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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

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

Alistair Duffus collection

  • Collection
  • [193-] - [195-]

The collection consists of photographs of the ship "Dinamac," the Duffus family home, Thomas McMeekin & Sons business, Skeena River scenes, parades, and planes at Seal Cove.

Duffus, Alistair

Sprague family collection

  • Collection
  • 1909

The collection consists of 12 photographs of Prince Rupert in 1909 with notes written on the borders. Originally the photographs were stored in an album with a card addressed "to Mr. and Mrs. Bohanon from Mrs. Danly D. Sprague with kindest remembrances." The photographs were taken by Prince Rupert photographer J.D. (James Dennis) Allen and depict scenes of the townsite.

Sprague family

Harry T. Titus collection

  • Collection
  • 1906-1914

The collection consists of 49 photographs of Prince Rupert between 1906 and 1912 that belonged to Harry T. Titus. It includes local scenes including the waterfront, the town under construction, fishing boats, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway officials, and blasting. It also includes a letter from Frank Morse, Vice-President and General Manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, regarding Harry T. Titus's search for employment with the GTP.

Titus, Harry T.

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)

Clapperton family collection

  • Collection
  • [1920s]

The collection consists of 9 photographs of Prince Rupert ca. 1920s and the S.S. Prince Rupert in the harbour

Clapperton (family)

British Columbia Assessment Authority collection

  • Collection
  • 1923- [195-]

The collection consists of maps and photographs. It includes two surveys of Inverness Cannery (1923, 1934), a blueprint showing wartime houses' sewer connections (1945), a Canadian National Railways map of the waterfront showing businesses (1947), and photographs of buildings and homes in Prince Rupert and Shawatlans (195-).

British Columbia Assessment Authority (Prince Rupert, B.C.)

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.

Postulo family collection

  • Collection
  • [between 1910 and 1925]

The collection consists of photographs from an album dated August 30, 1911, negatives, and textual records. The photographs and negatives include scenes of people at work and play in Prince Rupert, including the first blacksmith shop, picnics on beaches, loggers with a machine and at camp, a sign for Fred Scadden on the side of a car with French Hair Dressing Salon and F.W. Chandler Stoves in the back ground on 6th Street, the 1921 launching of "Canadian Scottish" at the drydock, the 1910 wreck of the steamship S.S. Princess May in Alaska, and a public celebration beside the federal building. Other scenes include the "Athalie" on the water, a boat at a cannery, men at work on a fishing boat, totem poles in Hazelton, and two people in a canoe in front of a village. Textual records include a menu from the Three Sisters Café and a postcard addressed to Bill.

Postulo (family)

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