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Gladys Young Blyth fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1970- 2000

The fonds consists of photographs, slides, negatives, maps, and textual records created and gathered by Gladys Young Blyth. These contain local scenes such as lighthouses, totem poles, Seafest activities, fish boats, crab traps, North Pacific Cannery, Kwinitsa Station, and the seaplane base at Seal Cove. The maps and sketches are of Kitselas, Port Essington, Union Passage and Tuwartz Inlet, Otter Passage to Bonilla Island, Work Channel, and a copy of the plan of the Kit-Kah-Tla Indian Reserves Coast District, 1891-1892. Her reference notes refer to the Hudson's Bay Company, First Nations, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the pictograph at Tyee, and the net building industry.

Blyth, Gladys Young

Harris family fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1903-1990, predominant 1905-1921

The fonds consists of notes and photographs used by Ernest E. Harris to write his book Spokeshute. It includes transcribed diary notes written by his mother Agnes Harris about her journey from England to Canada and the first year that she lived at Port Essington. It also includes a postcard addressed to her from postmaster R. L. McIntosh of Prince Rupert. The photographs in the fonds depict people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds involved in activities such as picnics, education, weddings, and work in and around Port Essington. Other photographs depict ships, pile drivers, railways, buildings, fish canneries, mail dog trains, and Harris family vacations to other areas in the Northwest.

Harris (family)