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Postulo family collection
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76 photographs
2 negatives
0.5 cm of textual records
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James Postulo was born on April 3, 1877. He and his wife Constance settled in Prince Rupert from Kiparisi, Greece in 1916, though James and his son William came ahead of the family in 1908. James worked for the Department of Public Works and later was the proprietor of the Grand View Hotel and the Royal Hotel. The couple raised seven children: William (1900-1975), Martha (1905) Theodora "Dolly" (Dixon, Nelson) (1914-1995), Spero (1917-1975), Nora (Stromdahl) (1919-2005), Anne (Dominato), Paul (1923-1983). The family had a large home on 9th Avenue with cows and pigs. Later, they moved to the Grandview Hotel on 1st Avenue and had a great vegetable garden behind it. James bought the Dominion Rooms on the corner of 1st Avenue and Eight Street and renamed it St. Paul's Hotel. James' daughter Dolly and her husband Harry Nelson owned and operated Smile's Café in Cow Bay. After they were married in 1936 they established a new restaurant, the Three Sisters Café, employing Dolly's sisters Anne and Nora. Eventually Dolly and Harry took over St. Paul's Hotel and renamed it the Eugene Apartments after their son Eugene. James died on October 18, 1941 in Prince Rupert.
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The photographs and textual records were donated to the archives by Dolly (Postulo) Dixon on March 12, 1982 and February 19, 1988.
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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.
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Created on January 13, 2014