick John Gurvich (1944), War Savings Canada stamp, and a war savings certificate for Nickolas Gurvich.

Gurvich (family)

Harvey family fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1908-1960

The fonds consists of Harvey's correspondence, notes and reports relating to his activities with the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce and as president of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce from 1951 to 1960. The fonds also includes plans of the Digby Island Airport, a manuscript of "Story of a Firm," the cashbooks and trustbooks (1908-1913) of Williams and Manson law firm, and photographs of Ruth Harvey's family when she was a child. Also includes maps from 1931 of the Skeena Electoral District, Annette Island Road Map and Mileage Table A.I.L.F. No. 159 from 4 March, 1942, International boundry between the United States and Canada from Cape Muzon to Mount Elias in 1923, court proceedings concerning the grounding of the m/v Queen of Prince Rupert on 11 August, 1967, a report entitled "The Bulkley Valley" by Nell Dockrill, a correspondence report from the Prince Rupert Drydock Committee, a portion (copy) of a typed manuscript entitled "My Memoirs: a Lifetime in British Columbia" by Wiggs O'Neill, minute and shareholder books of the Prince Rupert Publishing Company Ltd. and the Terrace Club Ltd, a brief on the proposed airport on Digby Island, negatives of fish boats, Invercan No. 2 and No. 4, fish plants, the Canadian Fish & Cold Storage plant in Seal Cove, postacards from Uncle Newton, Cow Bay, Rushbrook Floats, and the waterfront.

Harvey, James T. (family)

Ilsa Kraupner Fudger Fleming collection

  • Collection
  • [194-]

Series includes photographs depicting the Fudger family and friends during the 1940s in Prince Rupert, and navy personnel at Comox. Depicted are Bill and Mickey Fudger, Hedwig Kraupner, Cliff Perry, Ilsa Kraupner, Gilda Campagnolo, Dr. Donald Oakley, Margaret Oakley, and May Queen Lillian Jones with attendants May Skinner, Philomena Murry and Nancy Bremner.

Fleming, Ilsa Kraupner Fudger

John L. MacIntosh Family fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1906-1933

The fonds consists of photographs, nitrate negatives, and textual records belonging to John L. MacIntosh. It includes photographs of people in Prince Rupert, including employees at the Prince Rupert firehall, relatives and friends of the MacIntosh family, and the Grand Trunk steamship S.S. Prince Rupert grounded on Ripple Rock. It also includes correspondence to John L. MacIntosh and an invoice for his brother, Robert M. MacIntosh.

John L. MacIntosh family

John Robert Service fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1931-1939

The fonds consists of photographs of the Central Hotel, its employees and relatives of the owners Peter and Cora Elizabeth Black. It also includes photos taken during the trips to and from Prince Rupert, collected by John Robert Service who visited the Central Hotel to see his grandmother, Cora Black, between 1931 and 1939.

Service, John Robert

McArthur family fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1938-1960

The fonds consists of photographs of family in friends and textual records including personal correspondence, household receipts, a weighing station tally sheet for crab catches, and ephemera.

McArthur (family)

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