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Arlene Ashcroft collection

  • Collection
  • 1937- 1945

The collection consists of a photo album that contains photographs of military personnel. Also included are postcards sent to Arlene Russell, newspaper clippings, and military artifacts such as badges, pins, and Second World War artifacts.

Ashcroft, Arlene

Doris McNeil collection

  • Collection
  • 1912-1960

The fonds consists of photographs belonging to Doris McNeil. The photographs depict damage and repair work along the Skeena River during the flood in 1936, naval officers and ships in Prince Rupert, a D-2053 float plane in the water near Edward Lipsett (Prince Rupert) Ltd., a Salvation Army meeting, Salvation Army taggers and Everitt Johanson and Betty Wide collecting money outside Wallace's Dept. Store for the Salvation Army. There is also a photograph of Snappy Service Messenger cars and drivers outside the courthouse, Earl Grey's Own Rifles in 1912, and various parade scenes.

McNeil, Doris

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.

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.

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

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

Samuel Needleman collection

  • Collection
  • 1943-1944

The collection consists of photographs and textual records relating to Samuel Needleman's stay in Prince Rupert. It includes 14 photographs of the S.S. Alaska, his dental lab, the barracks, company kitchen, the drydock, Acropolis Hill and streets nearby, the Canadian Grain Elevator, and a wedding that took place at Acropolis Hill.

Needleman, Samuel

Stuart Carson collection

  • Collection
  • [194-]

The collection consists 76 negatives and 9 photographs from the 1940s. It includes scenes around Prince Rupert during the Second World War such as gun placements, artillery on boats, soldiers, ship building at the dry dock, Hays Creek, CN Park, downtown views, fish boats, family, and a concert.

Carson, Stuart