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Currie family fonds

  • Fonds
  • [192-] - [199-]

The fonds consists of photographs taken by the Currie family. It includes photos of family and friends, the tugboat "C.R.C.," and scenes in the Prince Rupert area.

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

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

Rupert Drydock and Shipyard fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1911- 1945

The fonds consists of records pertaining to the Prince Rupert Drydock and Shipyard from 1942 - 1943. It includes correspondence from 1942 - 1945, volumes of Builders For Freedom, a yard magazine created by the drydock staff, original cartoon drawings by Frank Bird used in Builders For Freedom, and manuals and booklets regarding shipbuilding. It also contains 127 photographs contained in an album created by Joel Pillsbury, 61 photographs depicting operations especially during the Second World War, a drawing depicting the drydock general yard layout, blueprints and trial results of Victory ships and Type "B" Coasters, as well as documents showing the property investment cost of construction and machinery contractors with additions and betterments.

Prince Rupert Drydock and Shipyard

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)

Morgan family collection

  • Collection
  • 1908 - 1974

The collection consists of photographs collected by the Morgan family. It includes photographs of the Morgan family, a large explosion in the construction of Prince Rupert, rodeos and May Day at Acropolis Hill, picnics, ice hockey, swimmers at Salt Lakes, Grotto Cigar Store, the Skeena River flood in 1936, Borden Street School, portraits of various sports teams and athletes produced by Benson Studios in Prince Rupert, a refrigerator brine tank for CN, the S.S. Catala, the International Longshoremen Association, and pictures of staff and students at Conrad School (1949-1966) and Roosevelt School (1973-1974).

Morgan (family)

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

Fred Dowdie collection

  • Collection
  • 1959-1987

The fonds consists of coloured slides of Prince Rupert and the surrounding area including the airport in 1959, Oval Bay, 800 2nd Ave. West, Salt Lakes,
Skeena River, CNR Dock Fire, fishing boats, Metlakatla, a tombstone from Port Essington, Fred & Montana Dowdie, Ksan, Kitwanga and the BC Ferry.

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)

Dr. William Hick collection

  • Collection
  • 1958-1967

The collection consists of 7 photographs in Prince Rupert (1958-1967). It includes the Kaiwo Maru at the Ocean Dock (1967), the HMCS Ontario at the Grain Elevator and in Chatham Sound (1958), a DC6 at Prince Rupert Airport (1964), an oil rig drilling for hydro carbons in Hecate Strait (1968), the Queen of Prince Rupert under construction at the Victoria Machinery Depot yard, Ogden Point, Victoria (1965) and the welcoming celebration in Prince Rupert for arrival of Queen of Prince Rupert (1966).

Hick, Dr. William

Don Hartwig collection

  • Collection
  • 1907-1943

The collection consists of 9 photographs and sheet music for The Imperial Native March for piano composed by Job Nelson of Metlakatla, B.C. published in 1907. The photographs include a view of 10th Avenue East and Bacon Street looking towards Prince Rupert's downtown, circa 1920s, the Kaiwo Maru docked at Prince Rupert, the Sea Cadet Band in Comox in 1943, people at Salt Lakes in 1912, the Prince Rupert at the GTP dock, the Hazelton graveyard and the bridge near Hazelton.

Hartwig, Don

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